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Preparing for WordPress 3.2
LoopBuddy Development Has Resumed
Essential Builder documentation: the Builder CSS Guide
BackupBuddy 2.1 adds dropbox support
Kindle your WordPress site
iThemes affiliates program, get credit forwarding the newsletter
How to place text next to a header image in Builder
Inside the iThemes office
WordPress Developer course completed
Automatically add content to your wordpress posts and pages
How to set widgets in a module to the same height in Builder
WordPress 3.2 Beta 1 released
Latest Plugin Releases/updates
Upcoming WebDesign events
No Comments link list
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Preparing for WordPress 3.2
With the WordPress 3.2 beta 1 release earlier this week, I think now is a good time to prepare for the 3.2 full release. WordPress 3.2 will feature many changes that you may want to prepare for.
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LoopBuddy Development Has Resumed
We've teased you with LoopBuddy. Relentlessly. But then BackupBuddy, PluginBuddy's top selling plugin, became the priority as we released BackupBuddy 2.0.
We have resumed development on LoopBuddy, and while we can't make any promises at this point as far as a release date, it's our internal goal to get a beta out soon.
Read more »
Essential Builder documentation: the Builder CSS Guide
While Style Manager makes it easy to make changes to your Builder site visually, to go in-depth and make different modules of the same kind look differently and to do advanced customizations, the stylesheet should be edited.
Knowledge of CSS and Firebug usage really helps, and Sridhar's articles in the Codex are vital.
Read more »
BackupBuddy 2.1 adds dropbox support
BackupBuddy version 2.1 adds Dropbox.com support (in addition to the existing Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud, FTP, and Email destinations). This integration allows you to schedule backups to be automatically transferred to your Dropbox, manually send backups to Dropbox, and even view, download, or delete backups that are stored on your Dropbox.com account.
Read more »
Kindle your WordPress site
If you've been searching for a simple way to get your website on a Kindle and give your audience a new a fresh way to read your posts away from your site, look no further. A new plugin is available to all WordPress (self-hosted) users.
Read more »
iThemes affiliates program, get credit forwarding the newsletter
Did you know you can use the iTips newsletter to not only add value for your readers (because of the wealth of info), but you also get credit for it at the same time! There now is an affiliate link leading to the iTips archive page, you will find it in the Affiliates resource center.
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How to place text next to a header image in Builder
While the Image Module in Builder is great for displaying header images, there are situations where using a HTML module makes more sense, for instance if you would like to display some piece of text like your company address/contact info at the far right of header image, Here's how to do that »
Inside the iThemes office
Always wondered what magical environment enables the folks at iThemes to do what they do? Here's a quick video walk through of the iThemes office.
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WordPress Developer course completed
We finished up the 4-day, 15 hour (!) WordPress Developer Course to resounding success. All 17 sessions video replays are now available for replay, the course PDF, the chat log spilled over 250 pages.
Read more ».
Automatically add content to your wordpress posts and pages
On many sites these days, you will find a standard text in each WordPress posts. Perhaps to remind your readers about something you want them to do, a special promotion you are running, an email subscription box.
There are several ways to add content to your post, Read how ».
How to set widgets in a module to the same height in Builder
Here's a quick screencast Sridhar did to explain how you can use Firebug to identify your widgets, and make sure they will have the same height.
Read how ».
WordPress 3.2 Beta 1 released
The first Beta (!) version of WordPress 3.2 has just been released for WordPress. Do not use this on a live production site, it is for Beta testing only!
Latest Plugin Releases/updates
Updated: Thumbs up (New features!)
New: PluginBuddy YOURLS (Free!)
And remember, you can always submit your suggestions for plugins here
Upcoming WebDesign events
May 18: Gravity Forms, PluginFocus
May 20: Finding New Clients (Business Development)
No Comments link list
Here are a couple of potentially interesting recent articles on WordPress and related. We do not take responsibility for the content, but you may find something useful.
WordPress Power Tips - Smashing Magazine
Customise the WordPress Admin Panel - Six Revisions
SEO Doctor, SEO Audit Tool - Vladimir Prevolac
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