wordpress fresh news - saigon wordpress - nov 29, 2014
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WordPressFresh News
(Nov 29, 2014)
Me and CompanyDat Hoang
● Community & Support at OnTheGoSystems
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● WPML● Toolset plugins● ICanLocalize
Main content
● WordPress 4.1 (beta 1)● Theme Twenty Fifteen● WP-API JSON● WordSesh 3● Community News
WordPress 4.1 (for users)
● A new distraction-free writing (DFW) mode for the editor.○ Things you don’t need while typing just go away.
○ Your scroll position is maintained.
○ It’s the same editor, whereas before it was a separate one.
WordPress 4.1 (for users)
New DFW mode
WordPress 4.1 (for users)
● A new inline formatting toolbar for images embedded into posts.
WordPress 4.1 (for users)
● The ability to automatically install new language packs right from the General Settings screen (available as long as your site’s filesystem is writable).
● New default theme, Twenty Fifteen (talk in the later slide).
WordPress 4.1 (for developers)
● A single term shared across multiple taxonomies is now split into two when updated.
In the past, terms with the same slug but on different taxonomies shared the term_id, slug and name and just had a different term_taxonomy_id.(Explained by Juan, Toolset team)
WordPress 4.1 (for developers)
● Improvements to meta, date, comment, and taxonomy queries, including complex (nested, multiple relation) queries; and querying comment types.
● A new and better way for themes to handle title tags. add_theme_support( 'title-tag' );
WordPress 4.1 (for developers)
● Several improvements to the Customizer API, including contextual panels and sections, and JavaScript templates for controls.
● Remove Custom Background and Header under Appearance in Admin Screens
Theme Twenty Fifteen
Theme Twenty Fifteen
● Mobile first approach
● Clean, blog-focused theme
● Font Google’s Noto Serif and Sans - support
many languages
WP-API JSON
● An important feature - make WordPress connected with other systems.
● Being not ready in WordPress 4.1 as it was expected.
● Interesting case study at WordCamp SF: Content Management for Node Using REST
More plugins for monitoring: https://make.wordpress.org/core/features-as-plugins/
WordSesh 3
● Anywhere accessing (streamed live)● 24 hours of live WordPress presentations from
all over the world streamed live ● It's FREE!● Saturday, December 20, 2014
00:00 - 24:00 UTC.● WordSesh.org
Community news
State of the Word by Matt (WordCamp SF 2014 )● 2014 - first year non-English downloads
surpassed English downloads.● 33k took our survey: 7,539 (25%) of survey
participants make their living from WordPress.● Market share has risen from 19% in 2013 to
23% now.● We need to work hard to harmonize the REST
API plugin and the WordPress.com REST API.
Discussion
Image credit: http://sweetclipart.com/diverse-people-raising-hands-968
Useful links1. http://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-1-to-introduce-theme-support-for-
the-title-tag2. https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-1-beta-1/ 3. http://wptavern.com/first-look-at-designs-for-the-twenty-fifteen-
default-wordpress-theme 4. http://wptavern.com/json-rest-api-slated-for-wordpress-4-1-release 5. http://wordpress.tv/2014/11/03/k-adam-white-wordpress-in-weird-
places-content-management-for-node-using-rest/6. http://wptavern.com/json-rest-api-slated-for-wordpress-4-1-release 7. https://make.wordpress.org/core/features-as-plugins/8. http://wordsesh.org 9. http://ma.tt/2014/10/sotw-2014/
10. https://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/11/25/an-update-on-shared-term-splitting/
Big Thanks!Dat HoangCommunity & Support Vietnam E: [email protected]: wpml.org | wp-types.com | icanlocalize.com
Saigon, November 29, 2014