Miscellaneous, Multisite Plugins, Plugins

Choosing the Best Custom Fonts Plugin for WordPress

by Harley Alexander March 1^st, 2013 7 Responses

Today I’m going to review four WordPress plugins that can help you get custom fonts set up easily on your blog.

Custom fonts have swept the web, starting with Flash & Javascript based solutions such as sIFR and Cufon. Next came @font-face and high quality hosting services such as Google Web Fonts, Typekit and Fonts.com.

Whichever you choose, you’re eventually going to have to install it on your website, and if you don’t want to take the path of installing it yourself, there are a plethora of plugins that can help you.

Plugins, Themes

Free MarketPress Theme And Floating Shopping Cart Extension

by Sarah Gooding February 27^th, 2013 4 Responses

MarketPressThemes.com is a WordPress theme shop centered around MarketPress, one of our most popular plugins at WPMU DEV. If you’re a big fan of MarketPress, then this is a store you’ll want to bookmark. MarketPress Themes offers professionally developed themes for online stores, as well as a number of excellent free plugins for the community.
FlexMarket: A Free MarketPress Theme

Plugins, WPMU DEV

A Brand New WordPress Plugin from WPMU DEV: YouTube Featured Video

by Joe Foley February 22^nd, 2013 7 Responses

We’re happy to announce that WPMU DEV has released a brand new plugin – the YouTube Featured Video plugin.

This simple, flexible widget lets you select videos from a YouTube channel and then feature them in your sidebar. If you look over to the bottom of the right hand sidebar here on wpmu.org, you’ll see it action.

We wanted this for ourselves, and so we thought a number of you might like it too.

How This Plugin Can Help You

Plugins

Quickly Organize Sticky Posts in the WordPress Dashboard

by Sarah Gooding February 21^st, 2013 1 Response

Sticky Posts are a handy feature introduced in WordPress 2.7. When a post is marked as sticky in the editor screen, it will be shown at the top of the front page of posts.

Quick Sticky is a new plugin that makes it easy to assign and organize your sticky posts. It adds a new column for marking sticky posts when browsing the posts listing screen. This is much more convenient than having to go into each post and to mark them individually.

Plugins

Add Custom Themes to the Distraction Free Writing Mode in WordPress

by Sarah Gooding February 14^th, 2013 Leave a comment

The fullscreen distraction free writing mode is one of the coolest new features recently added to WordPress. But what if that blank white screen just doesn’t do it for you? Distraction Free Writing Mode Themes is a new plugin that gives you more design options when enabling this mode.

Development, Plugins

WordPress Developer Plugin: An Essential Tool For Theme and Plugin Development

by Sarah Gooding February 7^th, 2013 1 Response

The Developer plugin is a WordPress developer’s best friend – aside from his dog, of course. It’s a plugin developed collaboratively by Automattic and a number of other talented WordPress developers. Created to help you optimize your development environment, the WordPress Developer plugin gives you quick access to all of the best tools for theme and plugin development.

When you install the plugin, a screen will pop up to ask you what type of project you’re working on so that it can tailor its recommendations for you. You’ll be presented with three options:

Plugin for a self-hosted WordPress installation

The WordPress Developer Plugin includes everything you need for an optimized development environment

Plugins

Share Code With CodePen Embed Plugin For WordPress

by Sarah Gooding January 28^th, 2013 Leave a comment

CodePen is becoming an increasingly popular social network for front end developers. It provides an easy way for members to build, store and share code created with HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Individual projects are referred to as “pens”, which include the HTML, CSS, JS and the resulting live demo beneath. It’s essentially a front end developer’s playground for exploring and creating handy, beautiful snippets for the web.

Community, Plugins

Complete Video Guide to MarketPress and e-Commerce with WordPress

by Ronnie Burt January 17^th, 2013 8 Responses

Earlier today we announced some exciting big new features to the MarketPress plugin.

Now we’d like to share this brand new video tutorial series for MarketPress with a complete guide to selling products, downloads, and services with WordPress.

Plugins

Automatically Post Customized Tweets From WordPress to Twitter

by Sarah Gooding January 17^th, 2013 3 Responses

The quest for the perfect Twitter plugin can be a long road. There are hundreds of Twitter-related plugins on wordpress.org alone and more available from commercial plugin sites such as Codecanyon and the like. Since we do quite a bit of publishing on WPMU.org, we are always on the lookout for a solid, reliable plugin that will help us manage sending posts to Twitter.

Enter WordTwit Pro…