The third edition of php[world] will be held in Washington, D.C., November 14-18 and organizers have published the finalized schedule. According to conference co-chair Eli White, the number of people submitting WordPress-related topics caused the organization team to create a double-sized WordPress track for this year’s event. The conference, which aims to bring together the various sub-communities that are linked …
How to Arrange WordPress Posts in Any Order
Have you ever tried to change the standard order of posts on your site’s blog page? By default, posts are ordered based on the date that each post is published, and there’s no built-in way to change the order in which posts appear. If you do want to change the post order, you have three options: change the post publish …
Getting the Most out WordPress Tags for Improved SEO and Readability
Vincent Van Gogh once said, “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” If I didn’t know any better, I’d think he were talking about WordPress tags. In all seriousness though, Van Gogh had a point. Much like his own pointillist style of painting – one which utilized small dots of color …
Constant Contact Releases Official Plugin for WordPress
The WordPress Plugin Directory has more than 100 plugins that integrate Constant Contact in different ways for email marketing, such as adding a subscription checkbox to registration or providing an email signup form via a widget. This week the company released its own official plugin on WordPress.org to expand its reach to the WordPress market. Constant Contact Forms was built …
Testing WordPress Website Backups to Avoid Future Disasters
If you’ve used WordPress for a while, you know keeping regular backups can save you from losing your website (you know, the site you’ve put all that time and effort – literally hours – into building). But have you tested your WordPress backups to see if they actually work? Sometimes, backups could be missing files or become corrupted. It may …
ManageWP Launches Automated Security Scanning
When ManageWP allowed users to perform security scans of websites through the Orion interface in December of 2015, a feature commonly requested by customers was the ability to automate the scans. Nine months after implementing security checks for customers, ManageWP has added automated security scans to its assortment of features. The automated security scans are a premium feature and cost $1 per site. …
How to Convert Any HTML5 Template Into an Awesome WordPress Theme
What do you do when you can’t find the perfect WordPress theme? In all likelihood, you probably turn to a theme framework. However, every once in a while, you probably have this thought flit across your mind: “I should just code an HTML5 template and convert it into a WordPress theme.” But that’s just a pipe dream right? Let’s be …
GitHub Updates Repository Overview to Prominently Display Open Source License Information
GitHub is now prominently displaying licenses in the repository overview page above the Clone or Download button. Visitors can now tell which open source license a project is using at a glance, instead of hunting through its files. GitHub uses a Ruby gem called Licensee to detect the license. Licensee was written by Ben Balter, one of the company’s product …
Introducing WPMU DEV Cloud Backups (Members Get 10GB for Free!)
Hey, we just took your WPMU DEV membership to the next level by giving you 10GB unlimited site managed cloud backups. Oh, and guess what? It’s part of your regular WPMU DEV membership so is gonna cost you zero dollars and zero cents 🙂 How does it all work? Well, first up you can manage all of your backups along …
Snowbird: A Free WordPress Theme for Bloggers and Storytellers
Snowbird is a new theme released last week on WordPress.org, designed for storytellers with a blog-centered home page. It features a fullwidth header image, bold typography, and a host of layout and color options in the Customizer. Snowbird’s sidebar is hidden off canvas and can be toggled into view using the floating hamburger icon that disappears when you scroll. It …










