We learnt a lot about Divi and Dynamik Website Builder last night, thanks to Quentin Delsante and @henscu. And both Elegant Themes (makers of Divi) and Cobalt Apps (makers of Dynamik) were generous and offered some prizes!
Here are the winners!
Congrats! I’ll be emailing you all with more details later today!
Test, test, test! WordPress 4.4 should be released next week, on December 8, and you should be ready. Check this post to find out the new things that will ship with this new release.
Matt talked about it on his blog: WordPress now powers 25% of the web. It’s an important milestone. Let’s see what we can do to get to 100%! 😊
Do you use WP-CLI? Daniel Bachhuber will work on making it fully compatible with the upcoming Core REST API. His Kickstarter campaign was a huge success and helped him get the funds he needed to concentrate on that project in the months to come.
Envato is one of the biggest businesses related to WordPress (they’re the company behind ThemeForest, CodeCanyon, and others). They announced that they’re working on a brand new site builder, named Envato Sites.
While they’ll continue to release tons of WordPress themes and plugins on ThemeForest and CodeCanyon, that’s definitely something to keep in mind. I can imagine that ThemeForest authors will start spending some time developing themes for that new CMS. If you work with Envato prodcuts, keep an eye on that.
WordCamp US starts on Friday. Even if you don’t travel there, you can purchase a Live Stream ticket if you’re interested in some of the talks. Matt’s State of the Word is always interesting, for example.
WordCamp EU will be in Vienna this year. It’s only a few hours by train or car, so definitely worth the trip. You can already book your tickets here.
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Jetpack, open sourced the code they use to run the new amdin interface on WordPress.com.
While this is limited to WordPress.com site owners and Jetpack users for now, it’s a good example of what can be done when building a client on top of WordPress, using a REST API.
Give the app a try, it’s a refreshing experience. It’s still limited in some cases, like when you’ve built things inside wp-admin using custom fields (not supported yet or custom post types (not supported yet).
Want to read more about it?
Want to know more about theme builders? You should come to our next meetup, on December 2nd!
This time, our topic will be theme builders. We’ll cover 2 popular theme builders, Divi and Dynamik Website Builder. We’ll discover how they work, their advantages, and we can then discuss about other options you can use to build the perfect theme for your site!
During our last meetup, I talked about some basic WordPress Security principles. You can read all about it here:
WordPress 4.4 Beta 2 is available for testing. The new version of WordPress will include 3 new important features:
If you’ve had to deal with plugin translations in the past, you know it used to be a cumbersome process: people who translated your plugin had to send you .po and .mo files, and you would commit those files into your plugin’s languages folder in the next release. Things are much easier now, thanks to WordPress.org. All translations happen on translate.wordpress.org. You can contribute to translations for just about any plugin, and as soon as your translations get approved, they’ll be shipped to everyone using the plugin.
Even the readme can be translated, so we’re slowly moving towards a fully localized plugin repository!
Not a WordPress news, but something that will affect everyone with a website. Let’s Encrypt is a new free SSL certificate authority, and is now trusted by all major browsers. Soon they’ll stat issuing free SSL certificates to everyone who’d need one. They contribute to a safer internet for everyone.
XML-RPC is a feature allowing you to interact with a WordPress site. It’s used by the mobile apps, by plugins like Jetpack, by services like IFTTT, and by many other apps and services.
Since it can be used to publish posts remotely, it’s one of the points of entry hackers like to target. They’ll try to authenticate to your site via XML-RPC, and access your site through there.
Unfortunately, it can be abused, and the Sucuri security firm discovered that hackers had discovered a new way to abuse that feature. They now use a method named system.multicallto execute multiple methods inside a single request. That means they can test several username / password combinations to get into your site in one single request. That’s consequently not enough to just block folks who do multiple requests to your site’s XML-RPC in a short period of time, you now have to look at what people do in these requests. We’ll cover how to protect yourself against those attacks in my talk, a bit later.
http://www.meetup.com/Budapest-WordPress-Meetup/events/225778081/
It’s been a while since our last meetup! This time, we’d like to try something different. We haven’t decided about a topic yet and we’d like you to decide what you want to hear about!
Please fill in this survey, and tell us what you’re interested in. We’ll then find speakers and update this post and the Meetup page accordingly.
https://jeherve.polldaddy.com/s/wpbudapest-topics
Thank you!
There were quite a few releases in the past few weeks:
From now on, all themes submitted to the WordPress.org theme repository will have to use the Customizer for their theme options:
If you are not familiar with the customizer, and if you’d like to add options to your theme, I would suggest checking out the Customizer API docs on WordPress.org.
WordPress 4.2 was shipped a couple of weeks ago, and the core developers are already planning 4.3. You can find out more about the focus of the next major WordPress release here:
I would also suggest subscribing to make/flow if you’d like to help with testing and share your opinions.
