Daily designer news

WordPress news: May 4 to May 10, 2014

Posted: 10 May 2014 08:04 AM PDT

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.

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Plugins

Adminize

Adminimize is a WordPress plugin that lets you hide ‘unnecessary’ items from the WordPress backend and many many more.

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WP Job Manager

WP Job Manager by Mike Jolley is a modern and lightweight plugin for the popular WordPress platform. It adds job board functionality right into the backend of your CMS, where you can manage its contents just as you're familiar with regarding any other WordPress content. WP Job Manager is shortcode-based and supports custom post types.

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Themes

Thread

Thread is a bold yet elegant responsive WordPress Theme designed with versatility at its code. Featuring three distinct use cases out-of-the-box, Thread showcases just how flexible and well-designed a WordPress Theme can be.

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Flip

Flip is a Flipping and one page wordpress theme which is very flexible to customize. This theme is suitable for business, corporate, portfolio and any kind of websites.

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News

Automattic is raising $160M in new funding

This morning Automattic's founder, Matt Mullenweg, announced that the company is raising $160M in new funding. After taking the helm as CEO earlier this year, Mullenweg said that he set out on a 100-day plan to pursue new funding and find a set of partners who share Automattic's vision of an open web. Via WP Tavern.

WordPress for Android 2.8 Released

WordPress for Android shipped its 2.8 release late last night. This milestone includes 55 closed issues. This release is packed full of many small bug fixes, better language support, and performance improvements.

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