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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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p>Easy Beer Lister also includes shortcodes for displaying a specific beer or a list of beers:</p>
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<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>
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<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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<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>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
<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>
<p>A photo posted by Naoko Takano (@naokomc) on Apr 24, 2016 at 3:37am PDT</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
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<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>
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<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: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:16;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<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>
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<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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<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>
</ul>
<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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<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><strong>Listen To Episode #231:</strong><br />
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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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<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>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46511" src="http://i1.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2016/04/MCM_5113.jpg?resize=604%2C238&ssl=1" alt="MCM_5113.jpg" /></p>
<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>
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<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>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/add-flower.png"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/add-flower.png?resize=1025%2C489" alt="add-flower" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53885" /></a></p>
<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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<h2>Themes Do it Too</h2>
<p>While the crux of the article focuses on plugins being the largest offender, the issue also applies to themes hosted in and outside of the WordPress theme directory. In one of the more extreme examples I discovered, earlier this year, <a href="https://reduxframework.com/e">Redux Framework</a> added an admin notice that informed users of a new <a href="https://reduxframework.com/extension/ad-remover/">commercial extension</a>.</p>
<p>When users questioned <a href="https://github.com/reduxframework/redux-framework/issues/2801">how to remove the notices</a>, Redux Framework developers responded by creating a commercial extension.</p>
<a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ReduxFrameworkAdNotice.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-53826" src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ReduxFrameworkAdNotice.png?resize=1025%2C47" alt="Redux Framework Admin Notice" /></a>Redux Framework Admin Notice
<p>For $59 a year, the extension removes admin notices, ads from the options panel, and the dashboard news widget. Even though the notices and ads are only displayed when the framework&#8217;s dev mode is enabled, it seems like a ridiculous way to generate revenue.</p>
<p>While researching for this article, I discovered that Dovy Paukstys, Co-Founder and lead developer of Redux Framework, is in the process of removing advertising from current and future admin notices. Paukstys provided the Tavern with the following statement:</p>
<blockquote><p>As a fellow developer, I can see how frustrating an admin notice can be when used as an ad. To support the requests of the community, we will no longer use admin notices to advertise premium features. We will use admin notices for their intended purpose, to inform and educate our users.</p>
<p>We hope that other frameworks, plugins, and products will follow suit.</p></blockquote>
<h2>WP Notification Center</h2>
<p>Inspired by our article, WPBeginner looks into whether or not <a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/opinion/does-wordpress-need-a-notification-center-we-think-so-how-about-you/">WordPress needs a notification center</a>. As it turns out, there are a couple of different plugins and projects in the works aiming to solve this problem.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-notification-center/">WP Notification Center</a> plugin, developed by Barry Kooij and Never5, adds a <a href="http://www.barrykooij.com/wordpress-notification-manager/">notification center</a> to WordPress. This plugin moves admin notices to a central location freeing up valuable screen real-estate.</p>
<a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/WPNotificationCenter.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-53828" src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/WPNotificationCenter.png?resize=638%2C155" alt="WP Notification Center" /></a>WP Notification Center
<p>When activated, a notifications area is added to the admin bar. This tells you the number of notices available and provides quick viewing access. The messages are also color coded to easily tell the difference between update and error messages.</p>
<p>Links within the notice take you to the corresponding admin page to view more details. Unfortunately, you can&#8217;t dismiss notices from the admin toolbar without navigating to the links within them. According to Kooij, dismissing notices is a difficult problem to fix.</p>
<blockquote><p>The admin notices are added in code so I can&#8217;t stop them from being added. That means I would need to store what notices are dismissed and check all added notices on every admin page load to filter out the ones that are dismissed.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the other way around from an ideal situation, where a notice would be added to the database and I can simply remove it when it&#8217;s dismissed.</p></blockquote>
<p>As for the possibility of getting WP Notification Center into core, &#8220;I would love to write a patch for core that would set this up the right way,&#8221; Kooij said. &#8220;That would eventually involve deprecating and stop displaying notifications that are being added the old way.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested in tackling this problem or would like to contribute to other facets of the project, you can find it <a href="https://github.com/barrykooij/wp-notification-center">on GitHub</a> where issues and pull requests are welcomed.</p>
<h2>WordPress Notifications API</h2>
<p>During the WordPress Core developer chat <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/01/13/core-dev-chat-notes-for-jan-13/">back in January</a>, John Blackbourn proposed a Notifications API that would replace <code>wp_mail()</code> with an extensible API. The API could be hooked into by developers to send notifications via webhooks that would enable Slack and IM notifications. There would also be UI added so users and admins can choose which individual notifications and types to opt-in/out of.</p>
<p>The API is not directly relevant to admin notices but it&#8217;s possible they could be connected in the future. Blackbourn plans to publish a detailed blog post outlining the idea in-depth within the next week or two.</p>
<h2>Jetpack Notifications</h2>
<p>Jetpack handles notifications via a module that adds an icon to the toolbar. Notifications include, Likes, Comments, Follows, and the ability to moderate and reply to comments.</p>
<a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/JetpackNotifications.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-53846" src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/JetpackNotifications.png?resize=406%2C422" alt="Jetpack Notifications" /></a>Jetpack Notifications
<p>I use this notifications area all the time to moderate and respond to comments. It&#8217;s convenient and usually loads items quickly. However, I&#8217;m not sure how well the interface would work if admin notices from themes and plugins were added.</p>
<h2>Subscribers Can Possibly See Admin Notices</h2>
<p>One of the most surprising <a href="http://wptavern.com/please-stop-abusing-wordpress-admin-notices#comment-165057">things I&#8217;ve learned</a> is that users who are subscribers can <em>possibly</em> see admin notices. On the surface, this doesn&#8217;t make sense as subscribers don&#8217;t have the capabilities necessary to act on notices. I tested this theory on the WP Tavern test site by activating both Yoast SEO and the All in One SEO plugin.</p>
<p>This is what I see while logged in as an admin.</p>
<a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/AdminNoticesSEO.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-53847" src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/AdminNoticesSEO.png?resize=1025%2C293" alt="Admin Notices While Logged in as Admin" /></a>Admin Notices While Logged in as Admin
<p>This is the same dashboard while logged in as a subscriber.</p>
<a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/AdminNoticesWhileASubscriber.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-53848" src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/AdminNoticesWhileASubscriber.png?resize=1025%2C380" alt="Admin Notices While Logged in as A Subscriber" /></a>Admin Notices While Logged in as A Subscriber
<p>As you can see, the notices disappear when logged in as a subscriber. While I initially thought this was an issue in core, it appears to be more of a developer issue. JS Morisset, who <a href="http://wptavern.com/please-stop-abusing-wordpress-admin-notices#comment-165464">commented on the original article</a> has a possible explanation:</p>
