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The\u00a0first best version of WordPress 4.1 is out<\/a>\u00a0and available for testing. It features the Twenty Fifteen default theme, a new distraction-free writing mode, the ability to automatically install new language packs, and a new inline formatting toolbar for images embedded in posts. For developer, there are new features under the hood, including improvements to meta, date, comment and taxonomy queries, a new and better way for themes to handle title tags, and improvements to the Customiser API. The\u00a0final version of WordPress 4.1 is due out next month<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cWhat\u2019s drama to some is an important issue to others\u2026 It\u2019s the same people that end up creating this rift, this WP Drama, and if there\u2019s one thing that Sarah (Gooding) and I definitely do not do \u2013 I especially don\u2019t aim to do \u2013 is create rifts in the community.\u201d In the\u00a0latest episode of WPWeekly<\/a>, Jeff Chandler rants about WP Drama following\u00a0the site\u2019s article on LoopConf<\/a>\u00a0and defends WP Tavern\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\nSpeaking of events aimed at developers, WP Tavern\u2019s Sarah Gooding\u00a0interviews Flynn O\u2019Connor<\/a>, who co-organized WordCamp Vancouver, BC Developer Edition.<\/p>\nAfter last week\u2019s\u00a0announcement that Microsoft plans to open up access to .NET and Visual Studio<\/a>, Torque has interviewed 10up\u2019s Jake Goldman, Pods Framework community manager Josh Pollock and Yoast\u2019s Joost deValk about\u00a0what Microsoft can learn from the WordPress project<\/a>.<\/p>\nCatsWhoCode.com is running a competition to\u00a0win five Multipurpose HTML templates from DealFuel<\/a>.<\/p>\nMatt Mullenweg has shared dozens of lovely\u00a0photos taken at WordCamp San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\nChest Beating<\/h3>\nTuts+ have hailed the success of their\u00a0translation project<\/a>, with 100+ volunteers translating 300+ tutorials and articles into 25+ languages since the project began.<\/p>\nFeeling let down by a membership plugin you\u2019ve installed? Crowd Favorite\u2019s Chris Lema says\u00a0you need to rethink your expectations<\/a>. (Have you tried\u00a0Protected Content<\/a>…?)<\/p>\nHow do you gauge feedback from your users? Intercom looks at\u00a0five mistakes we all make<\/a>\u00a0(talking to all users, failing to get ongoing feedback\u2026) and offers some straightforward and simple fixes.<\/p>\nElegant Themes offers an in-depth and complimentary\u00a0overview of the ManageWP dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd web host Kinsta beats its chest over two\u00a0positive reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\nOn Trac<\/h3>\nMasonry<\/a>\u00a0is a new free WordPress theme with a one-column design, created as a collaboration project between WordPress theme designer Emil Uzelac and DeviX, a development company founded by Mario Peshev and Stanko Metodiev.<\/p>\nWhile we\u2019re on the topic of themes, blogger Kevin Muldoon has put together a list of 45 themes with vertical menus<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf you want to contribute a patch to WordPress Trac, but aren\u2019t sure how to go about it,\u00a0WebDevStudios have put together a screencast to show you how<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd on the WooCommerce blog,\u00a0the story of Arthur Lhermitte<\/a>, a Parisian fashion designer who set up his first eCommerce store and had Striiiipes.com up and running and shipping his products worldwide less than 48 hours.<\/p>\nEasy Fix<\/h3>\nCustomize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These WordPress Plugins<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nTracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. Researchers who studied a group of 70-year-olds who had worked intellectually demanding jobs, found they were smarter and had better memories compared to others whose jobs were less cognitively demanding.<\/p>\nEverybody\u2019s favorite search engine has launched\u00a0Contributor<\/a>, a crowdfunding tool for publishers. Basically, it allows you to pay sites to turn off Google their ads. Kinda like AdBlock, really.<\/p>\n“Passwords do more than protect data. They protect dreams, secrets, fears and even clues to troubled pasts, and for some, they serve as an everyday reminder of what matters most.\u201d The New York Times explores\u00a0the secret life of passwords<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd we\u2019ll end the week with\u00a0this annoying time waster<\/a>. Enjoy. 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\u201cWhat\u2019s drama to some is an important issue to others\u2026 It\u2019s the same people that end up creating this rift, this WP Drama, and if there\u2019s one thing that Sarah (Gooding) and I definitely do not do \u2013 I especially don\u2019t aim to do \u2013 is create rifts in the community.\u201d In the\u00a0latest episode of WPWeekly<\/a>, Jeff Chandler rants about WP Drama following\u00a0the site\u2019s article on LoopConf<\/a>\u00a0and defends WP Tavern\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\nSpeaking of events aimed at developers, WP Tavern\u2019s Sarah Gooding\u00a0interviews Flynn O\u2019Connor<\/a>, who co-organized WordCamp Vancouver, BC Developer Edition.<\/p>\nAfter last week\u2019s\u00a0announcement that Microsoft plans to open up access to .NET and Visual Studio<\/a>, Torque has interviewed 10up\u2019s Jake Goldman, Pods Framework community manager Josh Pollock and Yoast\u2019s Joost deValk about\u00a0what Microsoft can learn from the WordPress project<\/a>.<\/p>\nCatsWhoCode.com is running a competition to\u00a0win five Multipurpose HTML templates from DealFuel<\/a>.<\/p>\nMatt Mullenweg has shared dozens of lovely\u00a0photos taken at WordCamp San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\nChest Beating<\/h3>\nTuts+ have hailed the success of their\u00a0translation project<\/a>, with 100+ volunteers translating 300+ tutorials and articles into 25+ languages since the project began.<\/p>\nFeeling let down by a membership plugin you\u2019ve installed? Crowd Favorite\u2019s Chris Lema says\u00a0you need to rethink your expectations<\/a>. (Have you tried\u00a0Protected Content<\/a>…?)<\/p>\nHow do you gauge feedback from your users? Intercom looks at\u00a0five mistakes we all make<\/a>\u00a0(talking to all users, failing to get ongoing feedback\u2026) and offers some straightforward and simple fixes.<\/p>\nElegant Themes offers an in-depth and complimentary\u00a0overview of the ManageWP dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd web host Kinsta beats its chest over two\u00a0positive reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\nOn Trac<\/h3>\nMasonry<\/a>\u00a0is a new free WordPress theme with a one-column design, created as a collaboration project between WordPress theme designer Emil Uzelac and DeviX, a development company founded by Mario Peshev and Stanko Metodiev.