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

Rocket Galleries

Rocket Galleries is the gallery manager WordPress never had. Easily create and manage galleries from one intuitive panel within WordPress. Simple, easy to use, and lightweight.

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Themes

Newsright

Newsright is a beautiful clean modern design and powerful admin options. Feature-rich WordPress premium HD (retina-ready) magazine news theme for all sorts of publishers. Great for review, news and blog sites, with video and slideshows. The Theme uses the best clean seo practices, it’s fast, simple and easy to use.

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Spare

Spare is a modern, responsive WordPress theme that builds any type of page design easily with an awesome Page Builder and LESS styling. The theme has capacity of all kind of business websites including Corporate, One Page, eCommerce, Parallax, Fullscreen, Shop and Clean design.

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News

Version 1 of the WordPress code reference is online

The code reference provides for easy exploration of core functions, classes, methods, and hooks, as well as the various core APIs. It also provides a reference list of new items added in each version of WordPress.

Tips & Tutorials

The WordPress cheat sheet

A page to bookmark for a quick, categorized list of WordPress functions that are commonly used when building, updating and maintaining templates.

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A Strategy for Organizing WordPress Theme Functions

An in-depth article that shares thoughts and strategies to organize your WordPress Theme Functions.

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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.