Month: March 2014

  • Dazzling: A Free Flat Design WordPress Theme Based on Bootstrap

    Dazzling: A Free Flat Design WordPress Theme Based on Bootstrap

    Dazzling is a new free theme that landed in the WordPress Themes Directory last week. It’s based on Bootstrap 3, which makes it responsive and mobile friendly. The theme features an optional full-screen featured slider, which works well for customizing business or creative websites. If you’re a fan of flat design with mint green accent…

  • Sofia, Bulgaria To Host WordCamp Europe 2014

    Sofia, Bulgaria To Host WordCamp Europe 2014

    The dates and location for WordCamp Europe 2014 are now set. The event will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria on September 27–29. Sofia’s National Palace of Culture will host WordPress fans from around the world. This beautiful venue is one of the largest convention centers in Southeastern Europe, with eight floors and three underground levels.…

  • How to Subscribe to WordPress.org Plugin and Theme Support Forums

    How to Subscribe to WordPress.org Plugin and Theme Support Forums

    After the rush of listing a theme or plugin on WordPress.org, the reality of providing support will soon set in. The best way to stay in touch with your user base is to subscribe to the support forums, since that’s the first place people generally go when looking for answers. Subscription options vary, depending on…

  • A Look Behind PropsPress: A Site Dedicated to WordPress Contributors

    A Look Behind PropsPress: A Site Dedicated to WordPress Contributors

    PropsPress is an inspirational WordPress site that publishes posts, recognizing code contributed to the WordPress core. The site uses IFTTT to monitor the changesets from the wordpress.org trac system and re-publishes the commit messages with “props” to recognize the folks who worked on the code. WordPress developer Kurt Payne created the site with a desire…

  • Visualize WordPress Project Stats With Ohloh

    Visualize WordPress Project Stats With Ohloh

    Ohloh is an excellent resource for tracking open source projects and their contributions. The site allows you to search 10 billion lines of code and provides some fascinating data sets for OS projects, including WordPress and many of its popular plugins. Ohloh’s analysis of “WordPress in a Nutshell” is based on the stats it was…

  • What Is The Future Of Comments In WordPress?

    What Is The Future Of Comments In WordPress?

    I’ve had a special place in my heart for comments in WordPress ever since I started using the platform. I hold comments in high regard because they often provide more insight into the topic being discussed. Comments are a validation someone’s reading my content and I look forward to reading every one of them. WordPress…

  • BuddyPress and bbPress Websites Are Now Open Source: Contributions Welcome

    BuddyPress and bbPress Websites Are Now Open Source: Contributions Welcome

    The code that powers the BuddyPress.org and bbPress.org websites is now open source. John James Jacoby, the lead developer for the projects, announced that all of the custom code used on these sites is now available in the Meta Subversion repository. If you browse the repository, you’ll notice that the trunk has a BuddyPress.org directory…

  • WordPress 4.0 Targeted To Fix Multisite New User Password Security Issues

    WordPress 4.0 Targeted To Fix Multisite New User Password Security Issues

    WordPress core contributors are aiming to address an issue with multisite new user emails in the upcoming 4.0 release. Two weeks ago, Daniel Bachhuber opened a ticket proposing that WordPress instruct users to change their passwords when sending new account emails. When a user is added to a multisite network and has activated his account,…

  • How to Set Default CSS Background Properties in WordPress Themes

    How to Set Default CSS Background Properties in WordPress Themes

    Here’s a handy trick for WordPress theme developers. As of WordPress 3.8, theme authors have the ability to customize defaults when adding custom background support. For example, you can set a default for any of the following CSS background properties: background-color background-image background-repeat background-attachment background-position Oftentimes users want their sites to look similar to the…

  • Official Gravatar Mobile App In The Works

    Official Gravatar Mobile App In The Works

    Toni Schneider, who recently switched positions with Matt Mullenweg inside Automattic has asked on the Gravatar blog, Which platform should a Gravatar app be released for first?. The choices are iOS, Android, or other. At the time of writing, Android was leading the poll with 80 votes while iOS is in second with 67 votes.…

  • SellWP Is A Managed Solution For Selling WordPress Products

    SellWP Is A Managed Solution For Selling WordPress Products

    SellWP is a brand new service created by John Turner, who is also the developer of SeedProd. The goal of the service is to eliminate the stress and hassles of selling WordPress products allowing the developer to concentrate on the product itself. Some of the most difficult aspects of running a business such as licensing,…

  • Introducing Ex Astris: A Free WordPress Child Theme For Stargazer

    Introducing Ex Astris: A Free WordPress Child Theme For Stargazer

    Last December, Jeff Chandler and I updated WP Tavern with a new design based on Theme Hybrid’s Stargazer theme. Stargazer takes a new approach to parent/child themes in that it houses the majority of both the design and functionality within the parent theme. The challenge is to make design changes in the child theme, without…

  • Widget Customizer Officially Merged Into Core for WordPress 3.9

    Widget Customizer Officially Merged Into Core for WordPress 3.9

    In early February we reported that the Widget Customizer plugin had received the green light to be merged into the WordPress core for 3.9. At that time Andrew Nacin opened a ticket to help precipitate any necessary improvements and guide the details of how the files should be merged. After three weeks of polishing, the…

  • How to Set Multiple Default Categories for WordPress Posts

    How to Set Multiple Default Categories for WordPress Posts

    The “Uncategorized” category is a generic bin where WordPress posts go when you forget to assign a category. It’s rather irksome to discover that you’ve published a post as “Uncategorized,” since it doesn’t do much to connect your readers with more useful information on your blog. One easy solution to this problem is to edit…

  • UserPress: A New Wiki Plugin for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress

    UserPress: A New Wiki Plugin for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress

    UserPress is a new free plugin that aims to be the ultimate wiki solution for WordPress. It provides a comprehensive set of user-friendly features that will transform your site into a collaborative hub for creating wiki content. Richard Smith, the plugin’s author, created UserPress to provide functionality that he believes is often missing from existing…

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