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.

For more regular news, tutorials and tricks, check out our blog about WordPress.

Plugins

UserPro

UserPro is a WordPress plugin that instantly replaces the ugly WordPress backend profiles with elegant, beautiful looking frontend profiles.

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Themes

Colangine

Colangine is a Creative Flat design WordPress theme. It’s Fully Responsive, Clean and Corporate Friendly with Powerful theme options.

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Twish

Use Twish to build an amazing website—FAST! With a drag and drop page builder, exclusive custom shortcodes plugin, tons of starter pages, 20 prebuilt skins, 300+ color options and beautiful animated sliders, you’ll get first-class results.

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News

Cart66 launches WordPress managed hosting for e-commerce

Cart66, previously known as PHPurchase, was one of the very first WordPress e-commerce plugins on the scene. Over the years the company has experimented with different WordPress e-commerce products but this week marks a major milestone. Cart66 Hosted has launched the first fully managed WordPress e-commerce platform.

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Are we in the middle of a WordPress gold rush ?

Oli of WPlist asks an interesting question: are we in the middle of a WordPress gold rush?

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Tutorials & Tips

10 Things You Should Do When Inheriting a WordPress Site

An excellent checklist of things you should do if you take over a WordPress site.

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A Guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer: Advanced Controls

A good tutorial if you create theme that have an options page.

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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.