iThemes has now added a huge student discount to their popular Web Designer’s Toolkit. The new Student Edition offers full-time students in the US and Canada access to over 150 themes, over 20 plugins, and over 300 hours of training for only $97 ($880 less than the original). Folks with a strong memory may notice the similarity to iThemes’s Educator Program. While the Student Edition of the toolkit is not free, the $880 discount is something that can’t be beat, especially if you’re busy spending money on your tuition. If you have plans to launch a WordPress-focused career in design, consulting, maintenance, and other such things, this is a great way to get a head start. Disclaimer: iThemes is one of our advertisers.
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New plugins Pretty Pinterest Pins allows you to display thumbnails and links to your latest Pins from Pinterest in your sidebar. Stop Censorship Ribbon will place a black ribbon with the words “Stop Censorship” in the top right corner of your website, linking to the American Censorship website. Updated plugins Fast Secure Contact Form lets your visitors send you a quick e-mail message and blocks all common spammer tactics. Additionally, the plugin has a multi-form feature, optional extra fields, and an option to redirect visitors to any URL after the message is sent. Ultimate TinyMCE beefs up your visual editor with a plethora of advanced options.
[Continue Reading...]Pronto is a very minimal grid style masonry theme. Spring Wish is bright, optimistic and reminiscent of spring.
[Continue Reading...]NASA, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has started to churn out quite a few open source projects. Though this doesn’t have any impact on the blogsphere (yet), it’s exciting to see a government agency of this level working in an open source environment, effectively asking its citizens for help with projects, while simultaneously making some outstanding code available for anyone to use. As an added bonus, the new code site is powered by WordPress.
[Continue Reading...]New plugins SOPA Blackout adds a temporary 503 status and customisable page on your site to automatically join Web Blackout Day – 18th January 2012. Stop SOPA Ribbon will place a black ribbon with the words “Stop SOPA” in the top right corner of your website, linking to the American Censorship website. Note: Folks with WordPress.com blogs can join the SOPA/PIPA Protest via Settings -> Protest SOPA/PIPA in their Dashboards. Updated plugins WP-Aletheia: Feedback allows you to easily gather feedback from your clients’ sites.
[Continue Reading...]About two weeks about, we asked what your blogging resolutions were for this year. Similar to last year, most of you mentioned a plan to post more often in 2012. There are many ways to find more things to write about out. On of the most fun is to just plug yourself into various social media outlets, like Twitter and Facebook, and just follow along to find topics that interest you. Instead of replying with a 140 character tweet, write a fully detailed post on your blog. Similarly, if you comment on someone else’s blog, you might want to write a blog post to go with it. If social networking isn’t your thing, and you’d prefer just some direct inspiration, stop by The Daily Post or Plinky for daily challenges and topics that might inspire you to write a quick post. If words really aren’t your thing, but you still [...]
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Event Organiser allows you to create and maintain events, including complex reoccurring patterns, venue management (with Google maps), calendars and customisable event lists. Shiny Buttons will help you to generate CSS3 Button from you WordPress admin simply using a GUI. Simple Google Adsense lets you simply add Google Adsense to your blog. WP Marketplace is packed with all necessary features you must need to build a e-shop for your single product or a full featured complete market place. Updated plugins Akismet filters out your comment and track-back spam for you, so you can focus on more important things. FoxyPress is a custom plugin made to integrate FoxyCart e-commerce functionality into your WordPress website. Joemobi allows you to create native Android and BlackBerry applications from your WordPress site. PollDaddy allows you to create stunning surveys, polls, and quizzes in minutes. Traffic Analyzer can be used to determine the number [...]
[Continue Reading...]Since its launch well over a year ago, WP-Snippets has quickly grown into the most popular one-stop-shop for useful WordPress code snippets. WP-Snippets has finally received a major upgrade, making it even easier for you to find the code you’re looking for. The various snippets have now been broken up into categories, and more words can be filtered to narrow down the choices to just the snippet you need. If you find one that you’re particularly fond of, you can now favorite a snippet to leave it on the front page when you come back to the site. Speaking of the site, it now has a fully responsive design, so it looks great on your mobile phone when gathering snippets on the go. If you’re a fan of WordPress and have a few snippets to share on WP-Snippets, there is also a new contribute page to satisfy your urge to [...]
[Continue Reading...]Babylog is a sweet, illustrated theme for baby blogs featuring four color palettes and a customizable header graphic. zeeBizzCard is a clean and elegant styled business card theme that fits perfectly for a sleek homepage for personalities, freelancers, entrepreneurs or small business owners.
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