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WordPress news: February 2 to February 8, 2014

Posted: 08 Feb 2014 11:16 AM 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.

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

Plugins

Publish confirmation plugin

Prevent publication mistakes with this simple plugin that asks you to confirm after hitting the publish button.

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Themes

Meth

Meth is an extremely flexible, and efficiently minimal one-page portfolio theme for WordPress. You can use it to showcase your brand into a single page, or use it as a full site, with standard inner pages etc. The true power of Meth lies at the widgetized homepage, allowing you to customize, and re-order every widget section and get creative with the possible layout options.

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Explicit

Explicit is a very versatile magazine and review WordPress theme. It comes with tons of amazing features and WooCommerce compatibility.

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News

Widget Customizer Approved For WordPress 3.9

Great news, the Widget Customizer plugin is now cleared for takeoff and will land in WordPress 3.9.

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WooCommerce now powers 10% of all e-commerce sites

As many as Magento, that’s a pretty impressive achievement if you ask me.

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Tips & Tutorials

How to remove jQuery in WordPress

Not every site needs jQuery, so here is how to remove it from your WordPress install. Be careful though, some plugins may need it.

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