<\/p>\nWhile we\u2019re on the topic of themes, blogger Kevin Muldoon has put together a list of 45 themes with vertical menus<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf you want to contribute a patch to WordPress Trac, but aren\u2019t sure how to go about it,\u00a0WebDevStudios have put together a screencast to show you how<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd on the WooCommerce blog,\u00a0the story of Arthur Lhermitte<\/a>, a Parisian fashion designer who set up his first eCommerce store and had Striiiipes.com up and running and shipping his products worldwide less than 48 hours.<\/p>\nEasy Fix<\/h3>\nCustomize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These WordPress Plugins<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nTracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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Speaking of events aimed at developers, WP Tavern\u2019s Sarah Gooding\u00a0interviews Flynn O\u2019Connor<\/a>, who co-organized WordCamp Vancouver, BC Developer Edition.<\/p>\nAfter last week\u2019s\u00a0announcement that Microsoft plans to open up access to .NET and Visual Studio<\/a>, Torque has interviewed 10up\u2019s Jake Goldman, Pods Framework community manager Josh Pollock and Yoast\u2019s Joost deValk about\u00a0what Microsoft can learn from the WordPress project<\/a>.<\/p>\nCatsWhoCode.com is running a competition to\u00a0win five Multipurpose HTML templates from DealFuel<\/a>.<\/p>\nMatt Mullenweg has shared dozens of lovely\u00a0photos taken at WordCamp San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\nChest Beating<\/h3>\nTuts+ have hailed the success of their\u00a0translation project<\/a>, with 100+ volunteers translating 300+ tutorials and articles into 25+ languages since the project began.<\/p>\nFeeling let down by a membership plugin you\u2019ve installed? Crowd Favorite\u2019s Chris Lema says\u00a0you need to rethink your expectations<\/a>. (Have you tried\u00a0Protected Content<\/a>…?)<\/p>\nHow do you gauge feedback from your users? Intercom looks at\u00a0five mistakes we all make<\/a>\u00a0(talking to all users, failing to get ongoing feedback\u2026) and offers some straightforward and simple fixes.<\/p>\nElegant Themes offers an in-depth and complimentary\u00a0overview of the ManageWP dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd web host Kinsta beats its chest over two\u00a0positive reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\nOn Trac<\/h3>\nMasonry<\/a>\u00a0is a new free WordPress theme with a one-column design, created as a collaboration project between WordPress theme designer Emil Uzelac and DeviX, a development company founded by Mario Peshev and Stanko Metodiev.<\/p>\nWhile we\u2019re on the topic of themes, blogger Kevin Muldoon has put together a list of 45 themes with vertical menus<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf you want to contribute a patch to WordPress Trac, but aren\u2019t sure how to go about it,\u00a0WebDevStudios have put together a screencast to show you how<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd on the WooCommerce blog,\u00a0the story of Arthur Lhermitte<\/a>, a Parisian fashion designer who set up his first eCommerce store and had Striiiipes.com up and running and shipping his products worldwide less than 48 hours.<\/p>\nEasy Fix<\/h3>\nCustomize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These WordPress Plugins<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nTracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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After last week\u2019s\u00a0announcement that Microsoft plans to open up access to .NET and Visual Studio<\/a>, Torque has interviewed 10up\u2019s Jake Goldman, Pods Framework community manager Josh Pollock and Yoast\u2019s Joost deValk about\u00a0what Microsoft can learn from the WordPress project<\/a>.<\/p>\nCatsWhoCode.com is running a competition to\u00a0win five Multipurpose HTML templates from DealFuel<\/a>.<\/p>\nMatt Mullenweg has shared dozens of lovely\u00a0photos taken at WordCamp San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\nChest Beating<\/h3>\nTuts+ have hailed the success of their\u00a0translation project<\/a>, with 100+ volunteers translating 300+ tutorials and articles into 25+ languages since the project began.<\/p>\nFeeling let down by a membership plugin you\u2019ve installed? Crowd Favorite\u2019s Chris Lema says\u00a0you need to rethink your expectations<\/a>. (Have you tried\u00a0Protected Content<\/a>…?)<\/p>\nHow do you gauge feedback from your users? Intercom looks at\u00a0five mistakes we all make<\/a>\u00a0(talking to all users, failing to get ongoing feedback\u2026) and offers some straightforward and simple fixes.<\/p>\nElegant Themes offers an in-depth and complimentary\u00a0overview of the ManageWP dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd web host Kinsta beats its chest over two\u00a0positive reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\nOn Trac<\/h3>\nMasonry<\/a>\u00a0is a new free WordPress theme with a one-column design, created as a collaboration project between WordPress theme designer Emil Uzelac and DeviX, a development company founded by Mario Peshev and Stanko Metodiev.<\/p>\nWhile we\u2019re on the topic of themes, blogger Kevin Muldoon has put together a list of 45 themes with vertical menus<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf you want to contribute a patch to WordPress Trac, but aren\u2019t sure how to go about it,\u00a0WebDevStudios have put together a screencast to show you how<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd on the WooCommerce blog,\u00a0the story of Arthur Lhermitte<\/a>, a Parisian fashion designer who set up his first eCommerce store and had Striiiipes.com up and running and shipping his products worldwide less than 48 hours.<\/p>\nEasy Fix<\/h3>\nCustomize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These WordPress Plugins<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nTracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. Researchers who studied a group of 70-year-olds who had worked intellectually demanding jobs, found they were smarter and had better memories compared to others whose jobs were less cognitively demanding.<\/p>\nEverybody\u2019s favorite search engine has launched\u00a0Contributor<\/a>, a crowdfunding tool for publishers. Basically, it allows you to pay sites to turn off Google their ads. Kinda like AdBlock, really.<\/p>\n“Passwords do more than protect data. They protect dreams, secrets, fears and even clues to troubled pasts, and for some, they serve as an everyday reminder of what matters most.\u201d The New York Times explores\u00a0the secret life of passwords<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd we\u2019ll end the week with\u00a0this annoying time waster<\/a>. Enjoy. 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CatsWhoCode.com is running a competition to\u00a0win five Multipurpose HTML templates from DealFuel<\/a>.