• WPcast.fm Billed As The Professional WordPress Podcast

    WPcast.fm Billed As The Professional WordPress Podcast

    Billed as The Professional WordPress Podcast, WPcast.fm is the latest entrant into the WordPress podcasting scene. Produced by Doug Yuen and David Hehenberger, the show focuses on the professional aspects of WordPress such as how to be a better business consultant, how to hire great software developers, and the best ways to take payments with…

  • WordPress Tip: New Plugin Automatically Gets Featured Images from Videos

    WordPress Tip: New Plugin Automatically Gets Featured Images from Videos

    When you post a video or include it in your content, chances are that you don’t want to have to hunt around for a featured image to accompany it. However, many WordPress themes look their best with featured images in the homepage, category, and archive templates. Without featured images, many image-dependent designs can break or…

  • Translate WordPress Plugins and Themes Directly in Your Browser

    Translate WordPress Plugins and Themes Directly in Your Browser

    Loco is a free service for managing and editing software translations. Many WordPress plugins and themes include language files that make it possible for users to translate the text strings. Loco offers a place to manage assets associated with translations and easily collaborate with translators: The service also offers a PO file editor that works…

  • Keep Track Of Changes To Your WordPress Site With The WP SMS Notifications Plugin

    Keep Track Of Changes To Your WordPress Site With The WP SMS Notifications Plugin

    While there are plenty of plugins that help monitor changes to a site such as Stream, maybe you want a text message when specific events happen within WordPress. A brand new plugin called WP SMS Notifications, developed by Jeff Matson, fulfills this role. The plugin supports both International and US carriers without the need to…

  • Responsible Plugin Adds a Responsive Testing Kit to the WordPress Admin Bar

    Responsible Plugin Adds a Responsive Testing Kit to the WordPress Admin Bar

    January 2014 marked the first month that mobile traffic has overtaken PC traffic on the internet in the US, accounting for 55% of Internet usage. As mobile traffic is on the rise, designing in the browser has become more popular, as it offers better tools for testing sites against various devices. Responsible is a plugin…

  • WPCore: Create WordPress Plugin Collections and Install Them in One Click

    WPCore: Create WordPress Plugin Collections and Install Them in One Click

    WPCore landed in the WordPress plugin repository this week. The plugin extends WordPress to interact with the new WPCore service that allows you to create and manage plugin collections. The new WPCore plugin lets you bulk install all the plugins from any collection in just one click. The service was created by Stuart Starr, an…

  • Hybrid Core 2.0 Adds Composer Support, Removes Widgets From Framework

    Hybrid Core 2.0 Adds Composer Support, Removes Widgets From Framework

    Theme Hybrid released Hybrid Core 2.0 today after many months in development. The framework, created by Justin Tadlock, powers this site and many other WordPress sites on the web. Version 1.0 was first released in October 2010, built from the engine that made up the base of Tadlock’s popular Hybrid Theme. Since that time, Hybrid…

  • WP Quick Install Script Offers a Fast Way to Install WordPress, Plugins, and Themes

    WP Quick Install Script Offers a Fast Way to Install WordPress, Plugins, and Themes

    WP Quick Install is an interesting new tool from Julio Potier, Jonathan Buttigieg, and Jean-Baptiste Marchand-Arvier, the folks behind WP Rocket. As part of supporting their commercial caching plugin, the WP Rocket team works extensively with clients. WP Quick Install is a tool they use internally and decided to share with the community. Its creators…

  • Critical Security Update For WPTouch, Users Should Update Immediately

    Critical Security Update For WPTouch, Users Should Update Immediately

    First reported by Sucuri, the WPTouch plugin has a dangerous security vulnerability and users are encouraged to update immediately. WPTouch is used to quickly add mobile support to websites and has over 5 million downloads making it one of the most popular plugins in the WordPress plugin directory.   According to Sucuri, WPTouch incorrectly uses…

  • Baskerville: A Free WordPress Theme for Hoarders

    Baskerville: A Free WordPress Theme for Hoarders

    Baskerville is a new masonry grid style WordPress theme available from designer Anders Norén. His popular Hemingway theme has received more than 60,000 downloads on WordPress.org and is also offered on WordPress.com. Baskerville was created to showcase many different types of content, hence its tagline: “A WordPress Theme for Hoarders.” The theme bears Norén’s trademark…

  • FooGallery – A Free WordPress Gallery Plugin Built For Developers and Designers

    FooGallery – A Free WordPress Gallery Plugin Built For Developers and Designers

    FooGallery is a new free WordPress plugin aimed squarely at developers and designers. Developed by FooPlugins, FooGallery utilizes much of the same image and gallery handling found within WordPress, providing an intuitive content creation and management experience. While the plugin is simple, it offers developers a ton of filters and hooks to extend its functionality.…

  • A Proposed Enhancement That Saves A Mouse Click When Upgrading WordPress Plugins

    A Proposed Enhancement That Saves A Mouse Click When Upgrading WordPress Plugins

    Four months ago, WordPress user Fredelig created a new ticket on WordPress trac suggesting the plugin update notification bubble load the page listing all of the plugins with pending upgrades. In WordPress 3.9, clicking the notification loads Plugins.php which lists all of the activated plugins, including the ones with upgrades. This requires a second mouse…

  • WPWeekly Episode 154 – All About The Customizer

    WPWeekly Episode 154 – All About The Customizer

    On this episode of WordPress Weekly, we give you the low down on all the new features in WordPress 4.0 beta 1. Later in the show, Matt Wiebe who works for Automattic as a design engineer, joins us to discuss his thoughts on the WordPress customizer. Most of what we talked about stems from his…

  • Gust Plugin Adds Support for Categories, Featured Images and Custom Post Types

    Gust Plugin Adds Support for Categories, Featured Images and Custom Post Types

    The Gust plugin aims to provide a Ghost-style publishing experience within the WordPress admin. It was released at the end of last year by developer Arūnas Liuiza. He was disappointed that Ghost didn’t end up being a fork of WordPress, so he decided to package its best publishing features into a plugin. Gust adds a…