Here are some good tools that can help you with benchmarking.

If you need help in making your website go faster, get in touch because we can help out with that.

Pingdom Tools

Go to Pingdom Tools

GTmetrix

Go to GTmetrix

Web Page Test

Go to Web Page Test

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The major new feature in WordPress 3.6 is the post formats. This is a new (and much improved) GUI that makes the existing post formats feature a lot more usable and fun.

When you create posts in WordPress 3.6, you will notice a very visual selection for their format.

Selecting a different post format will customize the Post Edit screen, adapting it to the inputs different formats require.

WPML 2.8.2 synchronizes post formats between translations. This feature is enabled by default. You can change it inWPML-Translation Management-Multilingual Content Setup, under the Synchronize posts format option.

When enabled and you translate the content, all translations will have the same post formats.

The new post formats put an emphasis on media in posts. To make the best of it, you should also use WPML Media Translation, so that your media files will be available in all translations.

Download and Test with WordPress 3.6

WPML 2.8.2 is a recommended update for anyone. If you are already testing your sites on WordPress 3.6 (which you really should), please let us know how WPML is working for you.

You can get WPML 2.8.2 from your WPML.org account.

Coming Next to WPML – Front End Translation via CRED

While we’re talking about new releases, I want to tell you about the next major development for WPML – CRED Frontend Translation.

Using CRED Frontend Translation, you will be able to translate content and edit translations from the front-end pages. Translators and proofreaders will see the familiar WPML translation controls, appearing on the public pages of your site. These translation controls are visible to admins and translators only and not to visitors.

They can click on the familiar + and ‘edit’ icons, create translations and edit translations.

We think that you would love CRED Frontend Translation because:

• You can create your own translation interface, matching your site’s content types
• Translators can see what they are translating and edit a lot more conveniently
• You can get your site translated without anyone working in the WordPress admin

CRED Frontend Translation needs WPML Translation Management module, so you will need to have the Multilingual CMS package. You will also need to have CRED, which you can buy by itself or with the complete Toolset package. When it’s ready, we’ll be offering Toolset at a reduced cost to WPML clients.

It’s in beta right now, getting ready for a first release. During beta, you’ll get CRED for testing without having to pay for it.

We welcome you to join our WPML Testers Team, and be the first to “taste” the new features and products. Just add a comment and we’ll get in touch with you.

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Revolution Slider is a product from ThemePunch, an established theme and plugin development company. It was first released in July 2012, and has received numerous updates since then, a sure sign that the developers are doing their best to improve the product in response to user needs.

The plugin has been downloaded more than 6,800 times from CodeCanyon, and enjoys a 4.71 star rating (out of 5), clearly people are very happy with Revolution Slider.

Features

Slider Revolution is a fully developed slide displaying system offering the capability to show images, videos and captions paired with simple, modern and fancy 3D transitions. On top of that, Slider Revolution is fully responsive and mobile optimized and can take on any dimensions.

Here’s the full feature set taken from the plugin’s description on CodeCanyon:

• Image and Thumbs fully resizable
• Using CSS Animation with FallBack to jQuery
• Unlimited Caption Layers
• Captions like Video, Image and html tags can be easily created
• Unlimited Slides
• iPhone Android Swipe Touch enabled
• jQuery Conflict free plugin
• Customizable 100% via Plugin Backend
• Easy installation in your Website
• Special Easing
• Vimeo Youtube Supported
• Full Screen Video with Autoplay function
• Stop AutoPlay during Video Playback
• Duplicate, Slider, slide, captions Function
• Drag and Drop Captions in the Editor
• Fullwidth, Responsive (8 Level) and Normal Modes
• Optional Shadows included
• Hide Captions Separetely or Together depending on Slider Width
• Hide whole Slider Depending on Screen Width
• Countless Art of Transitions
• 10 Different Caption Animation Types
• 20 Different Slide Transition, and Unlimited Variations due to Rotation and Amount of Slots
• Two Level Animations of Captions. Start Time, End time, Different Animation Type and Easing at Start and End
• Public Api, like stop start, next,prev, jump to slide. Events at video play, start and stop, events at slide change..

Usage

Once you’ve installed and activated Revolution Slider, you’ll see a new menu item in your dashboard, of course named ‘Revolution Slider’. Clicking on it takes you to the only interface you get to use for creating and editing sliders with this plugin. Unlike other plugins which also use submenu items for things like configuration and import/export, with Revolution Slider everything is bundled onto one screen.