<\/p>\nMatt Mullenweg has shared dozens of lovely\u00a0photos taken at WordCamp San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\nChest Beating<\/h3>\nTuts+ have hailed the success of their\u00a0translation project<\/a>, with 100+ volunteers translating 300+ tutorials and articles into 25+ languages since the project began.<\/p>\nFeeling let down by a membership plugin you\u2019ve installed? Crowd Favorite\u2019s Chris Lema says\u00a0you need to rethink your expectations<\/a>. (Have you tried\u00a0Protected Content<\/a>…?)<\/p>\nHow do you gauge feedback from your users? Intercom looks at\u00a0five mistakes we all make<\/a>\u00a0(talking to all users, failing to get ongoing feedback\u2026) and offers some straightforward and simple fixes.<\/p>\nElegant Themes offers an in-depth and complimentary\u00a0overview of the ManageWP dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd web host Kinsta beats its chest over two\u00a0positive reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\nOn Trac<\/h3>\nMasonry<\/a>\u00a0is a new free WordPress theme with a one-column design, created as a collaboration project between WordPress theme designer Emil Uzelac and DeviX, a development company founded by Mario Peshev and Stanko Metodiev.<\/p>\nWhile we\u2019re on the topic of themes, blogger Kevin Muldoon has put together a list of 45 themes with vertical menus<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf you want to contribute a patch to WordPress Trac, but aren\u2019t sure how to go about it,\u00a0WebDevStudios have put together a screencast to show you how<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd on the WooCommerce blog,\u00a0the story of Arthur Lhermitte<\/a>, a Parisian fashion designer who set up his first eCommerce store and had Striiiipes.com up and running and shipping his products worldwide less than 48 hours.<\/p>\nEasy Fix<\/h3>\nCustomize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These WordPress Plugins<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nTracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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Matt Mullenweg has shared dozens of lovely\u00a0photos taken at WordCamp San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\nChest Beating<\/h3>\nTuts+ have hailed the success of their\u00a0translation project<\/a>, with 100+ volunteers translating 300+ tutorials and articles into 25+ languages since the project began.<\/p>\nFeeling let down by a membership plugin you\u2019ve installed? Crowd Favorite\u2019s Chris Lema says\u00a0you need to rethink your expectations<\/a>. (Have you tried\u00a0Protected Content<\/a>…?)<\/p>\nHow do you gauge feedback from your users? Intercom looks at\u00a0five mistakes we all make<\/a>\u00a0(talking to all users, failing to get ongoing feedback\u2026) and offers some straightforward and simple fixes.<\/p>\nElegant Themes offers an in-depth and complimentary\u00a0overview of the ManageWP dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd web host Kinsta beats its chest over two\u00a0positive reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\nOn Trac<\/h3>\nMasonry<\/a>\u00a0is a new free WordPress theme with a one-column design, created as a collaboration project between WordPress theme designer Emil Uzelac and DeviX, a development company founded by Mario Peshev and Stanko Metodiev.<\/p>\nWhile we\u2019re on the topic of themes, blogger Kevin Muldoon has put together a list of 45 themes with vertical menus<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf you want to contribute a patch to WordPress Trac, but aren\u2019t sure how to go about it,\u00a0WebDevStudios have put together a screencast to show you how<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd on the WooCommerce blog,\u00a0the story of Arthur Lhermitte<\/a>, a Parisian fashion designer who set up his first eCommerce store and had Striiiipes.com up and running and shipping his products worldwide less than 48 hours.<\/p>\nEasy Fix<\/h3>\nCustomize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These WordPress Plugins<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nTracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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Tuts+ have hailed the success of their\u00a0translation project<\/a>, with 100+ volunteers translating 300+ tutorials and articles into 25+ languages since the project began.<\/p>\nFeeling let down by a membership plugin you\u2019ve installed? Crowd Favorite\u2019s Chris Lema says\u00a0you need to rethink your expectations<\/a>. (Have you tried\u00a0Protected Content<\/a>…?)<\/p>\nHow do you gauge feedback from your users? Intercom looks at\u00a0five mistakes we all make<\/a>\u00a0(talking to all users, failing to get ongoing feedback\u2026) and offers some straightforward and simple fixes.<\/p>\nElegant Themes offers an in-depth and complimentary\u00a0overview of the ManageWP dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd web host Kinsta beats its chest over two\u00a0positive reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\nOn Trac<\/h3>\nMasonry<\/a>\u00a0is a new free WordPress theme with a one-column design, created as a collaboration project between WordPress theme designer Emil Uzelac and DeviX, a development company founded by Mario Peshev and Stanko Metodiev.<\/p>\nWhile we\u2019re on the topic of themes, blogger Kevin Muldoon has put together a list of 45 themes with vertical menus<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf you want to contribute a patch to WordPress Trac, but aren\u2019t sure how to go about it,\u00a0WebDevStudios have put together a screencast to show you how<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd on the WooCommerce blog,\u00a0the story of Arthur Lhermitte<\/a>, a Parisian fashion designer who set up his first eCommerce store and had Striiiipes.com up and running and shipping his products worldwide less than 48 hours.<\/p>\nEasy Fix<\/h3>\nCustomize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These WordPress Plugins<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nTracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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Feeling let down by a membership plugin you\u2019ve installed? Crowd Favorite\u2019s Chris Lema says\u00a0you need to rethink your expectations<\/a>. (Have you tried\u00a0Protected Content<\/a>…?)<\/p>\nHow do you gauge feedback from your users? Intercom looks at\u00a0five mistakes we all make<\/a>\u00a0(talking to all users, failing to get ongoing feedback\u2026) and offers some straightforward and simple fixes.<\/p>\nElegant Themes offers an in-depth and complimentary\u00a0overview of the ManageWP dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd web host Kinsta beats its chest over two\u00a0positive reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\nOn Trac<\/h3>\nMasonry<\/a>\u00a0is a new free WordPress theme with a one-column design, created as a collaboration project between WordPress theme designer Emil Uzelac and DeviX, a development company founded by Mario Peshev and Stanko Metodiev.