Luckily, Konstantin came up with a simple code snippet to add as a plugin o your local instance, that will print a list of all subdomains for that instance. You only have to copy that list and paste it in your Hosts file.

Simple, quick, and a real time saver: you should bookmark this post!

WordPress Multisite with Wildcard Subdomains – Konstantin Kovshenin.

But what if, as a plugin author, you could add a stamp, a “certified” mention that would indicate that your plugin or theme was carefully tested? And as a user, wouldn’t it be reassuring to see that the code you are about to install on your site has been tested?

While the official theme repo already has its own Theme review team (with great guys in charge, and you can join them), that is something that does not exist for plugins.

Introducing a theme and plugin review service

That’s where DevPress comes in. Aside from their Theme club, they have decided to start a theme and plugin review service. The system seems quite simple: you upload your theme/plugin, pay, and a ticket is opened on DevPress where the team will come back to you with their remarks and feedback.

While the prices and conditions are not decided yet, I think it would be a useful service for those of us who want to get an external point of view on our code, or a second opinion before to launch a plugin. However, the price itself will play a big role in the success of their product. Indeed, while it might be worth to pay for a review when you sell your theme or plugin, people will probably think twice before to pay for a plugin they will release for free to the repo afterwards.

On the other hand, if the DevPress team makets it well, and if you can advertize that your plugin has passed the review afterwards, your plugin might draw more attention, since it is “endorsed” by popular WordPress developers!

What do you think about it? Will you be trying this service when it will come out?

Source: Launching a theme and plugin review service.

But Alex King and his team have now released a plugin that creates a great Post formats UI. A must-use!

I have always be bothered that if I wanted to have a nice-looking link format for, I had to use custom fields. Luckily, this plugin creates new meta boxes for each custom field that is needed to make your post formats look good.

WordPress Post Formats Admin UI : alexking.org.

The code is hosted on GitHub, so you can fork and contribute if you want to.

Instant WordPress

I am not sure which feature I prefer so far: there are so many new cool things coming up! The pointers, the new media uploader, the responsive admin interface, better handling of the permalinks… Which one is your favorite?

via WPTavern

However, it turns out taxonomies have existed for a long time and are not just available for posts, but for all object types. I for one had no idea about this!

Luckily, Justin Tadlock is here! In this tutorial, he covers the basics and examples of what you can do with custom user taxonomies in WordPress; a must-read, as with all tutorials from Justin.

Read the tutorial here: Custom user taxonomies in WordPress.

As you can see if you visit their website today, they sell parent themes (so far only one, Aeronef) for quite cheap prices (49$ right now, and you can get a 50% discount if you buy it this week with the coupon PXL-LAUNCH), and they propose different child themes for that parent theme for 19$.

That’s a perfect way to go if you used to customize themes you buy a lot: with this system, you can buy the parent theme and one of its child themes, customize the child theme as much as you want, and when the time to update comes, no bad surprises: you can just update the parent update and keep all your customizations.

Hopefully the prices will remain as low as they are now. Knowing the quality of the design work of these guys, it can only be a good bargain if you are looking for WordPress themes!

Good luck guys, it will be one more site to keep under the radar for future theme releases!

Peaxl › Parent & Child WordPress themes, the stylish way.

Check the tutorial and the source code on Github for more details:

Post Options API: An Alternative to Custom Fields – Theme.fm.

Changes colors, fonts, structure within a few clicks and with a drag an drop interface, add a sidebar, all of this is possible thanks to this editor.

And best of all, the theme is available for free! Go download it, give it a try and give your feedback to the developers!

WordPress Frontend Editor | WP Paintbrush.

If you want to avoid the numerous small issues you face with your different configurations between local and your prod environment, check his article, and try the plugin proposed at the end of the post.
WordPress local dev tips: DB & plugins « Mark on WordPress.