Wow! Another #WordPressWednesday has come around and I’ve put together a roundup of great articles from around the WordPress community. It’s always important as a WordPress user to have some type of awareness of what is going on, whether it be nifty new plugins or themes, awesome tutorials to make creating and maintaining your site easier, or news on what’s happening.
Every Wednesday is #WordPressWednesday. Aside from this post, on my Facebook group, All About WordPress, I allow members to link to their most recent WordPress related article. The article shared must add value to the group and encourage discussion, so if you’re active on Facebook, feel free to join All About WordPress.
Below are some of the articles I found from around the community. I’ve conveniently allowed each link to open in a new window so you can read as many posts showcased here. Enjoy!
#WordPressWednesday 2014 Volume 5
WordPress Plugins
Ashley Hurney over at iThemes introduces a new feature in the iThemes Security plugin in her post New in iThemes Security: Malware Scanning, Automatic Admin Host Ban and XML-RPC Protection.
Adam Warner of FooPlugins introduces a cool little plugin add-on to add custom branding to the FooGallery plugin.
WordPress Themes
Brian Gardner at StudioPress showcases Education Pro, a child theme in the Genesis theme framework for WordPress.
Nick Roach is showing off the new theme called Extra, which is added to the Elegant Themes collection.
WordPress Tutorials
WP Beginners shows us How to Limit Dashboard Access in WordPress.
While this tutorial is only a couple months old and it’s more of a snippet, WP Recipes shows us How to remove login shake effect when error occurs.
WordPress Community News
Helen Hou-Sandi recently announced over at WordPress.org the release of WordPress 4.0 Beta 2. You might want to check it out and give feedback before the official release of 4.0.
Uh oh, someone is a plugin thief! Vas Blagodarskiy has been caught copying, changing the licensing, and selling a version of Ninja Popups for WordPress with his plugin WP Ninja PopUp. It’s not the first time he’s been caught stealing. You can read more about it in Brett Rutecky’s review of WP Ninja Popup.
Chris Lema assures newbies that it is really is easy to change your WordPress theme.
Ooh, a little bit of news for the WordPress evangelist in some of us: Brian Krosguard says The New Yorker is powered by WordPress.
Kimberly Castleberry warns us about some of the nasty issues that have popped up recently in WordPress security with her article – A Rough Week In WordPress Security Means You Better Pay Attention!
See you next Wednesday for #WordPressWednesday!
Thanks for this 5th volume, already waiting for the next one.
Nile,
The article that most interested me in today’s collection is this one: “Chris Lema assures newbies that it is really is easy to change your WordPress theme.” Having struggled for months attempting to fix a few annoying features in the chosen theme for my latest blog site, and you know because you helped to resolve the problems, I would not find it easy to change to a different theme. Maybe at the start, when you are first setting up a new site and you don’t have widgets and plugins, blog posts and other pages completed. So my idea is to try out new themes on a new blog site and to check with someone who knows how to handle any unforeseen problems that might arise after you switch an established site to a new theme.
Warmly,
Dr. Erica
I’m actually contemplating a reply to his article on my own website because I feel the same way as you.
Ugh, for as awesome as WordPress is there sure are a lot of issues with it eh? Better go read Kimberly’s article right away…
Thanks for sharing
Hey Nile,
Ahh!! another great post. Really waiting for the 5 volume of WP Wednesday 2014. Yes, WordPress is too good and i’m also a WordPress Developer and know the very about the WP platform, WordPress has changed the website developing and design life….. 🙂 I really enjoy my work with WordPress and always recommended to our clients and they are very happy with WP.
Thanks, Again Nile 🙂
Thanks for the mention above! 🙂
You’re most welcome, Ashley!
The Education Pro wordpress theme is awesome, thanks for sharing…
I want tutorials because i am new at blogging please share the basics steps to know more about word press thanks.