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WordPress.tv is Branching Out Into Beginner Tutorial Videos (wptavern.com) WordPress.tv is expanding its video catalog beyond WordCamp session recordings. As most of the video content on the site centers around topics for developers and established users, the WPTV team is now actively soliciting submissions for more beginner video tutorials.
Working with WordPress - An Inside Look at The WordPress Economy Across the U.S. (wpengine.com) What does the WordPress economy look like? Just how large is the WordPress job market, and where is it the most prominent? We wanted to find out. Using online job listings on Indeed.com for WordPress-centric positions in the U.S., we analyzed which jobs are most in demand, which states and cities are hubs of professional interest in WordPress, and which salaries are the most common. Read on to discover the nation’s hotspots for WordPress activity.
Theme Juice: A New Auto Site Generator for WordPress Development with Vagrant (wptavern.com) As WordPress developers everywhere are adopting Vagrant for local development, new configurations seem to pop up every week to address the needs of different teams and workflows. Theme Juice is the newest open source project to join the ever-growing list of WordPress-related Vagrant resources.
ProfilePress Review: A Premium Plugin for Adding Front End Forms to WordPress (www.wpmayor.com) ProfilePress is a WordPress plugin that adds a number of front end forms to your website. The included forms include login, registration, password reset, and profile management forms. If front end registration and login forms sounds like something you could make use of on your WordPress website, read on for our full ProfilePress plugin review.
Release: Version 3.10 of The Events Calendar, PRO + All Add-ons (theeventscalendar.com) The team behind The Events Calendar just pushed a fairly massive 3.10 update to their plugin suite earlier last week. In the past six months they restructured their codebase and the products team rather significantly — based on decisions they made intentionally to try and kick the products business to the next level.
You can read more about the release in this article.
10 Best Highly Customizable WordPress Themes (www.beginwp.com) Let’s face the fact; who doesn’t loves highly customizable themes? The best part about customizable themes is that many times you don’t even have to touch the code to make them look and function the way you want. You don’t even need to know HTML, CSS or PHP to customize such themes, as everything is controlled through theme options page, or from the page or post itself.
Introducing “Mediaphase” our First Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme (wplift.com) WPlift just released their 17th theme at ThemeFurnace – named “Mediaphase“. This is their first multi-purpose theme and is aimed at business users, bloggers and online stores. It has a homepage which you can edit in the Customizer and choose a boxed or full-width layout, it’s jam-packed full of features – you can use this theme to create many different types of website, blog or online store.
Convert a Website From Any Other Platform to WordPress in 10 Simple Steps (premium.wpmudev.org) You know you want to move your site to WordPress. But the question is, how?
This article doesn’t focus on a specific platform. No matter which platform you’re using, the process is about the same. Instead, this article will show you precisely how to make the move and either keep the structure you have or improve it.
Introduction to Craft CMS (code.tutsplus.com) For developers who want more control and performance than WordPress offers, Craft CMS offers a compelling solution. In this tutorial, we'll introduce you to Craft CMS and summarize its core features.