WordPress Weekly News and Tips: August 18th – 24th

Welcome to the twelfth WordPress News Weekly post. In these weekly posts, we gather news articles from WordPress-related resources so that you can be up-to-date.

How to Redirect Users after Successful Login in WordPress

Author: Joe Fylan

URL: http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-redirect-users-after-successful-login-in-wordpress/

Fylan wrote a simple and short tutorial on how to have users redirected after logging into your WordPress site. The tutorial uses a plugin called Peter’s Login Redirect.

_s_backbone: A WordPress Starter Theme Based on Underscores and Backbone.js

Author: Sarah Gooding

URL: http://wptavern.com/_s_backbone-a-wordpress-starter-theme-based-on-underscores-and-backbone-js

Can you imagine the Underscores theme with the Backbone JS put together to create a starter theme? If you have, then you will love _s_backbone is here. The starter theme claims to make the Infinite Scroll functionality much easier to handle.

Dependency Minification for WordPress: Automatically Concatenate and Minify Scripts and Stylesheets

Author: Sarah Gooding

URL: http://wptavern.com/dependency-minification-for-wordpress-automatically-concatenate-and-minify-scripts-and-stylesheets

Sarah Gooding wrote about the Dependency Minification that automatically concatenates and minifies your script when WP-Cron is activated (when the user visits your front page). Your scripts must be enqueued in order for the plugin to become concatenated and minified.

How to Easily Show a Page List with Thumbnails in WordPress

Author: Editorial Staff

URL: http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-easily-show-a-page-list-with-thumbnails-in-wordpress/

A quick tutorial by the great people at WP Beginner that shows you how to create a list of pages with thumbnails.

Increase Conversions with Customer Testimonials – 30 Free & Paid WordPress Testimonial Plugins

Author: Vishnu

URL: http://wplift.com/wordpress-testimonial-plugins

Vishnu covers thirty different testimonial plugins that you can use on your website to increase leads / conversions, both free and paid.

WordPress Customizer Library Provides a Simpler Way to Work with the Customizer

Important Author: Sarah Gooding

URL: http://wptavern.com/wordpress-customizer-library-provides-a-simpler-way-to-work-with-the-customizer

A new library by Devin Price seeks to make the WordPress Customizer easier to work with. The Customizer Library makes it easy for developers to add options; if you would like to see it works in a theme, you can clone it from this GitHub repository.

Add a Beautiful Table of Contents to Your WordPress Posts

Author: Jeff Reifman

URL: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/add-a-beautiful-table-of-contents-to-your-wordpress-posts–cms-21694

Jeff Reifman introduces the Table of Contents Plus plugin by Mike

Create and Manage SVG Spritemaps in the WordPress Media Library

Author: Sarah Gooding

URL: http://wptavern.com/create-and-manage-svg-spritemaps-in-the-wordpress-media-library

Bad news: WordPress does not natively support SVG files. Good news: There’s a plugin that you can add them to your Media Library and, ultimately, to your site. As Sarah Gooding notes, remember that IE8 does not support SVG files!