<blockquote><p>The word &#8216;admin&#8217; (for notices) could be interpreted in two ways — either they’re admin / back-end notices, or they’re administrator notices.</p>
<p>I’ve always understood that they are the former (notices displayed on the admin back-end), and can be seen by any / all back-end users, so I use &#8216;current_user_can()&#8217; in my own code to display different kinds of messages. Maybe this is more of a developer awareness issue than a core WP issue.</p></blockquote>
<p>While I have not analyzed the code in the plugins I tested, the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/current_user_can/">current_user_can()</a> capability check would explain why admins see notices while subscribers do not.</p>
<h2>What I&#8217;d Like to See in a Centralized WordPress Notifications Center</h2>
<p>Admin notices are a great way for developers to inform users of important information. But with all the notices bombarding site administrators these days, there&#8217;s a need for an organizational user interface to manage them all. When considering the types of notifications to allow and display, a notification center in WordPress can easily turn into a deep rabbit hole.</p>
<p>What I&#8217;d like to see is a notification center that notifies me of core, plugin, and theme updates in addition to whatever notices those items generate. I also want it to tell me about errors on the site. These notifications should be in an easy-to-use interface that&#8217;s quick to access. Notifications should be dismissable or have a status where they can be marked as read.</p>
<p>As seen above, there are plenty of people and projects working on solutions to this problem. What would be your ideal WordPress notifications center?</p>
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<p>Last month the White House <a href="http://wptavern.com/white-house-seeks-feedback-on-github-for-government-wide-open-source-software-policy" target="_blank">called for developers to comment on its proposed draft</a> for a Government-wide Open Source Software policy. The new policy would require code paid for by the government to be made available for reuse across other federal agencies and a portion (20%) of the custom code would be released as open source.</p>
<p>The period for public comment officially ended yesterday and now the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/" target="_blank">White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB)</a> will analyze the feedback on GitHub to refine the final policy.</p>
<h3>CIO of the Department of Homeland Security Affirms Benefits of Open Source for Cybersecurity</h3>
<p>Yesterday, Luke McCormack, the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Homeland Security, offered <a href="https://github.com/whitehouse/source-code-policy/issues/222" target="_blank">formal comments on GitHub</a>, affirming the benefits of open source, especially in regard to cybersecurity:</p>
<blockquote><p>When managed appropriately, releasing code as OSS and engaging with the community can have extensive cybersecurity benefits. Security through obscurity is not true security: we cannot depend on vulnerabilities not being exploited just because they have not been discovered yet. There are many examples of widely-used pieces of software that benefit greatly from constant and vigorous community reviews and contributions to find bugs, and thus making them more secure. We look forward to government systems joining them.</p></blockquote>
<p>McCormack&#8217;s clarification of the department&#8217;s official position combats the common misconception that open source code is inherently insecure. The comment also affirms the department&#8217;s support for working with the open source community.</p>
<p>&#8220;Participation in the open source community will further strengthen our systems and help fulfill the mission of the Department,&#8221; McCormack said. &#8220;Likewise, we believe in the potential of this policy to incentivize innovation and enable a new generation of companies to do business with the Government.&#8221;</p>
<h3>Developers Push for an &#8220;Open by Default&#8221; Policy</h3>
<p>The proposed policy encourages federal agencies to work together to make reusable modules and to build active communities around the open source code they release. It is a better use of American tax dollars, but there is also a significant contingency of developers who believe the policy doesn&#8217;t go far enough with its arbitrary 20% requirement.</p>
<p>In an issue titled &#8220;<a href="https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/issues/90" target="_blank">Software should be &#8220;Open by default&#8221; not 20%</a>,&#8221; the Presidential Innovation Fellows Foundation (PIFF) shared the following statement summarizing the general consensus of its 120 members:</p>
<blockquote><p>The PIF Foundation membership strongly believes that it is in the best interest of increased government efficiency and taxpayer savings for the OMB to set a policy of &#8216;open by default&#8217; for custom software developed by the Federal Government rather than setting a goal of at least 20% OSS as originally proposed in the source code policy.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://ben.balter.com/" target="_blank">Ben Balter</a>, open source advocate and product manager at GitHub, <a href="https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/issues/90#issuecomment-207820011" target="_blank">expanded</a> on why the PIFF believes that taxpayer-funded government code should be open by default. Balter penned an <a href="https://fcw.com/articles/2016/04/11/balter-open-source-opinion.aspx" target="_blank">op-ed for FCW</a> about how the proposed open source policy, with its 20% requirement, is a missed opportunity to modernize government. He contends that the proposed three-year pilot program will not likely produce results beyond what is already known, as open source has already undergone a two-decade pilot. By 2019, the push for &#8216;open by default&#8217; will be long overdue:</p>
<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s no secret that government agencies lag behind the private sector with regard to technology, and the proposed source code policy hesitantly testing the waters of open source is no exception. Open source software isn&#8217;t a potential fad to be cautiously evaluated as part of a three-year pilot program, nor are the benefits unknown or unproven in large enterprises. Open source is simply how industry builds software today. You&#8217;d be hard-pressed to find a startup worth its venture capital funding that isn&#8217;t based, at least in part, on open source software. The same holds true of most industry leaders, already embracing open source as a core part of their business strategy, including Microsoft, Apple, Google, IBM, SAP and Adobe to name a few.</p></blockquote>
<p>Mozilla representatives also <a href="https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/issues/159" target="_blank">commented on the issue</a> to affirm its support for “open by default” and clear international licensing. The company identified four key reasons for shooting for 100% rather than mandating a minimum requirement:</p>
<ul>
<li>Open source by default is consistent with the principle that the public should receive maximal benefit from the expenditure of their tax dollars.</li>
<li>Software produced in the open will be of high quality and will help promote the public’s trust due to the extra scrutiny it can receive and the potential contribution of external interested parties.</li>
<li>The additional burden of opening source code to the public should not be great if the software already has to be prepared for sharing within the Federal government.</li>
<li>The burden of tracking, assessing and reporting on percentages is removed, as is the problem of deciding how to make the measurements in the first place.</li>
</ul>
<p>Mozilla and many others commenting on the issue are urging the White House to reject the notion of an arbitrary 20% target and instead aim for open source from the outset, removing sensitive parts of the code base as necessary.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s unclear how much weight this particular issue will hold in the creation of the final policy, but the opportunity for industry experts to comment on and contribute to the process is already a major step forward. The policy is still in draft status and we will publish an update once the OMB has finalized its decision.</p>
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<p>In a rare and deeply personal <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_linux" target="_blank">interview</a> with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Linus Torvalds spoke about how open source made his projects what they are today. Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel and the Git version control system, revealed that he prefers to work alone, in his bathrobe, in total silence. Although he heads up one of the largest open source projects in the world, with 1,000 contributors involved in every bimonthly release, Torvalds claims he is not a people person.</p>
<p>&#8220;I did not start Linux as a collaborative project,&#8221; Torvalds said. &#8220;I started it as one in a series of many projects I had done at the time for myself, partly because I needed the end result, but even more because I just enjoyed programming.&#8221;</p>
<p>Torvalds said that open source wasn&#8217;t really on his radar at all. As Linux grew, it became something he wanted to show off to people and he made it publicly available. It wasn&#8217;t even open source at that point, which was mainly called &#8220;free software&#8221; back then. He had no intention of using open source to improve his project. He simply invited comments on his project and, to his amazement, people took interest in the code and started contributing ideas.</p>
