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Tropical Action Buttons

New WordPress Button Pack: 32 fun and colorful buttons to encourage visitors to act on your website or blog. Some of the buttons included are: donate now, new account, place order, promotions and free trial. Download these call-to-action buttons today!

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We all have a list of snippets we love and the guys over at WP Daily have one of those lists as well. Take a look through ten of their most-used snippets ranging from actions, to filters and, spoiler alert, there are a few shortcode snippets. Some great examples in here of how to use filters and action hooks properly. I can see myself using the “Custom Failed Login Message” snippet in the future for snarky comments when someone logs in incorrectly. Before you go throwing them all into your functions.php file, take the time to understand what each does. A lot of great lessons to be learned from these bits of code.

WordPress Plugin Boilerplate 2

Always a work in progress, WordPress Plugin Boilerplate 2 is now out and ready for you to use. Code updates, added default functionality and subtracted default functionality are just some of the new bits added to the boilerplate. Prepped for WordPress 3.6 the boilerplate can be downloaded from it’s own homepage or via GitHub. With several contributing authors and over a year of feedback, I’ve yet to find a better starter plugin.

bbPress Plugins

If you, like us, are a fan of bbPress, then this list of plugins from WP Lift may brighten your day. Administration Tools, plugins for added functionality and plugins for tweaking round out this list of twenty helpful tools. Whether you’re looking to simply “Mark as Read” or TinyMCE ALL THE THINGS, there’s something in this list for everyone.

Two.js – Lightweight Shapes Library

Simply put, two.js is “a two-dimensional drawing api geared towards modern web browsers. It is renderer agnostic enabling the same api to draw in multiple contexts: svg, canvas, and webgl.” Even more simply put, it makes creating pretty shapes and other drawing things really easy. We all love CSS3, but the ease of adding motion to the shapes is incredible. I haven’t heard anything bad about two.js but I’m sure there are some haters out there. What do you see two.js being helpful with?

CSS Architecture

I was lucky enough to hear Jonathan Snook discuss SMACSS, a CSS architecture, at a conference in Cleveland a little over a week ago and the thought process surrounding the idea is pretty awesome. I’m a logical thinker, so when you tell me there’s a way to structure your CSS to be better for everyone, I’m on board. While SMACSS is mentioned in this article, author Philip Walton doesn’t see it as the “be all, end all” and takes it a few steps further, referring to long CSS selectors as grenades and very precise, to-the-point selectors as sniper rifles. Weaponry and code? I’m in. Great read throughout and a lot of interesting structuring ideas to grab onto.

The Onion Releases FartScroll.js, Internet Reverts To Being 10 Years Old Again

Okay, can we not be serious for a moment? I want to tell you about Fart Scroll, the script that, well, adds farts to your page when you scroll. The Onion released this code to the world this past weekend and, while it’s silly, it’s actually a great piece of code. Simple and clean with a great showing of how to represent audio files cross-browser, this bit of bathroom humor is far from an immature snippet. But, if you’re into that sort of thing, you can have it as a bookmarklet or as a full-fledged WordPress plugin. Enjoy, and may the farts be with you.

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Monochrome Web Buttons

Simple light gray icons on sleek dark gray buttons that offer a professional look to any site. This pack includes 24 classy looking buttons including: Get a Free Quote, Search This Site, Send Email, Submit a Photo and more!

Happy Mother’s Day Buttons

Add a little love for the Mom’s to your website with this 6-button pack that includes bright colored buttons and pretty icons. Included are icons for 3 gifts, flowers, cake and balloons.

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WordPress 3.6 Beta 2

WordPress 3.6 is on the horizon which means more betas! 3.6 Beta 2 came out this past week and is ready for you to tear it apart. I must admit that the new code for calling post format content is a bit confusing at first, but once you dive into Twenty Thirteen (the standard 3.6 theme) it gets a bit easier. While the post formats may seem a bit Tumblr-esque to some, I see it as a new opportunity in terms of solidifying WordPress as a CMS.

Sky Fonts

Use ALL THE FONTS! That should have been the motto with the release of Sky Fonts, the desktop version of Google Web Fonts, which essentially allows you to use all of the fonts in the Google web font library without having to download each one individually. This post from WP Daily takes a look at how to get up and running with Sky Fonts. So if you’re sick of having to peruse Google Web Fonts then waste time downloading the fonts you like, give this fonts.com and Google web fonts co-op a try.

The Most Exciting Feature of WordPress 3.6: Native Audio and Video Support

If you’ve not been following anything about WordPress 3.6, the biggest change is the change to Post Formats. Previously they fell to the sidebar in the post edit page, but no longer. They are front and center and extremely prominent, making it easy for anyone to post in the format of their choosing. Most notably is the native support for audio and video. Relying on the powers of MediaElement.js, 3.6 will allow you to post an audio or video file and then distribute across most browsers properly (super legacy browsers not included).

