WordPress Community Roundup for the Week Ending January 7{0}
The WordPress Community roundup is a week-by-week, play-by-play collection of tips, tutorials, themes, plugins and other design-related news we’ve pulled together from across the internet, and brought here to you for your convenience. If there’s something you think we’ve missed, feel free to drop us a message at info@wpCHS.org, via twitter (@wpCHS), or add it in the comments.
Design
ECommerce
Noteworthy
- Akismet outage shows bloggers just how bad spam could be
- BuddyPress.org gets bitten by the refresh bug
- Even More Space in 2012 – WordPress.com
- WordPress 3.3.1 – Security and Maintenance Release
- WordPress plugin directory goes near-real-time
Plugins
- Edit Flow 0.7 now available, brings modular architecture and various improvements
- Introducing Hierarchy: Even More CMS for WordPress
- Manage & Schedule Upcoming WordPress Posts
- Shopp plugin updates to 1.1.9.1, fixes security issue
Themes
- 20 New & Fresh Free WordPress Themes for 2012
- 35 Fresh & New WordPress eCommerce Themes for 2012
- 40 Free and Premium Portfolio and Photo Gallery WordPress Themes
- Create a Tutorial Blog with WordPress & Vectors Community Theme
- January Theme Teaser – WooThemes
Tips & Tutorials
- A New Custom Post Type Concept with Hierarchy
- Best of Best WordPress Tutorials of 2011 on WPBeginner
- How to Automatically Display Current Date in WordPress
- How To Create Custom Taxonomies In WordPress
- How to Crop, Rotate, Scale, and Flip Images in WordPress
- How to rearrange WordPress categories order
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