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WPML Confirms It Did Not Have a Security Breach (wptavern.com) When WPML emailed new passwords to customers in plaintext, some customer’s thought it was due to a security breach. Amit Kvint, compatibility team leader for WPML, confirmed the emails are not a result of a security breach.
Proposal to Overhaul the Shortcode API in WordPress Goes Back to the Drawing Board (wptavern.com) Robert Chapin, who contributes to WordPress core, published the first draft of a roadmap that explains how the Shortcode API could be overhauled. The proposal has an aggressive timeline with development starting in WordPress 4.4 and ending in WordPress 4.7. In WordPress 4.4, a new syntax would be introduced that provides opportunities to make significant changes to the API.
Nine Strategies for eCommerce Stores to Boost Customer Retention Rates (www.elegantthemes.com) In the business world, there’s one particular worst-kept secret that’s always interested us: it’s cheaper and easier to convince existing customers to buy from you again than it is to attract brand new customers. Today, we’ll be sharing nine effective, bottom-line-enhancing customer retention strategies.
20 Job Board Themes and Plugins for WordPress Worth Checking Out (premium.wpmudev.org) Here are 15 themes plus five plugins for a total of 20 top-notch WordPress products that will enable you set up a job board that’s as simple or as advanced as you want it to be. The solutions below include premium functionality and can be customized to suit your needs, whether you want to create a job board for a recruitment agency, business or creative website.
7 Tab Plugins to Spice up Your Sidebar And Other Areas Of Your Site (www.wpkube.com) The sidebar is one of the most under-appreciated things on the WordPress site of many beginners. They might even still have the meta widget and the standard blogroll. Something very simple, that can be very useful, is adding a form of navigation to your sidebar. Just a little something to help your visitors find their way to the content they really want to read.
In this post, we compare 7 different tabbed widget plugins and share our choice.
Monstroid: Welcome the Ever-growing Collection of WordPress Designs (www.wpdailythemes.com) Approximately a month ago Monstroid was released and has instantly become a bestseller. This multipurpose WordPress theme offers unmatched customizing options – both for developers and website owners. To sum up the results of the first month, we would like to introduce you to the first 10 designs available as of now.
How to Write a WordPress Project Brief: The Blueprint (codeable.io) Learning (and getting better at) how to write and create a WordPress project brief is an investment for your business. But how can you write a kickass, informative, detailed brief? Matteo Duò from Codeable gives you some great tips here.
Integrate Inspectlet With WordPress To Create a Website That Converts (www.layerthemes.com) In the back of your mind you are always thinking about, when a visitor first land on your website, what is the first thing they do? Where do they click and lot more? It would be really dream come true if you could see how visitors are interacting with your website. You are in for a treat, Inspectlet is an amazing tool that shows you exactly that.