<\/p>\nWhile we\u2019re on the topic of themes, blogger Kevin Muldoon has put together a list of 45 themes with vertical menus<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf you want to contribute a patch to WordPress Trac, but aren\u2019t sure how to go about it,\u00a0WebDevStudios have put together a screencast to show you how<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd on the WooCommerce blog,\u00a0the story of Arthur Lhermitte<\/a>, a Parisian fashion designer who set up his first eCommerce store and had Striiiipes.com up and running and shipping his products worldwide less than 48 hours.<\/p>\nEasy Fix<\/h3>\nCustomize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These WordPress Plugins<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nTracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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How do you gauge feedback from your users? Intercom looks at\u00a0five mistakes we all make<\/a>\u00a0(talking to all users, failing to get ongoing feedback\u2026) and offers some straightforward and simple fixes.<\/p>\nElegant Themes offers an in-depth and complimentary\u00a0overview of the ManageWP dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd web host Kinsta beats its chest over two\u00a0positive reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\nOn Trac<\/h3>\nMasonry<\/a>\u00a0is a new free WordPress theme with a one-column design, created as a collaboration project between WordPress theme designer Emil Uzelac and DeviX, a development company founded by Mario Peshev and Stanko Metodiev.<\/p>\nWhile we\u2019re on the topic of themes, blogger Kevin Muldoon has put together a list of 45 themes with vertical menus<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf you want to contribute a patch to WordPress Trac, but aren\u2019t sure how to go about it,\u00a0WebDevStudios have put together a screencast to show you how<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd on the WooCommerce blog,\u00a0the story of Arthur Lhermitte<\/a>, a Parisian fashion designer who set up his first eCommerce store and had Striiiipes.com up and running and shipping his products worldwide less than 48 hours.<\/p>\nEasy Fix<\/h3>\nCustomize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These WordPress Plugins<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nTracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. 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DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. 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WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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Elegant Themes offers an in-depth and complimentary\u00a0overview of the ManageWP dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd web host Kinsta beats its chest over two\u00a0positive reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\nOn Trac<\/h3>\nMasonry<\/a>\u00a0is a new free WordPress theme with a one-column design, created as a collaboration project between WordPress theme designer Emil Uzelac and DeviX, a development company founded by Mario Peshev and Stanko Metodiev.<\/p>\nWhile we\u2019re on the topic of themes, blogger Kevin Muldoon has put together a list of 45 themes with vertical menus<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf you want to contribute a patch to WordPress Trac, but aren\u2019t sure how to go about it,\u00a0WebDevStudios have put together a screencast to show you how<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd on the WooCommerce blog,\u00a0the story of Arthur Lhermitte<\/a>, a Parisian fashion designer who set up his first eCommerce store and had Striiiipes.com up and running and shipping his products worldwide less than 48 hours.<\/p>\nEasy Fix<\/h3>\nCustomize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These WordPress Plugins<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nTracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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And web host Kinsta beats its chest over two\u00a0positive reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\nOn Trac<\/h3>\nMasonry<\/a>\u00a0is a new free WordPress theme with a one-column design, created as a collaboration project between WordPress theme designer Emil Uzelac and DeviX, a development company founded by Mario Peshev and Stanko Metodiev.<\/p>\nWhile we\u2019re on the topic of themes, blogger Kevin Muldoon has put together a list of 45 themes with vertical menus<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf you want to contribute a patch to WordPress Trac, but aren\u2019t sure how to go about it,\u00a0WebDevStudios have put together a screencast to show you how<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd on the WooCommerce blog,\u00a0the story of Arthur Lhermitte<\/a>, a Parisian fashion designer who set up his first eCommerce store and had Striiiipes.com up and running and shipping his products worldwide less than 48 hours.<\/p>\nEasy Fix<\/h3>\nCustomize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These WordPress Plugins<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nTracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. 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Masonry<\/a>\u00a0is a new free WordPress theme with a one-column design, created as a collaboration project between WordPress theme designer Emil Uzelac and DeviX, a development company founded by Mario Peshev and Stanko Metodiev.<\/p>\nWhile we\u2019re on the topic of themes, blogger Kevin Muldoon has put together a list of 45 themes with vertical menus<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf you want to contribute a patch to WordPress Trac, but aren\u2019t sure how to go about it,\u00a0WebDevStudios have put together a screencast to show you how<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd on the WooCommerce blog,\u00a0the story of Arthur Lhermitte<\/a>, a Parisian fashion designer who set up his first eCommerce store and had Striiiipes.com up and running and shipping his products worldwide less than 48 hours.<\/p>\nEasy Fix<\/h3>\nCustomize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These WordPress Plugins<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nTracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. 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DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. 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It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. 