<p>&#8220;Every project before that had been completely personal, and it was a revelation when people just started commenting, started giving feedback on your code,&#8221; Torvalds said.</p>
<p>As the Linux project grew, thousands of people wanted to contribute. Torvalds said that it reached a breaking point where he knew he couldn&#8217;t scale it to work with that many people without having some kind of version control system in place.</p>
<p>&#8220;So git is my second project, which was only created for me to maintain my first project,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And this is literally how I work. I do code for fun, but I want to code for something meaningful. Every single project that I&#8217;ve ever done has been for something I needed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ironically, for someone who professes not to be a people person, Torvalds revolutionized collaborative development for teams and projects with Git. He said that he has often been in conflict with other people and can be &#8220;myopic when it comes to other people&#8217;s feelings.&#8221; Open source gave him a way to work effectively with other people:</p>
<blockquote><p>One of the things I really like about open source is it allows different people to work together. We don&#8217;t have to like each other, and sometimes we really don&#8217;t like each other. There are very, very heated arguments. You don&#8217;t even agree to disagree &#8211; it&#8217;s just that you&#8217;re interested in different things. </p>
<p>Coming back to the point that I said earlier, that I was afraid of commercial people taking advantage of your work &#8211; It very quickly turned out that those commercial people were lovely people. And they did all the things that I was not at all interested in doing and they had completely different goals. And they used open source in ways that I just did not want to go. But because it was open source they could do it and it actually works really beautifully together.</p></blockquote>
<p>One of the most interesting things about his story is that he first embraced open source out of practicality, not because of ideological convictions.</p>
<p>&#8220;Without doing the whole open-source-and-really-letting-go thing, Linux would never have been what it is,&#8221; Torvalds said. Even so, he said he doesn&#8217;t necessarily think the principle can be applied to other aspects of life beyond code without a lot of grey areas.</p>
<p>Despite having changed the future by creating technology that powers the internet, Torvalds does not consider himself a visionary.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am not a visionary,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I do not have a five year plan. I&#8217;m an engineer. I&#8217;m perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around staring at the clouds and looking at the stars and saying, &#8216;I want to go there.&#8217; But I&#8217;m looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole that&#8217;s right in front of me before I fall in.&#8221;</p>
<p>Check out the 21-minute interview in the video below:</p>
<p></p>
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<p>As soon as WordPress 4.5 was out the door, WordPress 4.6 release lead Dominik Schilling opened up the floor for <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/04/14/wordpress-4-6-whats-on-your-wish-list/" target="_blank">discussion on wish list items</a> ahead of the kickoff chat on Wednesday. The development community chimed in with feedback on their users’ biggest pain points, important UX issues to be solved, and existing features they would like to see polished.</p>
<p>If the 200+ comments on the post are any indication, WordPress users and contributors are buzzing with ideas for improving the software in the upcoming release. The Make/WordPress core blog doesn&#8217;t have a voting system, but a few of the wish list items with the most +1&#8217;s include:</p>
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<li>Many-to-many relationships between posts and users (à la <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-to-posts/" target="_blank">Posts 2 Posts</a>)</li>
<li>Group ownership and content management</li>
<li>Custom post statuses</li>
<li>Multi-author support for single page/post/term items</li>
<li>Fix long-standing <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4539" target="_blank">issues with wptexturize</a></li>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=!closed&keywords=~https" target="_blank">HTTPS improvements</a></li>
<li>Add a new core <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32417" target="_blank">media widget</a></li>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16379" target="_blank">Better UI for creating a &#8220;front&#8221; page</a></li>
<li>Support for <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19627" target="_blank">allowing themes to register a static front page</a> to be automatically turned on at activation</li>
<li>Remove the plugin/theme editor and make it into a plugin</li>
<li>Fields API</li>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12668" target="_blank">Custom Comment Types</a></li>
<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21022" target="_blank">Use bcrypt for passwords</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Ella Van Dorpe also posted a <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/04/12/editor-wish-list-4-6/" target="_blank">summary</a> of the most recent meeting for contributors on the core editor component. The team discussed a wish list for the editor in 4.6 and beyond, including the possibility of creating a feature plugin that uses <a href="https://nytimes.github.io/ice/demo/" target="_blank">ICE</a> to allow suggestions and comments on content. A <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36474" target="_blank">revamp of the Publish meta box</a>, more experimentation with inline toolbars, more formatting shortcodes, and other improvements are also on the list.</p>
<p>Weston Ruter and contributors plan to continue chipping away at the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/09/23/outlining-a-possible-roadmap-for-the-customizer/" target="_blank">customizer roadmap</a> and component page with a focus on <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/01/26/customizer-transactions-proposal/" target="_blank">customizer transactions</a>. Ruter would also like to introduce <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34923" target="_blank">basic content authorship</a> in the customizer in 4.6, along with improvements to existing features.</p>
<p>The 4.6 <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/04/14/wordpress-4-6-whats-on-your-wish-list/" target="_blank">wish list</a> offers a small preview of what might be coming in this release, and there&#8217;s still time to contribute new items and feedback. If you want to advocate for your ticket or wish list item, join the WordPress 4.6 kickoff chat in the #core Slack channel on Wednesday at <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20160420T2000" target="_blank">3:00PM CDT</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://sucuri.net/" target="_blank">Sucuri</a>, a website security company that specializes in securing WordPress (and other CMS) sites, <a href="https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/04/sucuri-firewall-free-letsencrypt-ssl-certs-for-everyone.html" target="_blank">announced</a> that SSL certificates are now available at no cost to all customers who make use of the company&#8217;s <a href="https://sucuri.net/website-firewall/" target="_blank">firewall</a>. As a <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/" target="_blank">sponsor of the Let&#8217;s Encrypt initiative</a>, Sucuri joins <a href="http://wptavern.com/automattic-partners-with-lets-encrypt-to-enable-https-on-all-wordpress-com-websites" target="_blank">Automattic</a> as one of the first companies to fully automate free SSL Certificates for all customers. The company has also enabled the new HTTP/2 protocol by default, which offers significant performance advantages compared to raw HTTPS.</p>
<p>Unlike WordPress.com, which <a href="https://en.support.wordpress.com/https/" target="_blank">does not allow users to disable encryption</a>, Sucuri offers a &#8220;No HTTPS&#8221; option which will force all traffic to be redirected to HTTP. Customers can also select from partial SSL, full SSL, and Custom SSL (where they can use their own certificates).</p>
<p>Despite their sponsorship of the Let&#8217;s Encrypt initiative, Sucuri&#8217;s founders emphasized that SSL support is not a magic wand that instantly makes your website secure, since it only protects information transferred between the browser and web server.</p>
<p>&#8220;Even though we are providing SSL certificates to all our clients, we don’t subscribe to the idea that every website needs HTTPS enabled,&#8221; Sucuri CTO Daniel Cid said. &#8220;The idea that this makes for a more secure web is inaccurate.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cid and co-founder Tony Perez share a perspective tempered by years of experience fixing hacked websites. The majority of compromises come through brute force attacks, software vulnerabilities, and DDOS attacks.</p>
