WordPress has become a tool used by millions of designers for much more than creating blogs. Each week we take a look at what’s new with WordPress.

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Plugins

AffiliateWP

Finally a well-made affiliate marketing plugin for WordPress. AffiliateWP works with the most popular WordPress eCommerce plugins, and has already been used by some major WordPress businesses. Start boosting your sales and get it now!

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MasterSlider

Master Slider is a premium high quality designed image and content slider for WordPress, with super smooth hardware accelerated transitions. It supports touch navigation with pure swipe gesture that you have never experienced before.

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Themes

BuzzBlog

BuzzBlog is a simple, clean, personal, modern and professional blog ideal for spreading stories.

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Downtown

Downtown is fully responsive clean and modern WordPress theme that can be used for any kind of page. Theme is based on Bootstrap 3 front-end framework and comes with tons of useful shortcodes. Unlimited portfolios and galleries, standard and grid styles, parallax sections, fixed header, gallery albums and many, many more features to check out.

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News

WordPress 3.9 “Smith” was released

Did you upgrade? Because you should upgrade. Check out what’s new on this post.

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Tips & Tutorials

WordPress.vim

A Vim plugin for WordPress development.

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Common issues and troubleshooting in WordPress 3.9

Providing support in the WordPress.org forums gives you a clear indication on how well a release is being received and whether or not anything major broke. After spending five hours in the support forum, here are some common issues being reported by users.

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About the Author

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Mirko Humbert

Mirko Humbert is the editor-in-chief and main author of Designer Daily and Typography Daily. He is also a graphic designer and the founder of WP Expert.