That’s not to say that the screen is cluttered, since things are shown or hidden depending on circumstances via jQuery. However I think I slightly prefer the interfaces of Soliloquy and Easing Slider which are closer to native WordPress. That’s just a personal preference however, and doesn’t detract from the merits of Revolution Slider.

Revolution slider main screen

From the main screen we can now create a new slider, edit slides of an existing slider, delete a slider or even duplicate it. There’s also a reminder of the shortcode and a handy preview button, which opens a popup showing a demo of the slider with the applied settings.

Lets take a look at the Slider edit screen, we have lots of customisation options here, and they’re all easily accessible. Further detail sections are revealed via jQuery drop downs, keeping screen clutter to the minimum.

Editing a slider

If we take a look at editing individual slides, we’ll get the screen below. As you can see, it is again very easy to modify all the settings pertaining to each slider. Perhaps, what I like most here is the easy with which I can add layers on top of a slide. It’s a real cinch to add text, image or even video layers.

When adding text layers, you even get a number of predefined styles, plus the ability to edit those styles. The interface for adding layers is the best I’ve seen within slider plugins lately. Check out this example of layering with Revolution Slider, truly amazing stuff, and its so easy to create such layering effects with the interface provided by Revolution Slider. What I would add is the ability to resize image and video layers when overlaying them on the slide.

Editing an individual slide

Once we’ve crafted our perfect slider, it’s very easy to insert it into our website, and there are three methods of doing this:

• Direct insertion into theme: 

  1	?php putRevSlider( "alias" ) ?

   example: 

  1	?php putRevSlider("slider1") ?

  For showing only on homepage use: 

  1	?php putRevSlider("slider1","homepage") ?

  For showing on certain pages use: 

  1	?php putRevSlider("slider1","2,10") ?

• From the widgets panel drag the “Revolution Slider” widget to the desired sidebar
• From the post editor insert the shortcode from the sliders table

It’s important to mention that the slider is fully responsive so it will work fine on mobile devices. You can also have multiple videos on one slide, or have a whole slider being a video.

If you’d like to have something to start out from as a base, check out the fantastic examples on the Themepunch website, you can download them and then import them via the Revolution Slider plugin.

Here’s a video I recorded for you guys. In this video I go over basic usage of the plugin and also show you some cool demos of what the plugin can do.

Pricing

Revolution Slider can be bought from CodeCanyon for only $15 (regular licence). The extended licence will set you back $75. Most users will only need the regular licence, so $15 ia a very fair price to pay for this slider.

No complaints from my end with regards to pricing, this plugin is a steal at $15.

Documentation Support

ThemePunch use Ticksy as a support system, so they’ve got you covered if you need any help with Revolution Slider. Their documentation, which comes packaged as an HTML file within the downloaded plugin, is excellent and gives you all the information you need to start creating sliders and display them within your theme.

Moreover, there are a number of videos on YouTube such as this one, and this other one showing usage of the plugin, so you’re really spoilt when it comes to guides and documentation for this plugin.

Conclusion

Overall Revolution Slider is definitely one of the best WordPress slider plugins, together with the likes of Soliloquy, RoyalSlider, and Easing Slider.

It’s interesting to note that Revolution Slider is used on many other themes, among them some of the top sellers on Themeforest, such as Inovado, U-Design and Avada. It might well be the most popular slider plugin within other themes for sale.

I thoroughly enjoyed testing and using this plugin, and highly recommend it to all those of you who are looking for a slider plugin, especially if you plan to include some layer-based animation features to your slides.

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WordPress theme framework Genesis has just been updated to version 2.0 Beta. Since it’s a beta version, you would do well to test it out and get used to it, however it’s not recommended that you use it on a live site yet.

Genesis 2.0 utilizes HTML5 to provide a number of new features.

HTML5 Markup

Genesis has always been on the cutting edge of web technology, and Genesis 2.0 continues in that excellent tradition.

With a single line of code in a child theme, Genesis will now output HTML5 markup in place of the old XHTML tags. Also, every theme released in the future will be developed on HTML5.

Microdata

If you’re using a theme with HTML5 enabled, Genesis will also output your markup using microdata.

The markup has been modified to serve search engines the microdata they’re looking for, so you don’t have to. It’s good to be a Genesis user.