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While we\u2019re on the topic of themes, blogger Kevin Muldoon has put together a list of 45 themes with vertical menus<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf you want to contribute a patch to WordPress Trac, but aren\u2019t sure how to go about it,\u00a0WebDevStudios have put together a screencast to show you how<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd on the WooCommerce blog,\u00a0the story of Arthur Lhermitte<\/a>, a Parisian fashion designer who set up his first eCommerce store and had Striiiipes.com up and running and shipping his products worldwide less than 48 hours.<\/p>\nEasy Fix<\/h3>\nCustomize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These WordPress Plugins<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nTracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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If you want to contribute a patch to WordPress Trac, but aren\u2019t sure how to go about it,\u00a0WebDevStudios have put together a screencast to show you how<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd on the WooCommerce blog,\u00a0the story of Arthur Lhermitte<\/a>, a Parisian fashion designer who set up his first eCommerce store and had Striiiipes.com up and running and shipping his products worldwide less than 48 hours.<\/p>\nEasy Fix<\/h3>\nCustomize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These WordPress Plugins<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nTracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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And on the WooCommerce blog,\u00a0the story of Arthur Lhermitte<\/a>, a Parisian fashion designer who set up his first eCommerce store and had Striiiipes.com up and running and shipping his products worldwide less than 48 hours.<\/p>\nEasy Fix<\/h3>\nCustomize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These WordPress Plugins<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nTracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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Customize Your WordPress Login, Registration, and Profile Pages With These WordPress Plugins<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nTracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. 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WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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Tracking Your Ranking in WordPress Just Got Awesome<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nThe Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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The Easy Way To Create Content Grids in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nStop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. 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Stop Printing Ugly WordPress Pages With This Easy Fix<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. 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DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? 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WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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How To Schedule Tweets For Your WordPress Blog Posts<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nHow To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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How To Integrate Twitter With WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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50 Filters of WordPress: 21-30<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\n50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. 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WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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50 Filters of WordPress: 31-40<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nSmarty Pants<\/h3>\nA five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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A five-year-old boy from the UK has become\u00a0the youngest computer specialist in the world<\/a>\u00a0after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. The ambitious youngster hopes to one day launch a UK-based IT hub similar to Silicon Valley. (I\u2019m suddenly feeling really old\u2026)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #128 – Tuesday, November 18<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nOne-Click Wonder<\/h3>\nSecurity service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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All the best for a wonderful Monday.<\/p>\n
Security service Clef has partnered with one-click web app installer Installatron<\/a>. The deal means if you ever use Installatron to install WordPress, Clef will work out-of-the-box.<\/p>\nPublic Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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Public Service Announcement:\u00a0Composer has been delayed<\/a>. (If you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWTF is Composer?” like I did, it\u2019s a plugin that allows you to create interactive, voice-guided walkthroughs for any website or web app.)<\/p>\nManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. 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ManageWP\u2019s Nemanja Aleksic shares lessons on\u00a0how the WordPress management service have grown their support team<\/a>, not to mention the fact everyone at the company \u2013 even CEO Vladimir Prelovac \u2013 pitches in to answer support tickets.<\/p>\nThe latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. 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DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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The latest edition of Matt Report features\u00a0Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, the guys behind LeadIn<\/a>, a marketing automation and lead tracking plugin for WordPress.<\/p>\nAccording to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. Researchers who studied a group of 70-year-olds who had worked intellectually demanding jobs, found they were smarter and had better memories compared to others whose jobs were less cognitively demanding.<\/p>\nEverybody\u2019s favorite search engine has launched\u00a0Contributor<\/a>, a crowdfunding tool for publishers. Basically, it allows you to pay sites to turn off Google their ads. Kinda like AdBlock, really.<\/p>\n“Passwords do more than protect data. They protect dreams, secrets, fears and even clues to troubled pasts, and for some, they serve as an everyday reminder of what matters most.\u201d The New York Times explores\u00a0the secret life of passwords<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd we\u2019ll end the week with\u00a0this annoying time waster<\/a>. Enjoy. 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According to the recent WordPress Survey, 25% of WordPress users make a full-time living from the software. So how do you get in on that? Torque gives a brief overview of the\u00a0opportunities available for those not afraid of a little elbow grease<\/a>.