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Weekly WordPress News Roundup
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As always, there were number of amazing articles, releases, tutorials and offers from the WordPress community. We have tried our best to bring all the important articles from the lot, hope you will enjoy this roundup.

WordPress News and Articles

Microsoft Azure: Microsoft Azure is now offering Scalable WordPress with options to set-up more instances and allocating resources when needed.

The load-balancing handles all the resources between multiple instances making the users, only to worry about the configuration part of the WordPress application…Read More

Global Brands On WordPress: Oliver Dale of wplift.com published an amazing article about the popular global brands using WordPress. There are some real big names in the list which puts a full stop to the discussion if WordPress is only for small and medium scale sites. I’m sure the platform is way more powerful then it is being perceived by some…Read More

First Look of Twenty Fifteen Theme: Konstantin Obenland released the first look at the Twenty Fifteen theme recently, which is being targeted for release in December.

As discribed by Konstantin the Twenty Fifteen Theme will be a simple content focused theme which will feature Google’s Noto Serif and Sans – a font family. Don’t forget to read Sarah Gooding’s article on wptavern about the upcoming theme…Read More

Gmail Password Leak: About 5 million Gmail addresses and passwords were uploaded to a Russian online forum by hackers. Some of the emails on the list matched email addresses associated with WordPress.com accounts. WordPress.com proactively resets over 100,000 accounts to safeguard the users…Read More

CyberChimps Market: CyberChimps recently introduced their Market, and opened the doors to outside developers to make money through their community with themes, plugins and services.

So, if you are a developer here is the new market for you where you can display your products and earn 70% commission…Read More

WooCommerce is HeroReady Now: Are you aware of CSS Hero, if not you must have a look at the tool. It provides you easy solution to customize your WordPress site if your theme or plugin is HeroReady.

WooCommerce is now HeroReady which will help you to personalize the visual aspect of your ecommerce site to match your graphical needs…Read More

WP Engine Increases Affiliate Commission Rate: Great news for WordPress affiliate marketers, now you can earn lot more by promoting WP Engine.

When you refer a customer for personal or professional plan, your commission for each sale will be $200 instead of $150. If you have not applied for their affiliate program yet, create an account now

Eventmanagerblog Store Re-Brands: If you are looking for an event WordPress theme, you will definitely come across the theme shop by Eventmanagerblog. The store used to be a part of the main site with an extension as store, now the store has been re-branded to showthemes.com

OptinMonster v2.0: OptinMonster recently got updated to version 2.0 with number of modifications and some amazing new features. The plugin is now mobile friendly, now you can create beautiful looking mobile-only optins with the help of new mobile addon…Read More

WordPress Resources and Offers

Free Stock Photos: If you are looking for website where you can find quality free images for your blog or web design. We have recently published an article about top 10 sites to find free stock images

Travel WordPress Themes: Do you want to create a travel related website on WordPress? If yes, we have collected 25+ amazing travel WordPress themes just for you . All these themes are premium and high quality in terms of design and features, and fully responsive…Read More

Genesis Essentials: Cobaltapps recently introduced there latest tool for customizing Genesis powered websites called Genesis Essentials. It is a toned down version of Genesis Extender Plugin which includes all the important functions of extender minus the complex Custom Options…Read More

Theme Release Modena: WPZoom recently released a great looking modern and flexible business theme called Modena with numerous features. It’s a fully responsive design with full width slider as well as custom Page Templates & Widgets…Read More