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As promised, we saw the arrival of WordPress 4.5 in April, so now we’ve had a couple of weeks to get to grips with the new version we wanted to share details of the new features you can enjoy in WordPress 4.5. Named to honour Coleman Hawkins, the legendary jazz…

An interesting acquisition from within the world of WordPress took place last week, with WPBeginner founder, Syed Balkhi, purchasing Google Analytics for WordPress from Yoast. Google Analytics for WordPress tips the scales at just over 10,000,000 downloads, making it the most downloaded analytics plugin for WordPress and one of the…

Anybody looking for a single page parallax theme? Keep reading, as we’ve got the details of a free theme that you should be itching to download. OnePress, from Fame Themes, is currently available to download for free and is ideally suited for business, portfolio or agency sites. If that’s you,…

Last month the beloved plugin, Jetpack, celebrates its fifth birthday – happy birthday, Jetpack! To celebrate the anniversary the team have debuted a brand new domain – jetpack.com. On 9th March 2011 Jetpack 1.0 was presented to the world for the first time and its popularity has been staggering. Over…

Matt Mullenweg’s web development company, Automattic, is now the main investor in the hosting company Pressable. Automattic was already longer a shareholder and now secures a major part of the company. When asked for comment, Mullenweg had the following to say about the acquisition: “Automattic is happy to be an investor…

Global media company, Condé Nast, has bought recently Poetica, a free plugin that’s used for real-time Google Docs style collaborations. The plugin is to be abandoned in its current form, however, to be used as part of Co-Pilot, the company’s publishing platform. The Poetica team will continue to work on…

Great news for ecommerce sites everywhere: the payment gateway, Stripe, is now available for free via WooCommerce. The service’s licensing model used to cost between $79-$199 but can now be used free of charge. The news comes at the same time as the release of Atlas, the brand new Stripe…

WordPress theme provider, Mojo Themes, is turning six this year and they’re celebrating with another one of their famous Birthday Bundles – so get ready to save yourself a whole heap of cash! This year’s bundle is made up of 9 themes, 4 plugins and a theme install service, with…

It’s only a couple of weeks until WordPress 4.5 is released so it’s the perfect time to take a look at the latest features that we can look forward to seeing in the new version. Theme logo support – Version 4.5 will finally have theme logo support. The long-awaited feature…

Theme designers, are you ready? The Envato marketplace is currently running a design competition that will grant five lucky winners $2000. The WordPress platform wants a surge of innovative themes to provide its loyal customer best with the best new designs in the business. Last year, more and more WordPress…