Mar
27
2014
Four high quality fresh new WordPress themes are available for download at WordPress theme directory. These themes are really premium quality. Make sure to check them out and diversify your blog network with high quality templates. Full of features and options to customize them, these themes will surely offer a fresh modern face to your sites.
Radiate
Radiate is a clean, creative and light retina ready responsive blogging theme supporting parallax header image. It integrates primary color option, custom background, custom css and few other features through WordPress customizer.
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Alexandria
HTML5 & CSS3 Responsive WordPress Business theme with business style home page layout with welcome section, 3 product/services blocks and a client quote/testimonial section. 2 logo section layout options. 2 premade (Blue, Red) ready to use color schemes/skins. 3 widget areas in footer, 1 widget area in sidebar. 2 page layouts including a full width page template. Social media icons in footer.
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Twenty Fourteen
In 2014, our default theme lets you create a responsive magazine website with a sleek, modern design. Feature your favorite homepage content in either a grid or a slider. Use the three widget areas to customize your website, and change your content’s layout with a full-width page template and a contributor page to show off your authors. Creating a magazine website with WordPress has never been easier.
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Sixteen
Sixteen is an artistic and responsive theme suitable for most blogs. It supports header image with a parallax effect. A Reponsive Slider, Customizable Header and Footer, Grid Layout for Homepage, etc make it one of the most unqiue wordpress themes. Sixteen has been already translated into French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Arabic and supports translation into more languages.
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20
2014
WordPress 3.9 Beta 2 is now available for testing at WordPress.org. The development team has made more than a hundred changes since Beta 1, but they still need your help to hit our goal of an April release. For what to look out for, please head on over to the Beta 1 announcement post. Some of the changes in Beta 2 include:
- Rendering of embedded audio and video players directly in the visual editor.
- Visual and functional improvements to the editor, the media manager, and theme installer.
- Various bug fixes to TinyMCE, the software behind the visual editor.
- Lots of fixes to widget management in the theme customizer.
Amongst the enhancements which WordPress 3.9 could bring, is an improved Widget Customizer which allows you to edit and preview widgets in a similar way that the current Theme Customizer works.
Further widget management improvements may come in the form of the Better Widgets feature, which enable the sidebar area to be switched to the main screen instead of being constricted to the sidebar, giving users greater control over widget placement and configuration.
As always, if you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. Or, if you’re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, file one on the WordPress Trac.
This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 3.9, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”).
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13
2013
Great news today. WordPress 3.8, named “Parker” in honor of Charlie Parker, is available for download or update directly from your WordPress dashboard. We hope you’ll think this is the most beautiful update yet. And believe me, it is.
WordPress has gotten a facelift. Version 3.8 brings a fresh new look to the entire admin dashboard. Gone are overbearing gradients and dozens of shades of grey — bring on a bigger, bolder, more colorful design!
The new WordPress dashboard has a fresh, uncluttered design that embraces clarity and simplicity. The Open Sans typeface provides simple, friendly text that is optimized for both desktop and mobile viewing. It’s even open source, just like WordPress. We think beautiful design should never sacrifice legibility. With superior contrast and large, comfortable type, the new design is easy to read and a pleasure to navigate.
We all access the internet in different ways. Smartphone, tablet, notebook, desktop — no matter what you use, WordPress will adapt and you’ll feel right at home.
High definition at high speed. WordPress is sharper than ever with new vector-based icons that scale to your screen. By ditching pixels, pages load significantly faster, too.
This release was led by Matt Mullenweg. This is our second release using the new plugin-first development process, with a much shorter timeframe than in the past. We think it’s been going great. You can check out the features currently in production on the make/core blog.
Here you can Download the Lastest version of WordPress.
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31
2013
Latest version of WordPress has been released. Version 3.7 is named “Basie” in honor of Count Basie and is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. This release features some of the most important architectural updates we’ve made to date. Here are the big ones:
With WordPress 3.7, you don’t have to lift a finger to apply maintenance and security updates. Most sites are now able to automatically apply these updates in the background. The update process also has been made even more reliable and secure, with dozens of new checks and safeguards. Your password is your site’s first line of defense. It’s best to create passwords that are complex, long, and unique. To that end, our password meter has been updated in WordPress 3.7 to recognize common mistakes that can weaken your password: dates, names, keyboard patterns (123456789), and even pop culture references.
Better global support: Localized versions of WordPress will receive faster and more complete translations. WordPress 3.7 adds support for automatically installing the right language files and keeping them up to date, a boon for the many millions who use WordPress in a language other than English.
For developers there are lots of options around how to control the new updates feature, including allowing it to handle major upgrades as well as minor ones, more sophisticated date query support, and multisite improvements. As always, if you’re hungry for more dive into the Codex or browse the over 400 closed tickets on Trac.
