This #WordPressWednesday is filled with a lot of great finds. After my post, How WordPress Has Changed My Life, somehow you all got me really fired up to blog. It was the kick in the rear that I needed after a lot of things that have been weighing on my mind.
This week we’ll cover some cool plugin roundups, some warm stories on how a plugin has helped people help the homeless or how a theme helped a customer with their business, WordCamp US announcements, and some cool tutorials and tricks.
#WordPressWednesday gathers some quality articles from all around the WordPress community, and allows you to have a peek on what’s going on. You’re busy, I’m busy… we’re all busy. Hopefully some curated content will help keep you in the loop. 🙂
As a note, please don’t forget that this roundup coincides with the #WordPressWednesday event that is held at the Facebook group called All About WordPress. Wednesday is the only day of the week that the group allows self-linking to WordPress-related articles. Other than that, the group is for all walks of WordPress users, from novice, to advance. Please make sure to join, as well as share our group with your WordPress friends. 😀
#WordPressWednesday 2015 Volume 9
WordPress Plugins
Joe Fylan roundups up what he believes is the top 5 free WordPress gallery plugins. – The Top Five Free Gallery Plugins for WordPress
Chris Lema explains why he recommends the Beaver Builder to WordPress freelancers. – Why I recommend Beaver Builder to WordPress Freelancers
Matt Cromwell shares Marc and Jessica Benzakein’s story of how the Give plugin helped them help poor families. This is an amazing story. Give is one of the plugins that is really helping people in their time of need. – Give Stories: Marc and Jessica Helped a homeless Mom and Children
Shaun Quarton put together a list of timeline plugins for WordPress. – Five of the Best WordPress Timeline Plugins
WordPress Themes
Lauren Mancke introduces a new Genesis child theme called Atmosphere Pro. It’s a one-column type theme that has an interesting front page. I like that in smaller browsers, that the theme author has paid attention to the featured images of posts, in putting them before the post so it makes sense where it belongs. – Atmosphere Pro: A Minimalist Theme for Your Business
WordPress Tutorials
David Hayes shows us how to use template tags in WordPress, and also answers why and when you use them. If you’re not familiar with template tags, you might want to read this article. – Why, When, and How to Make Your Own Template Tags
The WPBeginner team teaches us how to disable auto-linking of WordPress comment links, especially if we don’t want those links clickable. It might save on some of that time moderating comments. – How to Disable Auto Linking of URLs in WordPress Comments
Carrie Dils might be onto something, especially if you don’t use all of your WordPress admin, and want to simplify it for your own personal experience. – Uncluttering the Admin Experience
Jay Wood gathered some debugging snippets for WordPress, as well as shared some tips. – Debugging WordPress Tips and Snippets
WordPress Community News
Jeff Chandler shares some insight from Joe McGill on responsive images in the upcoming version of WordPress 4.4. – Joe McGill Explains How Responsive Images Work in WordPress 4.4
The 2015 WordCamp US organization team has starting announcing speakers. Event is December 4-6, 2015, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. – Introducing the WordCamp US speakers – Part 1 | Introducing the WordCamp US speakers – Part 2
Themify customer, Roberta De Rosa talks about her experience with Themify. – How Themify Helped Me with My Growing Business
Andrea Fercia makes sure to let us know to be aware of the headings hierarchy changes in the WordPress admin. – Headings hierarchy changes in the admin screens
*stretches* I think I’ve found some really great gems in the WordPress blogosphere. I hope you enjoy them.
Feel free to let me know what you liked, and you’re also welcomed to discuss anything in the article. By the way, I am preparing the #WordPressWednesday podcast… yeah, that plan I mentioned a few months ago. It’s now happening. 😉
See you next Wednesday! 🙂
A really interesting post, Thanks for mentioning me alongside some great bloggers.Helpful article for blogger like me thanks for sharing.Thanks for updating us Nile.Keep posting…
Hi Nile!
I’m compelled with this blog yours. Great work for this. I can say that wordpress is a friendly site to use. You can put anything with it. Thanks a lot Nile.
Hi,
I really like WordPress. I i need establish a website in one day then my preference is about WordPress but I have one problem in WordPress its about the security. WordPress have not maintain their security as Joomla do. But if you want seeks about the establish a website in easy manner then no compare with WordPress.
Hi Alisha!
WordPress is actually secure. It’s what you add to it, and then don’t keep updated that is the issue. WordPress actually does a great job with maintaining security and is on top of vulnerabilities, very much like Joomla and Drupal. You probably aren’t up-to-date on how well it is actually doing when it comes to security. May want to try WordPress out and go through the steps to harden it’s security and use best practices in keeping your website secure… I think it will blow your mind. 😉
Hey Nila,
Great article roundup – thanks for including me!
Cheers,
Carrie
Not a problem. I saw that you had something good going recently on your website, so it needed to be featured. 🙂