News & Articles

• Goodbye WP Daily (8bit.io)
  It was a great run, to be sure. We achieved every single goal and metric that we had set out to accomplish (and then some) in this glorious experiment and so we consider it a “success.”
• The WordPress App Store – 1 Year Later (www.wptavern.com)
  WP App Store is just over one year old so I thought I’d get in touch with Brad Touesnard to see how the past year has been and what their plans are for 2013.
• A Closer Look into Mobile Blogging (www.wpkube.com)
  Blogging is all about sharing your thoughts and ideas with your friends, family and random people on the Internet who are interested in what you have to say. Is mobile blogging actually useful or just another fancy way to waste time?
• 25 Android Apps for Bloggers: Management, Productivity, Cloud Storage & Social Media (wplift.com)
  In today’s smartphone dominated era our lives are closely linked to our phones. We can safely assume that everyone reading this article owns a smartphone. We wake up in the morning and one of the basics drills include checking or phone for any notifications.
• Beginning With WordPress: Deciding Between WordPress.com and WordPress.org (wp.tutsplus.com)
  While at its core the software is the same and the look and feel of everything you do in the dashboard to manage your site will be the same, there are some critical differences you should be aware of if you’re in the process of deciding which of these options is appropriate for you.
• A refreshed Post Status (poststat.us)
  Post Status has been iterating quite a bit over the last six months since it launched. However, not everyone noticed. I’m excited to launch a redesign that reflects the changing purpose that Post Status serves.
• The Ultimate List of WordPress Crowdfunding Themes and Plugins (wpdiscounts.com)
  Creating a crowdfunding website is not complicated or hard nowadays with the help of developers who continuously create great crowdfunding WordPress themes and plugins in order to ease the creation of these websites.
• Annual WordPress Survey & WCSF (wordpress.org)
  It’s time for our third annual user and developer survey! If you’re a WordPress user, developer, or business, we want your feedback. Just like previous years, we’ll share the data at the upcoming WordCamp San Francisco (WCSF).

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Plugin News

• 3 WordPress Page Builder Plugins for Constructing Unique-Looking Pages (wpmu.org)
  Pages, perform such a wide variety of duties that having them all look the same is probably passing on an opportunity to make them as effective as possible. And so in this post we’re going to go over three free “page builder” plugins that can help you “construct” unique-looking pages.
• Adding PDFs To WordPress Comments with PDF Comments (tommcfarlin.com)
  PDF Comments is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy for readers to attach PDF files to their comments on blog posts and pages.
• WP All Import Woo Commerce Add-on Review (www.wpmayor.com)
  We’re talking about the Woo Commerce Add on here, in a nutshell this add-on will allow you to import products into your WooCommerce powered store, using the same easy interface that you used with all imports in WP All Import.
• There’s A Plugin For That: 50+ Best WordPress Plugins Free & Premium (www.wpexplorer.com)
  WordPress is a fantastic platform for building and managing websites. It’s user friendly and has seemingly endless functionality. But everything can’t just be built into your WordPress theme. No worries – in many cases there’s a plugin for the capability you need.
• Manage Appointments in Any Theme With Our Appointment Add On (templatic.com)
  This appointments manager plugin will allow you to setup appointment forms and display them on the site. The form can be displayed either as a widget (on the homepage for instance) or inside a page using a shortcode. The plugin provides full control over the process; from creating the booking form up to receiving payments and approving the submitted appointment.

Theme Releases

Magento Theme Madness (www.mojo-themes.com)	Insider (www.wpzoom.com)	Fiore (wordpress.org)
Untitled (wordpress.org)	MH Magazine lite (wordpress.org)	Raptor (wordpress.org)
Themage (wordpress.org)	Advantage (wordpress.org)	Service Biz (templatic.com)

Theme News

• Themeforest Updates WordPress Theme Guidelines for Developers (wpmu.org)
  Themeforest, the super successful WordPress theme marketplace run by Envato, has recently set out new guidelines for theme developers. The changes, which are fairly major, have some cheering and others booing.
• iThemes Exchange is Here! (ithemes.com)
  After months and months of hard work, testing, debating, discussing, fixing, building, building, building, and more testing … the day has finally arrived.
• How to Migrate from One WordPress Theme to Another (www.wpkube.com)
  With so many themes, so little time, it’s not unheard of for people to change the way their website or blog looks on occasion. But why? Why does a person change their mind about a theme? There are several reasons why people migrate from one WordPress theme to another – change of heart, new technology support, updated version, etc.
• xScape Framework And Core 1.9.3 (www.dev4press.com)
  New version of xScape Theme Framework and xScape Core theme, brings some interesting new features, updates and improvements. New login/registration page template with full AJAX support is added, and every theme can use it, and you can see it in action on Dev4Press.

Tutorials

• How to Create Custom Bullet Points in WordPress (wpmu.org)
  Bullet points are an especially effective way to communicate certain information on the web. Below we’re going to go over some basic principles you can use to get your bulleted lists looking the way you want them to.
• Best Ways To Load Scripts In WordPress (wpsites.net)
  There’s different ways you can load scripts in WordPress. It really depends on whether the script is for use in a theme, plugin or whether you want it to only load on specific pages.
• Lessons Learned from using WordPress for Clients: How to Customize & Simplify the Admin (wplift.com)
  This guide covers some of the lessons learned from using WordPress for clients and should give you some tips on minimizing the damage that can be done, will making the WordPress dashboard a more user-friendly and inviting place for new users of the of platform.
• Working with Classes and IDs Generated By WordPress (wp.tutsplus.com)
  A helpful feature of WordPress is the way it generates classes and IDs. Some of these are generated by the system itself, while in other cases you insert some PHP in your theme and WordPress uses that to add classes and IDs to the page markup.
• How to Create a Membership Site with WordPress Using Premise (www.wpbeginner.com)
  Creating a membership site can be a complicated task. First you need to set right user roles and permissions, then you need to allow users to safely sign up, login, and interact with the website. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do all this from a single dashboard?