A free weekly Newsletter with a round-up of WordPress news and articles
WordPress 4.0 “Benny”
Version 4.0 of WordPress, named “Benny” in honor of jazz clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. While 4.0 is just another number for us after 3.9 and before 4.1, we feel we’ve put a little extra polish into it. This release brings you a smoother writing and management experience we think you’ll enjoy.
WordPress 4.0, What You Need to Know
As with every major WordPress release it’s a good idea to first get a glimpse at all the new features added to make sure you use them at full potential.
In that sense here’s a great article that underlines what you need to know about WordPress 4.0
Your Website Is Not Allowed To Be Fast
There could quite realistically be a day that your blog or website is not allowed to be fast. Not because you didn’t do proper performance testing and optimization, but because a corporatocracy won’t allow it. Net neutrality is a horribly boring term to describe the seriousness of the issue at hand. Thankfully, comedian John Oliver explains net neutrality in a way that makes it significantly more entertaining and easy to understand
7 Things Every WordPress Professional Does Wrong
Brent helped a lot of web professionals build wildly successful businesses.While we know WordPress is by far the most wide reaching and used platform on the web, for some reason those that build on it never fail to astound him when it comes to their own business. Here are the top things that Brent knows are crippling many WordPress professionals.
Free Webinar: How to Succeed as a WordPress Consultant
We are happy to present all our users with the opportunity to take a free webinar with our friend Troy Dean, the founder of WP Elevation (which also features a great podcast) and Video User Manuals (responsible for creating all of the ManageWP video tutorials). The following is the message from Troy to all of you who are interested in becoming a (better) WordPress consultant.
Take the 2014 WordPress User and Developer Survey
The WordPress 2014 survey is now available. Anyone who uses WordPress in any capacity is encouraged to take this short survey to help improve the project. The questions take approximately five minutes to complete and participation is anonymized. WordPress does not collect your email address or IP address, so feel free to offer your sincere feedback.
