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<p>Last week the creators of <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/timber-library/" target="_blank">Timber</a>, the plugin that enables WordPress theme developers to write HTML using the <a href="http://twig.sensiolabs.org/" target="_blank">Twig Template Engine</a>, released version 1.0 on WordPress.org. The plugin is active on more than 10,000 websites where theme authors have elected to keep PHP files separate from HTML. Timber is built on DRY and MVC principles to solve the problem stated in its unofficial tagline: <em>&#8220;Because WordPress is awesome, but the_loop isn&#8217;t.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Over the past four years, the open source project has evolved from being a starter theme to a plugin that can be added to existing themes. It is now used on <a href="http://upstatement.com/timber/#showcase" target="_blank">thousands of websites</a> and has 83 <a href="https://github.com/timber/timber/graphs/contributors" target="_blank">contributors</a> listed on GitHub.</p>
<p>&#8220;In 2012 I was getting more into WordPress after doing lots of JS development with <a href="http://handlebarsjs.com/" target="_blank">Handlebars</a> (a JS templating language),&#8221; Timber creator Jared Novack said. &#8220;I went to WordCamp Providence to learn more about state-of-the-art WordPress ways. I remember thinking: &#8216;This is great, but I really miss the cleanliness of Handlebars &#8212; I wish someone would make something like that for WordPress.&#8217; That&#8217;s when I realized, I was that someone.&#8221;</p>
<p>Novack was playing around with <a href="http://www.smarty.net/" target="_blank">Smarty</a> and <a href="https://mustache.github.io/" target="_blank">Mustache</a> before he finally discovered Fabien Potencier&#8217;s <a href="http://twig.sensiolabs.org/" target="_blank">Twig project</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;The syntax felt so natural I almost didn&#8217;t need to read the docs (don&#8217;t worry, I did),&#8221; he said. &#8220;I realized what I needed was a way to marry Twig and WordPress, and thus: Timber was born.&#8221;</p>
<p>At that time Novack&#8217;s company, <a href="https://upstatement.com/" target="_blank">Upstatement</a>, was beginning development on a big new project for Random House to enable their marketers to generate unique sites from a library of templates. This client project became Timber&#8217;s first test case.</p>
<p>&#8220;Originally, Timber was a parent theme, like _s. But after we completed the Random House project, I realized I wanted to apply Timber functionality to existing sites,&#8221; Novack said. &#8220;I converted it into a plugin that could be employed on existing themes which is the form it takes today.&#8221;</p>
<p>The plugin allows designers skilled with HTML and CSS to create themes without having extensive knowledge of PHP and WordPress functions. Timber successfully powers sites like Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s <a href="https://www.thetrace.org/" target="_blank">The Trace</a>, <a href="http://everytown.org/" target="_blank">Everytown for Gun Safety</a>, <a href="https://www.hoteltonight.com/" target="_blank">Hotel Tonight</a>, and the <a href="http://harvardlawreview.org/" target="_blank">Harvard Law Review</a>.</p>
<h3>Timber 1.0 Puts the Project on the Path of Stability</h3>
<p>As of Timber 1.0, developers can now include the project as a plugin or require it as a <a href="https://packagist.org/packages/timber/timber" target="_blank">Composer dependency</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;The big news is that 1.0 represents a maturing of the platform — developers can use Timber and Twig with confidence that they’re building on top of a stable and universal platform,&#8221; Novack said.</p>
<p>This release sheds years of deprecated functions and methods dating back to the project&#8217;s early days in 2013. Novack said that technical and documentation debt were the biggest hurdles in getting to 1.0.</p>
<p>&#8220;In hindsight it’s so easy to build stuff, but so hard to build a complete system,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When Timber started it was just for me and the documentation could just live in my head. I’d add and improve stuff and then live with some of the quirks.&#8221;</p>
<p>As the project and its contributors grew, Novack found it difficult to keep up with the growing codebase while running his company. Bringing it to a place of maturity with up-to-date automated testing and documentation took nearly a year.</p>
<p>&#8220;Backwards compatibility was also a major challenge,&#8221; Novack said. &#8220;As ideas and new code got submitted, development slowed as every decision might have implications for existing users. We would deprecate features, but I was hesitant to remove things that I knew were mistakes, but that people were using.&#8221;</p>
<p>Developers are encouraged to read the <a href="https://github.com/timber/timber/wiki/1.0-Upgrade-Guide" target="_blank">1.0 Upgrade Guide</a>, as there may be additional steps required depending on how Timber is being used. This release adds a few new features but the most important change is the bulk removal of older sections of the codebase. The upgrade guide outlines all of the object properties and static methods that will need to be updated so that nothing breaks. In the future, Timber-powered themes will be easier to maintain, with fewer quirks and better-documented features.</p>
<p>&#8220;The key learning for me is that the ultimate &#8216;killer feature&#8217; is stability and predictability,&#8221; Novack said. &#8220;When everything is organized cleanly and developers can use the things that they would intuitively expect — that’s success.&#8221;</p>
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<p><span>Security &#8212; in WordPress core, distributed plugins and themes, and in our custom code &#8212; is a constant battle. It’s important to be vigilant with our security practices, from the perspective of managing our websites and when writing code. In this episode, Joe and Brian discuss the nature of WordPress security, best practices for writing secure code, and dig into various situations WordPress developers and site owners may run into.</span></p>
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<h3>Links</h3>
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<li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress">Hardening WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/about/security/">About WordPress Security</a></li>
<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2015/05/19/a-guide-to-writing-secure-themes-part-1-introduction/">A Guide to Writing Secure Themes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ben.lobaugh.net/uploads/writing-secure-plugins-and-themes/#/">Writing Secure Plugins &amp; Themes</a> by Ben Lobaugh</li>
<li><a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb">$wpdb</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpvulndb.com/">WP Scan</a></li>
<li><a href="https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/03/understanding-wordpress-plugin-vulnerabilities.html">Understanding Vulnerabilities</a></li>
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<h3>Sponsor: Pagely</h3>
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";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:98:"WPTavern: VersionPress 3.0 Adds New Search Feature, Bulk Undo, and Commit Tracking per Environment";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=54530";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:106:"http://wptavern.com/versionpress-3-0-adds-new-search-feature-bulk-undo-and-commit-tracking-per-environment";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:3843:"<p><a href="https://blog.versionpress.net/2016/04/versionpress-3-0-released/" target="_blank">VersionPress 3.0</a>, released this week, is the first version since the plugin <a href="http://wptavern.com/versionpress-transitions-into-a-free-open-source-project" target="_blank">became a free, open source project</a>. Creators Borek Bernard and Jan Voráček, who originally attempted to crowdfund the project and then <a href="http://wptavern.com/versionpress-raises-400k-in-seed-funding" target="_blank">raised $400,000 in seed funding</a>, <a href="http://wptavern.com/versionpress-transitions-into-a-free-open-source-project" target="_blank">announced</a> last month that they are transitioning to a public development model.</p>
<p>The team&#8217;s goal with this release was to polish up the experience of using VersionPress in the default WordPress installation while adding more useful features. However, it is not yet ready for use in production, according to Bernard.</p>
<p>&#8220;We’re still keeping VersionPress in the <a href="http://docs.versionpress.net/en/getting-started/about-eap" target="_blank">“early access” period</a>, because of the third party plugins integration story but on simpler sites, VersionPress already shines,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>One of the most notable new features in VersionPress 3.0 is the plugin&#8217;s ability to track commits with the environment where they were created. Users can view changes in the admin and easily see if they were pushed to the staging or production environment.</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/commit-tracking-in-environment.gif"><img src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/commit-tracking-in-environment.gif?resize=725%2C347" alt="commit-tracking-in-environment" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54599" /></a></p>
<p>Version 3.0 also adds searching capabilities for filtering commits by author, date, commit message, and WordPress action. This release also includes a new bulk undo feature for commits and many improvements to the core versioning engine.</p>
<h3>VersionPress 4.0 to Focus on Support for 3rd Party Plugins</h3>
<p>One of the reasons the VersionPress team decided to go with a public development model was to mitigate the plugin&#8217;s conflicts with third-party themes and plugins. This was only possible if the opened up the codebase for contribution from other developers.</p>
<p>&#8220;While we had most of the WordPress core covered pretty well, there was still this huge ecosystem of WordPress plugins and themes that could cause trouble to VersionPress in million different ways,&#8221; Borek said. &#8220;In the long run, the project had to turn into OSS should it be successful, and, fortunately, we met investors who understood this and supported our vision.&#8221;</p>
<p>Borek and the team plan to focus on adding support for complex third party plugins in version 4.0, tentatively scheduled for mid-2016. One commenter on the post mentioned that a lack of WooCommerce support is a major thing holding him back from using VersionPress on projects. Borek confirmed that WooCommerce is high on their list of plugins they want to support.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our goal remains the same: to take all the incredibly powerful functionality of Git and package it so that every WordPress user can use it,&#8221; Borek said.</p>
<p>Since most site owners interested in this plugin are not running vanilla installations of WordPress, support for third party plugins will be a major leap forward for the project with the potential to greatly expand its user base. Check out VersionPress&#8217; <a href="http://docs.versionpress.net/en/release-notes/roadmap" target="_blank">roadmap</a> to follow along with its progress and see what&#8217;s next.</p>
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<p>Auto updates are rolling out to sites but if you don&#8217;t want to wait, browse to Dashboard &gt; Updates and click the Update Now button. Mario Heiderich, Masato Kinugawa, and Filedescriptor of <a href="https://cure53.de/">Cure53</a> are credited with <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/reporting-security-vulnerabilities/">responsibly disclosing</a> the vulnerabilities.</p>
<p>In addition to the release, the core team has <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/05/06/imagemagick-vulnerability-information/">published a post</a> concerning the <a href="https://imagetragick.com/">multiple vulnerabilities</a> discovered in ImageMagick, a popular image processing script used on thousands of webhosting servers. The post describes how WordPress is affected and what the team is doing to mitigate issues.</p>
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<p><a href="https://laravel.com/" target="_blank">Laravel</a>, the open source MVC PHP framework created for application development, has just released <a href="https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/valet" target="_blank">Valet</a>, a minimalist development environment for Mac. It uses just 7mb of RAM, because it doesn&#8217;t include Vagrant, Apache, Nginx, or a /etc/hosts file. Here&#8217;s how it works:</p>
<blockquote><p>Laravel Valet configures your Mac to always run PHP&#8217;s built-in web server in the background when your machine starts. Then, using DnsMasq, Valet proxies all requests on the *.dev domain to point to sites installed on your local machine.