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22
2013
Vantage
Vantage is a flexible multipurpose WordPress theme. It’s strength lies in its tight integration with some powerful plugins like Page Builder for responsive page layouts, MetaSlider for big beautiful sliders and WooCommerce to help you sell online. Use it to start a business site, portfolio or online store. Pretty solid and professional theme.
Socially Awkward
A responsive CSS3 and HTML5 media theme adapted to the new times. The Web is an ever-changing place to interact with others socially. You need a WordPress theme that represents who you are on the Web. This theme is fully loaded to display self-hosted media (images, audio, video) and media from third-party social media sites. It integrates with many of your social networking profiles, supports all post formats, and integrates with the Custom Content Portfolio plugin, giving you the ability to share your creativity with the world.
Swiss
Swiss is a Minimalistic, responsive web design theme for WordPress. Yet a very cool and original WordPress theme some people will really like.
Kore
Kore is a professional theme that comes with five skins. It automatically adjusts according to screen size so you don’t need to install a separate theme for mobile devices. This theme is very solid, fast loading and well coded. A must have in your collections of WordPress themes.
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2
2013
Great news! The latest and greatest WordPress release, version 3.6, is now live to the world and includes a beautiful new blog-centric theme, bullet-proof autosave and post locking, a revamped revision browser, amazing native support for audio and video embeds, and improved integrations with Spotify, Rdio, and SoundCloud. There is no doubt that WordPress is the best Content Management System you can use for your site.
This release is called “Oscar” in honor of the great jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. Here’s a bit more about some of the new features, which you can also find on the about page in your dashboard after you upgrade.
■The new Twenty Thirteen theme inspired by modern art puts focus on your content with a colorful, single-column design made for media-rich blogging.
■Revamped Revisions save every change and the new interface allows you to scroll easily through changes to see line-by-line who changed what and when.
■Post Locking and Augmented Autosave will especially be a boon to sites where more than a single author is working on a post. Each author now has their own autosave stream, which stores things locally as well as on the server (so much harder to lose something) and there’s an interface for taking over editing of a post, as demonstrated beautifully by our bearded buddies in the video above.
■Built-in HTML5 media player for native audio and video embeds with no reliance on external services.
■The Menu Editor is now much easier to understand and use.
Developer features:
■A new audio/video API gives you access to metadata like ID3 tags.
■You can now choose HTML5 markup for things like comment and search forms, and comment lists.
■Better filters for how revisions work, so you can store a different amount of history for different post types.
■Tons more listed on the Codex, and of course you can always browse the over 700 closed tickets.
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27
2013
10 years ago today, the first release of WordPress became available. It all started as a fork of the platform b2/Cafelog. WordPress has grown to be the largest Content Management System in the world, powering over 18% of all websites on the Internet.
Nearly 70 million websites run WordPress and it’s hard to understate the impact that the software has had on the world of digital publishing. Hundreds of high-profile websites, including blogs from CNN, The New York Times and Reuters, all use WordPress.
WordPress was started by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little and the open-source software has grown to include thousands of contributors. For Matt Mullenweg, hitting the decade mark was a bit startling for him. In a blog post, he wrote about the great platform he helped create:
Has it really been 10 years? It seems just yesterday we were playing around on my blog, and the blogs of a few high school friends. Two of those friends are married, one isn’t anymore, two are still figuring things out, and one has passed away.
You were cute before you became beautiful. Wearing black and white, afraid of color, trying to be so unassuming. I know you got jealous when I wore those Blogger t-shirts. They were the cool kids at SxSW and I thought maybe you could grow up to be like them.
You wouldn’t have shirts of your own for a few more years. We didn’t know what we were doing when we made them and the logo printed ginormous. People called them the Superman shirt and made fun of them. But, oh, that logo — the curves fit you so well.
You showed the world you were growing up, and how much you cared about design and typography and other platonic ideals. You knew that open source didn’t have to be homely. I stretched myself too thin trying to get you there, and I did a stupid thing to pay for it. I hurt you, but instead of casting me away you held me closer, supported me, gave me another chance. I will never forget that. Akismet made me feel less guilty. I wouldn’t change anything, because the mistake made me understand how important it is to fly straight and take your time.
You’re so beautiful… I’m continually amazed and delighted by how you’ve grown. Your awkward years are behind you. Best of all, through it all, you’ve stuck with the principles that got you started in the first place. You’re always changing but that never changes. You’re unafraid to try new things that may seem wacky or unpopular at first.
I see you all over the world now, glowing from screens, bringing people together at meetups and WordCamps — you’re at your best when you do that. You’re my muse; you inspire me, and I’ve seen you inspire others. You become a part of their life and they become a part of yours. I hope we grow old together.
Cheers to ten years, and here’s to a hundred more.
Love,
Matt
Happy 10th Birthday, Dear WordPress! 🙂
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