Removing Features

The “Latest Tweets” widget, the “eNews and Updates” widget, the “post templates” feature, and the “fancy dropdowns” setting have been removed. There are some good plugins you can grab and install, if you want to continue using those functionalities.

Further Improvements

Here’s a list of the technical changes in this latest release of Genesis:

• Better named loop hooks for HTML5.
• Network Upgrade now upgrades the Genesis database for all sites in a network when running WordPress in multisite mode.
• Widget classes are now coded in PHP5 format.
• Admin CSS and Javascript are now minified.
• Inline HTML comments have been removed to reduce page size.
• The Scripts option now has its own metabox when editing an entry.
• Custom Post Type archive pages now have a settings page so you can control the output.
• Genesis tracks displayed entry IDs so you can exclude entries from showing twice on a page.
• Entries without titles now display a permalink after the post content.

What do you think of the new features?

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WPAuctionSoftware

WP Auction Software is a plugin having a free and a pro version. You can run a complete auction website using this plugin.

The Pro version gives you the following extra features:

• Fixed Price Auctions
• YouTube Videos
• Featured Listing Sidebar Widget
• Quick Search Sidebar Widget
• 80 Premium Themes
• Support Forums Access

Download WP Auction Software

WP Auctions

WP Auctions is an easy to use plugin that lets you create auctions and embed them in any of your posts or pages.

Download WP Auctions

AuctionPress

AuctionPress is a powerful auction theme that harnesses the power of WordPress to create ‘ready-to-go’ SEO friendly auction websites that can be setup in minutes with little or no programming knowledge required!

Every purchase includes unlimited Installations, instant theme downloads, lifetime free updates and support, easy on/off customization options, member profiles messaging, public private auctions, advanced admin tools and lots more.

Download AuctionPress

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In this post, we take a look at the best WordPress themes built exclusively to work with WooCommerce. These themes have premium features and integrate seamlessly with the wonderful plugin that is WooCommerce. Here are our reviews of the best themes for WooCommerce.

1. Sterling – Responsive WordPress Theme

Sterling is a responsive WordPress theme and has built-in support for WooCommerce. Some major features that attract anyone to go for Sterling theme are SEO optimized, WPML Certified, professional support staff, cu3er and layer slider plugins, theme designer with endless options and step-by-step training videos. Sterling theme has a gorgeous design that is perfect for every business.

With Sterling theme, you can easily turn your website into an ecommerce shop.

More Details | Price: $ 55

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2. Sommerce Shop – A Versatile E-commerce Theme

Sommerce Shop is a WordPress theme built for WooCommerce. Besides being known for its elegant design, the theme comes with an ocean of options – unlimited colors, 60 custom backgrounds, background uploader, unlimited header colors, 10 custom headers, 6 sliders, 2 navigation styles (tabbed or minimal).

Above all, Sommerce Shop provides an impressive customer support.

Sommerce Shop is beautiful and powerful ecommerce theme that integrates with WooCommerce plugin.

More Details | Price: $60

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3. WP Flexishop 2 – A Flexible WooCommerce Theme

WP Flexishop 2 is a highly robust theme built for WooCommerce integration. The shop is powered by WooCommerce and excellently handled by this theme with great use of ajax, javascript and the css styles. WP Flexishop comes with three different layouts, unlimited colors, unlimited sidebars and backgrounds. WP Flexishop 2 has advanced SEO options that makes your site search engine friendly. The layouts designed in this theme are responsive to all devices.

WP Flexishop 2 is re-brandable theme with plenty of customization options.

More Details | Price: $55

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4. Viroshop – A Modern Responsive WooCommerce Theme

Viroshop is a modern and responsive WordPress theme built for WooCommerce. Viroshop is in the theme markets for over an year now. It has grown over time to become one of the finest themes in the industry. Viroshop theme has an option of switching on the responsive design. It comes with two different template pages for displaying products – one with a sidebar and one without a sidebar (full-width).

Viroshop has been carefully crafted eCommerce theme packed with awesome features.

More Details | Price: $60

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5. Bellissima – Responsive WooCommerce Template

Bellissima is a responsive WooCommerce theme that has clean and attractive design. The theme comes in two different color schemes – purple skin and white skin. Searching for products on your shop is made easy with an easy to use search box at a prominent place in the header. The theme provides an elegant filter for price range where the user can use the computer mouse to scroll for the required price range.