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<p>Valet supports Laravel, Lumen, Statamic, Craft, Jigsaw, and even has a driver for WordPress. It&#8217;s handy if you just need a simple, fast development environment without virtualization. Developers can also share sites publicly via local tunnels. It&#8217;s as easy as navigating to the site&#8217;s directory in the terminal and running the <code>valet share</code> command, which generates a publicly accessible URL.</p>
<p><a href="https://wppusher.com/" target="_blank">WP Pusher</a> founder Peter Suhm, who is active in both the Laravel and WordPress communities, wrote a <a href="http://blog.wppusher.com/a-minimalist-development-environment-for-wordpress-with-laravel-valet/" target="_blank">tutorial</a> for setting up Valet for WordPress development.</p>
<p>&#8220;For larger apps, I generally prefer my development environment to be very similar to production,&#8221; Suhm said. &#8220;Vagrant and Docker are great for that. Valet is great for all those quick and dirty WordPress installations you need, just to test something or quickly work on an idea. If you don’t need anything else besides PHP 7 and a database, Valet is a great setup.&#8221;</p>
<p>Since it doesn&#8217;t require a ton of dependencies, Valet is quick to set up and doesn&#8217;t require any configuration. Developers don&#8217;t even need to make Valet aware that their app is WordPress &#8211; you can simply drop WordPress core files into a folder on your machine and then access the site in your browser.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a new lightweight development environment or just a quick way to do some PHP 7 testing for WordPress plugins, Valet may fit nicely into your workflow. You can install it using <a href="http://brew.sh/" target="_blank">Homebrew</a>. View the <a href="https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/valet#installation" target="_blank">docs</a> for installation and site setup or follow along with Suhm&#8217;s <a href="http://blog.wppusher.com/a-minimalist-development-environment-for-wordpress-with-laravel-valet/" target="_blank">tutorial</a>.</p>
<p>To see a quick demo of Valet in action, check out the two-minute introduction video created by Adam Wathan:</p>
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<p>WordPress 4.6 will bid farewell to Open Sans in the admin in favor of using system fonts. Open Sans, which loads from Google Fonts as an external resource, has been in use in the admin since 2013.</p>
<p>&#8220;At the time of introduction in 3.8, there were not good system fonts common to all platforms at the time,&#8221; WordPress lead developer <a href="http://helenhousandi.com/" target="_blank">Helen Hou-Sandí</a> said in her <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/37361" target="_blank">commit</a> message. &#8220;In the years since, Windows, Android, OS X, iOS, Firefox OS, and various flavors of Linux have all gotten their own (good) system UI fonts.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now that the admin doesn&#8217;t have to load fonts from Google, it should feel faster and will provide a better experience for developers who are working offline.</p>
<p>Dropping Open Sans originated as part of the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/features/font-natively/" target="_blank">Font Natively</a> feature project led by WordPress designer <a href="https://mattmiklic.com/" target="_blank">Matt Miklic</a>, Mark Uraine, and Helen Hou-Sandí. The project page provides screenshots for the WP admin with Open Sans in Firefox on OSX vs the admin with system fonts, but the team noted that they are in need of more screenshots from different environments.</p>
<p>Anytime that WordPress can shed a third-party dependency while improving the experience in the admin is a win for everyone. The commit comes early in the release cycle in order to get more people testing for misalignments and any other issues. Feel free to report any bugs you experience with the change, as work is still ongoing on the <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36753" target="_blank">ticket</a>.</p>
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<p>One of the vulnerabilities allows an attacker to upload and execute code remotely on WordPress sites. The only information needed to exploit the vulnerability is the URL of the target site that&#8217;s using a form powered by an affected version of Ninja Forms.</p>
<p>Kevin Stover, CTO of Ninja Forms, explains to the Tavern how they discovered the vulnerabilities:</p>
<blockquote><p>About two weeks ago, we were contacted by a security researcher, James Golovich, regarding a file upload issue within Ninja Forms. He demonstrated that it was possible to upload an arbitrary file using some test code that hadn’t been removed during our build process.</p>
<p>We realised that the test code had accidentally been utilised in other areas of the plugin, and we immediately began working on a fix. While the issue was being patched, we reached out to the devs at the <a href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">WordPress.org</a> repo and began the processes of preparing for auto updating users of the affected versions.</p>
<p>Once the patch had been tested, we pushed version 2.9.43 and .1 versions of 2.9.36 &#8211; 2.9.42. Shortly after, <a href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">WordPress.org</a> began pushing out automatic updates.</p></blockquote>
<p>As to why there wasn&#8217;t a post published immediately on the official <a href="https://ninjaforms.com/blog/">Ninja Forms blog</a> announcing the update, &#8220;We didn’t want to go public with the vulnerability until our users had time to update, both to the newest version and the .1 versions,&#8221; Stover said.</p>
<p>&#8220;James Golovich&#8217;s responsible disclosure gave us time to fix the issue and for our users to update to safe versions before disclosing the vulnerability on his site,&#8221; he said. The company has since <a href="https://ninjaforms.com/important-security-update-always-hurt-ones-love/">published a blog post </a>concerning the update.</p>
<p>Working with the WordPress security team, automatic updates started rolling out on Tuesday, May 3rd. If automatic plugin updates are disabled, you&#8217;re highly encouraged to update manually to 2.9.45 as soon as possible. The Ninja Forms team is also working with a number of large webhosts to ensure as many sites as possible are updated.</p>
<p>Wordfence is not detecting wide-spread exploitation but this could change in the next few days as details of the exploit emerge.</p>
<p>When it comes to security vulnerabilities, the ability to upload and execute code remotely is about as severe as it gets. Golovich is credited with <a href="http://www.pritect.net/blog/ninja-forms-2-9-42-critical-security-vulnerabilities">responsibly disclosing</a> the vulnerability to the Ninja Forms team. He also provides technical details of each vulnerability, most of which are in the Ninja Forms 3.0 code base.</p>
<p>According to Golovich, the most vulnerable code is a proof of concept:</p>
<blockquote><p>The following vulnerable code was, according to Kyle Johnson of the WP Ninjas team &#8216;not a live feature of Ninja Forms, but was more of a proof of concept for a future free feature.&#8217; Unfortunately, even proof of concept code that is accessible is still vulnerable to attack. This is the most critical vulnerability here because it potentially allows an attacker to execute arbitrary php code on a site.</p></blockquote>
<p>Users should update as soon as possible as it&#8217;s only a matter of time before tools are created that can easily take advantage of the exploit.</p>
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<p>Amanda Rush, who helps WordPress developers make their themes and plugins accessible, says the forum is the result of a conversation with a support team member at WordCamp Atlanta.</p>
<p>&#8220;I <span class="message_body">mentioned that part of what makes the job difficult when it comes to making WordPress accessible is stopping during our work to answer occasional questions.<br />
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<p>&#8220;Most of the time the answer is not a quick one, because in the case of screen reader users, you have to first find out how well they can use their tech, how familiar they are with WordPress itself, and if neither of those chances are high, you spend time giving them a crash course in either one or both, and then answer their question,&#8221; <span class="message_body">Rush said. </span></p>
<p>Most of the people on the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/">WordPress Accessibility team</a> are volunteers with full-time jobs which limits their ability to provide one-on-one support. Many of the support queries come through email or direct messages to individuals on the team. The forum enables everyone to participate in the support process.</p>
<p>&#8220;If people ask their questions publicly, I or others not necessarily on the Accessibility Team can answer, and the answers are then public,&#8221; Rush said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have a pattern library on GitHub, which we all contribute to when we have time. But there are all kinds of solutions being passed around on Twitter and spread across other people&#8217;s GitHub accounts. So if someone asks a question like that, we can either point to something in specific cases, which is most of them, there&#8217;s probably already a specific solution that someone&#8217;s built, and we can link to that,&#8221; Rush told the Tavern.</p>
<p>The accessibility support forum also comes with a side benefit, &#8220;W<span class="message_body">e don&#8217;t have to say no all the time when people ask for support, or what looks like all the time to some people. Everyone can help each other </span><span class="message_body">out and Google has a public resource,&#8221; Rush said.<br />
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<p>The support forum comes at a time where accessibility is an increasingly important part of web development. For example, the European Union <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1654_en.htm">recently agreed to new rules</a> that will make public sector websites and apps more accessible.</p>
<p>If you have any questions related to accessibility, you can post them on the forum. If you have experience and knowledge in the accessibility field, consider answering questions as it&#8217;s a great way to contribute to the WordPress project.</p>
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<p><a href="https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/" target="_blank">Font Awesome</a>, the open source vector icon collection used by more than 300 plugins on WordPress.org and many free and commercial themes, <a href="https://articles.fortawesome.com/announcing-font-awesome-cdn-81773e0b301f#.egol888o7" target="_blank">announced the beta release of its new CDN</a>. Developers can now add a single line of code to bring the icons and CSS toolkit into their projects.</p>
<p>The icon files and CSS are hosted by <a href="https://www.maxcdn.com/" target="_blank">MaxCDN</a>, which serves a cached version that loads quickly on websites that use Font Awesome. The CDN uses <a href="https://github.com/typekit/webfontloader" target="_blank">Web Font Loader</a>, which was co-developed by Google and Typekit, to load the icons asynchronously. This also gives developers <a href="https://github.com/typekit/webfontloader#events" target="_blank">CSS and JavaScript events</a> to hook into on loading.</p>
<p><a href="http://wptavern.com/font-awesome-4-6-0-adds-new-accessibility-icons-category" target="_blank">FontAwesome 4.6 added a new accessibility icon category</a> and the new CDN helps to automate outputting the correct markup. If the icon you&#8217;re using has semantic meaning, including an accurate title attribute with the inline icon will trigger Font Awesome&#8217;s JS to do the rest.</p>
<p>Font Awesome requires an email address from those want to use the CDN so it can issue a unique embed code for each. Developers also have the option to register a Font Awesome CDN account to keep track of sites and apps where they are using the icons, and manage multiple embed codes. Once logged in, you can enable or disable auto-accessibility, asynchronous icon loading, easy updates to newer Font Awesome versions, and CSS or JS embed.</p>
<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/font-awesome-account.png"><img src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/font-awesome-account.png?resize=1025%2C865" alt="font-awesome-account" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54543" /></a></p>
<p>One of the most convenient reasons to use the CDN is to simplify updates. WordPress plugin and theme developers do not have to bump versions or push any code to use the latest version. Font Awesome version changes can be triggered on an individual basis for each embed code in a developer&#8217;s account dashboard. Check out the instructions at <a href="https://cdn.fontawesome.com/" target="_blank">cdn.fontawesome.com</a> to get your project hooked up.</p>
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";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:50:"WP Mobile Apps: WordPress for Android: Version 5.3";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:33:"http://apps.wordpress.com/?p=3352";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:72:"https://apps.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/wordpress-for-android-version-5-3/";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:3203:"<p>Hello WordPress users! <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wordpress.android" target="_blank">Version 5.3 of the WordPress for Android app</a> is now available in the Google Play Store.</p>
<h1>Account Settings and App Settings</h1>
<p>We split the old Account Settings into two distinct screens: Account Settings for everything related to your account, and App Settings for everything specific to the App, like the interface language, PIN lock, and Analytics opt-out.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3354" src="https://apps.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/screenshot-2016-04-04_15-43-50-172.png?w=640" alt="screenshot-2016-04-04_15.43.50.172" /></p>
<h1>Delete WordPress.com site</h1>
<p>With 5.3, you can now export your content (posts, pages, and settings) by email and delete your WordPress.com site from the app.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3356" src="https://apps.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/screenshot-2016-04-04_15-45-34-504.png?w=640" alt="screenshot-2016-04-04_15.45.34.504" /></p>
<h1>Other Changes</h1>
<p>Version 5.3 also comes with a few other enhancements:</p>
<ul>
<li>New styling of the action bar in the Reader.</li>
<li>If you made changes to a post, you&#8217;ll see a confirmation blink on <strong>Blog Posts</strong> when returning to the <strong>My site</strong> screen.</li>
<li>Better styling of the Post and Page Preview screen.</li>
<li>An updated support tool reduces crashes.</li>
</ul>

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<p>We&#8217;re working hard on new features for the next version &#8212; you can track our development progress for the next release by visiting <a href="https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android/milestones/5.4">our 5.4 milestone on GitHub</a>.</p>
<h1>Thank you</h1>
<p>Thanks to our contributors: <a href="https://github.com/aforcier">@aforcier</a>, <a href="https://github.com/daniloercoli">@daniloercoli</a>, <a href="https://github.com/hypest">@hypest</a>, <a href="https://github.com/kwonye">@kwonye</a>, <a href="https://github.com/maxme">@maxme</a>, <a href="https://github.com/mzorz">@mzorz</a>, <a href="https://github.com/nbradbury">@nbradbury</a>, <a href="https://github.com/oguzkocer">@oguzkocer</a>, <a href="https://github.com/rishabh7m">@rishabh7m</a>, <a href="https://github.com/roundhill">@roundhill</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/tonyr59h">@tonyr59h</a>.</p><img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=apps.wordpress.com&blog=108068616&post=3352&subd=apps&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />";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:"Thu, 05 May 2016 08:57:23 +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:6:"Maxime";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:11;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";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:65:"WPTavern: WPWeekly Episode 233 – Recap of WordCamp Chicago 2016";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:44:"http://wptavern.com?p=54518&preview_id=54518";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:71:"http://wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-233-recap-of-wordcamp-chicago-2016";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:2903:"<p>On this episode of WordPress Weekly, I describe my experience attending WordCamp Chicago 2016 this past weekend. Marcus Couch and I then discuss the news of the week including a new tool that helps WordCamp organizers create customized name badges.</p>
<p>We also have a lengthy discussion on the freemium business model and how it&#8217;s affecting users of themes and plugins downloaded from the official directories. Last but not least, we talk about WooCommerce Connect, a new SaaS tool from Automattic that has a tight relationship with Jetpack.</p>
<h2>Stories Discussed:</h2>
<p><a href="http://wptavern.com/wordcamp-organizers-get-new-tool-for-creating-personalized-wordcamp-badges">WordCamp Organizers Get New Tool for Creating Personalized WordCamp Badges</a><br />
<a href="http://wptavern.com/wordpress-is-now-100-translated-into-marathi">WordPress is Now 100% Translated Into Marathi</a><br />
<a href="http://wptavern.com/templatic-hacked-files-and-databases-compromised">Templatic Hacked, Files and Databases Compromised</a><br />
<a href="http://wptavern.com/wordpress-theme-review-team-votes-on-new-guidelines-to-ban-obtrusive-upselling">WordPress Theme Review Team Votes on New Guidelines to Ban Obtrusive Upselling</a><br />
<a href="http://wptavern.com/automattic-introduces-woocommerce-connect-hosted-components-for-e-commerce">Automattic Introduces WooCommerce Connect, Hosted Components for E-Commerce</a></p>
<h2>Plugins Picked By Marcus:</h2>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/rss-feed-canceller/">RSS Feed Canceller </a>provides more control over your RSS feed. You can turn it on or off per post and control whether or not a post is excluded from the feed.</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/tld-woocommerce-downloadable-product-update-emails/">TLD WooCommerce Downloadable Product Update Emails</a> is a simple plugin that notifies customers who purchased a downloadable product via email that there&#8217;s an update available.</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/inline-click-to-tweet/">Inline Click To Tweet</a> allows authors to highlight text from within the visual editor and make it tweetable by clicking within the post or page.</p>
<h2>WPWeekly Meta:</h2>
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<p><strong>Listen To Episode #233:</strong><br />
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";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:54:"WPTavern: WordCamp Chicago 2016 Was a Deep Dish of Fun";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=54453";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:64:"http://wptavern.com/wordcamp-chicago-2016-was-a-deep-dish-of-fun";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:5547:"<p><a href="https://2016.chicago.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp Chicago 2016</a> was held at University Center in the heart of Chicago, IL, where more than 300 attendees spent the weekend learning about WordPress. The event was organized by Ryan Erwin and a <a href="https://2016.chicago.wordcamp.org/organizers/">team of volunteers. </a></p>
<a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/JJJWCChicago2016.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-54500" src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/JJJWCChicago2016.jpg?resize=1024%2C768" alt="John James Jacoby talking about bbPress and BuddyPress" /></a>John James Jacoby talking about bbPress and BuddyPress
<p>Tracks were split up into three separate rooms limiting the amount of background noise during sessions. Giving attendees a schedule is handled differently at most camps. Some provide a paper schedule while others put it on the back of the name badge.</p>
<p>At WordCamp Chicago, schedule boards were displayed outside each room that corresponded with a track number. This made it easier for attendees to determine if they wanted to stay in the room for the next session.</p>
<a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/WCChicago2016Schedule.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-54501" src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/WCChicago2016Schedule.jpg?resize=1024%2C1365" alt="Schedule Board Outside The Room Hosting Track 1" /></a>Schedule Board Outside The Room Hosting Track 1
<p>WordCamps are a great way to stress test a venue&#8217;s network but the WiFi at WordCamp Chicago was flawless. I didn&#8217;t experience any issues and it remained fast throughout the event. I didn&#8217;t stick around for lunch as there are plenty of lunch options available within walking distance of the venue.</p>
<h2>The After Party</h2>
<p>Most WordCamps host an after party at a restaurant, bar, or other establishment away from the venue. WordCamp Chicago&#8217;s after party was held at the venue. It included, non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks, food, and card games on each table. It was fun mingling and networking with people without having to compete with blaring music or a loud atmosphere.</p>
<a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/WCChicago2016AfterParty.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-54503" src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/WCChicago2016AfterParty.jpg?resize=1024%2C768" alt="WordCamp Chicago 2016 After Party" /></a>WordCamp Chicago 2016 After Party
<p>Out of all the sessions I attended, my favorite is <a href="https://2016.chicago.wordcamp.org/session/disastrous-deals-to-profitable-projects-comparing-my-best-and-worst-client-experiences/">by Kyle Maurer,</a> who shared experiences and advice from <a href="http://realbigmarketing.com/">building client websites</a> over the years.</p>
<p>One of the biggest pieces of advice he shared is to build direct relationships with clients. No one is going to fight your battles as much as you and third-parties are unlikely to stick their neck out. Managing direct relationships leads to trust, referrals, and being rehired to do additional work.</p>
<a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/KyleMaurerSlideWCChicago2016.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-54504" src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/KyleMaurerSlideWCChicago2016.jpg?resize=1024%2C768" alt="A Slide from Kyle Maurer's Presentation" /></a>A Slide from Kyle Maurer&#8217;s Presentation
<p>His session contains a lot of great information and I highly encourage you to watch it when it&#8217;s published on WordPress.tv.</p>
<h2>WordCamps Offer a Lot of Value For The Price</h2>
<p>Throughout the event, I spoke to a number of people and noted the following. Many attendees said they received more value than expected paying $40 a ticket. Some have spent hundreds of dollars on conference tickets and didn&#8217;t enjoy themselves or come away with nearly as much information.</p>
<p>I discovered a number of attendees are part of one or more WordPress meetup groups. According to Meetup.com, there are at least <a href="http://www.meetup.com/find/?allMeetups=false&keywords=Chicago+WordPress&radius=25&userFreeform=chicago+I&mcId=c60601&change=yes&sort=recommended&eventFilter=mysugg">four WordPress groups </a>with hundreds of members spread throughout the Chicago area. It&#8217;s a strong indication that the WordPress community in Chicago is thriving and supportive of each other.</p>
<h2>WordCamp Chicago in 2017</h2>
<p>It was a pleasure attending WordCamp Chicago and making new friends. I especially enjoyed speaking to WordPress Weekly listeners and getting their feedback. Also for those wondering, I satisfied my craving for deep-dish pizza via <a href="http://www.loumalnatis.com/arizona-phoenix">Lou Malnati&#8217;s</a>. The pizza tastes better than I remembered. If you&#8217;re ever in the Chicago area, you have to try Lou Malnati&#8217;s pizza.</p>
<a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/TheLou.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-54505" src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/TheLou.jpg?resize=1024%2C768" alt="The Lou!" /></a>The Lou!