<\/p>\n“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. 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“None of us started out knowing exactly what it is that we\u2019re doing, and none of us know the right way to do everything. Kinda trite, isn\u2019t it? Our behavior doesn\u2019t make it look like that.\u201d Developer Tom McFarlin says\u00a0we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to ask for help<\/a>\u00a0or learn from others.<\/p>\nLift Off<\/h3>\nWP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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WP Lift checks out\u00a0Oasis Workflow<\/a>, a plugin for automated WordPress editorial workflow.<\/p>\nBlog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? 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WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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Blog much? Check out these free author bio box plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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And\u00a0WP Slack<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that sends notifications to Slack when events are triggered in WordPress.<\/p>\nBasement AJAX<\/h3>\nMaking SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. Researchers who studied a group of 70-year-olds who had worked intellectually demanding jobs, found they were smarter and had better memories compared to others whose jobs were less cognitively demanding.<\/p>\nEverybody\u2019s favorite search engine has launched\u00a0Contributor<\/a>, a crowdfunding tool for publishers. Basically, it allows you to pay sites to turn off Google their ads. Kinda like AdBlock, really.<\/p>\n“Passwords do more than protect data. They protect dreams, secrets, fears and even clues to troubled pasts, and for some, they serve as an everyday reminder of what matters most.\u201d The New York Times explores\u00a0the secret life of passwords<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd we\u2019ll end the week with\u00a0this annoying time waster<\/a>. Enjoy. 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Making SlideShare Shine in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV).<\/p>\nHow to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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How to Create a Landing Page in WordPress<\/a> (CodeinWP).<\/p>\nCleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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Cleaning Up Your WordPress Database To Optimize Your Website\u2019s Performance<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nAdding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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Adding Ajax to Your WordPress Plugin<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nAll About That Baste<\/h3>\n“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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“Three years ago, he was flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s. Today Mr. Haag, 22, skinny and blindingly pale, makes his living playing Call of Duty.\u201d The story of\u00a0a professional video game player who earns almost $1 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. 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WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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It\u2019s all about that baste for the Holderness family, whose\u00a0Thanksgiving-themed parody<\/a>\u00a0has racked up more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\nA Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. Researchers who studied a group of 70-year-olds who had worked intellectually demanding jobs, found they were smarter and had better memories compared to others whose jobs were less cognitively demanding.<\/p>\nEverybody\u2019s favorite search engine has launched\u00a0Contributor<\/a>, a crowdfunding tool for publishers. Basically, it allows you to pay sites to turn off Google their ads. Kinda like AdBlock, really.<\/p>\n“Passwords do more than protect data. They protect dreams, secrets, fears and even clues to troubled pasts, and for some, they serve as an everyday reminder of what matters most.\u201d The New York Times explores\u00a0the secret life of passwords<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd we\u2019ll end the week with\u00a0this annoying time waster<\/a>. Enjoy. 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A Japanese artist trekked across Japan to create\u00a0the world\u2019s largest GPS drawing for his marriage proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? 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WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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Lastly, how well do you know pixels?\u00a0Now there\u2019s a fun way to find out.<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019m terrible at it.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #129 – Wednesday, November 19<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nCommunity \u2019n\u2019 Stuff<\/h3>\nAutomattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. 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All the best for a super-duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Automattic has open-sourced its DMCA process documents<\/a>\u00a0on GitHub. The company has made the legal documents available in the hope they will help demystify some of the issues surrounding the DMCA process<\/a>.<\/p>\nWordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? 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WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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WordPress community managers\u00a0Jen Mylo and Andrea Middleton are stepping down from their roles<\/a>. Andrea, who looks after WordCamp Central, and Jen, who does, well, community stuff, are both staying in their jobs at Automattic, but will be focusing on other things.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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If you\u2019re in New York on December 4,\u00a0WP Engine and WebDevStudios are hosting a networking event<\/a>\u00a0with guest speaker Cameron Barrey, who will share his story of how he built Newark Public School\u2019s websites using WordPress.<\/p>\nGimme Five<\/h3>\nHow are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? 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WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. 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How are you contributing your Five for the Future? All it takes is just two hours a week, which you could be spending in the WordPress Support Forums helping others out.\u00a0We show you how.