Bellissima theme is an excellent choice to build a fancy eShop in WordPress using WooCommerce.

More Details | Price: $55

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6. DynamiX – Premium WordPress Theme

DynamiX is a multi-purpose WordPress theme that is suitable for powering up your site with either BuddyPress, BBPress, WooCommerce, wp e-commerce or all of them together. With DynamiX theme, one can add shopping cart and products to the galleries. Built using modern programming languages such as HTML5 and CSS3, DynamiX creates your site that is responsive on all devices.

DynamiX integrates with WooCommerce very well. In case you want integration with some more interesting plugins such as BuddyPress, BBPress or WP e-Commerce, then this is theme you should be looking for.

More Details | Price: $55

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7. Flashlight – fullscreen background portfolio theme

Flashlight is a unique WordPress theme with an auto sliding full screen background images. Designed as portfolio theme, Flashlight can also be used for WooCommerce as it has built-in support for the WooCommerce plugin. Flashlight comes with several ways of displaying the galleries in your shop such as Fullscreen, Masonry Grid, Inline Slideshow, Inline Attached, Classic 3 Column, WordPress Default.

Flashlight theme is most ideal if you are selling digital content such as photos, galleries, logos, etc.

More Details | Price: $55

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8. U-Design WordPress Theme

Used by over 27,000 websites, U-Design WordPress theme is by far one of the best themes suitable for WooCommerce. One of the best features of this site is the ability to customize. U-Design has innumerable features that can make your website look really unique. U-Design emphasis more on SEO so that your content is search-engine friendly.

Ranked as #1 among best selling themes, U-Design makes it easy to create a World class website with a unique style for your WooCommerce shop.

More Details | Price: $55

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9. MayaShop – A Flexible Responsive e-Commerce Theme

MayaShop is a fresh WordPress theme that is built to support JigoShop and WooCommerce plugins. Shopping cart can be viewed in a mini panel directly from any page without leaving that page. You can add a number of sliders on the home page to showcase your featured products. The thumbnails of the products that you will sell are designed with lot of care. There are options to display them with or without shadows and borders.

Users of MayaShop say that this theme is gorgeous. If you are looking for an elegant shop with awesome features, you should try MayaShop.

More Details | Price: $55

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10. Abundance eCommerce Business Theme

Built on top of WooCommerce plugin, Abundance eCommerce Business Theme comes with plenty of options to customize. It includes 5 Slideshows, 16 predefined skins, font and color options as well as dynamic template builder will help you create the Website you need in no time. The theme is built with SEO best practices in mind

Abundance is a simple yet elegant eCommerce theme for your WooCommerce-enabled shopping site.

More Details | Price: $55

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11. Organic Shop – Responsive WooCommerce Theme

Organic Shop is a responsive WooCommerce theme that supports the display of WooCommerce features such as multiple images for products, related products, user login and payment tracking, payment gateways, built in product review system with user ratings, etc. The developer of Organic theme is very prompt in providing responses to the queries.

Organic Shop is an Ecommerce WordPress theme designed for online shops selling thrifty, organic, spa beauty related products.

More Details | Price: $55

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12. Mercor – Responsive WordPress WooCommerce Theme

Mercor is a responsive WordPress theme that is built around WooCommerce plugins. The theme has a user-friendly admin panel to customize almost any aspect in the design. You can easily modify layout, styling, colors and fonts directly from within the backend of your WordPress Theme. You can choose any color you want to be the Theme’s leading color. The theme comes with 3 different blog pages and 4 well-designed home pages.

Mercor, as an eCommerce theme using WooCommerce plugin, is well suited for both beginners with no coding knowledge and developers.

More Details | Price: $55

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13. Sooperstore – Responsive WooCommerce Theme

Sooperstore is a highly-responsive WooCommerce theme. Sooperstore works on almost any device. The theme was built using modern programming languages and frameworks such as HTML5, CSS3 and HTML5 Boilerplate. Using this theme, you can generate multiple shop layouts. You will never get restricted with the options to customize.

If most of your customers shop using iphone or ipad, then you should be looking to adopt this theme for your site. Sooperstore works excellently on tablets and smart phones besides desktop devices.