<p>Everyone involved with WordCamp Chicago 2016 did a great job. If you didn&#8217;t get a chance to attend this year, don&#8217;t worry. After taking a break for a few weeks, the organizing team plans to begin organizing WordCamp Chicago 2017.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/" target="_blank">WooCommerce</a> is the current leader in e-commerce software, capturing <a href="https://wappalyzer.com/categories/ecommerce" target="_blank">31% of the market</a>, thanks to its relatively user-friendly interface and connection to WordPress. However, setting up a WooCommerce site, or any e-commerce site for that matter, is not for the faint of heart, no matter how user-friendly the software. It requires knowledge of hosting, PCI compliance, payment gateways, SSL certificates, shipping methods, tax, and more.</p>
<p>When <a href="http://wptavern.com/automattic-acquires-woocommerce" target="_blank">Automattic acquired WooCommerce</a> last May, the company accepted the challenge to make it as easy to create stores online as WordPress.com has done for websites.</p>
<p>“I believe that the web needs an open, independent and easy-to-use commerce platform that you can run yourself on your own website,” Matt Mullenweg said in his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJOfTB8-daA" target="_blank">video</a> announcement of the acquisition.</p>
<p>Automattic has been working to simplify selling with WooCommerce and today the company announced <a href="https://www.woothemes.com/2016/05/woocommerce-connect-announcement/" target="_blank">WooCommerce Connect</a>, the secret project that Mullenweg <a href="https://twitter.com/WooConf/status/717725650916741120" target="_blank">hinted</a> at during WooConf.</p>
<p>WC Connect is WooCommerce&#8217;s new Automattic-hosted SaaS architecture that was created to offer store features in a more user-friendly way. It is built on the WP REST API and offers a simplified Calypso-style interface for configuring options.</p>
<p>The first service offered via the alpha version of WC Connect is real-time USPS shipping rates for US-based stores. It eliminates the need for a USPS API key as well as a subscription key from WooCommerce. One of the advantages for the user is that there are fewer software updates to install for extensions, as all the code is maintained on Automattic&#8217;s servers.</p>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/usps-wc-connect.png"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/usps-wc-connect.png?resize=650%2C362" alt="usps-wc-connect" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54493" /></a></p>
<h3>What&#8217;s Next for WooCommerce Connect?</h3>
<p>If the testing goes well, WooCommerce plans to roll Connect into the plugin&#8217;s core to make it easier to serve more hosted e-commerce components. The team is also working on expanding shipping options for the beta.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the near future we hope to integrate with further shipping services, most likely Canada Post next,&#8221; said WooThemes co-founder <a href="https://twitter.com/mark_forrester" target="_blank">Mark Forrester</a>. &#8220;Shipping and payment options seem the logical place for us to start.&#8221;</p>
<p>Forrester confirmed that while the USPS shipping method is free, WooThemes is exploring monetizing other service offerings in the future. If WC Connect has a successful beta period, the team will consider using the same model for offering payment gateways in the future.</p>
<p>&#8220;Setting up payments for your store should be simple and behind the scenes,&#8221; Forrester said. &#8220;We believe we can offer better options for our customers working closely with payment partners and using connected services.&#8221;</p>
<p>Forrester said that the team hopes WC Connect can be baked into WooCommerce core soon, but they will make the decision based on user feedback from the alpha/beta period.</p>
<p>Those who create WooCommerce extensions and depend on its ecosystem may be wondering whether the SaaS model will overtake the plugin entirely. Last May, during his WooCommerce Q&amp;A, Matt Mullenweg <a href="https://ma.tt/2015/05/woomattic/#comment-583541" target="_blank">confirmed</a> that Automattic is not moving towards a 100% SaaS model.</p>
<p>&#8220;If or when we do SAAS, the plugin isn’t going away, it’ll continue as it has,&#8221; Mullenweg said.</p>
<p>WooCommerce is not being rolled into Jetpack, as many suspected when Automattic acquired the product. However, WC Connect does require users to connect to WordPress.com via Jetpack.</p>
<p>&#8220;We feel it makes sense to leverage the code/infrastructure of one of the most powerful WordPress connected services,&#8221; Forrester said.</p>
<p>The team is aiming to make WC Connect a simpler way to connect services to online stores without users having to leave their WooCommerce dashboards. Many store owners would rather pay for hosted software they don&#8217;t have to update as opposed to self-hosted extensions that require regular maintenance.</p>
<p>If the strategy of offering hosted e-commmerce components succeeds at making store management easier for non-developers, Automattic will be able to profit from offering compelling commercial WC Connect services, such as payment gateways, and expand WooCommerce&#8217;s global reach.</p>
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<p>There&#8217;s no denying that emoji permeate our culture and communication on the web, especially the mobile web. When people are excited, when they are communicating from the heart, they often use emoji. According to a study performed by emotional marketing platform Emogi last year, <a href="http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/report-92-of-online-consumers-use-emoji-infographic/627521" target="_blank">92% of people online use emoji</a> and 63% of them are frequent users.</p>
<p>Last year WordPress 4.2 <a href="http://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-2-on-track-to-expand-core-support-for-emoji" target="_blank">expanded core support for emoji</a>, adding along with it the ability to natively handle Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters. This improvement came not a moment too soon, but emoji are still not readily accessible when publishing with WordPress until you launch the emoji keyboard for your operating system. There&#8217;s something disjointed about having to launch a separate keyboard when you&#8217;re trying to compose your thoughts.</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/super-emoji-plus/" target="_blank">Super Emoji Plus+</a> is a new plugin that makes emoji more accessible. It was created by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ericlewis/" target="_blank">Eric Andrew Lewis</a>, a WordPress core contributor and developer at The New York Times. The plugin adds an elegant emoji picker to the post edit screen. It can be launched from the toolbar or via autocomplete when you start typing an emoji name, such as &#8220;:lemon&#8221;.</p>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/super-emoji-toolbar.png"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/super-emoji-toolbar.png?resize=1025%2C640" alt="super-emoji-toolbar" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54458" /></a></p>
<p>If you use emoji in your WordPress posts, Super Emoji Plus+ provides convenient access to the full list. There&#8217;s no easier way to add emoji if you&#8217;re working from a desktop, as most emoji keyboard experiences are inferior to the one presented in this plugin. Having it installed removes the need for cheat sheets and saves you from having to remember the correct key combinations to launch an emoji keyboard. Super Emoji Plus+ <a href="https://ericandrewlewis.com/2016/04/super-emoji-plus-is-now-in-beta/" target="_blank">went into beta last week</a> and is now <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/super-emoji-plus/" target="_blank">available on WordPress.org</a>.</p>
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<p>Marc-Alexandre Montpas is credited for <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/reporting-security-vulnerabilities/">responsibly disclosing</a> the vulnerability to the WordPress security team. The patch has already been applied to bbPress 2.6, which is currently in development. Users are advised to update their bbPress installations as soon as possible. Users who encounter issues updating to 2.5.9 can report them to the <a href="https://bbpress.org/forums/">bbPress support forums</a>.</p>
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<p>One of the main items on the agenda for the Theme Review Team this week was to finalize what type of upselling is allowed in themes hosted on WordPress.org. With the requirement of using the customizer for options, theme authors have gotten creative with upsells and will sometimes include panels and sections that are inoperable unless the user purchases the commercial version.</p>
<p>The team voted on a set of guidelines previously discussed. The counts shown below represent votes in favor of each individual guideline, and no members voted against any of them, according to the reckoning Justin Tadlock posted in the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2016/05/03/may-3rd-meeting-notes/" target="_blank">meeting notes</a>:</p>
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<li>No global nags at top of admin pages. +12</li>
<li>One top-level link in the customizer (other unobtrusive links in sections allowed). +8</li>
<li>Allow one Appearance sub-page. +11</li>
<li>No options or panels/sections behind a paywall. +11</li>
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<p>Overall, team members agreed that any upsell links should be unobtrusive and the new proposed guidelines favor keeping the customizer clean and the Appearance menu simple. Although the majority of Theme Review Team members are in favor of the items above, their inclusion in the handbook is not yet set in stone.</p>
<p>&#8220;Note that we might change some of the wording for clarity if/when these become guidelines,&#8221; Tadlock said. &#8220;The admins will review these items for inclusion as guidelines and have further discussion if need be.&#8221;</p>
<h3>Theme Review Team Considers Adding a Tag to Designate Themes with a Commercial Upgrade</h3>
<p>Contributors are looking to add a new designation for freemium WordPress.org extensions that have commercial counterparts available elsewhere. In a recent Meta Team meeting, Matt Mullenweg <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/meta/p1461801845000324" target="_blank">proposed an agenda item</a> for consideration in the redesign of the Plugin Directory.</p>
<p>&#8220;I would love for y&#8217;all to figure out a tagging system that will help people know better what&#8217;s behind the installation of a plugin,&#8221; Mullenweg said. &#8220;Does it connect to an external service? Is there a premium version? Is it useful without those things?</p>
<p>&#8220;If we can figure out a way to classify those three as examples, it&#8217;ll cover a lot of business models people are attempting in the directory,&#8221; Mullenweg said, referring to the original examples of Akismet, VaultPress, and Jetpack that he mentioned previously.</p>
<p>&#8220;This can be separate from the 3-tag limit,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s really a special tag, and honor system is fine to start for self-classification.&#8221;</p>
<p>This hasn&#8217;t yet been implemented in the new Plugin Directory, but Konstantin Obenland has the item on his list for when the Meta Team moves forward with an <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2016/02/25/re-thinking-tags-in-the-plugin-directory/" target="_blank">overhaul of the tagging system</a>.</p>
<p>As a result of this discussion, the Theme Review Team is also considering adding a &#8220;pro&#8221; designation for themes that have a commercial version available. Tadlock said that the team will be following up on the plugin directory discussions and will look to implement improved tagging in line with what the Meta Team decides.</p>
<p>The Theme Review Team ran out of time during this week&#8217;s meeting but will discuss the possibility of a &#8220;pro&#8221; tag next week. If you want to be part of this discussion, make sure to join the #themereview channel on WordPress&#8217; Slack.</p>
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<p>In February the WordPress Community team announced that it would be <a href="http://wptavern.com/wordpress-to-launch-experimental-wordcamp-incubator-program" target="_blank">launching an experimental WordCamp Incubator program</a>. After a short application window of less than two weeks, the team received 182 applications from cities all over the world. Andrea Middleton <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2016/04/28/wordcamp-incubator-update/" target="_blank">reported</a> that the team has narrowed the submissions down to the following 16 communities:</p>
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<li>Chandigarh, India</li>
<li>Colombo, Sri Lanka</li>
<li>Thessaloniki, Greece</li>
<li>Harare, Zimbabwe</li>
<li>Budapest, Hungary</li>
<li>Kalamata, Greece</li>
<li>Kampala, Uganda</li>
<li>Kochi, India</li>
<li>Lagos, Nigeria</li>
<li>Medellin, Colombia</li>
<li>Nagpur, India</li>
<li>Nairobi, Kenya</li>
<li>San Jose, Costa Rica</li>
<li>Udaipur, India</li>
<li>Ulyanovsk, Russia</li>
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<p>Some of these communities already have active local meetups and others have no organization whatsoever. Selection of the final cities will be based on the location&#8217;s potential to foster an emerging WordPress community.</p>
<p>The original plan was to incubate three WordCamps in 2016, but due to staffing changes the new scaled back plan is to commit to two events and intensively mentor a third. Middleton explained that the difference between the two is in the amount of support the local team will receive from the designated community team deputy:</p>
<blockquote><p>Incubating an event will involve the deputy both advising local volunteers — acting as a kind of project manager for the team — as well as doing some of the organizing work on the event, like a lead organizer usually does. Intensively-mentoring will be more project management and involve less actual organizing work on the part of the deputy.</p></blockquote>
<p>Middleton said the team is speaking with the remaining applicants about their communities and assessing their abilities to organize a one-day, one-track WordCamp with the help of the community team. The small events will focus on getting the local community connected for future events.</p>
<p>The WordCamp Incubator program is an intriguing concept that has so far received a great deal of interest from potential new organizers. Many locations in the remaining list of candidates are situated in regions that are not as easily accessible to existing WordPress communities. These are places that might not otherwise have an opportunity to host a WordCamp for years without a little boost.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll be following the progress of the Incubator program to see if the experiment can successfully hatch a handful of new local communities. The three locations selected will be announced this month.</p>
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<p>The BuddyPress codex has a long list of <a href="https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/customizing/changing-internal-configuration-settings/" target="_blank">internal configuration settings</a> that are not exposed in the plugin&#8217;s admin settings page. These are short definition lines that can be added to a site&#8217;s <em><a href="https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/bp-custom-php/" target="_blank">bp-custom.php file</a></em> to make changes to BuddyPress default settings.</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddyextender/" target="_blank">BuddyExtender</a> is a new plugin from the development team at <a href="https://webdevstudios.com/" target="_blank">WebDevStudios</a> that aims to make it easier for community managers to access extra configuration options. The plugin puts a dozen internal BuddyPress settings at your fingertips, including avatar sizes, autocomplete settings, the ability to disable @mentions, and more.</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/buddy-extender.png"><img src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/buddy-extender.png?resize=678%2C1141" alt="buddy-extender" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54389" /></a></p>
<p>Once installed, the plugin can be configured at Settings -> BuddyExtender in the admin. Each setting has an explanation on <a href="https://pluginize.com/buddyextender-plugin/" target="_blank">the plugin&#8217;s homepage on Pluginize</a>, WebDevStudio&#8217;s new plugin shop. Some of these settings have the ability to powerfully affect the display of your BuddyPress site, so its creators warn users to try it on a test environment before going live with their selections. The team plans to add more options to the plugin in the future. You can download <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddyextender/" target="_blank">BuddyExtender</a> for free from WordPress.org.</p>
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<p>Last week Weston Ruter and the folks at XWP released <a href="https://make.xwp.co/2016/04/29/customize-posts-v0-5-released/" target="_blank">Customize Posts version 0.5</a>, which includes a new framework for postmeta and the ability to preview featured images. The feature <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/customize-posts/" target="_blank">plugin</a> aims to <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34923" target="_blank">introduce basic content authorship in the Customizer</a> to improve the new user site setup experience and make it easier to edit existing content.</p>
<p>As of 0.5, Customize Posts supports the ability to change and preview the page template, and will sync changes back to the metabox on the page edit screen. It also supports changing the post author, excerpt, and comment/ping status, with live previews and changes saved to the editor. Check out Ruter&#8217;s screencast touring the plugin&#8217;s newest capabilities:</p>
<div class="embed-wrap"></div>
<h3>Front-End Editing Powered by the Customizer: A Not-Too-Distant Possibility</h3>
<p>With all these advanced editing capabilities, it doesn&#8217;t take a giant leap to imagine a future where the customizer provides the architecture for a front-end post editor. While WordPress&#8217; <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/front-end-editor/" target="_blank">front-end editor project</a> seems to have gone dormant, improvements to the Customizer are steadily chipping away at the various aspects of content authorship that are not yet editable on the frontend.</p>
