Daily designer news

WordPress news: january 11 to january 18, 2013

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:34 PM PST

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

WP Guest posting

Easily manage guest posts on your website with this cool plugin. $16 on CodeCanyon.

590x300

Dropbox folder share

Easily use files from your Dropbox shared items folder in your WordPress blog. Plugin on WordPress.org.

screenshot-3

Themes

Celestial Lite

A free, professional and responsive WordPress theme to turn your blog into a business website. Get it on StyledThemes.

showcase-banner

Moby Elite

A theme to create mobile-friendly sites. Comes with 5 color schemes, PHP contact forms, touch sliders and more. $25 on ThemeForest.

01_preview.__large_preview.__large_preview

Sniper

A gorgeous responsive theme for photographers. $45 on ThemeForest.

Sniper-wp-preview

News

WordPress 3.6 Areas of Focus

A look at what will be improved in WordPress 3.6. Via Weblogtools Collection.

Tutorials

Display Blog Posts on any Page (with navigation)

Learn how to display posts on a static page, useful for example when you use a static page as homepage and still want to list your latest blog posts on it. Via Digging into WordPress.

Move WordPress from localhost to a server using phpMyAdmin

You will need to know how to do this if you want to develop your WordPress sites locally and move it to your server later on. Via WPlift.

Coolest Gadgets and Gizmos