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UpThemes Scale Back On Theme Options Within Their WordPress Themes

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UpThemes a WordPress theme provider is the latest WordPress theme company to announce that they are no longer producing WordPress themes that have tons of theme options packaged within their themes. For me this is a fantastic step forward for UpThemes as these options should never really be packaged within a theme to begin with but is bad practice that has grown to become more common over the years.

It’s my opinion that a theme should do a single job and that’s is to change the design or layout of your website and this is really the only job a theme should be doing on a WordPress site. A theme should definitely not be adding custom post types or hundreds of options to changes colours for a links, navigation menus, selecting custom fonts, adding advertising banners, slider controls, site layouts and many many more unrequired settings.
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WPMods.com WordPress Blog Placed For Sale On Flippa

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WPMods.com aka (WordPress Mods) a popular wordpress blog which shares wordpress news, tutorials, tips along with reviewing themes & plugins has been placed for sale on flippa.com by it’s founding owner Kevin Muldoon. At the time of writing the site has already garnered a bid of $30,000 after revealing around $2,500 per month in income from affiliates and advertising.

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WordPress 3.4 Beta 4 Released To The Public For Testing

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WordPress 3.4 Beta 4 has been released to the public today for testing and feedback purposes, theres not a lot of information as to the exact change log but I personally imagine that this may well be the final BETA version before we see a Release Candidate version. You can download a copy of WordPress 3.4 BETA 4 from the link below.
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WordPress BlackBerry PlayBook App Gets Updated To v2.1

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WordPress have recently announced the release of an update to their WordPress app for the BlackBerry PlayBook, the latest release takes the WordPress app to v2.1 which according to WordPress adds some totally radical stuff!. You can read below exactly what some of those new features are and download the app at the bottom of this article. Unfortunately I do not own a BlackBerry PlayBook so can give no feedback on how this app performs although I do like the look of it’s screen layout from pictures and videos I have researched.

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WordPress v3.3.2 Automatic Update Security Threat Discovered

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A security threat has been found in the automatic update feature of WordPress with net-security.org alleging that over 1’000+ WordPress powered websites have been affected thus far due to the vulnerability. Affected sites are said to redirect the visitor to affiliate, malware, pay-per-click re-directors, and low quality PPC search result aggregators.

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WordPress 3.4 Release Candidate 1 Released For Public Download

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WordPress v3.4 release candidate 1 has been released to the public for download and testing. An RC comes after the beta period and before final release. We think we’re done, but with millions of users and thousands of plugins and themes, it’s possible we’ve missed something. So if you haven’t tested WordPress 3.4 yet, now is the time! Please though, not on your live site unless you’re adventurous.
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4 WordPress Social Bookmarking Community Curated News Resource Websites

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WordPress social bookmarking curated news sites gather WordPress articles from around the Internet into one place, most sites allow voting on articles by community members with the result being that when an article receives enough votes it gets promoted to the sites homepage for higher exposure. These sites can be great for article consumers and publishers alike, consumers get to find WordPress articles they are interested in whilst publishers get traffic, potential subscribers and valuable back-links to their content.

Below we have listed four of the most popular WordPress Social Bookmarking websites where you can consume and submit WordPress content.
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WordPress 3.4 Release Candidate 2 Released For Public Download

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WordPress have today released WordPress 3.4 RC2 (Release Candidate 2) which will most probably be the last test release before we see a full WordPress 3.4 final release sometime next week. You can read more details about this latest release and download it from the links below.

The second release candidate for WordPress 3.4 is now available. Since RC1, we’ve made a few dozen final changes.
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