More Details | Price: $55

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14. Icarostore – Responsive WooCommerce Theme

Icarostore is a responsive WooCommerce theme built by the same author who designed Sooperstore. As such, Icarstore has almost every feature that we mentioned above in Sooperstore. While features remain the same, the design for Icarostore is unique and quite appealing.

Your online shop using Icarostore theme would work perfectly on all devices.

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15. Proffet – Responsive WooCommerce Theme

Proffet is another theme for the same developer who created Sooperstore and Icarostore. Proffet has unqique design that can be totally customized. The theme comes with multiple layouts for your shop. It is recommended to use Yoast plugin for SEO as this theme has been tested to work well with it.

Build your eShop in minutes and then customize it easily to suit to your taste using Proffet theme.

More Details | Price: $55

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16. ShopPress: Responsive WooCommerce WordPress Theme

ShopPress is a responsive WordPress theme built exclusively for WooCommerce. The theme supports each and every feature of WooCommerce. The theme comes with lot of options that can be customized. ShopPress is primarily built for shopping sites. However, it also supports BuddyPress for creating a social network or BBPress for creating a forum around your site. ShopPress offers $80 worth commercial license for JW Player to display videos from youtube, vimeo or self-hosted.

ShopPress is a fully enabled WooCommerce theme that makes it easy for your users to shop.

More Details | Price: $55

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17. MikMag – Responsive, BuddyPress and WooCommerce

MikMag is a responsive WordPress theme which integrates very well with BuddyPress and WooCommerce plugins. MikMag comes with plenty of options to customize. 3 sliders, 500+ fonts, provision to display ads, 20 patterns, 9 page/posts layouts, 6 footer layouts, 34 color patterns – all of this and more make it a options-rich WordPress theme.

MikMag is highly versatile, greatly comprehensive and well-designed WordPress theme to run an online shop powered by WooCommerce.

More Details | Price: $60

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18. Shopifiq – Responsive WordPress WooCommerce Theme

Shopfiq is a multipurpose WordPress theme that integrates well with WooCommerce plugin. Shopfiq has unique and modern design built with HTML5 and CSS3. 10 different color themes, 5 different homepage templates, unlimited color options, SEO optimized, – all these aspects are unique in Shopfiq theme for WooCommerce.

Shopifiq can be used for ecommerce, business and corporate sites, your portfolio site or customize it to suit your wishes.

More Details | Price: $55

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19. Emporium – Responsive WordPress WooCommerce Theme

Emporium is a responsive WordPress theme that supports WooCommerce plugin. The most unique aspect of Emporium is the ability to add videos in the Shop page and/or in single product page. The shop page can be customized. It comes with two pre-defined layouts for the shop.

Emporium makes your online shop look awesome. The design and features of this themes are quite attractive.

More Details | Price: $55

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We have come to the end of the review of the best WordPress themes for WooCommerce. Going forward, all businesses will be selling products and services online. So do not be left behind in the race. Adopt one of the easy-to-use theme along with the WooCommerce plugin as early as possible.

You can post your comments about these themes. Your opinion will always be of great value.

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To help protect your website, there are two basic requirements: (i) safeguard your password; and (ii) secure the login screen. There are a plethora of plugins that are helpful in this endeavour. Login LockDown is one such plugin; it blocks users who attempt to guess the password to your website. Another such app is the Google Authenticator which reduces the chance of a security breach even further. The most common method of ensuring the safety of the login screen is with the use of Captcha.

Login LockDown

Login Lockdown registers every failed login attempt and the corresponding IP address. After three attempts, it blocks all further login attempts from said IP for an hour. These are the default settings, and the time and number of attempts may be altered to suit your specific requirements. It is a good tool in preventing unauthorised access by someone close to you, who may be able to guess the password.

While this plugin is ideal for securing the safety of your WordPress site, it is not advisable for people who tend to forget passwords. After you login successfully, you can unblock the blocked IPs from the Dashboard.

With this plugin, you can easily find out the IP address that launched the unsuccessful login attempts on your site; and possibly even trace the IP address to the source. But the user must beware: the plugin may malfunction if other plugins interfere with its working.

You can download the plugin here 

Google Authenticator

For smartphone savvy people, who require seamless connectivity to their WordPress sites the Google Authenticator is the ideal plugin for additional safety.  Once you setup the plugin, you need to install the Google Authenticator app which is available for smartphones such as Android, Blackberry and iOS-based devices. The app works in conjunction with the plugin to make your login process much more secure.

