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.

Plugins

Google Drive As WordPress CDN Plugin

If you have a Google Account, you have 15 Go available for Google Drive. That’s a lot of space you could use to store your website’s static content and save some bandwidth. This plugin lets you do that.

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Inline preview

This free plugin lets you preview your text next to your editor.

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Themes

Venture

Venture is an ultra responsive, beautiful WordPress theme that is perfect for both corporate companies and also the creatives.

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Busby

Busby is a clean personal blogging theme with it’s own options panel built with the UpThemes framework.

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News

New WordPress template hierarchy diagram

A new, prettier, template hierarchy diagram has been released, and even made interactive. A great and well-executed idea.

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What’s Going On With The WordPress Importer?

The WordPress importer plugin is getting a lot of bad reviews, WP Tavern wonders why. I’ve had issues with it quite recently too.

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On WordPress news sites

Can sites sharing news about WordPress without selling stuff be sustainable? Brian of Post Status takes on that.

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Tutorials & Tips

How to Add a News Ticker in WordPress

How to add a news ticker to your WordPress site using the Ditty News Ticker plugin. Check out the tutorial on WP Beginner.

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The WordPress Coding Standards: Indentation, Space Usage, and Trailing Spaces

One of WP Tuts+ great series of articles about coding standards for WordPress.

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Styling Comments based on Custom User Roles

For better readability of comments, check out this tutorial.

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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.