<p>In a post titled <a href="https://perezbox.com/2015/07/https-does-not-secure-your-website/" target="_blank">HTTPS Does Not Secure Your Website</a>, Sucuri CEO Tony Perez identified three general instances where SSL is essential: when transferring personal identifiable information, transaction data in e-commerce, and other sensitive data. Outside of these scenarios, HTTPS is not as critical.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have no doubt that HTTPS will continue to grow in popularity,&#8221; Perez said. &#8220;What I take exception to is when technology professionals say that one of the driving factors for HTTPS is it’ll secure your website, because it won’t.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sucuri only recommends HTTPS for customers who are already taking security seriously and want to add protection for data in transit. The company suggests putting more basic security measures in place first &#8211; keeping your software updated, implementing intrusion detection, getting code reviews, and storing passwords securely.</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:44:"Post Status: WordPress 4.5 — 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=23435";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:51:"https://poststatus.com/wordpress-4-5-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:2142:"<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>WordPress 4.5 was just released, and comes backed with a lot of great new features. Some of our favorites have to do with the editing experience, but we go over all the new user facing features as well as under the hood bits of WordPress 4.5. We also dig into the earliest stages of WordPress 4.6, which is already underway.</span></p>
<p><span>If you’ve been enjoying Post Status Draft, would you considering rating us in iTunes? We’ve never asked for it, but it would help tremendously! You can do so by going to iTunes, click “Ratings and Reviews” and leave a quick review. Thanks!</span></p>
<a href="https://audio.simplecast.com/35565.mp3">https://audio.simplecast.com/35565.mp3</a>
<p><a href="http://audio.simplecast.com/35565.mp3">Direct Download</a></p>
<h3>Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://poststatus.com/wordpress-4-5-coleman-released/">Brian&#8217;s WordPress 4.5 Post</a></li>
<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/04/14/wordpress-4-6-whats-on-your-wish-list/">WordPress 4.6 wishlist</a></li>
<li><a href="https://poststatus.com/day-of-rest-boston/">A Day of Rest is going to Boston!</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Sponsor</h3>
<p><span>This podcast is sponsored by </span><a href="http://wp101.com"><span>WP101</span></a><span>. The WP101 Plugin delivers a set of WordPress video tutorials right in your clients’ dashboard, freeing your time to do what you do best! They also just released a great 22 part course on WooCommerce that you should definitely check out. Thank you to </span><a href="http://wp101.com"><span>WP101</span></a><span> for being a Post Status partner.</span></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:"Sat, 16 Apr 2016 12:58:57 +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:"Katie Richards";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:35;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>The official <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-importer/" target="_blank">WordPress Importer</a> plugin is in shambles and has frustrated users with inconsistent performance for years. The plugin has more than a million active installations and is critical for migrations, unless you are familiar with using more advanced tools. With years of unresolved support threads identifying the plugin&#8217;s many bugs, the importer is in need of some help.</p>
<p>In a volunteer-driven open source community, important projects like the WordPress importer can go neglected for a long time until someone gets inspired to take on the responsibility. The good news, however, is that the importer is in the process of being completely rewritten thanks to Ryan McCue, who is also a leader on the WP REST API project.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://github.com/humanmade/WordPress-Importer" target="_blank">WordPress Importer Redux</a> project is available on GitHub with fixes for some of the previous plugin&#8217;s most troublesome issues. McCue is rewriting the importer with the goals of making it &#8220;fast, lightweight, and consistent.&#8221; He summarized the major improvements that are part of version 2 in a <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/11/18/wordpress-importer-redux/" target="_blank">post</a> on Make/WordPress core blog:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Way less memory usage:</strong> Testing shows memory usage to import a 41MB WXR file is down from 132MB to 19MB (less than half the actual file size!). This means no more splitting files just to get them to import.</li>
<li><strong>Faster parser:</strong> By using a streaming XML parser, we process data as we go, which is much more scalable than the current approach. Content can begin being imported as soon as the file is read, rather than waiting for pre-processing.</li>
<li><strong>Resumable parsing:</strong> By storing more in the database instead of variables, we can quit and resume imports on-the-go.</li>
<li><strong>Partial imports:</strong> Rethinking the deduplication approach allows better partial imports, such as when you’re updating a production site from staging.
</li>
<li><strong>Better CLI:</strong> Treating the CLI as a first-class citizen means a better experience for those doing imports on a daily basis, and better code quality and reusability.</li>
</ul>
<p>Until recently, the new importer had no UI, so the only way to test it was to run it via WP-CLI. A new <a href="https://github.com/humanmade/WordPress-Importer/tree/admin-ui" target="_blank">Admin UI branch</a> of the project is now available so you can <a href="https://github.com/humanmade/WordPress-Importer/archive/master.zip" target="_blank">download the plugin as a zip</a> and activate it inside WordPress. McCue tweeted a sneak peak at the progress bar for the import summary:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">New WordPress Importer UI, coming soon. <a href="https://t.co/wM6cZY6BSk">pic.twitter.com/wM6cZY6BSk</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Ryan McCue ⍨ (@rmccue) <a href="https://twitter.com/rmccue/status/717610812236410880">April 6, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
<p></p>
<p>He is also <a href="https://twitter.com/rmccue/status/719454867543076864" target="_blank">working on a better user mapping UI for the importer</a>. This image shows the UI in progress with the old one at the bottom for reference.</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/importer-v2.jpg"><img src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/importer-v2.jpg?resize=599%2C198" alt="importer-v2" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53732" /></a></p>
<p>If you want to test the new importer, McCue encourages users to compare the experience to the old importer and take note of what works and what breaks. Feedback is welcome in the project&#8217;s GitHub issues queue on the designated <a href="https://github.com/humanmade/WordPress-Importer/issues/7" target="_blank">general feedback thread</a>.</p>
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<p>Syed Balkhi, founder of WPBeginner.com, along with Chris Christoff, lead developer of the MonsterInsights plugin, immediately responded to criticism in the forums. One of the biggest complaints from users was the lack of communication that the plugin changed hands.</p>
<p>Christoff admits that the plugin&#8217;s changelog should have included information about the switch.</p>
<blockquote><p>I thought I had included information about the acquisition in the changelog, but I apparently didn&#8217;t. That&#8217;s totally on me, and I can certainly understand why people might be a bit upset over that.</p></blockquote>
<p>Complaints about the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-honestly-thought-my-site-had-been-hacked-some-sort-of-warning-please?replies=14#post-8277576">bright menu icon</a> were addressed with a recent update that lowers its opacity to be more in line with other icons. Even though the bright green is gone, the icon is still noticeable. Here&#8217;s what it looks like.</p>
<a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/NewMonsterInsightsPluginIcon.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-53708" src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/NewMonsterInsightsPluginIcon.png?resize=149%2C240" alt="New MonsterInsights Menu Icon" /></a>New MonsterInsights Menu Icon
<p>The menu label was also renamed from MonsterInsights to Insights. Not only is it shorter, it&#8217;s more in line with the plugin&#8217;s functionality. Its placement within the admin menu was also fixed as it no longer shows up near the top of the list.</p>
<p>Another concern brought up by users are the four display ads on the plugin&#8217;s dashboard page. While some users thought these were new, they&#8217;ve always existed in the free plugin. Instead of advertising Joost de Valk&#8217;s products, they now advertise four complimentary products affiliated with Balkhi.</p>
<a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/MonsterInsightsDisplayAds.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-53709" src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/MonsterInsightsDisplayAds.png?resize=1025%2C596" alt="Display Advertising in MonsterInsights" /></a>Display Advertising in MonsterInsights
<p>Within the last 24 hours, the plugin has received a number of enhancements based on user feedback. Although the <a href="http://wptavern.com/a-little-communication-goes-a-long-way">lack of communication</a> put some people off, the company&#8217;s quick response has satisfied <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-honestly-thought-my-site-had-been-hacked-some-sort-of-warning-please?replies=14#post-8282661">at least a few users</a>. Balkhi says the team continues to listen to feedback and that if you have a feature request or bug report, to file it on the <a href="https://github.com/awesomemotive/google-analytics-for-wordpress/issues">project&#8217;s GitHub page</a>.</p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s what the admin notice looks like. I&#8217;ve hidden the name of the advertised plugin as the goal is to inform people, not shame plugin authors.</p>
<a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/AdminNoticeAbuse.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-53713" src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/AdminNoticeAbuse.png?resize=869%2C73" alt="Admin Notice With No Dismissal Button" /></a>Admin Notice With No Dismissal Button
