Thursday, July 26, 2012

WPNuggets: A New Plugin Review Site

WPNuggets, a new site dedicated to reviewing WordPress plugins, has launched. The site has already hit the ground running with three reviews posted, and submitting a plugin for review is as simple as sending an email.

There are thousands of WordPress plugins out there, so they will be understandably picky with which ones they choose to review, and it sounds like the overall format is still in flux, but this looks like a very promising site to follow if you enjoy trying out new plugins.


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WordPress Theme Releases for 7/10

Melba is a two column theme using natural, neutral hues of pastel colors.

PinBlack is ideal for photo galleries and portfolio sites.


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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

WordPress 3.5 Underway with Promotions

Development for WordPress 3.5 is underway as the core development team engage in their first scope session today. With that, they also have a few exciting announcements.

After almost three years of service and a few thousand contributions, Andrew Nacin is being promoted to Lead Developer! Some of you may remember when Andrew Nacin got his start with an insignificant twelve-character patch, and with just as much determination, you too could be a Lead Developer some day.

After some amazing work through the past few releases, including the new theme customizer and distraction-free writing, Daryl Koopersmith is being granted ongoing commit status.

And, thanks to his keen eye on WordPress security, Jon Cave is having his temporary commit status extended through the release of WordPress 3.5.

If these sort of promotions get you excited about your future in WordPress, now is the perfect time to get involved.


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WordPress Plugin Releases for 7/12

dSero AdBooster circumvents ad blockers and keeps presenting your ads to your site visitors.

Social Campaigns allows you to quickly and easily create and publish sweepstakes and offers on your website.

BackWPup allows you to backup your WordPress database, files, and more.

Scripts n Styles allows Admin users to individually add custom CSS, Classes, and JavaScript directly to Posts, Pages, or any other custom post types.


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WordPress Theme Releases for 7/22

Embrace is a classy and sleek theme ideal for your latest website, whether is a blog, magazine or business.

Max Responsive is a super-awesome theme best suited for newspaper or magazine websites.

Snowberry is a simple and clean wordpress theme with nice contrast headers.

Spray is a one column theme with bright, vibrant colors from the primary spectrum including lemon yellow, lime green, orange, fuschia, purple, aqua blue and white.


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WordPress Plugin Releases for 7/8

Edit Any Table allows you to connect to any database and edit the contents.

Fixedly Media Gallery can help you create and integrate your videos, images or, slideshow galleries into your pages and posts.

qTranslate adds userfriendly multilingual content management and translation support.

YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter allows you to use YOURLS (a free GPL URL shortener service) or another public service (tinyURL…) to create short URLs of your posts and tweet them.


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Free eBook: Locking Down WordPress

The latest free WordPress eBook from Code Poet has arrived, Locking Down WordPress. This new eBook from Rachel Baker, Brad Williams, and John Ford, will show you how to secure your WordPress installation and take care of it when things get out of hand.

Security should be one of your fore-most concerns with any website, and this eBook is free and available in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle formats, so get it while it’s hot!


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