News & Articles

• WordCamp US 2017-2018 in Nashville (wordpress.org)
  The title says it all. We had some great applications for cities to host WordCamp US after we finish up in Philadelphia this year, and the city chosen for 2017-2018 is Nashville, Tennessee.
• WordPress 4.7 Improves Accessibility by Removing Alternative Text Fallbacks (wptavern.com)
  In WordPress 4.7, the caption text and the image title fallbacks have been removed. The fallbacks were originally introduced to ensure every image included alternative text. Over time however, this practice has proven to be a poor user experience for people who use screen readers.
• Design Patterns and WordPress (And Resources!) (tommcfarlin.com)
  If you’re using WordPress and you’re building more than a theme or a simple plugin, the odds of you building something more advanced and not taking advantage of design patterns seems highly unlikely. Whatever the case, if you’re someone who’s working on advanced solutions – perhaps web applications, perhaps having your components talk to third-party components, or whatever the case – then it wouldn’t hurt to have a reference of popular design patterns and antipatterns would it?
• Why The Future Of Contract Management Lies With WordPress (torquemag.io)
  
• WordPress 4.7 Beta 4 (wordpress.org)
  
• Upvato Backup Service Confirms Files Are Lost, Plans to Relaunch on New Provider (wptavern.com)
  
• 5 Insights On The Website Security Threat Landscape (wpengine.com)
  
• Introducing One-Tap Payments For WordPress Ecommerce (wpengine.com)
  

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Plugin News

• New WordPress Plugin Serves Pre-Compressed Emoji (wptavern.com)
  WordPress emoji are served from s.w.org, but they are not compressed. This impacts the SVG loading time, depending on how many emoji you are using, and can even throw warnings on Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool. Turkey-based WordPress developer Mustafa Uysal has just released Compressed Emoji, a plugin that makes use of the emoji_svg_url filter introduced in 4.6. This filter allows developers to change the URL for where emoji SVG images are hosted.
• Hidden Features: 10 Jetpack Modules You Missed to Start Using Today (www.wpzoom.com)
  Jetpack is a hugely ambitious plugin and its success is closely linked to WordPress’ success. With new features added all the time, it can be difficult to keep up with what the plugin is offering. Here are ten really useful Jetpack features you may have missed.
• bbPress 2.5.11 Adds WordPress 4.7 Compatibility (wptavern.com)
  
• 16 Best WordPress Typography Plugins to Improve Your Design (www.wpbeginner.com)
  
• Best WordPress Plugins to Improve Your Blog Pages (www.wpexplorer.com)
  
• The 85 Best Free WooCommerce Plugins for Every Challenge (atlantisthemes.com)
  
• Visible Edit Shortcuts in WordPress 4.7 Makes Customizing Sites Easier (wptavern.com)
  

Theme Releases

Rich Master (richwp.com)

Connect (wordpress.org)

Scratchpad (wordpress.org)

Theme News

• Why Premium WordPress Themes are a Blessing and Not a Curse for Developers (premium.wpmudev.org)
  There are now plenty of premium WordPress themes that you can edit without having to touch a single line of code. You don’t even have to know that there is code behind whatever you are doing. Does that make premium WordPress themes a curse for web developers? Or are they a blessing in disguise? We believe it’s a good thing. And here’s why.
• Divi vs Avada vs X Theme: Ultimate Comparison … Which Is Best When Building Sites for Clients (www.codeinwp.com)
  

Jobs post your own job

• Full-time Support Engineer (weworkremotely.com)
  Kinsta is a modern cloud hosting startup focused on WordPress (for now), run on Google Cloud, powered by LXD. Our awesome, young and motivated team is scattered across the globe: Budapest, London, Los Angeles. As our client base is growing steadily we’re looking for a competent support engineer with basic Linux system administration experience, with a great sense of communication, who can provide enterprise level technical support to our customers via to our customers via our support system (we use intercom.io exclusively for these purposes).

Tutorials

• A Guide to Restoring WordPress (ithemes.com)
  If your WordPress website has been hacked, or just isn’t working properly anymore, you may need to restore the site to a previous version. In this post, we’ll cover the basics of restoring WordPress and the various steps you’ll need to take to get your WordPress website up and running again.
• Enhancing WordPress Custom Menus for Navigation (kinsta.com)
  WordPress reserves a specific admin page to custom navigation menus. In this page the admin user can create menus, arrange items and set properties which affect the way they appear in the front-end. That being said, the main questions behind this post is: “Can we extend the built-in functionalities of the Menus Screen?” Of course we can. So we will dive deep into the topic, and we will dissect sections and objects that allow to add and manage menus and their items.
• Finding Bottlenecks in WordPress Code (deliciousbrains.com)
  
• How To Customize Your WordPress Theme: The Ultimate Guide (masterwp.co)
  
• Don’t Cache WP_Query Objects (pressjitsu.com)
  
• Programmatically Add a WooCommerce Variable Product (tommcfarlin.com)
  
• fullPage.js And Advanced Custom Fields Integration (codeable.io)
  
• Create Separate Demos for all WordPress Products from One Multisite Network (www.getmotopress.com)
  
• How to Create Blog Images for WordPress With Canva (100% Free) (themeisle.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Persistence & Success w/Security Consultant Robert Abela | Mastermind.fm (mastermind.fm)
  
• Helen Hou-Sandi on Contributing to WordPress | Matt Report (mattreport.com)
  
• How to Repurpose Your Blog Content | WordPress Resource (yourwebsiteengineer.com)
  
• WordPress iOS App Update Notes Are Awesome | Doc Pop's News Drop (torquemag.io)
  
• BuddyPress 2.8, WordCamp US, and PressNomics 5 | WPWeekly (wptavern.com)
  
• Google Built My WordPress Website | WPblab (www.wpwatercooler.com)