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<h3>latest features: success!</h3>
<p>Blogging on-the-go from your Windows Phone has never been easier. With sleek galleries &#8212; either in thumbnail grid or slideshow mode &#8212; your images look appealing on screens of all sizes.</p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-440 alignright" alt="PNs-02" src="http://wpwindowsphone.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/pns-02.jpg?w=480&h=800" width="480" height="800" /></p>
<p>Our recently added rich text editor makes it a breeze to write longer posts, where a bit of html code can go a long way toward keeping lists and links in order.</p>
<p>Finally, now that you can get push notifications for new comments, leaving your house no longer means a long queue of comments waiting to be approved. You can keep the conversation going no matter where you are.</p>
<h3>a worldwide hit</h3>
<p>The release of v. 2.2 received a warm welcome from users around the world.</p>
<p>Now, the Windows Phone Store is joining the chorus of supporters: starting October 13, WordPress for Windows Phone will be promoted as a featured app for all phone models in Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Switzerland (German and Italian), as well as for selected devices in Argentina, Ireland, and Norway (to name a few). It&#8217;s the perfect moment to introduce our app to all your Windows Phone-using friends and family!</p>
<h3>Go beyond using: contribute!</h3>
<p>Have you ever considered helping us make WordPress for Windows Phone an even better app? Drop us a line at <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/mobile" target="_blank">make/mobile</a> on <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/mobile" target="_blank">WordPress.org</a> and we&#8217;ll let you know how you can contribute. Since we&#8217;ve adopted a feature-based release schedule, it&#8217;s easier and more fun to help out. And if you ever have an idea for a feature or see something that needs to be fixed, don&#8217;t hesitate to let us know on the <a title="Project Trac site" href="http://wpwindowsphone.wordpress.com/feed/windowsphone.trac.wordpress.org" target="_blank">WordPress for Windows Phone Trac</a>.</p>
<p>Make sure to follow <a href="https://twitter.com/wpwindowsphone" target="_blank">@WPWindowsPhone on Twitter</a> to get the latest news first, and stay tuned for future updates and new features.</p>
<h3>download</h3>
<p>Still haven&#8217;t downloaded v. 2.2 of WordPress for Windows Phone? It&#8217;s never too late: click the link below to get our most recent release and enjoy all our great features:</p>
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<p>This has been a quiet beta period. We&#8217;re hoping to get some more testers for <strong>automatic background updates</strong>, which will occur for security and minor releases (like updating from 3.7 to 3.7.1). It&#8217;s really easy to test this, as Beta 2 will update* each day to the latest development version and then email you the results. If something goes wrong, you can report it — it&#8217;s that simple. To get the beta, try the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">WordPress Beta Tester</a> plugin (you&#8217;ll want &#8220;bleeding edge nightlies&#8221;). Or you can <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.7-beta2.zip">download the beta here</a> (zip). Check out <strong>Dashboard ? Updates</strong> to see if your install is eligible for background updates. WordPress won&#8217;t update if, for example, you&#8217;re using version control like SVN or Git.</p>
<p>For more of what&#8217;s new in version 3.7, <a title="WordPress 3.7 Beta 1" href="http://wordpress.org/news/2013/09/wordpress-3-7-beta-1/">check out the Beta 1 blog post</a>. In Beta 2, we further increased the stability of background updates and also added about 50 bug fixes, including a fix for Internet Explorer 11 in the visual editor.</p>
<p>If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta">Alpha/Beta area</a> in the support forums. Or, if you’re comfortable writing a bug report, <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/">file one on the WordPress Trac</a>. There, you can also find <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/report/5">a list of known bugs</a> and <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&group=component&milestone=3.7">everything we’ve fixed</a>.</p>
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<p>Christopher has now taken things one step further by <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/25546" title="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/25546">creating a feature request</a> using his inline preview plugin which falls in line with the new approach of features as plugins first. In the ticket, he lists pain points in previewing a post and suggests returning to the way in-page previewing used to work in WordPress but give it a facelift. </p>
<p>When I tested the new plugin version on my local install, I loved the way it worked. It&#8217;s quick and the bar to adjust the size of the preview pane is a nice touch. I think the adjuster could use a more defining image instead of a vertical shadow. Something like a little grey bar with arrows on each side telling the user that image can be moved left or right. As listed in the likely candidates for improvement, the X button could use some work although it works just fine as it is. Although the preview pane does not update in real-time with edits made on the Post Writing screen, each time an auto-save or revision occurs, the changes are automatically updated within the inline preview. </p>
<p>One of the biggest challenges to having something like this in core is making sure it&#8217;s compatible with as many themes as possible. While using it here on the Tavern, I noticed it shrinks the text on the website almost to the point where it&#8217;s hard to read. The other challenge is performance. Using the tavern theme as an example, there is a significant delay when trying to adjust the width of the inline preview box. It&#8217;s not as smooth of an experience as it could be. In fact, the type of delays and performance I&#8217;m seeing is similar to the widget administration page. </p>
