WordPress Weekly News and Tips: September 8th to 14th

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

My Eyes Are Up Here: A WordPress Plugin With Automatic Face Detection for Generating Cropped Thumbnails

Author: Sarah Gooding

URL: http://wptavern.com/my-eyes-are-up-here-a-wordpress-plugin-with-automatic-face-detection-for-generating-cropped-thumbnails

Most of the time, when uploading and cropping an image by WordPress can cut out what you really want in a thumbnail. My Eyes Are Up Here by interconnectit, sanchothefat, Spectacula and AndyWalmsley. The WordPress plugin is an integration of the jQuery plugin jquery.facedetection; the plugin allows you to have more control over how your images are cropped by scanning for a face and will crop your image accordingly.

How to Fix WordPress Not Sending Email Issue

Author: Editorial Staff

URL: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-wordpress-not-sending-email-issue/

One of the most common issues that you may have when setting up a WordPress site is not receiving any emails wen resetting your, or another user’s, password. This might be because your server does not have the mail() function set up?

Create a Website for Your Presentation Slides with the Reveal.js Theme for WordPress

Author: Sarah Gooding

URL: http://wptavern.com/create-a-website-for-your-presentation-slides-with-the-reveal-js-theme-for-wordpress

If you are a fan of the Reveal.js jQuery plugin, which allows you to create presentations in HTML, then you are in luck! A new theme appropriately named Reveal.js allows a presentation, created in a WordPress post, to take over your site and host your slide. As Sarah Gooding notes, the theme is somewhat limited in that you won’t be able to move the data over if you switch themes. Reveal.js might be better served as a plugin instead of a basic theme.

Complete Guide to Make Your WordPress Themes Retina Display Ready, Free Plugins & Themes

Author: Noumaan Yaqoob

URL: http://wplift.com/make-wordpress-themes-retina-display-ready

Noumaan Yaqoob takes us on a tour of different free plugins and themes that you can use to make sure that your WordPress site is retina-ready.

WordPress Translation Plugins: WPML…and the Rest

Author: Mark Senff

URL: http://www.wpmayor.com/wordpress-translation-plugins/

Mark Senff walks us through setting up and using WPML to have a mutlilingual website.

Speed Up Your WordPress Site with Pound, Varnish, Nginx and mod_page_speed

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Author: Sarah Gooding

URL: http://wptavern.com/speed-up-your-wordpress-site-with-pound-varnish-nginx-and-mod_pagespeed

Sarah Gooding and Tomaž Zaman wrote an article on how to use Pound, Varnish, Nginx and mod_page_speed to speed up your WordPress site. You will need some basic knowledge of Linux in order to follow the guide.

What Happens When WordPress Is Updated With 100 Plugins Activated?

Author: Jeff Chandler

URL: http://wptavern.com/what-happens-when-wordpress-is-updated-with-100-plugins-activated

An interesting experiment by Bob Dunn where two WordPress sites with 100 plugins each were updated to 4.0. As Jeff Chandler has pointed out, it’s not the quantity of plugins used that will slow down and/or break your site, but the quality of the plugin(s). You can watch the video by Bob Dunn on the WP Tavern blog post.

First Look at Designs for the Twenty Fifteen Default WordPress Theme

Author: Sarah Gooding

URL: http://wptavern.com/first-look-at-designs-for-the-twenty-fifteen-default-wordpress-theme

The first designs for the 2015 of the default WordPress theme has been released.

9 Most Useful .htaccess Tricks for WordPress

Author: Editorial Staff

URL: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/9-most-useful-htaccess-tricks-for-wordpress/

Secure your website with some tricks that you can use in your .htaccess file.

Top CDN Services to Make Your WordPress Site Blazingly Fast (and More Reliable)

Author: Raelene Wilson

URL: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/top-cdn-services-to-make-your-wordpress-site-blazingly-fast/

This article is an introduction to various CDN services that you can use to make your WordPress site extremely fast. There is also some advice about choosing the CDN that will work best for your site.

How to Add Google Analytics in WordPress with Analytify

Author: Editorial Staff

URL: http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-add-google-analytics-in-wordpress-with-analytify/

Analytify is a simple and easy to use plugin that you can use on your WordPress site that will add statistics on user hits, keywords and other numbers. The plugin is also responsive and comes with it’s own panel in the Post Edit screen.

Adding to the Body Class in WordPress

Author: Joe Clifton

URL: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/adding-to-the-body-class-in-wordpress–cms-21077

Adding the body class function to your WordPress theme is a good practice, with that in mind, this tutorial teaches you on the different ways that you can implement the body class function into your site

Take The Annual WPShout Webhosting Survey

Author: Jeff Chandler

URL: http://wptavern.com/take-the-annual-wpshout-webhosting-survey

You can participate in the annual WPShout Wehobsting survey! You can enter the following details about your webhost: Reliability, speed, usability, support, value and WordPress computability.

An Introduction to WordPress Global Variables

Author: Praveen Selvasekaran

URL: http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/an-introduction-to-wordpress-global-variables–cms-20855

A short and quick tutorial by Praveen Selvasekaran that details the number of different global variables available in WordPress like: $post and $wpid.

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!