<p>&#8220;Now that we have the ability to selectively refresh elements without doing full page reloads, this opens the door to using these Customizer components outside of the Customizer itself, such as in the frontend,&#8221; Ruter said.</p>
<p>Front-end editing of partials, which are similar to customizer controls but exist in the preview, is a natural extension of the selective refresh architecture and a concept that Ruter will be exploring in the near future.</p>
<p>&#8220;Consider, for example, being logged-in on the frontend,&#8221; Ruter said. &#8220;You see something you want to edit and you click on it. Since the Customizer partials all have selectors associated with them, if the partials are registered with each logged-in frontend request, then there are containers that can be targeted for editing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ruter envisions that clicking on an element would load the controls for that element on demand via a lazy-loaded Customizer pane or a floating control. He said that this would work in concert with customizer transactions (aka snapshots) to store the changes persistently in a transaction.</p>
<p>Front-end editing powered by the customizer, according to Ruter, would involve the following:</p>
<ol>
<li>Being able to click Customize in the admin bar to lazy-load the Customizer pane&#8217;s controls into the existing page without having to having to navigate to `customize.php`</li>
<li>Being able to click on individual containers that have associated partials to start editing controls that relate to those partials</li>
<li>All changes made on the frontend to be persisted in a transaction draft that is initialized on demand</li>
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<p>The ability to edit posts in the customizer on the front-end isn&#8217;t going to happen overnight, but Ruter thinks a proof of concept could be available this year.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to take some discovery and prototyping, similar to Customize Posts,&#8221; Ruter said. &#8220;My guess is there would be something to play around with in Q3, depending on other projects and having enough time to put down on paper these ideas that have been floating around for a couple years.&#8221;</p>
<p>An important step towards making that possible will be getting <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34923" target="_blank">basic content authorship added to the Customizer</a>, which Ruter and contributors are working towards for the upcoming WordPress 4.6 release.</p>
<p>These will be welcome changes for those who are looking to do more on the frontend, but it still leaves the bulk of content editing behind the admin. Unless you&#8217;re a developer who follows every update to the customizer, it&#8217;s still confusing for the average WordPress user to know what content can be edited on the frontend vs. content that requires returning to the admin. The editing experience will remain disjointed until the majority of tasks can be done on the frontend.</p>
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<blockquote><p>The hacker is now threatening us via email and demanding ransom money be paid. This hacker is also threatening to misuse the data they’ve illegally gained access to and email our data to customers.</p>
<p>While this is a very serious and dangerous threat, we are not going to give in to threats and we will not be negotiating with any hacker and that’s no matter how much they try.</p></blockquote>
<p>Bhavesh is working with local authorities and security experts who are investigating the matter. Since transactions on Templatic are handled directly by PayPal or 2Checkout, hackers were not able to obtain credit card information.</p>
<h2>Customers Should Immediately Change Their Passwords</h2>
<p>If you&#8217;ve ever shared cPanel, FTP, or wp-admin, login credentials with Templatic, you should immediately change your passwords. If you are using a product that relies on the Tevolution plugin and haven&#8217;t updated yet, you should <a href="https://templatic.com/news/security-vulnerability-found-themes/">do so immediately</a>.</p>
<p>Customers are advised to ignore emails sent from Templatic, &#8220;The email we sent today is the last email we will send regarding this matter. Anything further, we will share it on our social mediate accounts at <a href="https://twitter.com/templatic">twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/templatic">facebook</a> and <a href="https://templatic.com/blog">our official blog</a> here,&#8221; Bhavesh said.</p>
<p>Customers are also advised to create a full backup of their sites and use a <a href="https://sitecheck.sucuri.net//">free site scanning tool</a> to scan for unknown files. Bhavesh apologized for what happened and says he accepts full responsibility, &#8220;I take up the responsibility of this and I sincerely apologize to each single one of our customers. We assure you that we are taking best security measures and fight this, no matter what.&#8221;</p>
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<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wp-in-marathi.png"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wp-in-marathi.png?resize=1025%2C252" alt="wp-in-marathi" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54327" /></a></p>
<p>Less than a week ago, the Marathi translation was at just 10%, but the new translation teams rallied during the <a href="http://wptavern.com/global-wordpress-translation-day-draws-448-participants-from-105-countries" target="_blank">Global WordPress Translation Day</a> event to complete it in a matter of days. According to organizer Petya Raykovska, “India was the big surprise with four of the big Indian languages getting new contributors, forming teams, and connecting across India with one another to collaborate live.”</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Last year Hindi was far from 100%. Today 8 events in India translate to bo_IN, hi_IN, mr, gu, ml <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WPTranslationday?src=hash">#WPTranslationday</a> <a href="https://t.co/Lq5DoJrf0Q">pic.twitter.com/Lq5DoJrf0Q</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Petya Raykovska (@petyeah) <a href="https://twitter.com/petyeah/status/724103477002166272">April 24, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
<p></p>
<p>Thanks to the eight local translation team events in India, Marathi received a strong enough push to get all WordPress strings translated at 100% just a few days after the event concluded. Hindi is also now at 100% and the other Indian languages are off to a good start with the newly-formed translation teams.</p>
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<p>The explosion of the craft beer scene in recent years means that more breweries and beer bars are <a href="http://wptavern.com/30-beautiful-brewery-websites-built-with-wordpress" target="_blank">building their websites on WordPress</a>. What are you looking for when you visit one of these websites? Why, the beer of course! Unfortunately, with the demands of brewing and serving customers, owners of these establishments don&#8217;t always have time to update their available beers.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-beer-lister/" target="_blank">Easy Beer Lister</a> plugin was created to help breweries keep their information up-to-date. It offers an easy way for users to organize beer on on their websites with the additional benefit of being able to create beer menus with the same information. The menus are mobile friendly and can be printed or displayed on a TV screen.</p>
<p>Alex Standiford initially started on this project out of a desire to improve his WordPress plugin development skills, but it quickly grew from there once he learned how difficult it is for brewers to keep their beer information up-to-date across all of their mediums.</p>
<p>&#8220;Many breweries copy/paste their beer menu to their website, or simply don’t update their website at all,&#8221; Standiford said. &#8220;I even heard of a brewer who was staying up late every Friday to update his powerpoint presentation for his beer menu!</p>
<p>&#8220;Once I realized how much time this was taking from the busy brewery owner, I knew that I needed to do something better than what others have done. I needed to provide them with a single place to update their beer information, where they could efficiently display it to customers in many different ways.&#8221;</p>
<p>Easy Beer Lister adds a Beer Post Type to your WordPress site with special fields for ABV, OG, IBU, Untappd URL, video, and an image gallery.</p>
<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/beer-post-type-easy-beer-lister.png"><img src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/beer-post-type-easy-beer-lister.png?resize=793%2C476" alt="beer-post-type-easy-beer-lister" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54312" /></a></p>
<p>Beer styles can be added as categories and beer pairings as tags. Availability can also be specified via a custom taxonomy using terms such as On-Tap, Spring, Summer, Year-Round, etc. Beers take on the design of the active theme, but you can further customize the post type to improve its display. The plugin comes with a few basic templates, but Standiford is also creating more that can be added on.</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/beer-page.png"><img src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/beer-page.png?resize=1025%2C826" alt="beer-page" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54314" /></a></p>
<p>Once beers are organized and added to WordPress, users can create custom beer menus to display available beers. Sorting methods, such as availability, food pairings, and what&#8217;s on tap, can be bulk-edited in the admin.</p>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/beer-menu.png"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/beer-menu.png?resize=1025%2C577" alt="beer-menu" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54317" /></a></p>
<p>Easy Beer Lister also includes shortcodes for displaying a specific beer or a list of beers:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>[beer]</strong> &#8211; Create a URL to a specified beer. The link also shows a preview of the beer when you hover over it with your mouse.</li>
<li><strong>[beer_list]</strong> &#8211; Create a list of beers based on specified parameters, such as style or pairings.</li>
</ul>
<p>Standiford plans to open a marketplace for GPL add-ons that extend Easy Beer Lister. <a href="http://www.easybeerlister.com/downloads/untappd-importer/" target="_blank">Untappd Importer</a> is his first add-on, which makes it easy for breweries to get started without having to manually enter all of their beers.</p>
<p>&#8220;With this add-on, I was able to import all 600+ beers from Dogfish Head Brewing’s Untappd page in about three minutes, including the ABV and IBU information,&#8221; Standiford said. He is working on other add-ons such as a beer image generator, an Instagram photo import function, and a bartender suite that allows bartenders to access a page to add/remove beers from the tap menu/website quickly.</p>
<p>&#8220;The plugin is more than a tool to help brewers manage their beer on their website,&#8221; Standiford said. &#8220;I aim to use it to dramatically reduce the amount of time a brewer spends updating beer information on all facets of their business.&#8221;</p>
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<p>In the past, WordCamp organizers <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/wordcamp-organizer-handbook/first-steps/helpful-documents-and-templates/create-wordcamp-badges-with-gravatars/personalized-badges-with-indesign/" target="_blank">used an InDesign template for making the badges</a>, but this required a tedious process of creating a CSV file of attendees, running a custom script, and completing a list of complicated steps. George Stephanis, who had experience using the InDesign template, wanted to simplify this process for organizers and help them move away from having to use a proprietary, commercial software product.</p>
<p>He <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2016/02/12/name-badges-are-hard-to-make-and-confusing-for-organizers/" target="_blank">built a proof-of-concept plugin</a> that allows organizers to create badges with HTML and CSS inside the WordPress admin. After several iterations and contributions from the community team, Ian Dunn <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2016/04/26/new-tool-for-creating-personalized-wordcamp-badges/" target="_blank">announced</a> that the tool is now ready for use.</p>
<p>WordCamp organizers can access the tool under Tickets > Tools > Generate Badges or by navigating through the Customizer to the CampTix HTML Badges panel. The default badge design is shown below with the back of the badge (upside-down) and the front beneath it with a marker for poking the lanyard holes. User names and gravatars are automatically displayed.</p>
<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordcamp-badges-with-html-css.png"><img src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordcamp-badges-with-html-css.png?resize=900%2C783" alt="wordcamp-badges-with-html-css" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54285" /></a></p>
<p>Stephanis included the CodeMirror bundled with Jetpack’s Custom CSS module to make it easier for organizers to customize the badge design to suit the theme of the WordCamp. The plugin also makes it fairly easy to customize any aspect of the badge using CSS.</p>
<p>&#8220;The underlying markup has plenty of CSS classes to help with customization,&#8221; Dunn said. &#8220;For example, you could make volunteer badges have a different background color (so that volunteers are easier to find), or make attendees&#8217; last names appear in a smaller font than their first names. There are also plenty of empty &lt; div > elements that you can re-purpose for arbitrary design features.&#8221;</p>
<p>Once the design is finished, organizers can export as a PDF and take it to a print shop. Documentation for customizing the badges is <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/wordcamp-organizer-handbook/first-steps/helpful-documents-and-templates/create-wordcamp-badges-with-gravatars/personalized-badges-with-html-css/" target="_blank">available in the WordCamp Organizer handbook</a>.</p>
<p>Organizers are still welcome to use the InDesign tool to create badges, but the new plugin for the customizer is a much easier entry point for those who aren&#8217;t familiar with InDesign. If you can help improve the tool, the code is open source on the <a href="https://meta.svn.wordpress.org/sites/trunk/wordcamp.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/camptix-badge-generator" target="_blank">Meta repository</a> and <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/wordcamp-organizer-handbook/first-steps/web-presence/contributing-to-wordcamp-org/" target="_blank">available for anyone to patch</a>.</p>
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";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:72:"WPTavern: WordCamp Tokyo 2016 Calls for Speakers, Adds New English Track";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=54145";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:81:"http://wptavern.com/wordcamp-tokyo-2016-calls-for-speakers-adds-new-english-track";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:2318:"<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordcamp-tokyo.png"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordcamp-tokyo.png?resize=1025%2C506" alt="wordcamp-tokyo" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54265" /></a><br />
<a href="https://2016.tokyo.wordcamp.org/" target="_blank">WordCamp Tokyo 2016</a> will be held September 17-18 at the <a href="http://www.bellesalle.co.jp/room/bs_shinjukugrand/" target="_blank">Bellesalle Shinjuku Grand</a>. This will be the 9th edition of the event, which sold out last year with 750 attendees.</p>
<p>Yesterday the WordCamp&#8217;s organizers put out a <a href="https://2016.tokyo.wordcamp.org/04/27/call-for-speakers-en/" target="_blank">call for both for English and Japanese speakers</a>. Last year the event hosted a selection of <a href="https://2015.tokyo.wordcamp.org/session/6-3/" target="_blank">English sessions</a>, but the 2016 edition will add a dedicated track for English speakers with simultaneous interpretation.</p>
<p>The WordCamp will be broken into three tracks: User, Technical, and Global. Descriptions and example topics for each are available in the <a href="https://2016.tokyo.wordcamp.org/04/27/call-for-speakers-en/" target="_blank">post</a> calling for speakers. All English language presentations will be placed under the Global track but speakers are welcome to submit any topic.</p>
<p>The theme of WordCamp Tokyo 2016 is &#8220;breaking dawn.&#8221; With the advent of the WP REST API and the recent surge in WordPress-powered application development, the WordPress community is entering a new era. Organizers have selected a motto as part of the theme:</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Let’s try something new</em>,” said organizer Toru Miki. &#8220;That is the message we want to get across to the WordCamp Tokyo 2016 attendees. Our goal is to offer sessions that can motivate and stimulate them, just like the beam of sunlight in the dawn.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you want to attend one of the biggest WordCamps on the planet and you have a topic that you think can inspire attendees, the speaker application deadline is Friday, June 10. Presentations can be 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or 75 minutes. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance status by mid-July.</p>
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";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:67:"WPTavern: WPWeekly Episode 232 – Recap of WordCamp San Diego 2016";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:44:"http://wptavern.com?p=54156&preview_id=54156";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:73:"http://wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-232-recap-of-wordcamp-san-diego-2016";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:2847:"<p>In this episode of WordPress Weekly, <a href="http://marcuscouch.com/">Marcus Couch</a> and I discuss the news of the week as our guest couldn&#8217;t make it.</p>
<p>Marcus shares his experience at WordCamp San Diego this past weekend and offers feedback to the organizing team. We let you know what&#8217;s in the recently released WordPress update and discuss what happens to the data WordPress.org collects from users sites. As usual, Marcus ends the show with his plugin picks of the week.</p>
<h2>Stories Discussed:</h2>
<p><a href="http://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-5-1-fixes-12-bugs">WordPress 4.5.1 Fixes 12 Bugs</a><br />