<\/a><\/p>\nTech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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Tech news site Gigaom has used a couple of neat solutions to\u00a0speed up search on its WordPress-powered site<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 search server Sphinx and the Scriblio plugin.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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Meanwhile, at WP Tavern,\u00a020 people give 20 reasons why you should attend a WordCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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“We should have done this a long time ago and this is fully my fault for not recognizing the magnitude of this issue. I honestly didn\u2019t understand what we were lacking, the gap of WordPress internationalization within our community, or that so many of our existing theme buyers were coming from outside of the United States.\u201d Design and development agency Web Savvy Marketing are producing more than 35 translation-ready themes for localization, multilingual use, and right-to-left language support. CEO Rebecca Gill explains why she wishes the company had embraced i18n sooner<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. 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There are a ton of WordPress podcasts. Seriously, a ton.\u00a0WP Explorer checks out more than 20<\/a>. (Okay, so there\u2019s not a ton, but 20 is still a lot!)<\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? 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WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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If you don\u2019t have a WordPress Meetup in your area, why not organize one? WooThemes offer some tips on how to get one started<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpruiker<\/h3>\nOur CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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Our CoursePress plugin gets top marks<\/a>\u00a0in WP Mayor\u2019s round-up of the best WordPress LMS, course building and eLearning plugins.<\/p>\nPostmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? 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The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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Postmatic<\/a>\u00a0is a new plugin that allows visitors to subscribe to a new post or comments via email and leave a community by simply hitting reply.<\/p>\nWP Lift has put together a round-up of\u00a0November\u2019s best free themes so far<\/a>.<\/p>\nLaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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LaunchKey<\/a>\u00a0is a free plugin that allows you to login to your WordPress site with biometric face scan and fingerprint scan. DoItWithWP\u00a0takes the plugin for a spin<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to turn your site into a mobile app? The folks at AppPresser look at the\u00a0pros and cons of some of the builders available<\/a>\u00a0and then, of course, spruik Reactor.<\/p>\nFont pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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Want to turn your site into a mobile app? 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WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. 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It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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Font pairing isn\u2019t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with\u00a0Google Fonts pairing suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhite Screen of Death<\/h3>\nGetting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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Getting The Most Out Of WordPress Shortcodes\u00a0<\/a>(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nFixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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Fixing the White Screen of Death<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nBuilding a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. 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WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. Researchers who studied a group of 70-year-olds who had worked intellectually demanding jobs, found they were smarter and had better memories compared to others whose jobs were less cognitively demanding.<\/p>\nEverybody\u2019s favorite search engine has launched\u00a0Contributor<\/a>, a crowdfunding tool for publishers. Basically, it allows you to pay sites to turn off Google their ads. Kinda like AdBlock, really.<\/p>\n“Passwords do more than protect data. They protect dreams, secrets, fears and even clues to troubled pasts, and for some, they serve as an everyday reminder of what matters most.\u201d The New York Times explores\u00a0the secret life of passwords<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd we\u2019ll end the week with\u00a0this annoying time waster<\/a>. Enjoy. 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Building a Loyal Community By Adding a Forum to Your Website<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nHow to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. Say hello to StoreFront<\/a>, a lightweight and robust theme designed to help you get an online store up and running with minimal effort.<\/p>\nWP Explorer has a list of\u00a020 minimal theme for \u201cdiscerning designers.”<\/a><\/p>\nWP Kube\u2019s reviews\u00a0Flow Flow Social<\/a>, a plugin that adds social feeds to your WordPress site.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the folks over at Hongkiat check out\u00a010 plugins to improve user management<\/a>.<\/p>\nPicking a Perfect Theme<\/h3>\nMaximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder<\/a>\u00a0(Cozmolabs).<\/p>\n12 Factors For Selecting A Perfect WordPress Theme<\/a>\u00a0(Webloggerz).<\/p>\nHow To Get More Followers On Facebook And Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(Elegant Themes).<\/p>\nDeveloping for the WordPress.org Plugin Directory<\/a>\u00a0(Sitepoint).<\/p>\nImproving WordPress Plugin Development With Composer<\/a>\u00a0(Torque).<\/p>\nYes or No To WordPress Frameworks?<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nMastering the post_class() Function<\/a>\u00a0(ThemeShaper).<\/p>\nUse Your Noggin<\/h3>\nWhen it comes to your noggin, you either use it or lose it<\/a>. 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How to Use Mandrill to Send Email in WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tuts+).<\/p>\nUse Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. 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WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. 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Use Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress<\/a>\u00a0(Tom McFarlin).<\/p>\nShark Attack<\/h3>\nTwitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. 