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<p>WordPress plugin authors, I respectfully request that you use the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/admin_notices/">admin notice</a> feature in WordPress for providing crucial information about your plugins and not as a billboard. Give users the opportunity to dismiss them and make sure that when dismissed, they don&#8217;t reappear unless the user clears their browser&#8217;s cookies.</p>
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<p>If you run a typical WordPress agency, I will be bold enough to say this: Your WordPress team is probably not working as a team. Ouch!</p>
<p>Developer productivity and workflow strategies are my passions. I try to talk to every WordPress developer I meet about how they work and what problems they face. If you ever used WP Pusher, signed up for one of my crash courses on Git, or if for any other reason I have your email address, there is a good chance that I have talked to you about this as well. I have spoken with hundreds of WordPress freelancers and agencies in order to get insights about how they work. You will be surprised to hear how many WordPress agencies are working as small one-person teams, instead of actually working together. The reason for this is a lack of some of the most basic enablers of teamwork.</p>
<p>Here are 3 things that will make it very obvious to me that your WordPress team is probably not as much of a team as you would like to think:</p>
<h2>1. Lack of version control</h2>
<p>Did you read this headline thinking &#8220;Great, we&#8217;re committing everything to Bitbucket already, so we&#8217;re fine&#8221;? To be honest: Having an account on Bitbucket and pushing all your code there is not enough.</p>
<p>Git is not just about backing up your code on Bitbucket or GitHub. It is one of the most basic collaboration tools for your developers. Git gives them the freedom to collaborate on the projects they work on, but only if used in a certain way. If the commit log is a big mess of huge commits with meaningless commit messages, it won&#8217;t be very helpful to the rest of the team.</p>
<p>However, if a commit represents a small, isolated change and a commit message is well-written and concise, suddenly Git becomes a tool that your team can use to stay on top of what everyone else is working on. In teamwork, communication is key and Git is a great way for your team to communicate what is going on within the different code bases they are working on.</p>
<h2>2. Lack of a code collaboration platform</h2>
<p>The main reason to use a code collaboration platform like GitHub or Bitbucket is not to have a backup of your code. Dropbox would probably be easier to use in that case.</p>
<p>GitHub in particular is a great place for code collaboration. The way pull requests are implemented on GitHub makes reviewing code very enjoyable. Pull requests are a way for your developers to act as a team, by helping each other out with knowledge sharing and feedback. By opening a pull request early in the process of building a new feature, you can invite your co workers to follow your progress and chip in with their knowledge. I have written in detail about pull requests on the WP Pusher blog if you want to learn more.</p>
<p>Of course, GitHub is also a great place to see the current status of your team spirit. Are people sharing their work and asking for feedback? What are they getting it in return? Are people helping each other out? Are they working as a team?</p>
<p>The culture is important as well. Giving each other feedback needs to be the norm. Using pull requests and having a list of well-written commit messages on GitHub is the first step, but the culture needs to be embraced as well. Asking for help should be rewarded and not frowned upon.</p>
<h2>3. Lack of a deployment strategy</h2>
<p>How are you going to review something that was edited live on a production site? The truth is, you are not.</p>
<p>When your team is up and running with Git, a proper deployment strategy is a no brainer. It is the natural next step. If you do not have a proper strategy for your deployments, it tells me two things: 1. You are probably not using version control properly. 2. Your developers are manually uploading files over FTP &#8211; files that were never reviewed by any teammate.</p>
<p>If you are using version control, having a deployment process that kicks in when code has been reviewed and is ready for production is easy. The lack of a deployment strategy is a very clear sign that something is missing in your processes.</p>
<p>If you read this far and are realizing that your WordPress team is not really working as a team, here is my number one recommendation: Get every single technical person on your team on board with Git. Build a culture where communication and collaboration are the norm. In practice that means at least two things: First, when you look over the commit log on GitHub, you can actually see what happened and when. Second, when you go through the pull requests, the team spirit should be obvious from the way feedback is given and code reviews are done.</p>
<p>My hope is that this post has convinced you that Git is more than just a backup tool. In fact it is one of the most important enablers for teamwork among developers. Without the foundation provided by Git, working effectively as a development team is almost impossible.</p>
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<p><a href="https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/" target="_blank">Font Awesome</a> creator Dave Gandy announced the release of <a href="https://articles.fortawesome.com/font-awesome-4-6-released-d7213342698a#.9aq9g24al" target="_blank">version 4.6.0</a> this week. The open source vector icon collection is used on approximately 60 million websites, including high profile sites like <a href="http://whitehouse.gov" target="_blank">whitehouse.gov</a>, <a href="http://thebeatles.com" target="_blank">thebeatles.com</a>, and <a href="http://washingtonpost.com" target="_blank">washingtonpost.com</a>. Additionally, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=%22font+awesome%22" target="_blank">more than 300 plugins on WordPress.org</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/search/%22font%20awesome%22/" target="_blank">dozens of themes</a> use Font Awesome in some way.</p>
<p>The 4.6.0 release is a major update that improves accessibility for the millions of users who have vision and/or hearing impairments <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/how-many-users-need-accessible-websites/" target="_blank">requiring accessible websites</a>. Font Awesome introduced a new <a href="http://fontawesome.io/icons/#accessibility" target="_blank">accessibility icon category</a> with 15 icons and more on the way.</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/font-awesome-accessibility-icons.png"><img src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/font-awesome-accessibility-icons.png?resize=1025%2C339" alt="font-awesome-accessibility-icons" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53683" /></a></p>
<p>&#8220;We initially started with a set of common US disability access symbols, then expanded to others the FA community asked for,&#8221; Gandy said. &#8220;We’ll definitely keep adding to this category as more requests come in.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Font Awesome documentation has also been updated with a new <a href="http://fontawesome.io/accessibility/" target="_blank">accessibility section</a>, showing users how to mark up icons so they work well for those using assistive technology to navigate websites and applications. Each icon page also has an updated example code block that users can copy and paste to ensure their icons are accessibility-ready.</p>
<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/font-awesome-code-examples.png"><img src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/font-awesome-code-examples.png?resize=1025%2C294" alt="font-awesome-code-examples" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53688" /></a></p>
<p>WordPress plugin and theme authors who include Font Awesome icons in their work should update the <a href="http://fontawesome.io/get-started/#bootstrapcdn" target="_blank">CDN link</a> to reference the latest version so website owners can use the new accessibility icons. Developers are also advised to review the new <a href="http://fontawesome.io/accessibility/" target="_blank">accessibility documentation</a> and update their icon markup as necessary.</p>
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<p>WordPress caching plugins are notorious for being packed full of confusing options, spammy with upsells, and difficult to uninstall. Users who are looking for a caching solution that simply works and has nothing to configure should check out <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-cache/" target="_blank">Simple Cache</a>, a new plugin on WordPress.org that offers a one-click install. The plugin promises lightning fast speed with a simple on/off switch.</p>
<p>After investigating some of the <a href="https://taylorlovett.com/2016/03/25/wordpress-caching-plugin-comparison/" target="_blank">popular caching solutions for WordPress</a>, Taylor Lovett found most of them to have cluttered interfaces that make them unnecessarily complex to configure. Lovett, who has worked with many different caching solutions as Director of Web Engineering at <a href="http://10up.com/" target="_blank">10up</a>, decided to create his own implementation that would be easy for users to work with, hence the name Simple Cache.</p>
<p>&#8220;I wrote my comparison blog post with no plans of creating my own caching plugin,&#8221; Lovett said. &#8220;After doing the research, I had a few ideas on how to create a plugin that would really have a positive impact on websites.&#8221;</p>
