WordPress Weekly News and Tips: September 1st to 7th

Welcome to the fourteenth WordPress News Weekly post. In these weekly posts, we gather news articles from WordPress-related resources so that you can be up-to-date.

Stop Guessing, Start Testing Your Content For A Successful WordPress Site

Author: Chris Knowles

URL: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/stop-guessing-start-testing-your-content-for-a-successful-wordpress-site/

Chris Knowles points out various plugins that you can use to test your SEO, headlines and content. Instead of guessing what works, you should test fro which headlines draw in visitors and which call-to-action works.

WordPress Plugin Boilerplate 3.0 Released with New Community Website

Important!

Author: Sarah Gooding

URL: http://wptavern.com/wordpress-plugin-boilerplate-3-0-released-with-new-community-website

The new Plugin Boilerplate, version 3.0, has been released! The update comes with a community site dedicated to the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate.

Sprout Apps Launches Free WordPress Invoicing Plugin

Author: Sarah Gooding

URL: http://wptavern.com/sprout-apps-launches-free-wordpress-invoicing-plugin

Sarah Gooding takes us on a tour of a new plugin for WordPress by Sprout Apps. The plugin is intended to make the invoicing and payment process easier between clients and agencies (or any other parties) You can download Sprout Invoices from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

The WPLift Complete Guide to WordPress Image Handling

Author: Oli

URL: http://wplift.com/wordpress-better-image-handling-tips

Uploading, editing and managing plugins plays a big role for your WordPress site. Oli wrote a guide on how to do just that and some of the best practices to keep in mind.

Creating 301 Redirects With WordPress(and How it Boosted Our Traffic!)

Author: Oli

URL: http://wplift.com/wordpress-better-image-handling-tips

Oli  wrote about the 301 Redirects and how they have boosted traffic to his site and how you can use it in for your WordPress blog.

Gitium Provides Automatic Git Version Control and Deployment for WordPress Plugins and Themes

Author: Sarah Gooding

URL: http://wptavern.com/gitium-provides-automatic-git-version-control-and-deployment-for-wordpress-plugins-and-themes

Gitium is a brand new plugin by the folks at PressLabs that seeks to add git-based version control for WordPress themes and plugins.

The WPLift Guide to the WordPress Database: Understand, Optimize and Backup

Author: Oli

URL: http://wplift.com/the-wordpress-database

As databases are crucial for WordPress, you should learn as much as you can about them. The most important part to take away from the article by Oli is to learn how to backup your database.

Slideout Your WordPress Comments Just Like The New York Times

Author: Chris Knowles

URL: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/slideout-your-wordpress-comments-just-like-the-new-york-times/

Chris Knowles wrote a tutorial on how to implement a slideout comment system just like the New York Times.

WordPress 4.0 “Benny”

Author: Matt Mullenweg

URL: http://wordpress.org/news/2014/09/benny/

WordPress 4.0 has just been released with a slew of new features, the biggest draw is the improved editor and the new Media Library.

Understanding and Working with Metadata in WordPress

Author: Rachel McCollin

URL: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/understanding-and-working-with-metadata-in-wordpress–cms-21034

A tutorial that goes over the basics of WordPress metadata and how you can use it in posts, users and comments. This includes working with the database tables in which the metadata is stored.

Creating A Mini-CSS Preprocesser For Theme Color Options

Author: Rachel McCollin

URL: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/creating-a-mini-css-preprocesser-for-theme-color-options–cms-21551

Using this guide, you can create a simpler and cleaner way to implement CSS options into your WordPress theme options without creating a mess.

That just about covers it for this week’s WordPress Weekly News and Tips. If you have any questions for concerns, feel free to leave a comment below. Otherwise, you can send me a message at: [email protected]. Thanks for reading!