News & Articles

• WordPress vs. Drupal: Choosing Between Two Platforms (www.elegantthemes.com)
  Released only a couple of years apart, WordPress and Drupal are big players in the CMS market but WordPress has gained a lot more popularity over the years. Its user base is almost 10 times that of Drupal – but is it 10 times better?
• Stack Overflow Developer Survey Ranks WordPress as the 3rd Most Dreaded Technology (wptavern.com)
  Stack Overflow has released the results of its 2015 developer survey, which covers a wide range of topics including preferred programming languages, education, compensation, and even caffeine consumption. WordPress was highlighted as one of the most dreaded technologies of those surveyed, trailing Visual Basic and Salesforce.
• Microsoft’s Open Source Progress and Its Relationship with WordPress (wptavern.com)
  For years, Microsoft and open source have rarely been used in the same sentence. With new leadership, the company has made major strides in becoming part of the open source movement. When asked if Windows could one day be open source, Mark Russinovich, one of Microsoft’s top engineers says, “It’s definitely possible, it’s a new Microsoft.”
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About WordPress Domain Mapping (www.elegantthemes.com)
  
• How Do You Learn WordPress? Survey Results via Infographic (bobwp.com)
  
• Should Client or Builder Buy Themes and Plugins? (www.wpelevation.com)
  
• Introducing Pressidium: Enterprise Managed WordPress Hosting (www.wpmayor.com)
  
• WordPress 4.2 Will Natively Support Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Characters (wptavern.com)
  

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Plugin News

• On the WordPress REST API: Reflecting On the Past And Looking To the Future (torquemag.io)
  The REST API team just released version 1.2 of the plugin, which they are continuously developing with the goal of merging it into WordPress core. It’s a big project, much bigger than Ryan McCue—who, along with Rachel Baker, leads the project—ever thought it would be. I recently spoke with Ryan about the challenges of such a huge project and about the complexities in creating a “universal API” for every WordPress site, as well as the plans for the core merge.
• ThemeReview.co Expands Services to Include Plugin Reviews (wptavern.com)
  ThemeReview.co partners Emil Uzelac and Justin Tadlock announced over the weekend that the service is expanding to include plugin reviews. The professional theme review service launched at the beginning of January and has been growing steadily, thanks in part to strategic recommendations from Envato and StudioPress.
• Bloom Plugin Review: The Latest From Elegant Themes (www.wpkube.com)
  
• Persistent XSS Vulnerability Discovered in WP Super Cache Plugin (wptavern.com)
  

Theme Releases

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Theme News

• 30 Free Smashing WordPress Themes For Personal Bloggers (premium.wpmudev.org)
  If you’re a personal blogger then you probably care a great deal about design; because let’s be honest – playing around with different themes is a lot of fun. With that in mind, below you will find our personal pick of the 30 most beautiful free themes for personal bloggers that WordPress has to offer.
• The Best 100 Free WordPress Themes Ever (premium.wpmudev.org)
  The WordPress Themes Directory is a truly fantastic resource, offering thousands of themes for download at no cost. We’ve taken the time (a long time!) to trawl through the directory and carefully selected what we consider to be the best 100 free WordPress themes available. So rather than settling in for the long haul on WordPress.org, take a few minutes out of your day to peruse the 100 best free themes you’ll find right here.
• Gridsby: A Beautiful Free WordPress Theme for Photographers (wptavern.com)
  
• Theme Designers Toolkit: Free Design Elements, Apps and Tools for Creating WordPress Themes (wplift.com)
  

Tutorials

• How To Add A Twitter Feed To Your WordPress Website (www.elegantthemes.com)
  Integrating your Twitter feed into your WordPress site is a great way to build traffic for your site and at the same time increase the number of followers you have on Twitter. The two go hand in hand. They feed each other. In this article we will take a look at some of the best options to add Twitter feeds, whether they’re yours or someone else’s, to your WordPress website.
• How to Use Gravity Forms as an eCommerce Solution (code.tutsplus.com)
  Did you know you can use Gravity Forms to sell items on your WordPress site? If you already have the developer's version of Gravity Forms, or if you were looking for a reason to buy it, Gravity Forms might be a good eCommerce solution for you.
• Moving WordPress: An Introduction (code.tutsplus.com)
  
• How to Move From Blogger.com to WordPress.org (www.wpkube.com)
  
• Build a learning management system (LMS) with WordPress (wpapplied.com)
  
• WordPress Tips: Common WordPress Errors and How To Fix Them (part 2) (inboundrocket.co)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• The Pain Points of WordPress with Bob Dunn of BobWP | WPWeekly (wptavern.com)
  
• Selling WordPress Maintenance Plans | WP Elevation (www.wpelevation.com)
  
• Managing the $50k Web Project | Matt Report (mattreport.com)
  
• Jason Lemieux | WP Elevation (www.wpelevation.com)