Monday, October 21, 2013

WordPress News


A tool used by millions of designer for much more than creating blogs.

Wordpress started in 2003 as just a blogging system, but has grown.  There are thousands of plugins and widgets, and themes. It is customizable and can be used for everything. Wordpress is an outsource. Since 2003 it has grown to be the leading self-hosted blogging tool in the world. 

Back in July of 2013, Matt Mullenweg delivered his State of the Word speech on knowing where we are with WordPress now. Some of his key points that he made are listed below.
  • 18.9% of the web is now running on WordPress, up 2.2% from last year
  •  46+ million downloads of WordPress
  •  26,000 plugins in the plugin repository
  • 336 new themes added to the repository, 2.3 times as many as in 2011


Plugins

Logo Carousel is a premium logo and customer showcase for WordPress 3+ websites. It features for different animation directions, customizable speed, and ability to add multiple logos at one with the new WP 3.5 media manager, awesome 48hr support and much more.




Themes


Leviate is a approachable HTML5 WordPress theme featuring a clean and retina ready design suitable for any studio, creative or personal use. It features HTML5 and CSS3 along with an easy to use page builder, one/multipage opportunity, an large admin panel, bootstrap 3.0, tons of shortcodes, collection of useful widgets, powerful and clean code landscape, and much more.



Booklet

 Booklet is a personal diary theme for WordPress. If you are looking for something new the booklet is it. It gives the best reading skill on all devices. The site automatically fits the screen you are using. The best features of the booklet theme are the ability to change the background color and font color, changing the font size and even being able to read in fullscreen mode. There are numerous styling options.






WordPress is everything from websites, to blogs, and even applications. WordPress combines easiness for users and publishers. It makes it worth while being easy to use. 



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