WordPress.com Dashboard Gets a Makeover

WordPress.com Dashboard Gets a MakeoverThe new MP6 design which has been in the talks for last few months has finally deployed to WordPress.com!

Yesterday, Automattic designer Matt Thomas announced the WordPress Dashboard’s redesign, which features the MP6 plugin and “Open-Sans” as the default typeface.

The previous WordPress.com designs hasn’t been so good but the recent MP6 makeover looks pretty amazing and within a few hours, following the announcement entry, the post has received 200+ positive comments.CONTINUE READING »

Backup Buddy 4.0 available, now with Improved Design and Individual File Restores

Backup Buddy 4.0 available, now with Improved Design and Individual File RestoresIt wasn’t a long ago, when I published a detailed post about best backup solutions available for WordPress. In that post, I mentioned Backup Buddy and how the folks behind it keep releasing awesome updates. Well, just a few days ago they released some new version of the backup plugin.

The plugin is a great solution to keep your site and data safe. Here’s the list of new features in 4.0 version.CONTINUE READING »

TeslaThemes, new Premium WordPress Theme club, now open

TeslaThemes, new Premium WordPress theme club, now openLast month, a new premium WordPress theme shop called TeslaThemes officially opened for business with 7 amazing themes. All their themes are different from one another in functionality and design.

The folks at TeslaThemes have done a great job with their premium themes, I especially liked their Cool Stuff theme, which displays content via post formats and a timeline.CONTINUE READING »

Weekly Roundup: WordPress News is Free & Top 100 WordPress Resources

Weekly Roundup: WordPress News is Free & Top 100 WordPress Resources Welcome to another weekly news roundup, here’s your favorite resource to catch up on your reading. There have been some great news and updates from the world of WordPress this week.

Last week the guys over at ThemeFuse launched their first sister site targeted towards developers & designers – Pixelkit, a subscription based site where you’ll get all the UI kits, icons, infographics, mobile app kits and so many more.

AJ from WPExplorer finally launched a new theme shop called Authentic Themes, where AJ is offering a lot of great themes for a yearly price of $40.CONTINUE READING »

9 of the Best Backup Plugins for WordPress

9 of the Best Backup Plugins for WordPressA backup solution is very much similar to an Insurance policy, you don’t get hurt too often but when you do you have to pay a ton of cash to improve your health conditions and that’s the time when you think “I wish I had the insurance policy……”.

You don’t get hacked too often but when you do you might end up losing all your content / data. So it’s important to have a backup solution in place.CONTINUE READING »

8 Top Social Locker Plugins for WordPress

8 Top Content Locker Plugins for WordPressI know everyone wants to get more traffic, social shares and better rankings. Now what if I tell you that you can achieve all these using one simple technique.

Yes, one simple technique and that is hiding the content until the user has shared your content on Twitter or Facebook. All you have to do is to produce high quality and engaging content that your readers want to read. CONTINUE READING »

Creating Custom Templates in Genesis

Creating Custom Templates in GenesisThe Genesis Framework is undoubtedly one of the most popular WordPress theming frameworks on the market. Genesis is extremely designer and developer friendly offering rapid creation and customization of sites through hooks and filters. An easy way to make new views of pages in WordPress is by making template files. This tutorial will show you how to make custom page templates for the Genesis Framework.CONTINUE READING »