<p>I reached out to Christopher Finke and asked him what his best argument was for including Inline Preview to the core of WordPress;</p>
<blockquote><p>The best argument for adding inline preview to core is that it improves the current multi-step and disjoint processes of editing and previewing a post by combining them into a single seamless action of post creation.  Users could switch from the mindset of &#8220;Edit, preview, edit, preview&#8221; to just &#8220;Write.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, when I submitted the ticket, I wasn&#8217;t aware of the possibility that front-end editing will be a feature in WordPress 3.8: <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/ui/2013/09/14/front-end-editor/" title="http://make.wordpress.org/ui/2013/09/14/front-end-editor/">http://make.wordpress.org/ui/2013/09/14/front-end-editor/</a>  If that is the direction that WordPress is going, then radically changing the backend editing process may not be a priority.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested in seeing something like this be added to the core of WordPress as I am, you should download the plugin, test it on your site with your design and give feedback in the <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/25546" title="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/25546">Trac ticket</a>. </p>
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<p>But some of the most exciting action happened at the WordCamp Europe Contributor Day, where attendees collaborated  together in person to swiftly complete a number of key projects.<span id="more-9877"></span>     </p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="550"><p>Pizza, WordPress, geekery, beer, code :) <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23wceu&src=hash">#wceu</a> contributor day</p>
<p>&mdash; Ryan Hellyer (@ryanhellyer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ryanhellyer/statuses/387254309500751873">October 7, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Well if that doesn&#8217;t make you wish you were there, I don&#8217;t know what will. A sampling of the pizza and beer-fueled contributions made during that day include <a href="https://twitter.com/paul_wp/status/387255600826298368" target="_blank">additions to inline-docs</a>, a complete <a href="https://twitter.com/nostromo/status/387239414713184256" target="_blank">translation of the WordPress Android app into Dutch</a> and, most notably, a face lift for the <a href="http://make.wordpress.org" target="_blank">Make.WordPress.org</a> homepage. </p>
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<p>The new design includes a quick introduction to Making WordPress as well as descriptions for each contributor group. <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/" target="_blank">Make.WordPress.org</a> is without a doubt more visually appealing than before. It also presents the blogs in a more approachable way that invites contribution. The only thing I will miss is the ability to see RSS feeds for each make blog at a glance. </p>
<p>You may have noticed that the new homepage is not yet mobile friendly. However, all the code can be found in the <a href="http://meta.svn.wordpress.org/" target="_blank">meta svn</a> and you can file a ticket at the <a href="http://meta.trac.wordpress.org/" target="_blank">meta trac</a> with your changes if you&#8217;d like to contribute. Many thanks to those who worked at WCEU to improve the homepage and to those who will continue their work. We&#8217;re looking forward to seeing how this page evolves. Do you think the new presentation will encourage more people to jump in and get involved in a contributor group?</p>
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<p>Over 15 weeks, <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/mobile/2013/06/20/gsoc-week-1-introduction/" target="_blank">Daniele Maio</a> worked on building a WordPress mobile native app for BlackBerry 10 devices, with mentorship and guidance from the mobile developer community of WordPress. The project is a great example of just what contributing to WordPress is all about. We now need your help to take this app a step further, complete the work Daniele started, and release it to the public.</p>
<p>Interested in contributing and working on this platform? A good place to start is the <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/mobile/handbook/" target="_blank">WordPress Mobile Development Handbook</a>, which covers best practices, guidelines for interacting with the team, and other resources for contributing to all the WordPress mobile apps. You can also join the team in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode on Mondays at 9 am PST to get in touch and learn about the status of various projects.</p>
<p>Join us!</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:63:"WPTavern: Should WordPress Add Core Support for Domain Mapping?";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:"http://www.wptavern.com/?p=9795";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:114:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/WQc09OgwCxU/should-wordpress-add-core-support-for-domain-mapping";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:7109:"<p><div id="attachment_9870" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://i1.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/network1.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/network1.jpg?resize=300%2C199" alt="photo credit: opensourceway via photopin cc" class="size-medium wp-image-9870" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5445002493/">opensourceway</a> via <a href="http://photopin.com">photopin</a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">cc</a></p></div>The largest and most heavily trafficked WordPress sites are powered by multisite. Ensuring a strong future for the multisite feature is paramount to the long term success of the networks built on this platform. However, core improvements are often slow to be added, as multisite is used in so many different ways and therefore cannot easily be nailed into simple solutions.</p>