MP6 1.0 – Admin Theme

This has been a great spring for WordPress-related topics. Paralleling the work on 3.6 is a new idea called MP6, which is basically an admin theme for WordPress, unlike any admin panel you’ve seen before. The project is now in its tenth iteration and can be downloaded for anyone to use. This could be the first of many admin themes we see in the coming year, or it might just be so good we don’t see any others. What do you think?

CSS Architectures: Refactor Your CSS

How much do you know about CSS Architectures? The answer is probably not enough. Denise Jacobs gives a very thorough overview of some of the top architectures, how to use them to their full ability and other ways to help improve your CSS overall. It’s a pretty in-depth read and may be over the heads of some. One thing’s for sure is that there is much to be gleaned from the article. Through deductive reasoning, see which architecture will work best for you and keep your CSS the cleanest.

A WordPress Business Built On Selling Buttons

Episode 24 of The Matt Report hosted our own Dave Donaldson discussing the idea behind Max Foundry. A look at both the marketing and development sides of our plugins. How the simple idea of Buttons turned into much more. For those of you that haven’t checked out The Matt Report he has some great interviews with other top voices in the WordPress community.

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The built-in search functionality of WordPress is pretty good right? While fairly standard, you may not know that other options exist, like Swiftype. WPMU takes a look at the VIP-approved plugin and tells you the best parts about the search tool. Best part to me is the ability to re-order your search results to make sure people are actually getting to the correct information. Worth a look, especially since it’s free.

What Font

What good is site design without good fonts? With so many fonts out there, it can be hard to determine which sexy font you are looking at. Enter the WhatFont Browser tool. Add it to your browser, click on it and hover over any text to see which font is being used. Want some more information on that font? Just click and you get a dropdown with more info. Quite the timesaver if you ask me.

Update WP Super Cache and W3TC Immediately – Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Disclosed

You thought security breaches were over? Well think again Mr. Optimist, Sucuri released a post this past week showing a major vulnerability in two of the largest caching plugins on the free plugin market. The developers have since fixed the issue and Sucuri urges you to update as soon as humanly possible. Updating will prevent the ability to pass PHP functions through to your site.

WordPress Community Crowd Funding

The Kickstarter of WordPress projects is on its way. Pippin Williamson and other members of the WordPress community have been pushing for something like this for a while now and WP Fund It is finally getting some legs. Plugins, themes and other goodies that will make the WordPress community more awesome are on the list of items to be produced. Other possible “products” include in-depth coverage of particular WordPress topics, contributing to the Codex or even funding a WordPress business to make an amazing product. All projects will undergo a review process before becoming active, to prevent shady dealings.

Codeshare – Live Code Sharing

I haven’t really figured out what Codeshare is good for yet, besides maybe talking through something at a dev meetup, but it’s pretty cool nonetheless. By sharing a URL, you and your friends can have a nice little live coding session to flesh out an idea you’ve been working on or any other number of things. The sky is the limit with Codeshare, which includes over 70+ languages of syntax highlighting. What do you see Codeshare being useful for?

How to Setup Pingdom’s Real User Monitoring System

If you’ve ever used Pingdom to track your site’s up-time/down-time, this should get you pretty excited. Now, along with tracking aforementioned up, down-time, you can track real user interactions. Losing people because of slow load times? Track it with Pingdom RUM and see where your servers are getting slow on you. There’s already a WordPress plugin available, but you can add RUM in manually with a snippet of code. I’m big on statistics, so this is going on all my sites later today.

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Black Action Buttons

This call-to-action pack includes 20 CTA buttons perfect for any website landing page. With a stylish black design, convince visitors to your website to take action with a add to cart button, get a quote button, start my free trial button, free download button and many more!

Rainbow Download Buttons

These various download buttons are clean, simple and direct. Encourage vistors on your site to take action with 5 versions of download icons in 6 color options.

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Samuel Wood takes a look at how to take advantage of some Google snippet magic to better promote yourself and your free WordPress Repository plugin. I won’t go into the details but the tutorial is definitely something plugin developers should check out. I mean, who wouldn’t want better Google recognition?

Pressgram Successfully Backed and Funded

A week ago today, the WordPress community successfully wrapped up funding for one Mr. John Saddington, who set out to create an awesome photo app, akin to Instagram, that let’s you have “complete creative control and publishing freedom with the ability to publish filtered photos directly to your WordPress blog!” The app is set to be released in August of this year and will be all of $0. I’m excited that this went through (since I like backing things that succeed) and am excited to see where it goes. Congrats John!

Recurring Content In WordPress Themes

Having access to Twenty Thirteen early, the theme that will be released with 3.6, is refreshing our minds on how to grab different parts of our content. In this post, Jesper writes about the hierarchy of template files when using get_template_part. From new to seasoned dev, this tutorial gives a fresh look at “abstracting functionality from structure” and WordPress logic.

