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 […]
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Splinder, a popular Italian blogging service, will be closing its doors on January 31st. If you’re Splinder user in need of a new home, fear not! Moving to WordPress is super-easy. If you want to try a similar hosted blogging service, WordPress.com has you covered with a new importer, a handy guide, and free support if something goes wrong. If you think it’s time to host your own blog, you might be interested in running a self-hosted WordPress.org blog. There are no Splinder importers for WordPress.org yet, but you can import to a WordPress.com blog, then export the resulting blog to any WordPress.org installation. Before you choose between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, make sure that you review the differences between the two. Having been through two similar service closures myself, I recommend moving your Splinder blog as soon as possible. When those doors shut, they tend to shut for good, and you […]
[Continue Reading...]WordPress 3.3.1 has been released. This is the first minor update since the release of WordPress 3.3 and contains 15 fixes, as well as an important security vulnerability fix. This update is recommended for all users, and can be done from the Dashboard -> Updates section of your blog’s Dashboard.
[Continue Reading...]If you have a WordPress plugin in the official directory, you can now add some pizzaz to your listing with a custom header image. To add a custom header image to your plugin listing, you’ll need to have a 772 × 250 pixel jpeg or png checked in to your plugin’s SVN directory at assets/banner-772×250.(jpg|png). After a few refreshes, the image should appear for everyone. For some examples of the new header image at work, see Akismet, bbPress, BuddyPress, and Jetpack. This is still an experimental feature, so there is always a possibility that the dimensions, placement, and other aspects may change in the near future.
[Continue Reading...]The results are in from the WooThemes survey. Presented in a handy infographic, this year’s survey brought to life some interesting facts from the 2,000+ WordPress users who took it. Among those surveyed, 90% feel that WordPress has graduated from blog publishing tool to full-fledged CMS, 68% use WordPress for sites requiring extensive CMS functionality, 77% make money from WordPress while 31% make their living from it, and 76% find responsive web design to be an important factor in their theme choice. While we’re on the subject of surveys, you may want to take this short 5-question survey to help improve the quality of the main WordPress.org site.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress for Android has received a major update. If Android phones and WordPress blogs are your thing, this is a must-have app. The app now features a fully refreshed UI, a new post editor with a formatting toolbar, support for Android-powered tablets, background posting, and improved stats! If you aren’t an Android user, never fear! There are plenty of WordPress mobile apps to choose from.
[Continue Reading...]Did you know that there’s a plugin for almost anything on WordPress? What if you wanted your bugs to be fixed before the next WordPress release? Well, there’s even a plugin for that, and it’s called Hotfix. Hotfix is a powerfully yet simple plugin. Just keep it active and up to date to receive important bug fixes between official WordPress releases. For WordPress 3.3, Hotfix already prevents “plugin and theme styles from bleeding into the dashboard” and works around “a bug for people without built-in JSON support.” Hotfix is not an official plugin, so it’s not an excuse to stop updating, but it’s safe to run between updates as it’s developed by two of the lead WordPress developers using fixes that are already prepared for the next official release. If you aren’t running Hotfix yet, now’s the perfect time to install it.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress 3.3 was released just 4 days ago, and it has now been downloaded over 1 million times, surpassing the record previously held by WordPress 3.2. Given some rough math, that’s about 250,000 downloads of WordPress each day! If you haven’t upgraded to WordPress 3.3 yet, or you have never tried WordPress, now’s the perfect time to give it a shot. Let’s see what sort of record download numbers we can bring WordPress 3.3 to in its first week!
[Continue Reading...]WordPress 3.3 was released just two days ago, and several plugins have been updated since then to correct compatibility issues with the latest WordPress release. Considering this, today is probably a good day to check for plugin updates on your WordPress installation, even if you haven’t upgraded to WordPress 3.3 yet. There are too many to list overall, but here are some of the more popular plugins which have received compatibility updates for WordPress 3.3 since its release: All in One SEO Pack – Support for WordPress 3.3. BuddyPress – Intended to fix some cosmetic issues with the new WordPress 3.3 toolbar, and is a recommended update for all existing BuddyPress 1.5/1.5.1 and WordPress 3.3 installations. Login Logo – Support for WordPress 3.3. Postie – Removed get_user_by function to make compatible with wp 3.3 – now requires 2.8+. SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam – WP 3.3 compatibility fix as wp_enqueue_script was called […]
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