<p>Once installed, Simple Cache can be turned on with the click of a button. It also has a few optional settings for expiring the cache and enabling compression. The simple mode offers file-based page caching (similar to WP Super Cache), which is sufficient to speed up the vast majority of simple sites.</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/simple-cache-settings.png"><img src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/simple-cache-settings.png?resize=1025%2C472" alt="simple-cache-settings" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53661" /></a></p>
<p>Lovett also built an advanced mode that implements object caching and will automatically setup <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/batcache/" target="_blank">Batcache</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/memcached/" target="_blank">Memcached</a>/<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-redis/" target="_blank">Redis</a> for you.</p>
<p>After a quick test in simple mode on a blog with a handful of plugins like Akismet, Jetpack, Google Analytics, and a few others, I saw a roughly 38% decrease in loading time. Before installing Simple Cache, the site loaded in 3.9 seconds.</p>
<a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/before-simple-cache.png"><img src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/before-simple-cache.png?resize=1025%2C257" alt="Before installing Simple Cache" class="size-full wp-image-53666" /></a>Before installing Simple Cache
<p>Simple Cache shaved 1.5 seconds off the loading time:</p>
<a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/after-simple-cache.png"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/after-simple-cache.png?resize=1025%2C255" alt="After installing Simple Cache" class="size-full wp-image-53665" /></a>After installing Simple Cache
<p>These results came without touching the advanced mode, which would offer an even bigger performance boost.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Redis functionality is forked from Pantheon’s WP Redis plugin,&#8221; Lovett said. &#8220;The Memcached functionality is forked from Automattic’s drop-in. If you use page caching with object caching, a forked version of Batcache by Automattic is used.&#8221;</p>
<p>If there is no object cache set up, page caching defaults to using the file system (simple mode). This is most likely what you would use if your site is on shared hosting.</p>
<p>&#8220;So really Simple Cache gives you the best of both worlds,&#8221; Lovett said. &#8220;A very simple setup, or an advanced setup with the most battle-tested page cache and object cache drop-ins.&#8221;</p>
<p>Users can easily purge the cache from the button on the plugin&#8217;s setting screen. If you try Simple Cache and don&#8217;t want to keep using it, it&#8217;s easy to uninstall, cleans up after itself, and, most importantly, doesn&#8217;t break your website. Lovett also worked to ensure that the UX, notices, warnings, and error messages are user friendly and understandable.</p>
<p>The whole concept of caching is difficult for non-developers to grasp. It might as well be powered by Merlin&#8217;s wand, as far as most users&#8217; understanding goes. They need it to work without a ton of complicated settings. Simple Cache fits the bill and is hands-down the easiest caching plugin I&#8217;ve ever tested.</p>
<p>Lovett plans to add more features and improve upon his implementation based on feedback from the community. If you&#8217;re looking for a new caching solution, you can find <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-cache/" target="_blank">Simple Cache</a> on WordPress.org. Feedback and contributions are welcome on the plugin&#8217;s support forums and via its <a href="https://github.com/tlovett1/simple-cache" target="_blank">GitHub repository</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:84:"WPTavern: Syed Balkhi Acquires Google Analytics by Yoast, Renames to MonsterInsights";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=53636";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:93:"http://wptavern.com/syed-balkhi-acquires-google-analytics-by-yoast-renames-to-monsterinsights";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:2622:"<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/GoogleAnalyticsMonsterInsightsFeaturedImage.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53645" src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/GoogleAnalyticsMonsterInsightsFeaturedImage.png?resize=836%2C263" alt="Google Analytics Monster Insights Featured Image" /></a>Users who are updating <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/">Google Analytics for WordPress by Yoast</a> are discovering a new menu item with a green monster icon in their WordPress backend. That&#8217;s because Syed Balkhi, founder of WPBeginner.com, <a href="https://www.monsterinsights.com/welcome-to-monsterinsights/">has acquired it</a> for an undisclosed amount and has renamed it to <a href="https://www.monsterinsights.com/">MonsterInsights</a>.</p>
<p>Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast.com, <a href="https://yoast.com/new-home-google-analytics-plugins/">says</a> the company is focusing on its core offerings surrounding SEO and that the plugin no longer fits into its roadmap.</p>
<blockquote><p>One of the &#8216;problems&#8217; of a quickly growing business is that you have to choose what to focus on. We’ve made that choice: we’ll focus on building best in class SEO products, from plugins to reviews, eBooks and training programs.</p></blockquote>
<p>Apart from the changes to its name and the new menu icon, the plugin remains the same and should function normally for existing users. <a href="https://www.monsterinsights.com/welcome-to-monsterinsights/">According to Balkhi</a>, additional features are on the way.</p>
<blockquote><p>Over the next 8 months, we will be adding some amazing new features that I know you will love. Since it’s a plugin that we will be using across our suite of products and websites, you can expect it to be the best.</p></blockquote>
<p>Since Google Analytics for WordPress was the first major plugin created by de Valk, handing it over to a new owner is bittersweet.</p>
<blockquote><p>While I’m very happy about the decision to give this plugin a new home, I’m also feeling nostalgic. It’s been &#8216;with me&#8217; for a very long time, but I trust Syed and team will take it to even greater heights.</p></blockquote>
<p>The acquisition seems like a perfect complement to Balkhi&#8217;s other products like <a href="http://www.optinmonster.com/">OptinMonster</a> and <a href="http://www.wpforms.com/">WPForms</a> where analytical data helps make crucial decisions. Let us know what you think of the acquisition in the comments.</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:90:"WPTavern: WPWeekly Episode 230 – Interview With Mike Schroder WordPress 4.5 Release Lead";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=53638&preview_id=53638";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/wpweekly-episode-230-interview-with-mike-schroder-wordpress-4-5-release-lead";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:2324:"<p>In this episode of WordPress Weekly, <a href="http://marcuscouch.com/">Marcus Couch</a> and I are joined by <a href="http://getsource.net/">Mike Schroder</a> who led the <a href="http://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-5-coleman-released-introduces-custom-logos-responsive-previews-improved-editing-experience">WordPress 4.5 release cycle</a>. Schroder tells us what it&#8217;s like to release software to millions of websites across the world. We learn about the checklists and processes he went through on launch day.</p>
<p>We discuss the emotional and physical toll on release leads and Schroder tells us if he&#8217;s going to take a break from contributing to WordPress. Last but not least are Marcus&#8217; plugin picks of the week. If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to know what it&#8217;s like to lead a WordPress release cycle, this is the episode for you.</p>
<h2>Plugins Picked By Marcus:</h2>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-pre-submission-confirmation/">Gravity Pre-submission Confirmation</a> provides an easy way to add a pre-submission confirmation page to forms created with GravityForms. This enables users to preview data before it&#8217;s submitted.</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-labels/">Widget Labels</a> is a simple plugin that lets you control what label is displayed next to each Widget on the Widgets administration screen.</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-custom-page-template/">Add-custom-page-template</a> lets you add template files and view a listing for all custom template files in a theme with linked pages via the WordPress backend.</p>
<h2>WPWeekly Meta:</h2>
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<p><strong>Listen To Episode #230:</strong><br />
</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:44:"WPTavern: Let’s Encrypt Is Now Out of Beta";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=53552";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:51:"http://wptavern.com/lets-encrypt-is-now-out-of-beta";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:3343:"<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/lets-encrypt.png"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/lets-encrypt.png?resize=650%2C333" alt="lets-encrypt" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-41915" /></a></p>
<p>Let&#8217;s Encrypt <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/2016/04/12/leaving-beta-new-sponsors.html" target="_blank">announced</a> that the project is exiting beta this week. The initiative, which aims to encrypt 100% of the web by making trusted certificates available to everyone at no cost, launched its beta seven months ago.</p>
<blockquote><p>Since our beta began in September 2015 we’ve issued more than 1.7 million certificates for more than 3.8 million websites. We’ve gained tremendous operational experience and confidence in our systems. The beta label is simply not necessary any more.