<a href="http://wptavern.com/global-wordpress-translation-day-draws-448-participants-from-105-countries">Global WordPress Translation Day Draws 448 Participants from 105 Countries</a><br />
<a href="http://wptavern.com/wordpress-for-ios-adds-geotag-support-comment-moderation-gestures">WordPress for iOS Adds Geotag Support, Comment Moderation Gestures</a><br />
<a href="http://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-6-to-update-theme-filter-tags-in-the-admin">WordPress 4.6 to Update Theme Filter Tags in the Admin</a><br />
<a href="http://wptavern.com/what-wordpress-org-does-with-the-data-it-collects-from-users-sites">What WordPress.org Does with the Data it Collects from Users Sites</a></p>
<h2>Plugins Picked By Marcus:</h2>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-gallery-awesome-responsive-youtube-vimeo-gallery/">Video Gallery &#8211; YouTube and Vimeo Video Gallery </a>is a responsive plugin that allows you to show YouTube and Vimeo videos in various formats.</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/on-sale-page-for-woocommerce/">OnSale Page for WooCommerce </a>is an extension for WooCommerce that enables you to have a On Sale page with paging, sorting, and filtering options.</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/embed-google-adwords-codes-on-woocommerce/">Embed Google AdWords Codes on WooCommerce </a>enables users to implement Google AdWords conversion tracking to determine how effective ads are. It provides information such as the number of clicks that are generating sales.</p>
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<p>Array <a href="https://arraythemes.com/welcome-to-array-3-0/" target="_blank">launched a redesign</a> of its theme shop this week along with drastic price cuts for single theme and club purchases. After conducting a <a href="https://arraythemes.com/complete-a-brief-survey-for-50-off/" target="_blank">customer survey</a> earlier this year, the company moved to act on feedback regarding its pricing structure.</p>
<p>Previously, Array offered single theme purchases ranging in price from $49 to $89 and the entire collection for $199. The new pricing is more straightforward with all single themes at $49 and club membership for $89.</p>
<p>The company, which began under the name Okay Themes and rebranded two years ago, announced last April that it would be <a href="http://wptavern.com/array-returns-to-themeforest-after-disappointing-experiences-selling-on-creative-market-and-wordpress-com" target="_blank">returning to Themeforest</a> after disappointing experiences selling on Creative Market and WordPress.com. Array currently has five items in its <a href="http://themeforest.net/user/arraythemes/portfolio" target="_blank">portfolio on Themeforest</a> ranging in price from $44-64. The company negotiated an agreement with the marketplace that gives them a better rate than other non-exclusive authors typically receive.</p>
<p>&#8220;Although I can’t go into this in too much detail, we are actually not operating at the typical non-exclusive author rates, as most would rightfully assume,&#8221; founder Mike McAlister said in a <a href="http://wptavern.com/array-returns-to-themeforest-after-disappointing-experiences-selling-on-creative-market-and-wordpress-com#comment-66896" target="_blank">comment</a> on our post about the news. &#8220;We’ve worked out a mutually beneficial agreement with Envato that gives us a little more room for experimentation and bandwidth for providing quality support.&#8221;</p>
<p>With equal or more affordable pricing at Themeforest, customers had little incentive to buy directly from the Array website with the previous pricing structure in place. The new $89 club membership is now more compelling for those who are interested in purchasing multiple themes directly from Array.</p>
<p>In addition to the the redesign and new pricing, Array released a free theme pack to help potential customers get acquainted with their products before purchasing. The pack includes five of their most popular themes, some of which were not previously offered for free, including Author, Editor, Fixed, Typable and Transmit. Editor is also available on WordPress.org and WordPress.com.</p>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/free-theme-pack.jpg"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/free-theme-pack.jpg?resize=1025%2C772" alt="free-theme-pack" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54143" /></a></p>
<p>Array&#8217;s journey over the past two years, which includes pulling out of Themeforest, rebranding, and then jumping back into the marketplace with a more beneficial arrangement, necessitated an update in its pricing structure in order to remain competitive. Customers gravitate towards straightforward pricing that they can understand, especially when products are sold across multiple marketplaces.</p>
<p>The theme shop&#8217;s experimentation with selling on Themeforest, WordPress.com, Creative Market, Mojo Marketplace, and Array&#8217;s own website shows how much it has had to adapt to reach potential customers. Commercial WordPress themes are a multi-million dollar industry, but there&#8217;s no single avenue paved to success even when partnering with one of the dominant marketplaces.</p>
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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/akosma" target="_blank">Adrian Kosmaczewski</a>, a 42-year-old, self-taught developer, published an article today titled <a href="https://medium.com/@akosma/being-a-developer-after-40-3c5dd112210c#.5nju9pdg8" target="_blank">Being A Developer After 40</a>. The piece is full of sage advice that is resonating with developers of all ages. His post is a summary of a talk he gave at the <a href="https://www.appbuilders.ch/" target="_blank">App Builders Switzerland</a> conference in April with the accompanying slides <a href="https://speakerdeck.com/akosma/being-a-developer-after-40" target="_blank">available on Speaker Deck</a>.</p>
<p>Kosmaczewski gives readers a glimpse into what the world of technology was like in 1997, the year he began his career as a developer before the days of unit tests and continuous integration, before SVN even existed.</p>
<blockquote><p>My first job consisted of writing ASP pages in various editors, ranging from Microsoft FrontPage, to HotMeTaL Pro to EditPlus, managing cross-browser compatibility between Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer 4, and writing stored procedures in SQL Server 6.5 powering a commercial website published in Japanese, Russian, English and Spanish — without any consistent UTF-8 support across the software stack.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you worked as a developer in those days you may fondly remember working with some of these technologies. Since then, countless new ones have been introduced but the requirement to keep learning remains unchanged. Kosmaczewski offers advice on navigating the hype surrounding the newest programming languages.</p>
<blockquote><p>Do not worry about hype. Keep doing your thing, keep learning what you were learning, and move on. Pay attention to it only if you have a genuine interest, or if you feel that it could bring you some benefit in the medium or long run.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to get overwhelmed with all the new languages and frameworks that people say you need to learn in order to stay relevant, but Kosmaczewski encourages readers to follow their own interests and learn about software history. Otherwise, you&#8217;ll be forever chasing new architectures and ideas but never learning them in depth or gaining more than a shallow understanding of their implementation.</p>
<p>In an industry where professionals are valued by their abilities in specific languages, many programmers allow their identity to be wrapped up in the tools they use. Kosmaczewski encourages readers to be ready to change course:</p>
<blockquote><p>Do not criticize or make fun of the technology choices of your peers; for other people will have their own reasons to choose them, and they must be respected. Be prepared to change your mind at any time through learning. One day you might like Windows. One day you might like Android. I am actually liking some parts of Android lately. And that is OK.</p></blockquote>
<p>His perspective comes from nearly 20 years of working as a developer. The lesson I saw in this section of his essay is that the technologies you work with are part of your journey, and you&#8217;ll cycle through many of them. However, be careful not to allow them to become your whole identity, because you are still learning.</p>
<h3>The Value of Teaching</h3>
<p>One of the most inspiring parts of his post is the section on teaching. We often hear the saying, &#8220;Those who can, do; those who can&#8217;t, teach,&#8221; thrown around smugly, but this devalues educators. Teaching is somewhat of a lost art in an industry where many professionals are self-taught. Yet, Kosmaczewski says there are some things you cannot learn without having taught someone else:</p>
<blockquote><p>Teaching will make you more humble, because it will painfully show you how limited your knowledge is. Teaching is the best way to learn. Only by testing your knowledge against others are you going to learn properly. This will also make you more respectful regarding other developers and other technologies; every language, no matter how humble or arcane, has its place within the Tao of Programming, and only through teaching will you be able to feel it.</p></blockquote>
<p>Kosmaczewski also shares some moving stories of how his teaching and mentoring have made a difference in the world, especially for those who are just beginning.</p>
<p>If you have a few minutes, I highly recommend reading &#8220;<a href="https://medium.com/@akosma/being-a-developer-after-40-3c5dd112210c#.5nju9pdg8" target="_blank">Being A Developer After 40</a>.&#8221; This article is a window into one developer&#8217;s journey but his advice and habit recommendations are relevant to everyone from experienced programmers to those just starting out. Kosmaczewski explores some of the darker aspects of the industry but also the beauty of sticking with it. His closing statement sums it up nicely:</p>
<blockquote><p>As long as your heart tells you to keep on coding and building new things, you will be young, forever.</p></blockquote>
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<p>WordPress 4.5.1 is already being pushed out to sites configured for auto updates. If you&#8217;d rather not wait or have auto updates disabled, you can browse to Dashboard &#8211; Updates and click the Update Now button. If you encounter an issue or believe you&#8217;ve discovered a bug, please post it in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting">troubleshooting section</a> of the support forums.</p>
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<p>The first <a href="https://wptranslationday.org/" target="_blank">Global WordPress Translation Day</a> was held over the weekend, organized by the Polyglots team. The event included 24 hours of live training sessions and translation sprints that spanned every timezone from East to West. The goal was to grow the translation teams and educate new translators with live training sessions.</p>
<p>During the course of the event, 448 translators from 105 countries translated 40,350 new strings across 597 projects. This includes WordPress core and open source plugins and themes, such as Pods, Google Two-Factor Authentication, WooCommerce, bbPress, Yoast SEO, and hundreds of others.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WPTranslationDay?src=hash">#WPTranslationDay</a> in Japan &#8211; Our collective achievement today: of top 100, 20 plugins/62 plugins are now translated in Japanese.</p>
<p>&mdash; Naoko Takano (@naokomc) <a href="https://twitter.com/naokomc/status/724180025033940992">April 24, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
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<a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/japan-thailand-wptranslation-day.png"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/japan-thailand-wptranslation-day.png?resize=1025%2C766" alt="Japan and Thailand live streaming each other's events -  photo credit: Menn Studio" class="size-full wp-image-54075" /></a>Japan and Thailand live streaming each other&#8217;s events &#8211;  photo credit: <a href="https://twitter.com/MennStudio/status/724151092771065857">Menn Studio</a>
<p>&#8220;We had 39 local events and 11 remote events happening across the globe,&#8221; organizer Petya Raykovska said. &#8220;India was the big surprise with four of the big Indian languages getting new contributors, forming teams and connecting across India with one another to collaborate live.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Last year Hindi was far from 100%. Today 8 events in India translate to bo_IN, hi_IN, mr, gu, ml <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WPTranslationday?src=hash">#WPTranslationday</a> <a href="https://t.co/Lq5DoJrf0Q">pic.twitter.com/Lq5DoJrf0Q</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Petya Raykovska (@petyeah) <a href="https://twitter.com/petyeah/status/724103477002166272">April 24, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>All of the sessions were live streamed and the team had 316 people who watched the broadcast at some point during the day. The event featured 12 training sessions in different languages to teach participants how to translate WordPress core, including Japanese, Hindi, Bulgarian, German, Slovak, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch, Lithuanian and Italian.</p>
<p>The other sessions focused on topics for plugin and theme developers, such as:</p>
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<li>Plugin documentation and support for the whole world</li>
<li>How to find translators for your plugins and themes</li>
<li>Localization – Beyond Translation </li>
<li>The life of a string – or how WordPress gets its translations</li>
<li>Plugin/Theme i18n: How to prepare your plugin or theme for translate.wordpress.org</li>
<li>GlotDict – how a browser extension changes your translation workflow</li>
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<p>All of the videos from the event are <a href="https://www.crowdcast.io/e/wptranslationday" target="_blank">available on Crowdcast.io</a> if you want to learn more about the WordPress Polyglots team and how everyone works together. One of the best outcomes of the day, according to Raykovska, is that translation teams now have video documentation for new contributors. They plan to upload the videos to WordPress.tv and include them in the Polyglots handbook.</p>
<h3>Global WordPress Translation Day Offers a New Avenue for Contributing to Translations</h3>
<p>&#8220;We do contributor days around WordCamps and then the community summit once a year,&#8221; Raykovska said. &#8220;The contributor summit hasn’t been super productive for Polyglots so far. Unlike most other teams, most contributors are 100% volunteers and can’t afford (or get a Visa) for a trip to the US.</p>
<p>&#8220;So we wanted to organize a contributor day without these restrictions for participants,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And that’s how the idea was born.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Staring at the top of the pile of strings we translated during the Dutch <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wptranslationday?src=hash">#wptranslationday</a> meetup! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/community?src=hash">#community</a> <a href="https://t.co/hnC3OJsHTS">pic.twitter.com/hnC3OJsHTS</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Taco Verdo (@TacoVerdo) <a href="https://twitter.com/TacoVerdo/status/724499512639782912">April 25, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The Polyglots team has not set a date for the next Global WordPress Translation event, but Raykovska said it will be easier for them to organize now that they have the processes figured out. One of the most positive outcomes of this past weekend&#8217;s event is that it has sparked translation teams to organize more local events, especially now that they are armed with video documentation and training tools for plugin and theme developers.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some countries are planning monthly contributor translation drives and standalone contributor days,&#8221; Raykovska said.</p>
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<p> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BElHSiBB_KU/" target="_blank">#WPTranslationDay WordBench 東京。たくさん翻訳できました！</a></p>
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<p>Raykovska said next time she would like to get more people on screen from the events happening in different locations around the world. She also hopes to organize some round tables where Polyglots team members can share about their local processes and team structures.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think we need to make a solid effort to bridge the gap between plugin authors and translators,&#8221; Raykovska said. &#8220;The demand for translations is growing, especially for the most used languages. An event like this would be a good reason for the two groups to gather and talk about what’s not quite working right now and think of ways to overcome it.&#8221;</p>
<p>As many polyglots will be in attendance at WordCamp Europe, the team is considering organizing a gathering there. This multilingual WordPress event will be <a href="http://wptavern.com/wordcamp-europe-2016-expands-attendee-capacity-to-2200-largest-wordcamp-to-date" target="_blank">the largest WordCamp in history with 2200 attendees</a>. WordPress&#8217; rapidly growing international user base and the expanding Polyglots team could make the Global Translation Day event a catalyst for future improvements to the project.</p>
<p>&#8220;If we can go one step further, it would be awesome to revive the conversation about multilingual in core,&#8221; Rakovska said. The success of this past weekend&#8217;s event shows the Polyglots&#8217; enthusiasm and determination to collaborate across borders to get things done.</p>
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<p>WordCamp Chicago 2009 is a special memory because it&#8217;s where I saw a demo of <a href="http://www.gravityforms.com/">Gravity Forms</a> before it launched to the public. At the time Contact Form 7 was a household name and the go-to plugin for creating forms. I knew it was going to be successful when I saw its user interface and how it worked. Seven years later, the plugin is still going strong.</p>