Normally, passwords can be cracked by means of brute force attack. If you use Google Authenticator then it renders the possibility of password compromise moot. When a person breaks into your account with the password, the screen asks for the Google Authenticator password. This password is available only to you provided you have the app installed on your smartphone.

Even if a hacker figures out your username and password, it will be nearly impossible to determine the unique code provided by the Google Authenticator as you will be the only person who has access to the code. Not only that, the code is time-bound and expires in a short interval of time. That’s why it is nearly impossible to access a WordPress website that has been adequately protected by plugins such Google Authenticator.

One disadvantage of the Google Authenticator is that it necessitates the use of a smartphone in conjunction with a computer system. It cannot be used independently.

You can download the plugin here

Captcha

Captcha is one the most simple and most effective ways to improve the security of a site. More than one plugin on WordPress uses Captcha to protect the site from spam and bot attacks. The use of Captcha eliminates the possibility of brute force attack, in the process greatly decreasing the likelihood of falling to cyber-attacks.

Different types of Captcha

Normal Captcha is available in WordPress, this plugin can be applied to the login page, reset password screen and comment forms.

You can find it here

There are also other types including SI Captcha that specialises in prevention of spamming by automated bots, Sweet Captcha that adds colour to your site. There is an Invisible Captcha plugin that prioritizes the protection of comments from spam. For users who require puzzle and intrigue in their Captcha, there is Enmask Captcha.

Finally, just remember…

Plugins may well save the day for you, but there is no substitute for a strong password that comprises of dual case characters, numbers and special characters in no specific order.  Should your site ever get compromised, the first course of action is to use the ”forgot password” option, login with the new password and change it immediately.

Be prepared! Be safe!

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?php
	function author_excerpt (){	                     					
		$word_limit = 20; // Limit the number of words
		$more_txt = 'read more about:'; // The read more text
		$txt_end = '...'; // Display text end 
		$authorName = get_the_author();
		$authorUrl = get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta('ID'));
		$authorDescription = explode(" ", get_the_author_meta('description'));
		$displayAuthorPageLink = count($authorDescription)  $word_limit ? $txt_end.'br / '.$more_txt.' a href="'.$authorUrl.'"'.$authorName.'/a' : '' ;
		$authorDescriptionShort = array_slice($authorDescription, 0, ($word_limit));
		return (implode($authorDescriptionShort, ' ')).$displayAuthorPageLink; 		
	}
?

Once done, simply call the function when needed, as shown below:

?php  if (function_exists('author_excerpt')){echo author_excerpt();} ?

Thanks to Tim Marcher for the tip!

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function prefix_enqueue_custom_script(){
	wp_register_script( 'prefix_custom_script', plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) .'js/custom-script.js', array( 'jquery' ) );
        wp_enqueue_script( 'prefix_custom_script' );
        wp_localize_script( 'prefix_custom_script', 'prefix_object_name', array(
		'upload' = __( 'upload', 'textdomain' ),
		'remove' = __( 'remove', 'textdomain' )
	) );
}

Thanks to Devin for this code!

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Here are the best ones we’ve found:

MemberPress

MemberPress is a WordPress membership plugin that makes it easy to charge your users for access to content and digital products such as software and e-books.

MemberPress will give you the ability to confidently create, manage and analyze membership subscriptions and digital products. In addition to these powerful abilities, MemberPress will allow you to grant and revoke access to posts, pages, categories, tags, feeds, communities and digital files based on what products your users have purchased or subscribed to.

With MemberPress you’ll be able to create powerful and compelling WordPress membership sites that leverage all of the tremendous features of WordPress and WordPress plugins including content management, forums and social communities.

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Wishlist Member

WishList Member™ is a powerful, yet easy to use membership solution that can turn any WordPress blog into a full-blown membership site.

Just unzip and upload the plugin, and within minutes you’ll have your own membership site up and running… complete with protected, members-only content, integrated payments, member management, and so much more!

Download Wishlist Member

Restrict Content Pro

Restrict Content Pro is a complete membership and premium content manager plugin for WordPress. Create an unlimited number of memberships levels, including free, trial and premium. Manage member’s and their subscriptions, track payments, offer discounts with a complete discount code system, and provide premium, members only content to your subscribers.

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Membership by WPMUdev

membership allows you to easily create membership sites, such as GigaOm, Mixergy, PSD Tuts, and even The New York Times. You will be able to grant limited access to visitors and reserve premium content for paying users.