</p></blockquote>
<p>According to Let&#8217;s Encrypt sponsor <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/04/12/mozilla-supported-lets-encrypt-goes-out-of-beta/" target="_blank">Mozilla</a>, more than 90% of the certificates are protecting websites that never had encryption before. Automattic is one of the early sponsors of the initiative and has partnered with Let&#8217;s Encrypt to <a href="http://wptavern.com/automattic-partners-with-lets-encrypt-to-enable-https-on-all-wordpress-com-websites" target="_blank">add full SSL support for all sites hosted on WordPress.com</a>. With the success of the beta period, Let&#8217;s Encrypt continues to renew and add sponsors to its roster, including Cisco, Akamai, Gemalto, HP Enterprise, Fastly, and other organizations.</p>
<p>“A mix of people and organizations use Let’s Encrypt,&#8221; Mozilla representatives told TechCrunch. &#8220;Many individuals and smaller entities use it, but quite a few larger organizations such as WordPress.com, OVH, Akamai and Dreamhost use it as well. It’s especially nice to see services like Dreamhost and Automattic opting to secure all their customers at once, which is something that Let’s Encrypt really enables.&#8221;</p>
<h3>How to Set Up a Let&#8217;s Encrypt Certificate for Self-Hosted WordPress</h3>
<p>If you want to install a free Let&#8217;s Encrypt certificate for your self-hosted WordPress site, <a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-free-ssl-in-wordpress-with-lets-encrypt/" target="_blank">WPBeginner has a tutorial</a> with instructions for commonly used hosts, including SiteGround, DreamHost, and Bluehost. It also includes tips on updating WordPress URLs after setting up SSL and updating Google Analytics.</p>
<p>If your host doesn&#8217;t have a fancy UI for setting up Let&#8217;s Encrypt, Brad Touesnard wrote a <a href="https://deliciousbrains.com/http2-https-lets-encrypt-wordpress/" target="_blank">tutorial</a> for manually requesting a certificate via Let&#8217;s Encrypt&#8217;s command line client and setting up automatic renewals. Touesnard also encouraged readers to support the development of the <a href="https://github.com/tollmanz/lets-encrypt-wp" target="_blank">Let’s Encrypt Plugin for WordPress</a>, a project that Zack Tollman and John Blackbourn are working on to make it a less painful process for users. We&#8217;ll be following the plugin&#8217;s progress as it develops.</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:73:"WPTavern: Edit Flow Lives, New Update Fixes Bugs and Improves Performance";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=53610";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:82:"http://wptavern.com/edit-flow-lives-new-update-fixes-bugs-and-improves-performance";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:2652:"<p>Twenty-four hours ago, the <a href="http://wptavern.com/hey-automattic-whats-going-on-with-edit-flow">future of Edit Flow was unclear</a> due to a lack of communication from the project&#8217;s maintainer, Automattic. Today however, the company pushed <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/edit-flow/">Edit Flow</a> 0.8.1 to the WordPress plugin directory which is the same version that&#8217;s <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/Edit-Flow">on GitHub</a>. According to the plugin&#8217;s <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/edit-flow/changelog/">changelog</a>, 0.8.1 includes the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>New German localization</li>
<li>New Spanish localization</li>
<li>Performance improvements for the calendar, custom statuses, and editorial metadata</li>
<li>Bug fix: Show &#8220;(no title)&#8221; on the calendar when a post doesn&#8217;t have a title</li>
<li>Bug fix: Persist the future date position of a post on the calendar when a post is updated</li>
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<p>So why the sudden surge in activity? Philip John, VIP Wrangler for Automattic, stopped by and <a href="http://wptavern.com/hey-automattic-whats-going-on-with-edit-flow#comment-164215">provided the following statement</a> to the Tavern.</p>
<blockquote><p>Folks, we’re sorry that it looks as though we’ve abandoned Edit Flow. We certainly haven’t, and we should have at least updated the tested tag for the plugin as you rightly point out.</p>
<p>We’ve done that today, as well as make sure GitHub and WordPress.org are in sync.</p>
<p>Internally I’m working on an effort to make Automattic better at maintaining our own plugins. We want to avoid this situation as much as we can, and I promise we’re trying.</p>
<p>Thank you for calling us out on this. Let’s see what we can all do about getting some attention for Edit Flow.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is welcome news to anyone who depends on the editorial workflow options provided by the plugin. While Edit Flow is a WordPress.com VIP project, the team is open to contributions from the community.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need to give folks a better structure for contributing and build confidence that their contributions will go somewhere,&#8221; Paul Maiorana, VP at Automattic who helps run WordPress.com VIP said.</p>
<p>Now that the team is rectifying the situation, <a href="http://wptavern.com/hey-automattic-whats-going-on-with-edit-flow#comments">those who showed interest</a> in continuing its development are highly encouraged to submit pull requests or open new issues on the <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/Edit-Flow">project&#8217;s GitHub page</a>.</p>
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<p>WordPress.com is finally adding sharing buttons for some of the world&#8217;s most widely used messaging apps. Users can now <a href="https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2016/04/13/new-on-wordpress-com-sharing-buttons-for-whatsapp-telegram-and-skype/" target="_blank">add WhatsApp, Telegram, and Skype to the lineup</a> by editing the sharing buttons for their sites.</p>
<p>Private groups and messaging are rapidly overtaking social networking. This was the driving factor behind Facebook&#8217;s purchase of WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion, an acquisition that lodged the company even deeper into its users&#8217; pocket communications. The app now has <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/1/10889534/whats-app-1-billion-users-facebook-mark-zuckerberg" target="_blank">more than a billion users</a>, which you would be foolish to ignore when presenting options for sharing your posts.</p>
<p>As of February 2016, Telegram <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/23/encrypted-messaging-app-telegram-hits-100m-monthly-active-users-350k-new-users-each-day/" target="_blank">reported 100 million monthly active users</a>, with 350,000 new users signing up every day. The app delivers 15 billion messages daily. Skype has an estimated 300 million users.</p>
<p>These &#8220;Dark Social&#8221; streams of traffic, which cannot be tracked by traditional analytics, are now dominating social sharing. This includes sources like emails, instant messages, and forum posts. According to a <a href="http://info.radiumone.com/rs/radiumone/images/RadiumOne_DarkSocial.pdf?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRokvK%2FMZKXonjHpfsX96ugvUaOwlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DTMBiI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFSLDCMbhs07gFWhI%3D" target="_blank">research poll of 9,000+ consumers conducted by RadiumOne</a>, dark social sharing accounts for 69% of all sharing worldwide. That percentage is even higher in Europe and Australia.</p>
<a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dark-social-sharing.png"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dark-social-sharing.png?resize=1025%2C524" alt="credit: RadiumOne" class="size-full wp-image-53608" /></a>credit: <a href="http://info.radiumone.com/rs/radiumone/images/RadiumOne_DarkSocial.pdf?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRokvK%2FMZKXonjHpfsX96ugvUaOwlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DTMBiI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFSLDCMbhs07gFWhI%3D" target="_blank">RadiumOne</a>
<p>The survey also found that 32% of people who share content online will only share via dark social channels. This type of direct sharing to friends, family, and colleagues often carries more weight than tweets or Facebook posts broadcasted to the masses.</p>
