Year: 2014

  • Freefolio: A Free Responsive Portfolio Plugin for WordPress

    Freefolio: A Free Responsive Portfolio Plugin for WordPress

    When creating a portfolio with WordPress, the most ideal way to store your work is in a separate plugin. Later down the road when you want to change your theme, you’ll be able to do so without losing your portfolio content. Many theme authors are now starting to build support for existing portfolio plugins into…

  • WPWeekly Episode 162 – Lead Developer of iThemes Security, Chris Wiegman

    WPWeekly Episode 162 – Lead Developer of iThemes Security, Chris Wiegman

    Marcus Couch and I are joined by the lead developer of iThemes Security, Chris Wiegman. After helping us dissect the news of the week, he tells the story of how he got involved with WordPress. We learn about the circumstances that lead to the creation of iThemes Security and how he almost sold the plugin…

  • Edin: A Beautiful Free Business Theme for WordPress

    Edin: A Beautiful Free Business Theme for WordPress

    A month ago, WordPress.com released a new business theme that features support for its new site logo feature. The Edin theme was an instant hit with its users and is now available for use on self-hosted WordPress sites. The theme was designed by Thomas Guillot to create a strong brand and online presence for any…

  • Take the 2014 WordPress User and Developer Survey

    Take the 2014 WordPress User and Developer Survey

    The WordPress 2014 survey is now available. Anyone who uses WordPress in any capacity is encouraged to take this short survey to help improve the project. The questions take approximately five minutes to complete and participation is anonymized. WordPress does not collect your email address or IP address, so feel free to offer your sincere…

  • Join the September 10th Internet Slowdown Protest with These WordPress Plugins

    Join the September 10th Internet Slowdown Protest with These WordPress Plugins

    Today, those who support internet freedom are simulating serving pages at a snail’s pace, in protest of internet service providers that are currently spending millions of dollars lobbying for the FCC’s proposed rules which essentially eviscerate net neutrality. WordPress.com joins 150 other major tech companies, including Netflix, Mozilla, Kickstarter, Tumblr, Reddit, Dropbox and Etsy, in…

  • iThemes Security Now Has Brute Force Login Protection

    iThemes Security Now Has Brute Force Login Protection

    iThemes announced Brute Force Login Protection has been added to the latest version of iThemes Security. The new feature enables users to protect their sites either locally or by activating a network wide setting. Local brute force protection looks only at attempts to access your site and bans users per the lockout rules specified locally.…

  • First Look at Designs for the Twenty Fifteen Default WordPress Theme

    First Look at Designs for the Twenty Fifteen Default WordPress Theme

    Konstantin Obenland released the first look at the Twenty Fifteen theme on the Make WordPress Core blog today. Takashi Irie, the Automattic theme designer who created Twenty Fourteen, was asked by Matt Mullenweg to design the upcoming Twenty Fifteen default theme. It is now confirmed that Twenty Fifteen will in fact be a blog-focused theme,…

  • A Successful WordPress Plugin Adoption Story

    A Successful WordPress Plugin Adoption Story

    The “adopt-me” tag in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory is starting to gain traction, with two pages of current listings. While that may not seem like very many among the 33,000+ plugins, the new clear path for adoption is helping to change the course of extensions that would otherwise rot in the repo. The “adopt-me” tag…

  • What Happens When WordPress Is Updated With 100 Plugins Activated?

    What Happens When WordPress Is Updated With 100 Plugins Activated?

    Over the years, there have been several articles published on the topic of how many WordPress plugins are too many. A common point of debate is that too many plugins can slow down your site or cause things to break. While the risk of things breaking exists, I don’t think it’s as bad as people…

  • OpenTickets: An Open Source Event Management and Ticket Sales Platform Built on WordPress and WooCommerce

    OpenTickets: An Open Source Event Management and Ticket Sales Platform Built on WordPress and WooCommerce

    OpenTickets launched its community edition on WordPress.org this week. The open source project was created to provide event publishing and online ticket sales for bands, non-profits, venues, festivals, and other events. The platform is powered by WordPress and WooCommerce and provides support for creating multiple venues and events, as well as managing digital and/print ticket…

  • Speed Up Your WordPress Site with Pound, Varnish, Nginx and mod_pagespeed

    Speed Up Your WordPress Site with Pound, Varnish, Nginx and mod_pagespeed

    This post was contributed by Tomaž Zaman. He is the founder of a Danish startup called Codeable, a WordPress-only outsourcing service on a mission to help WordPress companies and enthusiasts from all over the world effortlessly scale their businesses. He spends his free time with his wife and four kids. A vast majority of online…

  • Create a Website for Your Presentation Slides with the Reveal.js Theme for WordPress

    Create a Website for Your Presentation Slides with the Reveal.js Theme for WordPress

    Many speakers use the Reveal.js HTML presentation framework to display slides due to its simplicity and compatibility with mobile devices. It was created by Swedesh developer Hakim El Hattab, who also hosts a fully-featured visual editor for authoring slides if you don’t know how to write HTML. WordPress users who want to create and host…

  • Founder Of ManageWP Publishes Open Letter on Security to The WordPress Community

    Founder Of ManageWP Publishes Open Letter on Security to The WordPress Community

    The founder of ManageWP, Vladimir Prelovac, has published an open letter addressed to the WordPress community on the topic of security. In the letter, he cites the third-party ecosystem surrounding WordPress is not only its biggest strength, but also its biggest weakness. He suggests a three-point plan to help mitigate security issues in themes and…

  • WordPress Theme Review Team to Launch Mentoring Program

    WordPress Theme Review Team to Launch Mentoring Program

    The WordPress.org Theme Review Team put out a call for mentors this week. The team will be launching a mentoring program that will pair new reviewers with those who have experience. “We are looking for currently active reviewers who want to give back to the community, of course, and to teach the next generation of…

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