<p>The GPL license was also hot topic at the time. During Matt Mullenweg&#8217;s State of the Word presentation, he announced that the WordPress Theme directory would have a section dedicated to theme shops that were 100% GPL. I remember hearing the room gasp during his announcement.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffc316/3611592503/in/album-72157619302065170/"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/farm4.staticflickr.com/3659/3611592503_8deb33cc39_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&ssl=1" alt="100_2303" /></a></p>
<p>In 2009, the WordPress commercial theme market was young and the GPL was a license many theme companies didn&#8217;t embrace. Having your company <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/commercial/">listed on a page</a> that gets a ton of traffic motivated at least a couple of theme shops to embrace the GPL.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to meeting new people this weekend and creating new memories. If you happen to see me, please stop and say hi. I&#8217;d love to talk to you about your experiences with WordPress.</p>
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<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/img_8539.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-54047" src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/img_8539.png?resize=282%2C500" alt="Publicize Connections" /></a>Comments can quickly be moderated thanks to gestures added to the notifications screen. Swiping left on a notification displays options to approve, unapprove, spam, or trash a comment.</p>
<a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CommentModerationGestures.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-54054" src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CommentModerationGestures.png?resize=281%2C500" alt="Comment Moderation Gestures" /></a>Comment Moderation Gestures
<p>If you&#8217;ve connected multiple sites to the app, it can be cumbersome to navigate to the one you access most often. This version includes the ability to set up a primary site from within the Account Settings panel. During testing however, I noticed my version of the app doesn&#8217;t have this setting. I&#8217;m going through the support process to determine the cause.</p>
<a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/img_8537.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-54043" src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/img_8537.png?resize=282%2C500" alt="Configure a Primary Site" /></a>My Account Settings Page
<p>A new UI element at the bottom of the post creation screen allows users to geotag a post. Simply type in an address or location into the search field and a map displays with the location data. The location is stored in the WordPress backend but can be displayed on the frontend if a theme supports it.</p>
<a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/img_8538.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-54044" src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/img_8538.png?resize=282%2C500" alt="Geotag Support" /></a>Geotag Support
<p>A full list <a href="https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A6.1+label%3A%22[Type]+Enhancement%22">of changes</a> and <a href="https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A6.1+label%3A%22[Type]+Bug%22">bug fixes</a> is available on GitHub where you can also follow the <a href="https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A6.2+">progress of 6.2</a>. If you have any issues or think you&#8217;ve discovered a bug, please report it on the <a href="https://ios.forums.wordpress.org/">WordPress for iOS support forums</a>.</p>
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";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:64:"WPTavern: WordPress 4.6 to Update Theme Filter Tags in the Admin";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=53952";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:74:"http://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-6-to-update-theme-filter-tags-in-the-admin";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:2093:"<p>The admin themes browser has been updated and modernized in recent years to make it easier to search through the 3,800+ themes available on WordPress.org. One aspect of the interface that has lagged behind, however, is the list of tags for filtering themes. The tags have gone untouched since back in the day when users would search themes by color.</p>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/theme-tags.png"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/theme-tags.png?resize=1025%2C726" alt="theme-tags" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54013" /></a></p>
<p>The WordPress Theme Review Team&#8217;s <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/33407" target="_blank">proposal to overhaul the outdated tags/filters</a> is making it into WordPress 4.6. All of the color tags will be removed, which makes sense since many modern themes are customizable when it comes to accent colors. The update will also remove fixed, fluid, and responsive layouts and will add &#8216;Grid Layout&#8217; to the list. In the list of miscellaneous features, Blavatar will be removed and Footer Widgets will be added.</p>
<p>The Subject section will be completely revamped by removing the all the previous tags and replacing them with a new list of general theme categories:</p>
<ul>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>E-Commerce</li>
<li>Education</li>
<li>Entertainment</li>
<li>Food &#038; Drink</li>
<li>Holiday</li>
<li>News</li>
<li>Photography</li>
<li>Portfolio</li>
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<p>The tags will also be updated on the WordPress Theme Directory <a href="https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1187" target="_blank">in cooperation with the meta team</a>.</p>
<p>The WordPress theme landscape has changed so much over the years, especially with the introduction of the customizer, and this update will make it easier for users to narrow down themes they want to use. WordPress.org theme authors will want to be ready to update their themes as soon as the new tags are available so that they can be more easily found via search.</p>
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";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:25:"Matt: 538 on Basic Income";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:22:"https://ma.tt/?p=46513";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:42:"https://ma.tt/2016/04/538-on-basic-income/";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:746:"<blockquote><p>The economic uncertainty surrounding basic income is huge, and the politics of bringing such a program about on a large scale are daunting. But something makes this radical proposal so exciting that people and governments are increasingly willing to try it. Basic income challenges our notions of the social safety net, the relationship between work and income, and how to adapt to technological change. That makes it one of the most audacious social policy experiments in modern history. It could fail disastrously, or it could change everything for the better.</p></blockquote>
<p>From FiveThirtyEight, <a href="http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/universal-basic-income/">What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money?</a></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:"Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:12:59 +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:4:"Matt";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:36;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";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:46:"WP Mobile Apps: WordPress for iOS: Version 6.1";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:33:"http://apps.wordpress.com/?p=3375";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:68:"https://apps.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/wordpress-for-ios-version-6-1/";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:3668:"<p>Hi there, WordPress users! <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordpress/id335703880?mt=8&uo=6&at=&ct=">Version 6.1 of the WordPress for iOS app</a> is now available in the App Store.</p>
<h1>What&#8217;s New:</h1>
<p><strong>Get social on the go!</strong> WordPress.com and Jetpack-enabled bloggers can manage Publicize and third-party sharing from within the app.</p>
<p><strong>More gestures!</strong> Swipe notifications to approve, unapprove, and trash comments at the speed of your thumbs.</p>

<a href="https://apps.wordpress.com/img_2189/"><img width="169" height="300" src="https://apps.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/img_2189.png?w=169&h=300" class="attachment-medium size-medium" alt="Swipe left to unveil the new moderation options." /></a>

<p><strong>Mobile friendly.</strong> Select your primary blog right from within the app.</p>

<a href="https://apps.wordpress.com/img_2187-new/"><img width="169" height="300" src="https://apps.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/img_2187-new.png?w=169&h=300" class="attachment-medium size-medium" alt="You can select your primary site in " /></a>
<a href="https://apps.wordpress.com/img_2188/"><img width="169" height="300" src="https://apps.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/img_2188.png?w=169&h=300" class="attachment-medium size-medium" alt="Pick it with a simple tap!" /></a>

<p><strong>Where’s Waldo? </strong>Search locations to tag GPS on posts.</p>

<a href="https://apps.wordpress.com/img_2190-new/"><img width="169" height="300" src="https://apps.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/img_2190-new.png?w=169&h=300" class="attachment-medium size-medium" alt="GPS tag your posts!" /></a>
<a href="https://apps.wordpress.com/img_2191/"><img width="169" height="300" src="https://apps.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/img_2191.png?w=169&h=300" class="attachment-medium size-medium" alt="Tap on " /></a>
<a href="https://apps.wordpress.com/img_2192/"><img width="169" height="300" src="https://apps.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/img_2192.png?w=169&h=300" class="attachment-medium size-medium" alt="Use the search field to select the right location." /></a>

<p><strong>Enhancements.</strong> Because &#8220;good&#8221; is not enough! Here&#8217;s the full <a href="https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A6.1+label%3A%22%5BType%5D+Enhancement%22">list of enhancements</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Bug fixes.</strong> Tons of <a href="https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A6.1+label%3A%22%5BType%5D+Bug%22">bug fixes</a>!</p>
<h1>Thank You</h1>
<p>Thanks to all of the contributors who worked on this release:<br />
<a href="https://github.com/aerych">@aerych</a>, <a href="https://github.com/alexcurylo">@alexcurylo</a>, <a href="https://github.com/astralbodies">@astralbodies</a>, <a href="https://github.com/diegoreymendez">@diegoreymendez</a>, <a href="https://github.com/frosty">@frosty</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jleandroperez">@jleandroperez</a>, <a href="https://github.com/koke">@koke</a>, <a href="https://github.com/kurzee">@kurzee</a>, <a href="https://github.com/kwonye">@kwonye</a>, <a href="https://github.com/sendhil">@sendhil</a> and <a href="https://github.com/SergioEstevao">@SergioEstevao</a>.</p>
<p>You can track the development progress for the next update by visiting <a href="https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/issues?utf8=✓&q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A6.2+" target="_blank">our 6.2 milestone on GitHub</a>. Until next time!</p><img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=apps.wordpress.com&blog=108068616&post=3375&subd=apps&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />";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:"Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:30:37 +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:14:"diegoreymendez";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:37;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";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:58:"Post Status: WordPress Development Tools — Draft Podcast";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:31:"https://poststatus.com/?p=24094";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:65:"https://poststatus.com/wordpress-development-tools-draft-podcast/";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:5344:"<p>Welcome to the Post Status <a href="https://poststatus.com/category/draft">Draft podcast</a>, which you can find <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/post-status-draft-wordpress/id976403008">on iTunes</a>, <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/krogsgard/post-status-draft-wordpress-podcast">Stitcher</a>, and <a href="http://simplecast.fm/podcasts/1061/rss">via RSS</a> for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle &#8212; the CTO of Human Made &#8212; and Brian Krogsgard.</p>
<p><span>Everybody creates workflows to accomplish their development work. And sometimes you come upon a new tool that completely changes how you do things, and helps you improve your productivity.</span></p>
<p><span>In this episode, Joe and Brian aim to share their tools in the hopes that it will help others review and refine their own processes. And Joe and Brian approach things quite differently themselves, so they compare and contrast their own workflows. Have something to add to the conversation, be sure to comment!</span></p>
<a href="https://audio.simplecast.com/36197.mp3">https://audio.simplecast.com/36197.mp3</a>
<p><a href="http://audio.simplecast.com/36197.mp3">Direct Download</a></p>
<h3>Tools</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/modmore/Gitify">Gitify</a>, <a href="http://www.cockos.com/licecap/">lice-cap</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.capturedapp.com/">Captured (straight to S3)</a>, <a href="http://gifhub.org/">Gifhub</a>, <a href="https://www.telestream.net/screenflow/">Screenflow</a>, <a href="https://cloudup.com/">Cloudup</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.authy.com/">Authy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://justgetflux.com/">F.lux</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.tunnelbear.com/">TunnelBear</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.alfredapp.com/">Alfred</a></li>
<li><a href="https://slack.com/">Slack</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Coding Tools &amp; Debugging</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/">PHPStorm</a>, <a href="https://www.sublimetext.com/">Sublime</a>, <a href="https://atom.io/">Atom</a>, <a href="http://www.vim.org/">VIM</a>, <a href="https://panic.com/coda/">Coda</a></li>
<li><a href="https://xdebug.org/">Xdebug</a>, <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.var-dump.php">var_dump</a>, <a href="https://pecl.php.net/package/xhprof">XHProf</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie">httpie</a></li>
<li><a href="https://atom.io/packages">Atom Packages</a>: <a href="https://atom.io/packages/autocomplete-php">php-autocomplete</a>, WPCS, <a href="https://atom.io/packages/linter-php">php-linter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/09/02/new-react-developer-tools.html">React-console</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/">Query Monitor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sequelpro.com/">Sequel Pro</a>, <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql.html">mysql command line</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.iterm2.com/">iTerm2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wp-cli.org/">wp-cli!!!</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Build Tools</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://gruntjs.com/">Grunt</a></li>
<li><a href="http://gulpjs.com/">Gulp</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/make/">Make</a></li>
<li><a href="https://imageoptim.com/mac">ImageOptim</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-sass">Grunt-sass</a> vs. <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-contrib-sass">grunt-contrib-sass</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Version Control / Review Tools / Deployment</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/">Tig</a>, <a href="https://www.git-tower.com/">Tower</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hub.github.com/">Hub</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/">Github</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.araxis.com/merge/index.en">Araxis Merge</a></li>
<li><a href="http://deploybot.com/">DeployBot</a> / <a href="http://beanstalkapp.com/">Beanstalk</a></li>
<li><a href="https://panic.com/transmit/">Transmit (S3/SFTP)</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Frontend Tools / Extensions</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://developer.chrome.com/devtools">Chrome Inspector / Console</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.getpostman.com/">Postman</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/javascript-debugging">Chrome JS Debugger</a></li>
<li><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ip-address-and-domain-inf/lhgkegeccnckoiliokondpaaalbhafoa?hl=en">IP &amp; Domain Info extension</a></li>
<li><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-developer/bfbameneiokkgbdmiekhjnmfkcnldhhm?hl=en">Web Developer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wappalyzer.com/">Wappalyzer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://codepen.io/">CodePen</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Sponsor</h3>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This podcast is sponsored by <a href="https://yoast.com/">Yoast</a>. Yoast SEO is the best WordPress SEO plugin available, with a premium version to provide expert support and additional features. Thank you to Yoast for being a Post Status partner.</span></p>
<h3>Related Podcasts</h3>
<p><a href="https://poststatus.com/understanding-wp-cli-and-a-discussion-on-micro-plugin-businesses-draft-podcast/">Understanding WP-CLI</a></p>
<p><a href="https://poststatus.com/local-wordpress-development-strategies-and-transparency-in-business-draft-podcast/">Local WordPress Development Strategies</a></p>
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<p>There’s a lot of great WordPress content published in the community but not all of it is featured on the Tavern. This post is an assortment of items related to WordPress that caught my eye but didn’t make it into a full post.</p>
<h2>Matt Mullenweg&#8217;s Father Passes Away</h2>
<p>Losing a loved one is tough, especially when it&#8217;s a parent. Matt Mullenweg&#8217;s father, Chuck Mullenweg, recently passed away. Matt <a href="https://ma.tt/2016/04/in-memoriam-chuck-mullenweg/">published a touching tribute</a> on his site that describes the kind of man his father was.</p>
