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Looking for a killer deal on WordPress e-commerce themes? Tokokoo, makers of fine premium WordPress e-commerce themes has you covered. They are currently offering two amazing deals with blowout prices. 5 WPEC Themes for $75 Normally these themes go for $75ea but for a limited time you can get all 5 of them for the [...]

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We all know that one of the most important aspects of website security is backups. Many people will install a plethora of security related plugins yet somehow overlook the task of creating a backup. Perhaps they aren’t sure how, think it is too complicated or simply feel it is not necessary. Whatever the reason, having [...]

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WPWebHost in conjunction with Flarethemes kicked off a new contest in which a premium WordPress theme will be awarded to 15 lucky winners. If you want to get in on the action you’ll have to hurry as the contest ends on 20th April 2012. Details on how to enter can be found here.

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While going through my feed reader last week I came across some very sad news. Michael Preuß, one of the partners involved in the popular WordPress community site WPEngineer has passed away. Sadness has descended on WPEngineer last week. Michael Preuß, one of our WPEngineer Team, died suddenly after a short illness and after a [...]

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Jeff Starr announced on his blog that the printed version of Digging into WordPress v3.3 is now available. The book spans more than 400 pages divided into 12 chapters.

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TweetWPCanada is pleased to announce that our child themes for the Genesis Framework have been internationalized. So, what does that mean? The process of internationalization, not to be confused with localization, is where a software creator makes changes to said software allowing it to be adapted or translated. In other words it’s not permanently tied [...]

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TweetWe have pushed out updates to all of our child themes. The updates are a combination of bug fixes, feature enhancements and general tidying up of miscellaneous code in keeping up with Genesis standards. The changes are as follows: BLOGNEWS CHILD THEME Added support for the Genesis Box. This is disabled by default. Instructions on [...]

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TweetThe Humphrey child theme for the Genesis Framework has been updated to version 1.1. This is a maintenance release. Version 1.0 contained a special file to include the Genesis Box on single post pages. The problem is the function was never called in the theme’s functions.php file. This has now been corrected. The applicable styling [...]

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TweetEver wonder what the first default WordPress theme looked like? WPLift takes a look at the various default themes used by WordPress through the years.

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TweetBoth the Winfield and Winfield Dark Genesis child themes have been updated. Both themes feature a custom widgetized home page that defaults to a standard blog format if no widgets are active. The problem was I included a function in the functions.php file of both themes that forced a full width layout on the home [...]

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