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Best Free WordPress Themes from 2013

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December 26, 2013

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2013 was a really good year for WordPress users. To begin with, we witnessed three major releases of WordPress this year. Furthermore, and most importantly, 2013 also marked the tenth birthday for WordPress as a software (launched in 2003, and still going strong). It goes without saying that a good number of WordPress themes were released during this year—both free and premium. Since Twenty Thirteen had set the trend in favor of blogging-centric themes, many new WP themes from 2013 focused on personal blogs and tumblogs. Of course, other niche such as magazine and portfolio websites were not overlooked either. […]

Will 2014 Be the Year of WordPress Tuck-ins and Roll-ups?

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December 25, 2013

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Like with most great things in the WordPress community, it started with WebDev Studios. Two founders, writing code and sometimes writing books. And a friend of theirs, Lisa Sabin-Wilson, also writing some code and writing books. And then they merged. If you were at Pressnomics this past year, you heard Lisa’s version of the story. And it was compelling. And I’m sure it made more than one small company think about its own position in the ecosystem. Should they partner with someone else? Should they merge? But how do you go about doing this? The questions were plentiful, I’m sure. […]

SNI: Why SSLs Won’t Need Their Own IPs for Much Longer

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December 23, 2013

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Conventional wisdom states that in order to secure your website with an SSL certificate, you need a dedicated IP address. For a long time that’s been true; SSL (and its successor TLS) are low-level encryption protocols with no awareness of domains, or even HTTP. Because of this, there’s historically been no way to share IP addresses between websites that each have their own SSL certificates. This has always been very inefficient on IP addresses. Without SSL, shared hosting allows you to serve hundreds, or even thousands, of websites from a single IP, whereas an IP that’s used for providing SSL […]

A 7 Day WordPress Plugin Launch…With a Twist!

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December 20, 2013

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I’m Alex and I co-founded WP Curve with Dan Norris 5 months ago. Since then, we’ve built our customer base to 182 customers and as of today, we have a $118,000 annual recurring revenue run rate. Wait. What? Why so transparent? We have a habit of over sharing. An example is this post. I’m writing with Michelle (my favorite editor), watching my every keystroke. Isn’t that kind of weird? Yes…but it’s also a ton of fun. Fast feedback means I can ship this post in a day, instead of a week. We apply this method to all of our businesses, […]

WooThemes Hits 2 Million WooCommerce Downloads

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December 19, 2013

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Today, WooThemes proudly celebrates a major milestone—reaching 2,000,000 WooCommerce downloads. Impressive, right? And yes, that’s Torque contributor Matt Cohen of WooThemes sharing his excitement in the photo above. (I “borrowed” a screenshot from the fun video they made to toast the occasion; you should check it out too.) We’re happy for them. According to statistics from builtwith.com provided on WooThemes’ site, 9% of ALL eCommerce websites are now using WooCommerce. Now that’s good business! Here’s the breakdown provided by WooThemes of the industry verticals currently leveraging WooCommerce for their businesses: In other WooNews, the community behind the platform is continuing to […]

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