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News & Articles

• WordPress 3.2.1 (wordpress)
  This maintenance release fixes a server incompatibility related to JSON that’s unfortunately affected some of you, as well as a few other fixes in the new dashboard design and the Twenty Eleven theme.
• WordPress is now responsible for over 50 million websites (wpcandy)
  Over the weekend the WordPress project crossed another big milestone: there are now over 50 million installations of WordPress running online.
• WordPress 3.3 could be the “U” update, for improving the uploader and updates (wpcandy)
  Speculations about the future 3.3 release of WordPress.
• A glossary for contributors (wpdevel.wordpress)
  I’ve forgot to include this last week so here is it now. So if you want to become a WordPress contributor please read this.
• WordPress Automatic Updates Based on Folder Name. Is That a Problem? (cozmoslabs)
  I had an issue with one of the users or my Commune theme. Basically it got updates from a new theme named the same, posted on the WordPress.org repository. So if you’re developing themes or plugins that aren’t to be uploaded on the repository here’s what you can do.

Theme News

• A Chat With the Folks Behind PressWork (wplift)
  WPLift took an interview to both developers of PressWork asking questions about the vision for PressWork, Premium Child Themes and what we can expect to see from PressWork in the near future.
• How to Use the Navigation Bars (studiopress)
  StudioPress wrote a small tutorial on how to use the free graphics they released last week with Genesis Theme Framework.
• PressWork (presswork.me)
  A new drag and drop theme framework was released. It’s called PressWork and what’s cool about it is the front-end/real time editor and that’s FREE. Wohoo!
• 20+ Best Marketplaces Where You Can Buy And Sell High Quality WordPress Themes (1stwebdesigner)
  If you want to buy or sell themes here’s where you can go to do just that.
• How to: Provide Different Color Schemes for Your WordPress Theme (theme)
  How to create color schemes for your own theme, and have other developers take advantage of that to add their own new colors by child theming yours.
• 25 High Quality, Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes 2011 (wplift)

Theme Releases

Casual (obox-design)  	News Leak (wordpress)  	Instapic (themes.shane-holden)  
Plusone (hacktrix)  	HotelBooking (templatic)  	Keen (ithemes)  
Empire (wpexplorer)  	Averin (themeforest)  	Simply Sweet (auxanocreative)  

Plugin News

• Display WordPress Categories in a Fancy Grid Style Gallery (wpmu)
  Check out the Category Grid View Gallery plugin. It offers you a visual way to display categories on your WordPress site. The plugin generates a grid view of the categories by grabbing the first images from posts within those categories.
• Get Twitter Followers in Exchange of Downloadable Files in WordPress (wpbeginner)
  I really like the idea. Paying with a Tweet is something I’ve been thinking about lately and the Tweet and Get It plugin is perfect for this.
• Like WordPress 3.2′s Distraction-Free Editor? You’re Going to Love Artsy Editor! (wpmu)
  Artsy Editor is a full screen alternative to WordPress 3.2’s distraction free editor. What I love about it is the < h3 > selectors since those are missing in the default full screen editor.
• Get a sneak preview of WP Super Cache before 1.0! (ocaoimh.ie)
  100 year later and WP Super Cache might actually get to the 1.0 version 🙂
• Native Dashboard – WordPress Dashboard in Multiple Languages (wpbeginner)
  If you’re not an English speaker having your WordPress dashboard in your native language is really helpful. That’s where Native Dashboard plugin comes in handy.
• Getting Started With BuddyPress (wp.tutsplus)
  If you never worked with BuddyPress before read this article to familiarize yourself with it.

Tutorials

• How to load JavaScript in the WordPress admin (devpress)
  One of the things that often frustrates plugin and theme developers is other plugins and themes not properly loading JavaScript in the WordPress admin. This is how you do it properly.
• Ajax-Powered Error Logs for WordPress (perishablepress)
  Excellent tutorial on creating Ajax Powered Error Logs. It talks about: 404 errors are redirected to a custom PHP script, The script then logs the different errors into a database, The contents of the database are displayed on a web page and jQuery/Ajax is used to refresh the page at short intervals.
• Create your Own Widget for Displaying Recent Tweets (wplift)
  Step by step tutorial on how to create a twitter widget.
• Run a Shortcode Anywhere in WordPress (bavotasan)
  Not sure why you would need this but if you do here’s how.
• Post Format Queries (wordpress.mfields)
  Post formats a relatively new and there isn’t much info about them. This is a good tutorial on querying after them.