<p>Last week on the <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/10/06/potential-roadmap-for-multisite/" target="_blank">Make WordPress Core</a> blog Andrew Nacin outlined some long term objectives for core improvements to WordPress Multisite. Core support for domain mapping is one of them. <span id="more-9795"></span></p>
<h3>The Subdomain/Subdirectory Paradigm</h3>
<p>Due to the fact that subdomains and subdirectories are very limited options for site urls within a multisite network, domain mapping is commonly used to add in the option of top-level domains. </p>
<p>In a relatively unusual configuration of multisite, it is possible to create multiple networks. However, there is no UI to support multiple network installations and truly global settings are not currently possible across the board.</p>
<blockquote><p>The only things “global” to entire multisite installs (rather than just a single network) are must-use plugins (“mu-plugins”) and users. Sites are assigned to a particular network; network-activated plugins and network-enabled themes are distinct only to that network; and each network has its own settings, network admin, and even super administrators (unless defined globally using $super_admins).</p></blockquote>
<p>Nacin proposes that we focus on adding more robust support for domain mapping in order to reduce the demand for a user interface for managing multiple networks. Multiple networks are relatively uncommon and usually not necessary, but are often set up due to the developer&#8217;s perceived inadequacy of subdomain/subdirectories. Nacin believes that the path forward is to introduce proper domain mapping into core. This will require a complete reworking of ms-settings.php.</p>
<p>Big changes would be required in order to make domain mapping possible as part of the core. Nacin outlines two requirements:</p>
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<li>Dissolving the existing subdomain versus subdirectory paradigm, or rather downsizing it to be part of open registration networks only</li>
<li>Dissolving cross-domain “remote” logins, which are often the source of messy redirect loops</li>
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<blockquote><p>Dissolving the subdirectory/subdomain paradigm is actually not so bad. We need to stop thinking about a network only consisting of differing subdomains, or only consisting of differing paths. ms-settings.php would need to be rewritten. Site creation and management will need some changes.</p></blockquote>
<p>These are by no means easy changes to apply, especially considering how it would strongly impact the many massive WordPress networks out there, including WordPress.com. Nacin identifies dealing with URL conflicts as one of the greatest challenges of moving forward with domain mapping for core. However, this also brings an opportunity to vastly improve the experience of the management of open vs. closed multisite networks.</p>
<h3>Open vs Closed Networks</h3>
<p>A pertinent by-product of this proposal includes a discussion of how core domain mapping might affect open and closed networks as well as the signup process and administration. </p>
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<p>If a WordPress multisite network allows for open registration on demand, it&#8217;s considered an &#8220;open network&#8221;. A closed network is the other very common scenario where signup is disabled and sites on the network are manually added. </p>
<blockquote><p>But, when a network is not designed for “open registration,” there are a number of undue burdens that should be lifted for administrators. Uploadable file types are severely restricted, and the amount they can upload is capped. They cannot activate installed plugins, though there is an option for this. They cannot add users to their sites without knowing their email address (ostensibly to prevent spam), and the user must still go through a “confirmation” process. New sites must go through an “activation” process. They cannot create new users.</p></blockquote>
<p>Removing these burdens would make life much easier for every closed multisite network super admin. In any network that I&#8217;ve ever created along these lines, most of the work is overcoming multisite&#8217;s restrictions that are placed on the network due to the core catering to open registration networks.</p>
<p>Nacin proposes a single option to be set on install and controllable via network settings in order to differentiate between open vs. closed networks. </p>
<blockquote><p>A strong benefit here is that functionality in a closed network starts to more closely resemble a single site rather than the inherent restrictions of an open network. By shifting these paradigms, networks will become easier to manage and more straightforward to use over time.</p></blockquote>
<p>Nacin isn&#8217;t outlining a specific approach or timeline here, just a few long term objectives for tailoring future development towards a better multisite experience. So far, the comments have been very interesting and I would encourage you to get in on the <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/10/06/potential-roadmap-for-multisite/" target="_blank">discussion</a> as it will mostly likely continue for awhile before a concrete plan of action surfaces. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m curious to know how these changes will affect current domain mapping plugins. Would it render them all obsolete? Are closed vs open network distinctions too limited in defining how WordPress might manage signup and restrictions? </p>
