WordPress Weekly News and Tips: August 25th – 31st

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

Should I Switch My WordPress Website to HTTPS?

Author: Jean Galea

URL: http://www.wpmayor.com/switch-wordpress-website-https/

A short post by Jean Galea about the future of HTTPS and why you should switch your WordPress site to adhere to Google’s new search results. You can also read “Why are Google Using HTTPS for Website Ranking?” by Robert Abela.

Editorial Access Manager: Adds Granular Editing Control for a WordPress Post Type

Author: Sarah Gooding

URL: http://wptavern.com/editorial-access-manager-adds-granular-editing-control-for-all-wordpress-post-types

The Editorial Access Manager is a plugin that you can use to control who can edit a specific post or page. The plugin is simple and easy to install and just adds a meta box to your post/page edit screen.

Understanding and Working with User Data in WordPress

Author: Rachel McCollin

URL: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/understanding-and-working-with-user-data-in-wordpress–cms-20940

Rachel introduces and explains how to work with the wp_users table and its relationship with other database tables in WordPress.

Will Jetpack Supercharge Or Superbloat Your WordPress Site?

Author: Chris Knowles

URL: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/will-jetpack-supercharge-or-superbloat-your-wordpress-site/

Chris Knowles takes a closer look at the JetPack plugin and modules and gives advice about how to use JetPack, if you wish, to your advantage. Keep in mind that JetPack adds a ton of modules and fucntionality to your site but may come at a cost.

Post Language Project Proposes to Bring Better Support for Multilingual WordPress Content

Important!

Author: Sarah Gooding

URL: http://wptavern.com/post-language-project-proposes-to-bring-better-support-for-multilingual-wordpress-content

Sarah Gooding writes about the newly proposed Post Language feature for the WordPress Core. The new feature will be added as a property called post_langauge to the WP_Post class. This is due to the fact that, for the first time ever, the amount of non-English downloads of WordPress have surpassed English downloads. You can find Hübinger’s comment here to learn more.

Gitter: A New Communication Service For GitHub Projects

Author: Jeff Chandler

URL: http://wptavern.com/gitter-a-new-communication-service-for-github-projects

Gitter is a new service that you can use to seamlessly integrate into your GitHub account to have discussions and/or meetings about your GitHub projects. Think HipChat or Chatwork but for GitHub.

WordPress 4.0 Release Candidate

Author: Helen Hou-Sandi

URL: http://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-4-0-release-candidate/

The WordPress 4.0 Release Candidate has just been released and available for testing.

Color Options vs. Decisions in WordPress Themes

Author: Konstantin Kovshenin

URL: http://kovshenin.com/2014/color-options-vs-decisions/

Konstantin talks about the difficult choice between user freedom and limiting options for WordPress Themes. Giving to much freedom to a user may hurt the user’s website in the long run. For example, they could end up choosing a bad color scheme. To counter this, Kovshenin has incorporated and tested a new solution for his Semicolon theme.

An Introduction to WordPress Custom Taxonomies: A Beginner’s Tutorial

Author: Noumaan Yaqoob

URL: http://wplift.com/wordpress-cms-features-custom-taxonomies-tutorial

An easy to read and understand guide on how to use custom taxonomies to create them in WordPress.

How to Create a Quick Style Guide for Client Websites

Author: Sarah Gooding

URL: http://wptavern.com/how-to-create-a-quick-style-guide-for-client-websites

Stylify Me is a new service that you can use to create a quick style guide for clients or your intranet. The site will get the typefaces, background colors and many other options. The site will then allow you to export it as a PDF so that it can be easily distributable.

How to Backup Your WordPress Site To Google Drive

Author: Chris Knowles

URL: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-backup-your-wordpress-site-to-google-drive/

Chris Knowles gives a workshop on how you can backup your WordPress site using the UpdraftPlus plugin. Don’t worry, there is no coding skills are necessary; just some simple settings to tweak and some time / effort and your WordPress site will be backed up.

That covers it for this week’s WordPress Weekly News and Tips. If you have any questions for concerns, feel free to leave a comment below. Thank you for reading!