The WordPress core team is pulling out all the stops this year and shooting for a big summit to be attended by prominent contributors and community members. Instead of the traditional meet up, which is typically attended by only the core developers and their chosen guests, the core team is now looking for your nominations to decide who will attend the first ever WordPress Community Summit. The Summit will allow the core developers to get to work with the best and brightest of the WordPress community (support forum volunteers, the Theme Review Team, volunteer documentation editors, community organizers, theme shops, etc.), and who knows what amazing things they’ll come up with when they put their heads together! If you have any favorite community members or companies, even that lone support forum volunteer who rescued your blog, make sure that you leave a nomination for them right away. Sure, you can nominate […]
[Continue Reading...]Flourish is a lovely, simple, pastel theme with subtle decorative flourishes in the background and accents and features a vibrant, colorful image of needlework in the header. Galaxy is a professional theme for corporate business websites and blogs.
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Add To Post allows you to add additional content to either the start, end or both areas of your blog posts. Rewrite Rules Inspector is a straightforward WordPress admin tool for inspecting your rewrite rules. WP2Cloud seamlessly integrates with Amazon S3 to provide high availability, high reliability, quick and easy disaster recovery, and serving content in a highly scalable fashion. 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. Yepty is yet another pay per click advertising plugin.
[Continue Reading...]Blossom is a very simple and colorful layout with a floral theme and faint pinstripe background in an earthy green. Live Wire was designed with a mobile-first attitude, supports post formats, and is translation-ready.
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Ad Code Manager allows you to manage your ad codes through the WordPress admin in a safe and easy way. Updated plugins FoxyPress is a custom plugin made to integrate FoxyCart e-commerce functionality into your WordPress website. Simple Google Connect is a framework and series of sub-systems that let you add any sort of Google based functionality you like to a WordPress blog.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress 3.4 will ship with a powerful theme customizer to make alternations to some of the most basic aspects of any theme without even affecting your live site while you tinker. It’s a very fascinating tool, and WordPress superstar Samuel “Otto” Wood has created this short video highlighting some of its features. Now that you’ve seen the video, head on over to Otto’s incredibly detailed post on how to bring support for the new customizer into your own themes.
[Continue Reading...]Futuristica is a futuristic, modern, customizable, clean, and readable theme with a custom created background. Lugada is a simple minimalist responsive two column theme with a built in slider. Wheels is an eye-catching, lively, colorful theme on a dark background featuring an image of a classic, vintage pickup truck in bright blue against a sunset background of varying shades of orange.
[Continue Reading...]New plugins SPD Shortcode Slider is a jQuery featured content slider controlled completely by shortcodes for easy template integration. Yepty is yet another pay per click advertising plugin. Updated plugins Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. Sharexy is a powerful social sharing, bookmarking, and blog monetization tool.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress 3.4 Beta 4 has been released, with quite possibly the most brief, and yet most simply descriptive, release announcement yet. I’ll take the liberty of forever preserving it below in all its glory: Less bugs, more polish, the same beta disclaimers. Download, test, report bugs. Thanks much. /ryan #thewholebrevitything So, let’s break that down just a bit in case you’re not yet familiar with what’s going on. First, WordPress 3.4 Beta 4 has less bugs and is a bit snappier and cleaner than the previous beta releases, but the same disclaimers are still valid. This is not yet meant for live sites, but please do take a few swings at it on a test installation, especially if you are a plugin or theme developer. If you find any bugs, please report them, and contact the support forums if you need any help.
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