<p>Most messaging apps are not limited to one-to-one sharing; users often share to large groups curated for a specific purpose or interest, such as poker buddies, mom friends, extended family, or work friends. The ability for users to easily share blog posts or even e-commerce products to dark social channels is crucial for exposure to these networks that are not diluted by algorithms and advertising.</p>
<p>With user bases in the hundreds of millions to billions, messaging applications are channels that publishers can no longer afford to ignore. Hopefully the team at Automattic will prioritize making these buttons available to Jetpack users on self-hosted sites in the near future. Until then, you can add <a href="http://wptavern.com/new-plugin-adds-a-whatsapp-button-to-jetpacks-sharing-module" target="_blank">WhatsApp</a> and <a href="http://wptavern.com/add-telegram-to-jetpack-sharing-buttons" target="_blank">Telegram</a> sharing buttons to Jetpack using a couple of existing plugins created by Brazilian WordPress developer Valerio Souza.</p>
<p>If everyone were to agree on <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/08/time-to-ditch-texting/" target="_blank">a universal messaging app</a> we could reduce the number of sharing buttons that clutter the ends of posts. Since that is unlikely to happen anytime soon, now might be a good time to find out what apps your readers are using so you can reevaluate your lineup of sharing buttons for additions and/or removals.</p>
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<p>In the interview, Obenland describes how he got involved with WordPress, what motivated him to learn PHP, and what it&#8217;s like living the dream. The video is 14 minutes in length and while it contains background noise from the crowd, it doesn&#8217;t detract from the interview.</p>
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<p>From <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/absurd-primacy-of-the-car-in-american-life/476346/">The Absurd Primacy of the Automobile in American Life in The Atlantic</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:"Wed, 13 Apr 2016 15:58:20 +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:48;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>The &#8220;A Day of REST&#8221; conference, an event devoted to the WordPress REST API, is expanding to the US. The <a href="http://wptavern.com/a-day-of-rest-conference-successful-81-would-attend-again" target="_blank">first edition</a>, held in London in January, was a success, with the majority of participants indicating they would attend again. Last month, <a href="https://hmn.md/" target="_blank">Human Made</a> announced that the organization team is planning an expanded <a href="http://wptavern.com/a-week-of-rest-wordpress-rest-api-developer-bootcamp-coming-to-the-uk-late-2016" target="_blank">&#8220;Week of REST&#8221; developer bootcamp</a> to be held in London later in 2016.</p>
<p>Today the team <a href="https://hmn.md/2016/04/12/announcing-a-day-of-rest-boston-workshops/" target="_blank">announced</a> its third planned event for this year &#8211; A Day of REST in Boston, MA, on October 28. Human Made will be hosting the event in partnership with <a href="https://poststatus.com/" target="_blank">Post Status</a> and the team at <a href="https://bocoup.com/" target="_blank">Bocoup</a>. This edition of the conference will include workshops on the 27th and the 29th to educate attendees on how to use some of the most popular frontend technologies for building applications with the WP REST API.</p>
<p>Human Made representative Petya Raykovska said that Bocoup being located in Boston was one of the main reasons for hosting the event there, since they wanted to partner together for the workshops. Prospective attendees were also eager for a US-based event where they could go in-depth with the WP REST API.</p>
<p>&#8220;We never planned to do the event only in Europe,&#8221; Raykovska said. &#8220;We had a lot of people asking for live streaming or if we’re planning to organize an event in the US while we were planning A Day of REST London. It was always the plan to pilot the idea in the UK and then bring it to the US and other places.&#8221;</p>
<p>Organizers are planning for 300+ attendees in Boston. In addition to a lineup of speakers that includes WP REST API team members and experts, the event will put out a call for papers to give developers who are using the API an opportunity to share their work and tips.</p>
<p>If you want to attend one of the frontend workshops, make sure to fill out the event&#8217;s <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1b8RlgPxD7JaeKVgNErsbxS7vCe_9LMQLAvVaekHiFlY/viewform?c=0&w=1" target="_blank">survey</a> to indicate the topics you&#8217;re interested in. Tickets will go on sale in the next few weeks.</p>
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<p>Bachhuber <a href="https://danielbachhuber.com/2013/05/08/end-of-one-era-on-to-the-next/">announced in 2013</a> that Automattic claimed ownership of all the plugins he worked on during his employment, including Edit Flow. The WordPress.com VIP team took over development and in some cases, <a href="https://vip.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/atlantic-medias-quartz/">uses it on client sites</a>.</p>
<p>If you visit the plugin&#8217;s page today, you&#8217;ll see the following notice:</p>
<blockquote><p><span class="plugin-notice-banner-msg">This plugin <strong>hasn’t been updated in over 2 years</strong>. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>According to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/edit-flow/changelog/">changelog</a> and the <a href="http://editflow.org/2014/01/07/v0-8-dashboard-notepad-calendar-improvements-and-more/">Edit Flow news blog</a>, the plugin hasn&#8217;t been updated since January 2014, when 0.8 was released. For more than a year, concerned users have created threads in the support forum questioning if the project has been abandoned.</p>
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<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assume-that-edit-flow-has-been-abandoned">Assume that Edit Flow has been abandoned</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/abandoned-23">Abandoned?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/has-edit-flow-been-discontinued">Has Edit Flow been discontinued?</a></li>
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<p>A user who goes by the name drtarnaizoltan who has used Edit Flow for more than two years even <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fundraising-for-continuation">suggested</a> a crowdfunding campaign to continue development.</p>
<blockquote><p>We have an online magazine, and started to use this plugin almost 2 years ago. We don&#8217;t want to switch another, cause everyone in the editorial likes this one. I think we are not alone in this situation. I suggest to make a fundraising for continuation the develop of this plugin. We are able make a kickstarter page or something like that to reach our goal. What is your opinion about?</p></blockquote>
<p>The most <a href="https://github.com/automattic/Edit-Flow">recent commit</a> to the project&#8217;s GitHub page is from Bachhuber six months ago. All of the communication channels used by Edit Flow developers to inform users are dormant. It&#8217;s ironic that a company that <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/automattic-no-email-no-office-workers-2013-11">relies on so many tools to communicate internally</a> has <a href="http://wptavern.com/a-little-communication-goes-a-long-way">failed to communicate</a> with users of its plugin. This is a classic example where a little communication about the project&#8217;s status would go a long way.</p>
<p>Edit Flow is an important plugin that we use on the Tavern and as a user, I understand the frustration of not knowing what&#8217;s going on. The lack of updates, and inability to fix a critical bug <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/Edit-Flow/issues/267">I reported a year ago</a> that conflicts with WordPress mobile apps is forcing us to consider alternatives.</p>
<p>I reached out to Automattic to find out whether or not Edit Flow is still an active project. Mark Armstrong, who represents Automattic provided the Tavern with the following statement:</p>
<blockquote><p>Edit Flow is a plugin we maintain, and a number of WordPress.com VIP clients use it. We have no other updates in the works at this time.</p></blockquote>
<p>While his statement verifies that it&#8217;s an active project, all signs point to it being an abandoned plugin for those not part of the WordPress.com VIP program.</p>
<p>Have you ditched Edit Flow? Let us know what alternatives you&#8217;ve discovered and or use.</p>
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