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WordPress 3.4 – What's New

Just like every stable release of WP, version 3.4 too brings many big and small changes to the table. With something as popular as WordPress, missing out on a feature or two is obviously natural. Plus, with the plethora of awesome features that WP 3.4 comes with you may need a guide like this to help you discover them all. In this article, Sufyan bin Uzayr takes a close look at some of the major additions of WordPress 3.4. He shall be following a step-by-step approach — he will take a look at a given feature, delve deeper into it, and then move on to the next new feature.

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Caching Methods With WordPress

There are different ways to make your website faster: specialized plugins to cache entire rendered HTML pages, plugins to cache all SQL queries and data objects, plugins to minimize JavaScript and CSS files and even some server-side solutions. But even if you use such plugins, using internal caching methods for objects and database results is a good development practice, so that your plugin doesn’t depend on which cache plugins the end user has.

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Easily Customize WP Default Functionality

The absolute best thing about WordPress is how flexible it is. Don’t like the theme? Just change it. Need added functionality? There is probably a plugin you can download or buy. If not, build it yourself! You can change pretty much anything about WordPress. In this article, Joseph Casabona will go over some easy ways to customize WordPress that you might not know about.

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Author Listing And User Search For WP

This article will guide you through the process of creating a front-end page in WordPress that lists your authors. Cristian Antohe will discuss why you would want to do this, he’ll introduce the WP_User_Query class, and then he’ll put it it all together. At its core, WordPress is a rock-solid publishing platform. With a beautiful and easy to use interface, and support for custom post types and post formats, publishers have the flexibility to do what they do best: write content.

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Introducing InfiniteWP – Your One-Stop Solution to Managing WP Sites

Are you in the process of managing multiple websites powered by WordPress, and feel lost somewhere? Perhaps you can never be sure whether you’ve updated that plugin on this site or this plugin on that site. After all, if you have multiple websites, each with its own share of plugins, themes and settings, how exactly can you be expected to have time for anything other than website management? If the above mentioned situation seems apt for you, InfiniteWP is one tool that you should try!

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Creating Mobile-Optimized Websites Using WordPress

Mobile Web design - unless you’ve been hiding under a bush for the last 18 months, you’ll know that it’s one of the hottest topics in the industry at the moment. Barely a week goes by without new tips being unveiled to help us hone our skills in making websites work as well — and as fast — as possible on mobile devices. If you own or have designed a WordPress website for the desktop and are considering going mobile, the process can be fairly daunting.

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How To Customize The WordPress Admin Easily

In this article, Aurélien Denis takes a break from some of the more advanced ways to customize WordPress, and shares some super-easy customization techniques for the WordPress Admin area. If you’re just getting started with WordPress, or have been running with default functionality for a while and now want to dig in with some useful and easy ways to customize your WordPress site, a great place to start is the WordPress Admin area, or backend.

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Random Redirection In WordPress

If you run an online magazine, most of your readers will never go through your archive, even if you design a neat archive page. It’s not you; it’s just that going through archives is not very popular these days. So, how do you actually make readers dig in without forcing them? How do you invite them to (re)read in a way that’s not boring? How do you make your WordPress magazine more interactive?

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9 Stunning WordPress Themes for Photographers

When it comes to posts on WordPress themes, you’ll likely see the stock theme screenshot. Today, Kristi Hines would like to share with you some of her favorite photography themes for WordPress. But instead of the demo screenshot, She wants to show you actual photographers using these themes and some highlights as to why photographers should like them. Note that some of these may be slightly or greatly modified.

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Getting WordPress to Play nice with Responsive Images

Having recently rebuilt his personal blog on WordPress using a responsive, mobile-first approach David Smith was familiar with some of the techniques covered in the article of Jesse Friedman. However, the one item that really stood out for him was Jesse’s approach to enabling fluid images via jQuery.

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