Download Membership

Magic Members

Magic Members is a premium WordPress Membership Plugin that turns your WordPress blog into a powerful, fully automated membership site.

Download Magic Members

MemberWing

Use MemberWing to build any kind of membership site: from personal membership blog to self-help and health educational website,

from spiritual development portal to premium investment advisory newsletter. Monetize your talents and do what you always loved!

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s2 Member

s2Member is a plugin for professional WordPress® membership management, integrating seamlessly with User Roles Capabilities for WordPress.

Protect your content. Pages, Posts, Tags, Categories, URIs, URI word fragments, URI Replacement Codes for BuddyPress, Specific Post/Page “Buy Now” access, and even portions of content within Posts, Pages, themes, plugins. Easily configurable highly extensible.

You can even protect downloadable files and streaming audio/video with s2Member. Store files locally, or use s2Member’s integration with Amazon S3/CloudFront.

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WP-Member

WP-Member is an advanced WordPress membership plugin that adds many powerful features to your WordPress membership site.

WP-Member comes with nearly all the default settings ready to use, so you can get up and running quickly. With the default settings taken care of for you, this is the easiest way to deploy a WordPress Membership Site.

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Paid Memberships Pro

Paid Memberships Pro is a WordPress Plugin and support community for membership site curators. PMPro’s rich feature set allows you to add a new revenue source to your new or current blog or website and is flexible enough to fit the needs of almost all online and offline businesses.

Accept one-time and recurring payments using Stripe, PayPal Website Payments Pro, PayPal Express, or Authorize.net.

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Premise

Premise delivers best of breed membership gateways that you build yourself thanks to smart integration with the authentication and user access management protocols, plus easy digital product listings and check-out pages.

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Digital Access Pass

DigitalAccessPass (DAP) is a Membership Plugin for WordPress (and plain HTML/PHP web sites) used by23,000+ users on more than 38,000+ web sites.

It’s a complete end-to-end, content-delivery platform for creating a membership site – or even just a password-protected private area – and securely delivering different types of content.

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So what’s your favourite membership plugin for WordPress?

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Robustly Built

Magento is an open source eCommerce shopping card developed by using MVC architecture and Zend Frame work. Magento comes with extra ordinary shopping cart features and is a top rated e-Commerce solution. The shopping cart is robustly built to manage both the front end and back end in an effective way. The software provides a plethora of free extensions.

Magento main features include:

Analytics and Reporting – the script is integrated with Google Analytics and offers many different reports.
Product Browsing – multiple images for products, options for extensive reviews, wish-lists and much more.
Catalog Browsing - easy navigation, advanced product filtering system, product comparison.
Catalog Management – inventory management, batch import and export of products, different tax rates per location, additional product attributes.
Customer Accounts – order status and history, e-mail and RSS feeds for products in the wish-list, newsletter subscription, default billing and shipping address.
Customer Service - enhanced features for customers’ accounts, Contact Us form, comprehensive order tracking and history, customizable order e-mails.
Order Management – create orders through administration area, create multiple invoices shipments and credit memos, call center order creation option.
Payment- different payment methods: credit cards, PayPal, Authorize.net, Google Checkout, checks, money orders, support of external payment modules like Cybersource, ePay, eWAY and many more.
Shipping – shipping to multiple addresses, flat rating shipping, supports Royal Mail, UPS, FedEx and DHL.
Checkout - one page checkout, SSL support, checkout without having an account.
Search Engine Optimisation – 100% Search Engine Friendly, Google SiteMap support.
International Support – multiple languages and currencies, list of allowed countries for registration, purchasing and shipping, localisation.
Marketing Promotions and Tools - coupons, discounts and different promotion options.
Site Management – control of multiple web sites, multiple languages, tax rate with support for US and International markets, customisable outlook through templates.

All the H22 servers are optimised in order to support the best Magento features hosting.

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This code will help create a menu that always stays at the top of the page. The menu will only appear at the top of the page once the user has scrolled past the original menu position.

HTML

Add a new surrounding div around your existing menu code. Or you can use an existing div by adding the ‘menudefault’ class and changing the #id reference in the javascript code further down the page.

CSS

Adjust the top offset and background attributes to suit your own design.

Javascript

Add this code into your existing js script, or create a new js file.

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