WordPress has become a tool used by millions of designers for much more than creating blogs. Each week we take a look at what’s new with WordPress.

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Plugins

Barley

The Barley editor plugin lets you edit your titles and content and see a list of your drafts without ever leaving the frontend. It also includes easy access to images in the media library, a video embedding tool and the ability to categorize your post, add tags and set featured images without visiting the admin panel.

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Themes

Tyrion

Tyrion is a powerful parallax Woo Commerce theme with a lot of custom eCommerce features.

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QuickMetro

QuickMetro is a Metro Style WordPress Theme for Business or Portfolio website, it’s fully responsive design . It was built on the Bootstrap framework .

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News

bbPress 2.5 released

The forum system based on WordPress just released its latest version. The main improvement is forum subscriptions. It also comes with other improved things like: a number of new importers, BuddyPress notifications integration, theme compatibility,…

Tips & Tutorials

How to Add Pay With a Tweet Button in WordPress

A good way to take advantage of your freebies and become more popular. Make your users tweet about your freeby before they can download it.

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How to set expired date for widgets

A small tutorial on how to install a plugin that let’s your widgets expire.

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About the Author

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Mirko Humbert

Mirko Humbert is the editor-in-chief and main author of Designer Daily and Typography Daily. He is also a graphic designer and the founder of WP Expert.