As it’s the weekend, maybe you have a little time to catch up on your reading. This post is part of a weekly series, Weekly Roundup. Feel free to read and enjoy some of these great posts I have found this week.
There have been some great tutorials and news from the WordPress community.
Here are some of the best articles I have read, shared, commented and retweeted on @wpkube.
WordPress News
Proudly Introducing: Shareaholic and Color Labs & Company’s Backbone Theme Integration
At Shareaholic, we like to make it as simple as possible for our users to discover the best website tools. That’s why we’ve expanded our offerings beyond content sharing tools, offering also content measurement and discovery tools for users in and easy-to-access way – right on our website and all within our Shareaholic WordPress plugin.
Launch Effect Theme is Now Responsive
Both Launch Effect Lite and Premium are fully responsive and look great on mobile devices. (Note: we’re still working out some kinks on Android, so please be on the lookout for updates!)
This is a personal request from your user, a rallying cry from a compatriot. I personally love WordPress. I make my living from it. The average user, though, couldn’t care less about it. They just want to run their business, tell their family history, organize their church, share their photos or live their life online with a minimum of impedance.
Worker 3.9.21 – Continuous Updates!
Did you ever wish that your WordPress, plugins and themes were updated automatically while you sleep? We are not talking about the one-click update all feature that we already have in ManageWP, but true automatic continuous updates without any action required from the user.
WP Engine’s Trip to WordCamp San Francisco
How many of you attended WordCamp San Francisco? How many live in San Francisco and got to take the Muni out to the event center? How many were in the Golden State and just needed a short flight up to North California? How many of you were in the US (we came from Austin) and hopped a connecting flight out to SFO? And how many of you all were in other countries and on other continents and spent more than a day travelling?
WordPress Themes
20 Best Music Related WordPress Themes 2012
WordPress Music themes are becoming popular as more and more people (mostly musicians, producers, directors) are using Internet as a tool to promote their businesses. A WordPress music theme is great for musicians who wants their own personal music blog or a professional website.
9 High Quality Sales Page Themes For WordPress
Sales page themes are used to build high-converting landing pages for your marketing campaigns. The long style of a sales letter page is a proven method for a well converting landing page.
WordPress Plugins
Spam Destroyer Really Works To Kill WordPress Spam
WordPress comment spam is a never-ending problem, and this keeps me constantly on the hunt for the best spam killing plugin. CAPTCHA’s can sometimes work but we all hate them with the fire of a thousand suns. Even the fancy ones with images and game are just lame and inconvenient.
OptinSkin Review Plus 8 Reasons Why OptinSkin is the Best List Building Plugin
For the past few weeks, I’ve been testing a new WordPress plugin called OptinSkin. OptinSkin is a powerful and effective plugin that helps to get more subscribers. You know getting subscribers is essential for blogs to sell products and stay in touch with the readers. Email Subscribers are one of the stable assets you can build for your WordPress blog.
BackupBuddy Plugin Review Plus 40% Discount
Taking backups of your blog is as important as publishing a new post. Whenever I set up a new WordPress site, the first thing I do is to install the Backup Buddy Plugin. Backup Buddy Plugin is a fantastic plugin for doing backups of your website. The plugin is a simple solution to backup your entire site with just few clicks.
How to Improve Your SEO and Profits with SEO Smart Links in WordPress
In the past, we wrote about this plugin called Ninja Affiliate that we used to automatically replace keywords with affiliate links. In the lights of recent event that concerned our site’s security, we have decided to switch to using SEO Smart Links which offers far better functionality with great performance and security. In this article, we will show you how you can improve your SEO and income with SEO Smart Links in WordPress.
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Thanks Devesh you always provide such good information. I have to say that I tried the Optinskin and it totally slowed down my site, especially within the dashboard. Also I wasn’t too impressed with the limited templates they had. If you have another option, I’m all ears! Thanks again for the other information, I use BackupBuddy and love it!
Hey Lynn,
Thanks so much for coming over here and leaving a comment. I really appreciate your great support.
So sorry to hear about your experience with OptinSkin. I never had any issues with the plugin and I’ve tested it with several themes (including Genesis and Thesis). It might be possible that the Optinskin is conflicting with some other plugin. Have you ever contacted their Support team regarding this Issue?
There is no similar plugin to Optin Skin. If you want to add the optin form without any plugin, then you’d need to do that manually (by editing your theme files).
Let me know if there is anything I can do to help you.
Once Again, I appreciate your great support Lynn. Have a fabulous day.
-Dev
Nice collection of Tutorials. Thanks for sharing nice tutorial about SEO Smart Links in WordPress.
Thanks for the news and plugin list. I always looking for WordPress updates.