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Obviously, this is just a quick start which you can further edit and fine tune. Some homepages may not lend themselves as well to demonstrating the site&#8217;s style. In that case you may want to select another content page from which the app can extract styles more representative of the site as a whole.</p>\n<p>The Stylify Me app was built on <a href="http://nodejs.org/" target="_blank">NodeJS</a> and <a href="http://phantomjs.org/" target="_blank">PhantomJS</a>. Its creators, <a href="https://twitter.com/annabelleyoon" target="_blank">Annabelle Yoon</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/MicMro" target="_blank">Michael Mrowetz</a>, wanted to provide a tool that would allow designers to research sites more efficiently, without having to inspect each element. The app is hosted on <a href="http://heroku.com/" target="_blank">Heroku</a> using the <a href="https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-multi" target="_blank">multi buildpack</a> and is MIT-licensed. Check out the code on <a href="https://github.com/micmro/Stylify-Me" target="_blank">GitHub</a> to see how it works.</p>\n<p><a href="http://stylifyme.com" target="_blank">Stylify Me</a> gives you the ability to quickly generate a style guide that will help your clients keep their websites within the realm of the original design. 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As client work became more frustrating, he decided to focus his attention on WordPress themes. After an unsuccessful attempt to monetize themes at Creative Market, Bosire decided to try his hand at developing themes for WordPress.org. <a href="http://wordpress.org/themes/nouveau-riche" target="_blank">Nouveau Riche</a> was approved this week and is his first theme in the directory.</p>\n<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nouveau-riche.png" rel="prettyphoto[29473]"><img src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nouveau-riche.png?resize=880%2C660" alt="nouveau-riche" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29483" /></a></p>\n<p>Nouveau Riche is a simple, customizable blogging theme that was designed for creative minds. It offers beautiful support for post formats, with custom icons assigned to each. 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We learn the circumstances which lead to the birth of BruteProtect and how it operates. Hotchkiss explains the details of the <a title="http://wptavern.com/automattic-acquires-parka-llc-the-creators-of-bruteprotect" href="http://wptavern.com/automattic-acquires-parka-llc-the-creators-of-bruteprotect">acquisition with Automattic</a> and how it will be rolled into Jetpack. While some people are not happy that it&#8217;s being added to Jetpack, we discuss why it&#8217;s a huge win. 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Or you can <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-4.0-RC1.zip">download the release candidate here</a> (zip). If you’d like to learn more about what’s new in WordPress 4.0, visit the awesome About screen in your dashboard (<strong><img src="http://i0.wp.com/core.svn.wordpress.org/branches/3.6/wp-content/themes/twentyten/images/wordpress.png?w=692" alt="" width="16" height="16" /> → About</strong> in the toolbar).</p>\n<p><strong>Developers,</strong> please test your plugins and themes against WordPress 4.0 and update your plugin&#8217;s <em>Tested up to</em> version in the readme to 4.0 before next week. If you find compatibility problems, please be sure to post any issues to the support forums so we can figure those out before the final release. You also may want to <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/08/21/introducing-plugin-icons-in-the-plugin-installer/">give your plugin an icon</a>, which we launched last week and will appear in the dashboard along with banners.</p>\n<p><em>It is almost time</em><br />\n<em> For the 4.0 release</em><br />\n<em> And its awesomeness</em></p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 27 Aug 2014 12:20:37 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:15:"Helen Hou-Sandi";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:23;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:63:"WPTavern: Menu Humility: A Plugin to Put Plugins in Their Place";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:28:"http://wptavern.com/?p=29253";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:168:"http://wptavern.com/menu-humility-a-plugin-to-put-plugins-in-their-place?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=menu-humility-a-plugin-to-put-plugins-in-their-place";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:2017:"<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/menu-humility.png" rel="prettyphoto[29253]"><img src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/menu-humility.png?resize=772%2C250" alt="menu-humility" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29256" /></a></p>\n<p>Giving a plugin a top level admin menu between Dashboard and Posts is somewhat frowned upon among WordPress plugin developers. 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I realized that the medicine the project needed to get off life support wasn’t necessarily something I needed to provide myself but could in fact come in the form of selling the plugin to a group who had the resources to make more of it,&#8221; Wiegman said.</p>\n<p>According to the post, he reached out to a few other groups but stuck with iThemes because they had products that complimented a security plugin such as BackupBuddy and Exchange. Better WP Security was <a title="http://wptavern.com/ithemes-acquires-better-wp-security-plugin-and-hires-wordpress-security-expert-chris-wiegman" href="http://wptavern.com/ithemes-acquires-better-wp-security-plugin-and-hires-wordpress-security-expert-chris-wiegman">sold to iThemes on December 1st, 2013</a> and renamed to <a title="https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/">iThemes Security</a>. As part of the deal, Wiegman joined iThemes as a full-time employee to continue developing iThemes Security.</p>\n<h2>Not Every Plugin Has a Happy Ending</h2>\n<p>What I like most about Wiegman&#8217;s story is how a simple idea turns into a solid product. I think a lot of WordPress plugins are created because they scratch an itch or solve a problem. The plugin&#8217;s creator usually submits the plugin to the directory with a mindset that it can help others as well. Since WordPress is used on <a title="http://w3techs.com/" href="http://w3techs.com/">23% of the web</a>, there&#8217;s a good chance that a plugin distributed through the directory will help more than one person.</p>\n<p>While Wiegman&#8217;s tale has a happy ending, so many plugins never reach the type of adoption of Better WP Security. 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An app for Android will be released at a later date.</p>\n<h2>As The Beta Concludes, Gitter Announces Pricing Plans</h2>\n<p>According to an email released to testers last week, the service is moving out of beta. During the beta program, nearly 25,000 developers registered with Gitter, 1.8M chat messages were delivered, and is hosting over 7,000 chat rooms. As part of the move, the service is introducing paid plans.</p>\n<p>If you created a private conversation during the beta, it will remain free to use. Additionally, every organization on GitHub will receive one free private room as part of the free plan. If you&#8217;re a student or educational organization, you can get in touch with <a href="mailto:support@gitter.im" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">support@gitter.im</a> to receive a discount code. 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Major internationalization <a href="http://wptavern.com/major-internationalization-improvements-planned-for-wordpress-4-0" target="_blank">improvements</a> coming in 4.0 will open up the platform even more for those publishing in different languages.</p>\n<p>While discussing the upcoming language-related improvements at WordCamp Seattle this year, Andrew Nacin <a href="https://twitter.com/dimensionmedia/status/483035345551106048" target="_blank">highlighted</a> the fact that only 5-10% of the world speaks English. It may not be long before the majority of WordPress installations are in Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi, or Arabic.</p>\n<p>The need for better ways to support multilingual content is already a concern for many international users and agencies. One thing that WordPress core is currently missing is the ability to easily retrieve the language in which a post or page has been written. 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