May 7, 2012
Leverageing the NEW Theme Customizer in 3.4, optimizing your loading speed, fixing your hacked site and a new acceptance of GPLv3 licensed code all in this week’s edition of This Week in WordPress.
Leverageing the NEW Theme Customizer in 3.4, optimizing your loading speed, fixing your hacked site and a new acceptance of GPLv3 licensed code all in this week’s edition of This Week in WordPress.
WordPress and Git, a guide for body class, a new security plugin that’s free and changing up the admin bar. It’s all in this edition of This Week in WordPress.
WordPress 3.3.2 and WordPress 3.4 Beta 3 A major point of concern with every WordPress installation is securing your site from attacks. We’ve shown you articles in the past with .htaccess help, but WordPress is taking matters into their own hands and giving the latest versions some extra safety nets. Soliloquy: Responsive jQuery Slider Everyone seems to have the “best” responsive jQuery slider plugin, but we doubt there will be any shortage of new responsive
WordPress Dominates Top 100 Blogs The big news last week was that WordPress now dominates the Top 100 blogs on the internet. Sitting at close to fifty percent, WordPress is gaining ground and duking it out with the Gawker platform, Drupal and Movable Type. The shift for WordPress was from 27 self-hosted to 39 self-hosted, a 33+ percent increase. Although Huffington Post holds the top spot with Movable Type, Mashable! is right behind with the
WordPress 3.4 Beta 1, Ready For Testing Tired of WordPress 3.3.1 yet? Even if you haven’t updated to the latest version, WordPress has a new Beta waiting for you to play with. That’s right, 3.4 is now in test mode. In the WordPress Versions Codex, 3.4 is set to be finished and released later this month, pending changes and testing from the Beta. The release of 3.4 will be the second version release this year
Page Templates In Subdirectories In WordPress 3.4 Speed, memory usage and performance are or should be important to you. The WordPress team, Andrew Nacin particularly, wants to make all of these things easier for you. Follow the link above to learn more about the exciting feature you aren’t likely to see in a release announcement. Translating Your WordPress Site Supporting multiple languages is important if your site or blog is going to reach more than
Useful WordPress Tools, Themes, and Plugins We don’t usually like to toot our own horn, but appearing in a Smashing Magazine list makes us pretty happy, especially making it into the Themes section with some other big WordPress players. The list also covers the Yoast SEO plugin, by far one of my favorite free plugins out there. Other important WordPress development tools to check out include the WordPress TextMate Bundle and the WordPress Command Line
WordPress Query Comprehensive Reference – Gist I recently learned about the wonderful world of gists, code snippets on Github that people post and you can fork or watch or download. This past week I found this comprehensive query reference for querying in WordPress. While you would never want to slap the entire gist into your theme, it’s definitely one to watch. Find snippets to search through taxonomy, meta tags, post__in, post__not_in and more. All Settings
Max Foundry Acquires PliablePress Major excitement here at Max Foundry – we acquired PliablePress! When PliablePress announced it was closing its doors, we started a conversation with them about perhaps taking over their theme business, and we were able to put a deal together fairly quick. The transition has been pretty smooth, and you’ll start to notice us bringing their products into the fold over the next few weeks. WooThemes Acquires FlexSlider Big news in
Seattle, WA, March 5, 2012 – Max Foundry, a leading provider of WordPress products, is pleased to announce its acquisition of PliablePress, a well-known company that creates general themes for WordPress websites. According to Max Foundry co-founder Bob Senoff, “We think the PliablePress family of themes is a great compliment to our existing product line, and this acquisition significantly broadens our offering of WordPress themes. From our product launch theme “Liftoff” to specific themes for
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