Matt Mullenweg’s State Of The Word was very insightful into what was to come of WordPress in 2012. One thing he mentioned would be big, is be WordPress powering apps.

With that in mind, there aren’t many posts around that teach you how to make an app. I thought I’d start with the compulsory “How to make a to-do list app using WordPress!” It even works across all platforms- that’s right. Mobile, Tablet and Desktop!

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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

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BuddyPress 1.7 is very soon on its way to a dashboard near you. Theme compatibility is one of the most exciting features of the upcoming 1.7 release. But how will this affect existing BuddyPress themes?

If you’re a BuddyPress theme author and your theme supplies its own BuddyPress templates, you will need to prevent BuddyPress from running its theme compatibility when your theme is active. Boone Gorges outlined how to do this in the latest post on the BuddyPress Development blog. You’ll want to add this line to your theme’s functions.php file:

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add_theme_support( 'buddypress' );

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The WordPress Community has over 23,000 plugins to date that do a crazy amount of things. I’m going to show you three quality, free plugins that can help you kickstart a well structured portfolio.

TL;DR
If you’re here to scan the article, here’s a list of the plugins I’m talking about:

Custom Post Types UI
Meta Box
Posts 2 Posts

Download the theme source code.

Now for the most part, these plugins all do something we should know how to do using the WordPress APIs.

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Are you a photographer or a blogger who likes sharing photos on your website? Are you looking to start a photoblog using WordPress?

If so, then congratulations! You have come to the right place: in this article, I shall be taking a look at certain key points that one must bear in mind when creating a photoblog using WordPress.

1. Ok, So Do I Need To Do Any Homework?
Apparently, yes. Before you actually upload the images (and, more importantly, while you are uploading your images), you need to take care of certain points, starting with the following:

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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

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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.

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Talking of big fat things, I’ll start with a hefty disclaimer, I’m the founder and CEO of Edublogs – the largest education blog provider (and also based on WordPress) on the web.

So, having got that out of the way let me tell you why I’m profoundly unconcerned by the announcement today that WordPress.com is venturing into the ‘education vertical’ and why I don’t think it should scare of any other niche site builders out there.

tl;dr – it’s shallow, insincere, cynical, lacking in focus and flimsy.

Here’s why…
Almost too shallow for words

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The first draft of the new Twenty Thirteen WordPress theme was made public this week. Mark Jaquith introduced the new theme on make.wordpress.org. The goals for the Twenty Thirteen theme are to provide a focus on blogging as well as great support for post formats.

Here’s a quick peek at what the design team has been up to:

Check out a live demo.

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