Dave Warfel 
WordPress 3.8 was released on December 12, 2013. We’ve highlighted the big changes below, but click the links within each section to learn more about the major improvements. Many of these changes were developed as plugins first. If you have any of the plugins installed, be sure to uninstall them once you upgrade to 3.8. New …
The Bootstrap MCE CSS plugin is one of our own. It’s the first plugin created by a member of the WP Smackdown team. While it’s quite basic in what it does, we’re still pretty excited about it, and feel that it’s a nice addition to the WordPress admin TinyMCE editor. NOTE: We haven’t updated the …
If you read our recent article about the new features in WordPress 3.8, it’s no surprise that the admin UI is getting a facelift. Let’s cover the following topics related to the new admin design: What’s changing What’s staying the same Color schemes Responsive design Theme selection Widgets Dashboard changes Password Generator You can also …
The WordPress Dashboard has seen several improvements in 3.8. We’ll take you through all the changes to the dashboard widgets, and show you screenshots side-by-side of how the Dashboard looked in 3.7 compared to how it looks now. Screen Options One thing you’ll notice is that there are far fewer screen options on the Dashboard …
We’ve been highlighting the changes coming to WordPress 3.8 on December 12, 2013, but if you’d rather SEE the changes & READ about them later, check out our WordPress 3.8 Admin UI photo gallery below. Screenshots of the responsive WordPress 3.8 Admin UI on mobile devices are near the end. Launch Slideshow
An important part of WordPress security has to do with your user accounts & passwords. We’ll discuss some of the basic guidelines to keep your WordPress site secure, as well as go over some security plugins that can help. A Quick Note About Brute-force Attacks Insecure user accounts and/or passwords can lead to what are …
The Rocketeer plugin is a relatively new plugin released by Brady Vercher. This plugin adds a new page under the Jetpack menu item, called “Modules.” On this page, you can: Easily bulk activate & deactivate all of the Jetpack modules Filter Jetpack modules by type (all, active, inactive, free, premium) We love the UI, and …
There’s been a lot of chatter recently about Jetpack for WordPress. Their development team has been hard at work adding new features, all the while some are still frustrated with the “single plugin, many modules” approach, because they only want one or two of the ~20 things that Jetpack offers. I recently wrote an article …
Several people have posed questions about how to disable comments from Jetpack Carousel module in WordPress. There is a method that has already been discovered, but it requires a change to a plugin file. I’ll briefly mention those, but since I’m very much against changing any core or plugin files directly, I’ll show you another …
WPTavern.com recently announced that WordPress.com has added support for Markdown. They can also be quoted as saying: Very soon we should see a Markdown module added to Jetpack. This is sure to make a lot of us developers happy. I’m not sure if it’ll gain traction with the everyday WordPress user, but it will definitely …