Catch Up With the Latest WordPress News – #4

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WP REST API Will Not Be Included In 4.5

The REST API will not be included in WordPress 4.5, according to an update posted by Adam Silverstein, Senior Web Engineer at 10UP. “The REST API team’s proposal is to merge the four main endpoints when they are ready, and they are not ready for 4.5,” the post said. “As such, no endpoints are targeted for WordPress 4.5.”

Keep reading on Torque.

Bluehost Open Sources Script Used to Update 2.5 Million WordPress Sites

During the 2015 State of the Word address, Matt Mullenweg highlightedBluehost‘s recent efforts to update its customers’ outdated WordPress sites. After finding that 80% of their WordPress installations were not on the latest version, Bluehost wrote a Perl script that uses WP-CLI to update sites, even those running on versions as old as 1.0.2. The company successfully updated more than 2.5 million customer sites.

Keep reading on WP Tavern.

Will Immersive Education Lead to a Generation of Developers?

So, I was reading news online the other day and I came across a story about this new toy from Fisher-Price that’s designed to give preschoolers their first introduction to coding. “Say what?” I thought as I clicked through to read it. Apparently, the Think & Learn Code-a-Pillar is a toy that’s meant to introduce 3 year olds to the concepts behind coding including problem solving and sequencing.

Keep reading on Torque.

Looking Back On WordCamp Paris 2016

The upside of being at a conference in a language you only speak a tad bit is that you get to meet and talk to all kind of people that have the same ‘problem’. WordCamp Paris had about 470 visitors, and I’m guessing 440 of them are native French. Don’t get me wrong, I like speaking French with French people, but it usually takes up to two or three days before I can keep up with the speed at which they talk. It’s like WP Rocket on acid.

Keep reading on Yoast.

Here are the rest of this week’s top news

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This Week in WordPress

Make WordPress Core:  Selective Refresh in the Customizer

Make WordPress Plugins:  On the Topic of Selling Your Plugins…

WP Tavern:  GitHub Responds to Letter from Open Source Project Maintainers

Torque:  Why WordPress Needs the Fields API and How to Use It

WordCamp US 2016:  Applications for the WordCamp US 2017 host city now open!

Yoast:  Looking Back On WordCamp Paris 2016

WP Theming:  Background Images and the Customizer

WhatsWP:  5 Ways to Grab Attention to Your WP Site in 2016

WooThemes:  WooCommerce Security: the 7 Things You Should Do First

WPVKP:  10 Best Social Media WordPress Plugins For 2016

WP Explorer:  How to Cultivate an Audience of Regular Visitors for Your WordPress Site

Other Posts Worth a Mention

Elegant Themes:  5 UX Design Trends You Should Be Aware of in 2016

CodeGeekz:  Best YouTube Channels for Developers & Designers

Page19:  Attention! Know These 3 Triggers to Get (and Keep) a Crowd

WP Daily Themes:  10 Tips to Improve Your Writing Skills

Yoast:  What To Do if the Traffic On Your Blog is Decreasing?

Level Up Your WordPress Knowledge

Tuts+:  How to Install WordPress: The Application

WPBeginner:  How to Add Free SSL in WordPress with Let’s Encrypt

Woorkup:  How to Change WordPress Login URL for Extra Security

WP Mayor:  How to Build WordPress Pages Quickly and Easily: A Review of Beaver Builder Page Builder

Magazine3:  How to Easily Create A News Aggregator Website With WordPress

WPShout:  How to Add a Facebook Widget to Your Sidebar

Torque:  5 Steps to Get Your WordPress Load Time Under Two Seconds

WP Explorer:  How to Split Test Blog Post Headlines for WordPress

SitePoint:  WordPress Tags Explained

Ideas & Tips for Your WordPress Business

Press Up:  Technical Debt: What It Is, and What It Means for Your Web Project

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About Mark Zahra

A passionate WordPress follower & user currently occupying the roles of contributor for WP Mayor & as Team Lead for the WP RSS Aggregator and EDD Bookings plugins. Twitter: @markzahra

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