<blockquote><p>We were in a father / son bowling league. I remember admiring his work ethic so much: he’d get up before dawn every morning and put on a suit, grab his briefcase, and go to work. He often went in on weekends and I loved to go with him because they had &#8216;fast&#8217; internet at the office and I could read Dilbert and about Babylon 5. He was a voracious reader and learner, and loved tinkering whether it was cars or networking. In the other room I can hear a bitcoin mining rig he set up a few years ago. He was independent minded and unafraid to question the status quo.</p></blockquote>
<p>My deepest sympathies and condolences go out to the Mullenweg family. You can read <a href="http://ma.tt/chuck/">Chuck&#8217;s obituary here</a>.</p>
<h2>My First Plugin</h2>
<p>Thanks to <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/binarygary/">Binarygary,</a> my first plugin is in the directory. It&#8217;s called <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/hello-admin/">Hello Admin</a> and with each page load, a lyric from Hello Dolly displays as an admin notice.</p>
<a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/HelloAdminScreenshot.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-54005" src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/HelloAdminScreenshot.png?resize=706%2C390" alt="Hello Admin in Action" /></a>Hello Admin in Action
<p>In all seriousness, the plugin is a joke and a humorous way to bring attention to developers <a href="http://wptavern.com/please-stop-abusing-wordpress-admin-notices">abusing admin notices</a> in WordPress.</p>
<h2>Pressware Partners with Evermore</h2>
<p>Tom McFarlin <a href="https://tommcfarlin.com/evermore/">announced that his</a> company Pressware, is partnering with <a href="https://evermo.re/">Evermore</a>. The partnership allows Pressware to provide its expertise in custom WordPress development and project management to Evermore&#8217;s customers.</p>
<h2>Four Years of EDD</h2>
<p>Pippin Williamson <a href="https://pippinsplugins.com/edd-4-years/">shared the hardships and successes</a> he&#8217;s experienced in the last four years managing Easy Digital Downloads.</p>
<blockquote><p>Today, Easy Digital Downloads is installed on over 50,000 websites, has reached nearly one million downloads, and has grown to a sustainable business that supports the livelihood of an ever-growing team comprised of full time employees and active contractors. I don’t think I ever thought we would be where we are today four years ago.</p></blockquote>
<p>His post is an honest look at the amount of effort and circumstances beyond revenue that&#8217;s involved with running a successful business.</p>
<h2>Translation Day Wapuu Posters!</h2>
<p>In what is a traditional part of this series, I end each issue by featuring a Wapuu design. For those who don&#8217;t know, Wapuu is the <a href="http://wapuu.jp/2015/12/12/wapuu-origins/">unofficial mascot</a> of the WordPress project. The first <a href="http://wptavern.com/wordpress-global-translation-day-set-for-april-24-2016">global translation day</a> takes place on April 24th and to celebrate the occasion, the WordPress Polyglots team has created a series of Wapuu posters.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">New <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WPTranslationDay?src=hash">#WPTranslationDay</a> posters starring <a href="https://twitter.com/wp_wapuu">@wp_wapuu</a> thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/sonjaleix">@sonjaleix</a>! Grab them while they’re hot! <a href="https://t.co/BfU9g8nG9S">pic.twitter.com/BfU9g8nG9S</a></p>
<p>&mdash; WPPolyglots (@TranslateWP) <a href="https://twitter.com/TranslateWP/status/723494729892110336">April 22, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
<p></p>
<p>That&#8217;s it for issue eight. If you recently discovered a cool resource or post related to WordPress, please share it with us in the comments.</p>
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<p>Facebook <a href="https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/04/news-feed-fyi-more-articles-you-want-to-spend-time-viewing/" target="_blank">announced</a> yesterday that its news feed algorithm will now favor articles that users spend a long time reading. While likes, clicks, comments, and sharing counts are all valuable metrics, they are not always reliable determinants for what users want to see. Facebook discovered this by gathering feedback via its Feed Quality Program.</p>
<p>As a result, the social network <a href="https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/06/news-feed-fyi-taking-into-account-time-spent-on-stories/" target="_blank">updated its algorithm last June</a> to factor in how much time users spent reading posts within the news feed, regardless of whether users even opened the article. <a href="https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/08/news-feed-fyi-click-baiting/" target="_blank">Two years ago</a>, Facebook also began factoring in instances where a user clicks on an article but then comes straight back to the news feed. This could be because a site loaded too slowly or the article was click-bait and not what the user was expecting based on the preview.</p>
<p>&#8220;Building on this work, we’re learning that the time people choose to spend reading or watching content they clicked on from News Feed is an important signal that the story was interesting to them,&#8221; Facebook representatives said.<strong> &#8220;We are adding another factor to News Feed ranking so that we will now predict how long you spend looking at an article in the Facebook mobile browser or an Instant Article after you have clicked through from News Feed.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Facebook will not be counting loading time towards this new ranking signal but will calculate the actual time spent reading/watching once the content has loaded. But before you think you can game this algorithm by simply publishing longer articles, Facebook will be measuring this time as a threshold so that longer articles are not preferred by default.</p>
<p>The social network also announced that it will be diversifying its display of posts from different pages so as not to bombard users with too much content from the same source.</p>
<p>&#8220;We’ve also heard from people that they enjoy reading articles from a wide range of publishers, and it can be repetitive if too many articles from the same source are back to back in their News Feed,&#8221; representatives said. &#8220;We’ll also be making an update to reduce how often people see several posts in a row from the same source in their News Feed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Publishers who depend on Facebook for a significant amount of their referrals will want to take note of these changes to the news feed algorithm. The social network has already started rolling them out and will continue over the next few weeks.</p>
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<p>Since I started covering WordPress in 2009, one of the things I&#8217;ve noticed is that certain topics have a cyclical nature to them. One of these <a href="http://wptavern.com/phoning-home-to-plugin-authors">is the contention in the WordPress community</a> on what data is <a href="http://interconnectit.com/1722/who-is-wordpress-talking-to/">sent, stored, and shared</a> on WordPress.org. In a <a href="http://torquemag.io/2016/04/user-data-wordpress-org-belong-community/">post published</a> on Torquemag.io, Josh Pollock, Founder of <a href="https://calderawp.com/">CalderaWP</a>, argues that WordPress is a community-driven project and as such, data collected by WordPress.org should be shared with the community.</p>
<blockquote><p>If installing and updating themes via the WordPress dashboard wasn’t so easy, WordPress wouldn’t be what it is today. I understand and appreciate this.</p>
<p>Here’s the part that doesn’t sit well with me: WordPress.org is collecting data on all of its users (as it should), but this information isn’t available in aggregate form to the community.</p></blockquote>
<p>Pollock says that as an entrepreneur, the information would help him make informed business decisions.</p>
<h2>Data is Stored for Two Days</h2>
<p>I spoke to Samuel ‘Otto’ Wood, who helps maintain WordPress.org, and discovered that some of the assumptions people have are not true.</p>
<p>&#8220;The data collection systems on <a href="http://w.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">w.org</a> have been inconsistent at best, and re-written several times,&#8221; Wood said.</p>
<p>&#8220;But the general idea that there is some kind of treasure trove of information we&#8217;re storing is misguided, at best. The data is collected, aggregated for the things we display, then tossed. We don&#8217;t store it for any serious length of time. Just the results of the data like the counts.&#8221;</p>
<p>Gathering, sorting, and displaying the large amount of data associated with WordPress is a CPU intensive job. The most recent example of WordPress.org sharing aggregate data is for active installs of <a href="http://wptavern.com/wordpress-plugin-directory-launches-new-design">plugins</a> and <a href="http://wptavern.com/the-wordpress-theme-directory-replaces-download-counts-with-the-number-of-active-installs">themes</a>. Displaying the Active Install count is the result of significant performance improvements from WordPress lead developer <a href="http://wptavern.com/the-wordpress-theme-directory-replaces-download-counts-with-the-number-of-active-installs">Dion Hulse</a>. Without the improvements, the data collection would have overloaded CPUs and MySQL databases.</p>
<p>&#8220;Gathering that data is frickin&#8217; difficult to start with, &#8220;Wood said. &#8220;For the longest time, we didn&#8217;t even have the actual system resources to pull off the &#8216;Active Installs&#8217; count. We didn&#8217;t display that count because <b>we couldn&#8217;t do it</b>. The idea that we&#8217;re hiding things is ludicrous.&#8221;</p>
<p>Raw data is stored for two days and is then overwritten, &#8220;basically, there&#8217;s too much data to store,&#8221; Wood said. &#8220;All of the data that <a href="http://w.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">w.org</a> gathers is used to display the stats on <a href="http://w.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">w.org</a> itself. Nothing special is hidden.&#8221;</p>
<h2>Data Accuracy is Hard</h2>
<p>If developers are going to make business decisions using public data, the data has to be accurate. Accuracy is a complex problem but the team has slowly made progress over the years as legacy systems on W.org are phased out.</p>
<p>&#8220;A lot of the <a href="http://w.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">w.org</a> systems are poorly made,&#8221; Wood said. &#8220;They&#8217;re old, have been modified dozens of times over the years, and badly in need of updating. For a long time, the data we gathered could not be processed fast enough so we simply threw over half of it away.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mostly, we phase out old useless systems and replace them with something better and newer which gives us things to display. Active Install counts was an entirely new system that replaced an older one which didn&#8217;t give any useful information.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wood confirms what I&#8217;ve believed to be true for a long time. WordPress.org is not storing data for an extended period of time and the information that is collected is likely on public display somewhere on the site. What types of data would you like to see on WordPress.org?</p>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/" target="_blank">Guggenheim</a> relaunched its website on WordPress this week. The site, which represents the collection of Guggenheim museums, was in need of an overhaul that would modernize its underlying architecture and design.</p>
<p>Laura Kleger, who oversees the foundation&#8217;s online projects, explained why the Guggenheim chose WordPress for its new website. She said that the team began with a CMS analysis phase, which included Drupal and WordPress.</p>
<p>&#8220;The ideal process for improving websites is incremental and rapid change, but the old Guggenheim.org had accumulated too much technical and structural debt to produce further results, and a big leap forward was required,&#8221; Kleger said.</p>
<p>Prior to embarking on the project, the Guggenheim was running on Joomla, but the team had a difficult time implementing small changes.</p>
<p>&#8220;We wanted to use a widely adopted, open-source CMS with enough muscle to meet advanced needs,&#8221; Kleger said. They needed a user-friendly way for museum staff to create and update content without requesting the help of of designers and developers for simple updates.</p>
<p>&#8220;We chose WordPress for a few reasons &#8211; among them, the broad pool of developer resources, the excellence of the content administration interface, the rapid update release cycle, the ease of extending functionality, and the CMS’s deep taxonomy,&#8221; Kleger said.</p>
<p>The Guggenheim partnered with New York-based development agency <a href="https://www.alleyinteractive.com/" target="_blank">Alley Interactive</a> for the website&#8217;s overhaul, who recommended implementing a headless version of WordPress with content served via the WP REST API. This allowed the team to build out the frontend of the site using AngularJS.</p>
<p>&#8220;As noted by <a href="http://alistapart.com/column/nearly-headless-cms" target="_blank">others</a>, this approach is superior to the standard WordPress templating approach for achieving some of the more exciting possibilities in user experience today,&#8221; Kleger said.</p>
<p>The new website is a beautiful example of the WP REST API in the wild. For a deeper look at the design and development process, check out Kleger&#8217;s <a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/blogs/checklist/meet-the-new-guggenheim-org" target="_blank">post announcing the new Guggenheim.org</a>.</p>
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<p>The <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36545">first is that</a> TinyMCE toolbars and tabs are unresponsive in Chrome Version 50.0.2661.75 beta-m (64-bit). The second is that <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36510">page templates with widgets are styled incorrectly</a>. WordPress 4.5 added a singular class that many themes use, including Twenty Eleven, that breaks a site&#8217;s layout. After a lengthy discussion and testing, the decision was to <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/36112">revert</a> the change.</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/wordpress-4.5.1-RC2.zip">WordPress 4.5.1 RC 1</a> is available and the core team wants as many people as possible to test the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/04/22/4-5-1-release-candidate/">TinyMCE update and other bug fixes</a> included in the release. If you think you&#8217;ve discovered a bug, you&#8217;re encouraged to report it in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta">Alpha/Beta section</a> of the support forums.</p>
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";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:86:"WPTavern: Jetpack 4.0 Released with UI Improvements and New Editor View for VideoPress";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=53910";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:96:"http://wptavern.com/jetpack-4-0-released-with-ui-improvements-and-new-editor-view-for-videopress";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:2915:"<p>Shortly after Jetpack 4.0 was released yesterday many <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-updating-to-jetpack-40-read-this" target="_blank">users reported a fatal error and/or white screen when updating</a>. Developers started <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/168889943173228?view=permalink&id=1141144765947736" target="_blank">warning each other in the Advanced WordPress Facebook group to avoid updating to 4.0</a>, after having received emails from clients with sites that went down. A followup 4.0.2 release was pushed out today for users with the specific configuration that caused the fatal error.</p>
<p>This is the third time in under two months that the Jetpack team has had to send out a followup update on the heels of a release to correct significant problems. Fortunately, the team worked quickly to get a fix out to sites with fatal errors.</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/jetpack-ui-improvements.png"><img src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/jetpack-ui-improvements.png?resize=286%2C300" alt="jetpack-ui-improvements" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-53926" /></a>The 4.0 milestone brings major UI improvements for on-boarding new users. In previous versions of the plugin, visiting the Jetpack settings page showed a big green button prompting users to connect to WordPress.com.</p>
<p>This release introduces a full page explaining the benefits of Jetpack to encourage users to hook it up. It also displays a picture of the development and support team, an explanation of Photon, and the benefits of the Protect module.</p>
<p>Version 4.0 also adds a new editor view for VideoPress that lets users edit the shortcode in the editor with a new modal options window. This makes it easy to wrangle VideoPress settings directly in the editor</p>
<p>A few other notable enhancements in this release include:</p>
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<li>Tighter WooCommerce Integration: Social sharing icons now appear on WooCommerce single product views</li>
<li>Widget Visibility for Custom Post Type Archives: Show/hide widgets for CPT single or archive views</li>
<li>Selective Refresh for Widgets: Widgets now update instantly with live previews in the customizer</li>
<li>Updated schema.org Microdata for Breadcrumbs: Gives search engines a better understanding of a page&#8217;s position in the site hierarchy</li>
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<p>Jetpack 4.0 also adds performance enhancements for the Protect module and Contact Forms. The method it uses to clean the database of spam form submission records is now more efficient. Check out the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/changelog/" target="_blank">changelog</a> to see a full list of all the enhancements and fixes in this release. It should be safe to update your sites and clients&#8217; sites to 4.0.2 without any ill effects.</p>
