Year: 2014

  • Clear Tranquil: A Free Minimalist WordPress Theme for Bloggers

    Clear Tranquil: A Free Minimalist WordPress Theme for Bloggers

    Clear Tranquil is one of the cleanest, most elegant blogging themes to hit WordPress.org in recent days. The theme was created by Woo Themes designer James Koster as a child theme for his responsive Highwind parent theme. Clear Tranquil lives up to its name, inspiring a light, peaceful reading experience that is clutter-free. The design…

  • Foster Me: A WordPress Plugin to Help Shelter Animals in Need

    Foster Me: A WordPress Plugin to Help Shelter Animals in Need

    Everybody knows that animals need homes. There are far more pets available for adoption than there are people lining up to adopt them. Call your local animal shelter and they’ll probably tell you that they’re at or over capacity. That’s where foster homes can help to provide quality care for animals in the interim, until…

  • WebDevStudios Names Dre Armeda Vice President of Operations

    WebDevStudios Names Dre Armeda Vice President of Operations

    In the time Dre Armeda spent with Sucuri, he turned a two-person part-time hobby into a multi-million dollar, 30+ employee company. When Armeda left the company he helped found, he didn’t provide any hints as to where he was going. Three months after leaving Sucuri, Armeda has been named the Vice President of Operations for…

  • The Simple Criteria That Determines Which Jetpack Modules Are Auto-Activated

    The Simple Criteria That Determines Which Jetpack Modules Are Auto-Activated

    Since the release of Jetpack in 2011, there have been several articles highlighting the fact that it auto activates modules. George Stephanis, a member of the Jetpack development team, has consistently explained that “Jetpack only auto-activates modules that provide enhancements without affecting the front-end layout of the site.” Earlier today, Stephanis published a post on…

  • Carl Hancock Shares Advice On Registering Trademarks

    Carl Hancock Shares Advice On Registering Trademarks

    Chris Lema published an interview with Carl Hancock of RocketGenius, where he shares his thoughts on why trademarks are important and how they help protect a brand’s identity. While you can register trademarks yourself, Hancock suggests working with a lawyer who knows intellectual property law and does it for a living. It’s not simple and…

  • WPCore App Adds Export Feature: Save Active Plugins to a Collection with 1-Click

    WPCore App Adds Export Feature: Save Active Plugins to a Collection with 1-Click

    We’ve been following the evolution of the WPCore plugin management app, which recently added favoriting, update notifications, and the ability to add plugins that aren’t hosted on WordPress.org. Today, the app’s developer, Stuart Starr, announced what is perhaps the most convenient feature to date. With WPCore Plugin Manager installed, users can now export all of…

  • New WordPress Plugin Spell Checks Post Titles Before Publishing

    New WordPress Plugin Spell Checks Post Titles Before Publishing

    Have you ever published a post in WordPress only to realize the title has a misspelled word? Sure, a quick edit will do the trick but wouldn’t it be nice if the misspelling was caught before the post went live? WordPress doesn’t spell check post titles but you can change that with a new plugin…

  • WordPress Rainbow Hilite Plugin Adds Rainbow.js for Syntax Highlighting

    WordPress Rainbow Hilite Plugin Adds Rainbow.js for Syntax Highlighting

    If you regularly blog code snippets, adding a syntax highlighter plugin can help make your code more readable and easier to copy. Many plugins use language-specific shortcodes to surround embedded code, but this generally requires you to remember the right way to form the shortcode. The new WordPress Rainbow Hilite plugin uses a different method…

  • Espied: A Free WordPress Portfolio Theme for Designers and Photographers

    Espied: A Free WordPress Portfolio Theme for Designers and Photographers

    If you’re on the hunt for a new design to showcase your work, WordPress.com’s beautiful Espied theme is now available for use on self-hosted sites. This striking minimalist portfolio theme was created with designers, photographers, and artists in mind. Espied utilizes WordPress.com’s portfolio feature, which was recently added to Jetpack. With this custom content type…

  • Theme Checklist Helps Prepare Developers To Submit A Theme To The WordPress Theme Directory

    Theme Checklist Helps Prepare Developers To Submit A Theme To The WordPress Theme Directory

    Theme Checklist is a new plugin by Greg Priday of SiteOrigin. The plugin provides a checklist of items to go through before submitting a theme to the WordPress theme directory. Once activated, you’ll find the checklist under Tools > Theme Checklist. Theme developers check off each item that successfully passes a test. Themes need to…

  • Right Meow Plugin Puts The Super Troopers Cat Game Into Your WordPress Comments

    Right Meow Plugin Puts The Super Troopers Cat Game Into Your WordPress Comments

    Broken Lizard’s 2001 comedy “Super Troopers” introduced millions of viewers to the “cat game.” In the scene, a highway patrolman pulls Jim Gaffigan over and then tries to insert the word “meow” casually into the conversation as many times as possible. You remember that scene, right? If not, check it out here: Am I Saying…

  • Sprout Apps to Launch a Suite of WordPress-Powered Apps Targeted at Freelancers and Small Businesses

    Sprout Apps to Launch a Suite of WordPress-Powered Apps Targeted at Freelancers and Small Businesses

    Sprout Apps will soon be launching a suite of business apps targeted at WordPress freelancers and small businesses. WordPress developer Daniel Cameron is behind the project, which is centered around creating plugins that help business owners work more efficiently with WordPress. Sprout Apps aims to bring tasks like invoicing, estimates, and client tracking into the…

  • WP Site Care Acquires Audit WP

    WP Site Care Acquires Audit WP

    Audit WP has been acquired by WP Site Care. According to the announcement, Audit WP will operate under WP Site Care while continuing to offer specialized SEO services. Rob Neu, who owned and operated Audit WP, will become WP Site Care’s Director of Digital Strategy. Rob will oversee product development as well as making sure…

  • Add Reddit Style Commenting to WordPress With the Comment Popularity Plugin

    Add Reddit Style Commenting to WordPress With the Comment Popularity Plugin

    Comments are an important aspect of your content and can serve as a vehicle for building community. WordPress site admins put in a hefty amount of work moderating comments and combating spam, just to keep the conversation going with comments open. With all that work invested, admins are looking for new ways to make comment…

  • Interview With Siobhan McKeown On The Future Of The WordPress Codex

    Interview With Siobhan McKeown On The Future Of The WordPress Codex

    If you use WordPress, chances are that you’ve run into the WordPress Codex. The Codex is a community maintained collection of documentation, hooks, filters, best practices, and other information related to WordPress. With various handbook projects underway, I’ve been wondering what the future of the Codex is. To find out, I got in touch with…

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