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WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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Twitter has made its humongous\u00a0archive of tweets searchable<\/a>, so now you can track down any public tweet since 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\nNow, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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Now, this is creepy: Can you spot the snipers hidden in these photos?<\/a>\u00a0(I couldn’t find them, hence why I suck at laser tag.)<\/p>\nAnd this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. 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And this is mental:\u00a0A visual timeline of the future based on famous fiction.<\/a>\u00a0(Not looking forward to 2023, though 2188 and 2966 won\u2019t be so bad.)<\/p>\nAll the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #130 – Thursday, November 20<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nA Drop in the Ocean<\/h3>\nJean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. 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All the best for a wacky Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Jean Galea from WP Mayor has launched\u00a0WP Security Bloggers<\/a>, a website offering a central source for WordPress security news and updates. The site pulls updates from a number of leading security sites and blogs, including WP White Security, Securi and iThemes.<\/p>\nGenesis fans can now get news about their favorite theme framework in one place. The Daily Bolt<\/a>\u00a0pulls in Genesis\/WordPress related posts and publishes excerpts, saving you having to scroll through your RSS feeds.<\/p>\nWP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. 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WP Commerce have\u00a0changed their domain name<\/a>\u00a0from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org<\/a><\/p>\nWeb host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. 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Web host DigitalOcean, now the third-largest hosting provider in the world, is gaining popularity amongst WordPress users<\/a>. WordPress \u201cdroplets\u201d with the company now account for 3.74 percent of the company\u2019s total active users running a cloud server.<\/p>\nThe USA Today shares how it uses WordPress<\/a>\u00a0to power multiple sites with WordPress.com VIP in an insightful transcript published on the VIP site.<\/p>\nIf My Calculations Are Correct…<\/h3>\nAfter WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. 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After WP Kube calculated the cost of starting a WordPress website at $298 last week, Elegant Themes has had another go at the numbers and arrived at somewhere between $72.99 and $33,162.18<\/a>.<\/p>\nWooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. 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WooThemes have begun regular updates on their support crew. Here\u2019s the latest installment about the WooCommerce Conference and the WooCommerce 101 Video Series<\/a>.<\/p>\nChris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. 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Chris Lema has been at Crowd Favorite eight weeks now and shares\u00a0an inside look at what he\u2019s been up to during that time<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoiling Point<\/h3>\nIf you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. 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If you use developer Tom McFarlin\u2019s WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you may want to check out\u00a0a new generator by WP Chat\u2019s Enrique Chavez<\/a>. It\u2019s a handy web app that generates a plugin without you having to replace any text strings.<\/p>\nWP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. 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WP Kube offers an overview of Bluehost\u00a0<\/a>web hosting and how to set up a new account.<\/p>\nCircles Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is a premium gallery plugin that allows you to display your images in, well, circles.<\/p>\nAwesome!<\/h3>\nHow To Create An Awesome Newsletter Signup Popup For Your WordPress Site<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nAre You Avoiding These Common WordPress Code Issues?<\/a>\u00a0(WPMU DEV Blog).<\/p>\nHow To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. 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The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. Fair enough.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0latest episode of WPwatercooler<\/a>\u00a0explores whether WordPress should go corporate.<\/p>\nAnd the\u00a0DradCast<\/a>\u00a0podcast features John Eckman, the CEO at 10up.<\/p>\nWhy, Hello There<\/h3>\nWooThemes have launched an official theme for WooCommerce. 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How To: Sell User Customized Products Online with WooCommerce<\/a>\u00a0(WP Lift).<\/p>\nWordPress Comment Moderation: A Guide For Beginners<\/a>\u00a0(WP Explorer).<\/p>\nAdvantages and Disadvantages of WordPress Frameworks<\/a>\u00a0(tuts+).<\/p>\nBack to the Future<\/h3>\nEvery time you look down at your phone, the amount of force your head exerts is roughly the weight of four bowling balls<\/a>. Eek!<\/p>\nAnd here\u2019s an awesome video of\u00a0skateboarder Tony Hawk on a hoverboard<\/a>. For reals.<\/p>\nAll the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n\nThe WhiP Newsletter #131 – Friday, November 21<\/h2>\nHello dear reader,<\/p>\nMercury Rising<\/h3>\nIf you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. 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All the best for a brilliant and productive Thursday.<\/p>\n
If you have automatic updates turned on for your site\/s, you may have noticed you\u2019ve been\u00a0updated to WordPress 4.0.1<\/a>. This\u00a0critical security release fixes cross-site scripting vulnerability<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t updated to the latest version, go do it now!<\/p>\nWP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. 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WP Engine have launched\u00a0Mercury<\/a>, a new enterprise WordPress platform\u00a0built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance<\/a>. The web host\u00a0partnered with development agency 10up<\/a>\u00a0to make the platform a reality.<\/p>\nTwitter has released a WordPress plugin<\/a>\u00a0to get people embedding more Vines in posts. The plugin is\u00a0available to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\nSecurity service Securi are\u00a0encouraging anyone using the WP-Statistics plugin to update to the latest version<\/a>\u00a0after discovering a few security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\nWordPress developer Steven Gliebe says would\u00a0kill off developer packages and bonus themes on every theme shop if he had the chance<\/a>. 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