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";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:96:"WPTavern: WPWeekly Episode 231 – An Inside Look at the Plugin Review Process with Mika Epstein";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:44:"http://wptavern.com?p=53924&preview_id=53924";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:102:"http://wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-231-an-inside-look-at-the-plugin-review-process-with-mika-epstein";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:2951:"<p>In this episode of WordPress Weekly, <a href="https://discord.gg/0wOgTCREXzBiWNYG">Marcus Couch</a> and I are joined by <a href="https://halfelf.org/">Mika Epstein</a>. Epstein reviews plugins before they&#8217;re added to the WordPress plugin directory and volunteers on the WordPress support forums. We learn what the plugin review process is like and common security issues she discovers. I was shocked to learn that Epstein has experienced some of the worst in people from denying plugins into the directory.</p>
<p>We discuss the idea of a WordPress notifications center and how it could help keep users aware of issues on their sites. Last but not least, she gives us a heads up on common issues that have been reported on the support forums since the release of WordPress 4.5.</p>
<h2>Plugins Picked By Marcus:</h2>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ask-me-anything-anonymously/">Ask Me Anything (Anonymously), </a>by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/arunbasillal/">Arun Basil Lal</a> from India, enables users to easily add a page or widget using a shortcode where visitors can ask you questions anonymously and you can list them along with your answers.</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-cleanup/">Admin Cleanup, </a>by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mgibbs189/">Matt Gibbs </a>from Charlottesville, VA, lets you hide menu items (e.g. Tools) entirely, or move them into the WordPress Admin Bar.</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/logic-shortcodes/">Logic Shortcodes, </a>by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/samueldiethelm/">Samuel Diethelm</a> from Marbella, Spain, enables the use of [if] shortcodes to work with conditional logic based on post meta or taxonomy terms on posts and pages. With conditional logic for taxonomy terms, you can use names, slugs or term_ids. For example: [if taxonomy=&#8221;category&#8221; slug=&#8221;cars&#8221;]Content to show[/if]</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/dispensary-coupons/">Dispensary Coupons<b>, </b></a>by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/deviodigital/">Robert DeVore </a>from Michigan, allows you to prominently display discounts on flower, tinctures, edibles and more with a simple shortcode or widget.</p>
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<p>Beaver Builder, the drag-and-drop page builder plugin, <a href="https://www.wpbeaverbuilder.com/2nd-birthday-big-milestone-april-update/" target="_blank">celebrated two years in business</a> this week. Fastline Media, the parent company, started as a web design agency, but due to the success of their product the team closed down its client services department at the beginning of 2016 to focus 100% on Beaver Builder. After just two years in business, the plugin has passed $1 million in revenue.</p>
<p>Beaver Builder hired its first employee in April, 2015, a year after launching. It now employees four people full-time and a few part-time contractors in addition to its three founders. The plugin recently passed 100,000 active installations between the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/beaver-builder-lite-version/" target="_blank">WordPress.org</a> and commercial versions.</p>
<p>As part of their two year milestone post, the team also announced that it acquired the beaverbuilder.com domain name, which set them back $2,300, according to co-founder Robby McCullough.</p>
<p>&#8220;There was a really good salesman for the holding company that we bought it through,&#8221; McCullough said. &#8220;He convinced me it was a steal. Considering it probably cost ~$10 originally, though, it was a bit of a sting.&#8221;</p>
<p>McCullough said that he and his co-founders see Beaver Builder, and other WordPress website builders, as being a bridge between WordPress and its mainstream market competitors like Wix and Weebly.</p>
<p>&#8220;This idea came up during Jeff King&#8217;s presentation at Pressnomics, as more and more traditional &#8216;jobs&#8217; become automated and obsolete (think driverless cars/trucks on the horizon),&#8221; McCullough said. &#8220;More and more people will be forced to start small businesses and create their own opportunities. Along with democratizing publishing, we think WordPress (and the web in general) — hopefully with the help of Beaver Builder — has the opportunity to &#8216;democratize the workforce.'&#8221;</p>
<p>With the $1 million milestone under their belts, McCullough said the Beaver Builder co-founders plan to keep putting food on the table and taking care of customers.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve made it this far by providing great support and embracing customer feedback,&#8221; McCullough said. &#8220;We might be in the driver seat, but our customers are the ones laying the track.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Please <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1n0sD8O_Upb9h5FvKj6z_MFWPH5valmpQgbZf5kQEejU/viewform">fill out our signup form</a> to request to join as a beta tester. If there are available spaces in the beta program, you will receive an email from TestFlight with instructions to download the latest beta release. We can&#8217;t wait to hear your feedback!</p>
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";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:34:"Matt: In Memoriam: Chuck Mullenweg";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:22:"https://ma.tt/?p=46426";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:50:"https://ma.tt/2016/04/in-memoriam-chuck-mullenweg/";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:5678:"<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46437" src="http://i2.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2016/04/MCM_5265-1-1.jpg?resize=604%2C302&ssl=1" alt="MCM_5265 (1).JPG" /></p>
<p>My father, Chuck Mullenweg, passed one week ago today. After over a month in ICU he had just been transferred to long-term acute care in a different hospital and we were looking forward to a tough but steady road to being back home when he took an unexpected and sudden turn. I&#8217;ve started and stopped writing this dozens of times since then and words continue to fail me.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the rememberance that ran in the paper a few days ago:</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2016/04/W01521910pdfpreview.png"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-46424 size-medium" src="http://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2016/04/W01521910pdfpreview.png?resize=604%2C296" alt="" /></a></p>
<p><img class="  wp-image-46500 alignright" src="http://i2.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2016/04/IMG_6024.jpg?resize=262%2C333&ssl=1" alt="IMG_6024.JPG" />It is impossible to overstate the influence my father has had on every part of my life: Why did I play saxophone? Dad did. Computers and programming? Dad did. Travel? He was frequently stationed overseas and even when we didn&#8217;t visit he would always bring back a cool gift for myself and my sister. He drove me to the HAL-PC office (local non-profit) every weekend where I&#8217;d learn so much fixing people&#8217;s broken computers and being exposed to open source for the first time. His O&#8217;Reilly &#8220;camel book&#8221; on Perl was the first scripting I learned, and he pointed me toward Mastering Regular Expressions which became the basis of <a href="https://ma.tt/2002/09/smart-quotes-in-php/">my first contribution to b2, texturize</a>.</p>
<p>We were in a father / son bowling league. I remember admiring his work ethic so much: he&#8217;d get up before dawn every morning and put on a suit, grab his briefcase, and go to work. He often went in on weekends and I loved to go with him because they had &#8220;fast&#8221; internet at the office and I could read Dilbert and about Babylon 5. He was a voracious reader and learner, and loved tinkering whether it was cars or networking. In the other room I can hear a bitcoin mining rig he set up a few years ago. He was independent minded and unafraid to question the status quo.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-46504" src="http://i1.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2016/04/IMG_4385.jpg?resize=351%2C263&ssl=1" alt="IMG_4385.JPG" /></p>
<p>There&#8217;s a photo somewhere of my dad mowing the lawn and me following behind him with a toy lawnmower, which is a perfect metaphor for how I&#8217;ve always followed in his footsteps.</p>
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<p>I&#8217;m at a loss.</p>
<p>Parents are there literally the day you&#8217;re born, and it&#8217;s hard to imagine a life without them. Most people reading this will outlive their parents, and deal with their mortality and often difficult and painful final days as those who brought us into this world exit it. I&#8217;ve been reading and reading all the writing I can find on this topic, but nothing really prepares you for it, and nothing makes it better to go through. It&#8217;s terrible.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46508" src="http://i2.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2016/04/MCM_7807.jpg?resize=604%2C402&ssl=1" alt="MCM_7807.jpg" /></p>
<p>He wasn&#8217;t someone to tell you what the right way to live was, in fact he was incredibly open minded. He didn&#8217;t tell you, he showed you how he lived his life from a place of integrity and trust, how he was in his relationship with my mom, how he was in business. He wasn&#8217;t flashy and seldom talked about his accomplishments or all the people he had helped out along the way. Many of the stories of appreciation coming in I&#8217;m hearing for the first time. In getting his books and taxes together this past week I was humbled by how simply he lived this season of his life, not into material things but cherishing relationships and his quiet life in the suburbs with my mother.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46499" src="http://i1.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2016/04/IMG_20151225_160835-1.jpg?resize=604%2C452&ssl=1" alt="IMG_20151225_160835 (1).jpg" /></p>
<p>My biggest blessing has been my family. Every one is the most supportive you can imagine. So inspiring&#8230; much of what I&#8217;ve done in the world was in the context of making my parents proud, and their relationship to each other and the amazing man my dad was has set a bar I hope to approach in my lifetime. The last few years he got much better about showing his pride in my sister and I, and even more importantly saying &#8220;I love you,&#8221; the three words that are among the best gift we can give each other. Don&#8217;t forget to use them, even if it feels cheesy or embarrassing, and for those of you with parents still around please give them some <a href="http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html">extra time</a> and a hug for me. This was unexpected, we really believed he was on an upward trajectory. You never know when the words you share with someone might be the last.</p>
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<p>I made a page <a href="http://ma.tt/chuck/">you can see his official obituary, information about his memorial service in Katy, and leave any memories you have of him at ma.tt/chuck</a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>What if the updater kept checking, license expired or not, and when you clicked to upgrade it alerted you?</p>
<p>Your license for Foobar has expired. Please renew it in order to upgrade.</p>
<p>What if you got this email?</p>
<p>Hey, you bought Foobar back in 2014 and that license lapsed. Normally I’d never bother you, but today I’ve pushed a major security fix. Since this is a security release, I’m offering you a discount. It’s already applied to your account, just log in and you can buy the upgrade at 50% off. If you’re not using Foobar anymore, click here and I’ll have your account flagged so we don’t bother you about this again.</p>
<p>How happy would you be to find out someone saved your soy bacon?</p></blockquote>
<p>Based <a href="https://halfelf.org/2016/despair-licensed-updates/#comment-75676">on the comments</a> of her article and from what Epstein has experienced from years of providing WordPress support, it&#8217;s a complex problem without a solution. The perils of updating commercial plugins bundled with themes that require a license key were apparent two years ago when a <a href="http://wptavern.com/critical-security-vulnerability-found-in-wordpress-slider-revolution-plugin-immediate-update-advised">critical security vulnerability was discovered</a> in Revolution Slider.</p>
<p>Had the news not been published across media outlets, many users may not have known about the update. In some cases, users couldn&#8217;t update because they didn&#8217;t have the required license key, <a href="http://wptavern.com/critical-security-vulnerability-found-in-wordpress-slider-revolution-plugin-immediate-update-advised#comment-58566">as was the case with Brenda</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The slider plugin was bundled in a theme that a PREVIOUS web developer installed for one of my clients. As such, I do not have the theme license key. There is NO WAY that I would ever have known about this extreme vulnerability had Sucuri not released it.</p></blockquote>
<p>Some companies make security updates available to all customers regardless if their license is expired. For example, earlier this year, a <a href="http://wptavern.com/critical-security-vulnerability-discovered-in-elegant-themes-products">critical security vulnerability was discovered</a> in Elegant Themes products. Due to the severity of the issue, the company made the updates available for free to expired accounts. The updates contained only the security fix without any of the new features developed in recent versions.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a delicate balance between pushing customers to upgrade, renew license keys, and making it easy to do so. As Epstein says in the conclusion of her post, &#8220;If you make it easy to pay, people will renew and pay. If you inform them of security issues, they will pay and upgrade.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a commercial plugin developer, how do you inform and convince customers to renew their license keys? Also, how do you handle security updates for customers with expired licenses?</p>
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<p>With <a href="http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000881" target="_blank">24 states</a> having enacted laws to legalize medical marijuana, the industry is booming and dispensaries need websites. <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dispensary/" target="_blank">WP Dispensary</a>, released five months ago, is the first WordPress plugin to target this underserved market.</p>
<p>After creating <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/leafly-reviews/" target="_blank">Leafly Reviews</a>, a plugin that displays dispensary reviews from Leafly using a widget or shortcode, <a href="http://www.robertdevore.com" target="_blank">Robert DeVore</a> decided he wanted to make more solutions to help dispensary owners build professional websites. <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dispensary/" target="_blank">WP Dispensary</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/dispensary-coupons/" target="_blank">Dispensary Coupons</a> soon followed on WordPress.org.</p>
<p>Many marijuana dispensaries post their product menus on a board, printed on paper, or displayed on a tablet. The WP Dispensary plugin makes it easy to enter products, with all their relevant details, into a menu for display on a WordPress-powered website. This makes it easy for the dispensary owner to create, edit, and maintain a master list of products, which can also be displayed in the store.</p>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wpd-menu-update-1.4.jpg"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wpd-menu-update-1.4.jpg?resize=160%2C174" alt="wpd-menu-update-1.4" class="alignright size-full wp-image-53872" /></a>The plugin creates custom post types for flowers, edibles, concentrates, pre-rolls, and topicals. It also includes custom taxonomies for aromas, flavors, effects, symptoms, and conditions. This allows visitors to easily sort available products.</p>
<p>Entering a new menu item is as easy as writing a post, so dispensary owners will have no problem keeping their menus updated:</p>
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<p>Dispensary owners can also enter product prices for flowers and concentrates based on weight, from 1/2 gram to an ounce. Edibles and pre-rolls allow you to enter the THC and CBD percentages.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s <a href="http://www.wpdispensary.com/wp-dispensary-version-1-4/" target="_blank">version 1.4 release</a>, in honor of the 4/20 holiday, adds topicals to the existing custom post types, with extra product information options for unit price, unit size, and THC mg and CBD mg.</p>
<p>When used in combination with DeVore&#8217;s free <a href="https://github.com/deviodigital/dispensary-display-wordpress-theme" target="_blank">Dispensary Display</a> theme, products are displayed beautifully on the frontend with images for each menu item. After updating it to be compatible with the 1.4 release, DeVore plans to get the theme ready for submission to the official WordPress theme directory.</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dispensary-items.png"><img src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dispensary-items.png?resize=887%2C524" alt="dispensary-items" class="alignright size-full wp-image-53878" /></a></p>
<p>WP Dispensary is also fully integrated with the WP REST API so developers can pull data from the custom post types and display it with JavaScript in a website or app. This currently requires the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/rest-api/" target="_blank">REST API plugin version 2</a> until the API is officially merged into core.</p>
<p>WP Dispensary is 100% open source and available for anyone to <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dispensary/" target="_blank">download for free from WordPress.org</a>. Full <a href="http://www.wpdispensary.com/documentation/" target="_blank">documentation</a> is available for the plugin on the WP Dispensary project website, which includes instructions for setting it up, information on add-ons, and additional plugin suggestions. The plugin is also <a href="https://github.com/deviodigital/wp-dispensary" target="_blank">available on GitHub</a> if you want to contribute bug fixes or improvements.</p>
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