A Look At WordPress 3.6

As the final touches are being put on WordPress 3.6, WPLift takes another look at the updates that will be rolled out around the end of the month. Post formats is still a big one and I’m curious to see what theme developers will do with this new freedom. I’m sure we’ll see a few “Tumblr-esque” themes. Another area of improvement is in the Edit Post screen. If someone else hops in while you are working, you’ll get a notice that they’ve taken over. Wonder who edited your post? You’ll have access to the log of revisions. Pretty cool stuff for collaborating, especially if you’re a part of a large network of writers. A great look ahead from WPLift, yet again.

WP Migrate DB Pro

Migrating a database can be a bit of a time-suck, so the good folks at Delicious Brains have made it easy for you. With just a few simple clicks, you can backup, prepare and migrate your database from one site to another. Pricing varies from $19 to $99 and is worth a look if you’ve ever pulled your hair out over a database move.

shame.css

We’ve all done it. We’ve pushed CSS live knowing full well that it’s not clean or refactored. Point was, it needed to get done and now it is. Harry Roberts takes a look at something he calls “shame.css” or the CSS file where you put all the “hacky” styling you had to write quickly. The idea behind it is that if we put our shameful CSS in one location, we’ll remember to refactor later on and tie it back in with the actual CSS. Cool and simple idea.

jQuery 2.0 Released!

jQuery has waved it’s final goodbye to IE8 and below. jQuery 2.0 will no longer support the legacy browsers, in favor of keeping the codebase lean and fast. For a full list of changes, you can take a look at the changelog, or just enjoy the new and shiny code.

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Support for Boston Buttons

In the wake of the Boston Marathon Bombings, we would like to show our support by offering these buttons that you can post on your website or blog to show that your thoughts and prayers are with the victims of this tragedy.

Navy Buttons

These navy blue buttons include large white icons with easy to read text and give a streamlined look for your website. Some of the actions included are view clip, unlock, start now, compare and free trial.

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When something gets sent through the gauntlet of 60+ mobile devices and comes out clean, we tend to take it pretty seriously. That’s why “Responsive Nav” is on our list and many other WordPress lists this week. While it’s a plugin that’s not specific to WordPress, it would be pretty easy to integrate with a standard theme. Accessibility and touch sensitivity in mind, Responsive Nav is worth a look.

Audio Video Support In The Core

One of our links last week basically said “don’t host your own videos in WordPress,” opting instead for some kind of content delivery system, whether it be YouTube, Vimeo or what have you. News is now out that WordPress 3.6 will allow you to add video through your media library and into a post easier than it’s ever been before. Piggybacking on MediaElement.js, the audio video format looks to continue the on-going discussion of “where should I host my media?” No matter what your take on where to host it, fact remains that it’s awesome to have audio video support in the core.

BuddyPress 1.7 Is Now Available

In releases this week we have BuddyPress 1.7, coming out with lots of bug fixes, new social features, and new features in general. I haven’t personally tested out the update, but have heard good things and look forward to trying it later in the week. What’s your favorite part of the update?

Compare Front End Frameworks

There are hundreds of front-end frameworks or starting points on the web today and it can be tough to know which are best for your project. Lucky for you, usabli.ca has made a great comparison chart of the top frameworks out there. From well-known Foundation to lesser-known Gumby, each framework shows browser support (which versions of IE), whether you can use LESS or Sass, and if the framework is responsive. I’m planning on testing out 1KB Grid after perusing this list.

WordPress Plugin Social Media Widget

It’s been an interesting week security-wise with WordPress and the folks over at Securi have added an extra bonus to “things to watch out for.” The Social Media Widget has been found to inject spam and other nasty things into your WordPress install and will eat it alive if not removed immediately. It may not be quite that extreme, but it takes a lot for a plugin to be removed from the WordPress plugin directory and that’s the case here.

Super Botnet Attack On WordPress

If you were under a rock this weekend then you might not know about the large-scale botnet attack on WordPress sites. Folks are speculating that the botnet was designed to help make a larger, heftier botnet that could essentially take down the internets. The extent of how true that is doesn’t really matter, but what does matter is how you protect yourself. The main attacks were through the admin username with passwords being pounded in until there was success. Ways to prevent attacks? Get rid of the “admin” username, add a login attempt lockout system and install some security. I personally favor WordFence and made sure it was installed on all of my WordPress sites. You can never be too careful, so buckle up and keep your eyes peeled.

The post This Week In WordPress: Apr 15, 2013 appeared first on Max Foundry.

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Skinny Colorful Buttons

This colorful pack of web buttons features a total of 25 buttons with mini black icons and simple text. Some of the buttons include: Download, Start Here, Facebook, Twitter, Subscribe, Print Page and more!

Red Check Social Buttons

These 18 social media buttons feature a white layout with round red icons and red text with a fun font. The social media sites and platforms represented are Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google Plus, Tumblr, Flickr, RSS, LinkedIn and Instagram. For each icon, there is an icon only and icon plus text button.

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