Envato subsidiary ThemeForest.net has released its latest bounty offering in the form of a $4,500 prize pool for the first 15 approved Crowd Funding themes. The contest, which was posted earlier this week by Envato Growth Officer Shane Freer, highlights the importance and upward trend of the crowd funding concept; which has caught on in a major way thanks to websites such as KickStarter and IndieGogo. In a recent forum......

With the aim of giving webmasters the power to share and manage their work online, WordPress.com announced Thursday, May 16th, that it has added the Snap WordPress theme from The Theme Foundry for use by its subscribers. Snap, which comes with a premium price of $68, is custom made to serve as a lightweight theme that allows website owners to focus on their own creativity while also boasting a......

In December of last year, VaultPress parent company Automattic released a statement announcing that it had acquired Code Garage and would be taking over the website backup and security service. On Wednesday, May 15th, the Automattic staff at long last published their plan for migrating Code Garage over to VaultPress while at the same time ensuring current Code Garage customers receive the same high quality of service they've grown......

Today I would like to share with you 25 useful code snippets for WordPress. These snippets will enhance or modify your WordPress website in some way. They are very easy to use. All you have to do is add or modify the relevant template with the code detailed in this article. The snippets will work on any regular WordPress installation. If you are using a WordPress framework, you may need......

Over the weekend, WordPress 3.6 Lead Developer Mark Jaquith announced the official release of the third Beta version of WordPress 3.6. With the commercial launch of the updated platform slated for the end of this month, it is good to see the team approach the point where a release candidate is near. In the May 11th blog post on WordPress.org, Jaquith stated, "This is software still in development and we......

Templatic, a longstanding company with a name that rolls off the tongue, bills itself as offering "premium WordPress themes for your business." Other theme sites we've interviewed here on WPHub have been both very general and very specific in nature, but Templatic seems to fill a niche right in the middle. It has been so successful that the theme company, which is largely based in India, just celebrated its......

Over the weekend, premium WordPress theme company ColorLabsProject launched the latest addition to its growing catalog: the MetroStore e-Commerce theme. The new download comes with a full width layout that can also double as a magazine/newspaper website; complete with LightBox effects that alter images to show more information whenever a thumbnail is being moused over. Boasting WordPress 3.5 compatibility, MetroStore will work on popular web browsers such as Internet......