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<p>In the world of AMC&#8217;s hit show Breaking Bad, high school chemistry teacher Walter White transforms into the notorious Meth producer, &#8220;Heisenberg&#8221;. The show concluded with an impressive series finale. To celebrate the success of this incredibly powerful drama, we&#8217;re going to examine the WordPress plugins that each character may have used to help facilitate business and communication within the storyline of Breaking Bad. <strong>There are spoilers and mild curse&nbsp;words in this post.</strong> If you were into Breaking Bad as much as I was, you&#8217;re going to have fun with this one!<span id="more-9683"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/cookresults.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-9809" alt="WordPress Charts" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/cookresults.png?resize=120%2C120" /></a><strong>Heisenberg&#8217;s</strong> lab test results were key in testing out freshly cooked product. Setting the benchmark at a whopping 97%, Walter White would have benefited greatly by showing off his results with a great chart plugin. The plugin of choice for this task would be <a title="WordPress Charts" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-charts/" target="_blank"><strong>WordPress Charts</strong></a>. WP Charts gives you many different options for embedding HTML5 charts into your posts. From bar and line Graphs to radar and doughnut charts, this plugin delivers six different forms of chart displays by using a simple shortcode. The animated data presentation is very cool as the chart &#8220;grows&#8221; on the page. There are limitless data fields, which could enable Heisenberg to create ongoing data charts to track the progression of the various cooks found throughout the operation. Each chart embeds via shortcode, with multiple charts permitted on a single post or page. Almost anything can be modified, including the colors, index labels and graph values. There are no back-end settings required to create a chart, as everything is shortcode based.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/jesse.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9846" alt="WordBooker" src="http://i1.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/jesse.jpg?resize=150%2C150" /></a>Jesse Pinkman</strong> had shown some of his social networking prowess early in the series. Jesse&#8217;s online profile at shoutout.us, &#8220;Cap&#8217;n Cook&#8217;s Krystal Palace&#8221; was the shizzy back in the day, yo. But as time passed, Jesse seemed more like the kind of guy who would rather post his content on his own blog first, followed by automatic social status updates. To accomplish this he would most likely use <strong><a title="WordBooker" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordbooker/" target="_blank">WordBooker</a></strong>. Wordbooker is one of the most effective plugins for posting your content summaries to Facebook. Whether you want to post to a personal profile or a fan page, WordBooker makes it easy to integrate Facebook into your WordPress installation. After a brief connection to Facebook for credentials and authorization, WordBooker accesses the pages and groups that you have administrative credentials for. From that point on, you have full control over which pages will receive summaries of content when you publish a new post. You can turn functionality off and on directly within the post editor, allowing for individual post control of what is broadcast to Facebook. Another great feature is the ability to automatically pull comments from Facebook into your WordPress post comments. Again, this can be controlled on a per-post basis.</p>
<p><strong>Saul Goodman</strong> is an attorney specializing in representing the disadvantaged victims of overzealous law enforcement. Though he frequents late night TV to promote his firm, his reputation would also be reinforced with a good WordPress testimonials plugin. What better way to highlight the success stories of the innocent than the <a title="Easy Testimonials" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-testimonials/" target="_blank"><strong>Easy Testimonials</strong></a> WordPress plugin? With the ease of the standard post editor, new testimonials can be added with full HTML capability. This allows for text, images and even video testimonials to be inserted into any page of content. There is also a widget for displaying random testimonials in the sidebar. The plugin can show specific testimonials by their ID number or choose from the testimonials at random. Whichever method is selected, Saul can show off his legal victories within the context of any post.</p>
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<p>With the new AMC prequel &#8220;Better Call Saul&#8221; in development, there will be plenty of Saul Goodman to enjoy for many years to come. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing the clients that Saul represents and the possible testimonials that they provide!</p>
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<p><a href="http://i1.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/TwaughtHammer.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9822" alt="TwaughtHammer" src="http://i1.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/TwaughtHammer.jpg?resize=150%2C150" /></a><strong>Brandon &#8220;Badger&#8221; Mayhew</strong> and Skinny Pete are both accomplished musicians that recently came into a lot of money. Why not get the band back together? Yes, long before Mr. White arrived on the scene, Badger (vocals/guitar), Jesse (drums) and Paul Tyree (bass) were known in the scene as punk/metal group &#8220;TwaüghtHammër&#8221;. With locally renowned hits like &#8220;Fallacies&#8221; and &#8220;DOA in ABQ&#8221;, it&#8217;s no surprise that the band would also have an equally killer WordPress presence. For selling music, most local bands go through <a title="BandCamp" href="http://bandcamp.com" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> to handle song purchases. In order to maximize the possibilities for stacking cheddar, TwaüghtHammër should use the <strong><a title="WP Bandcamp" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-bandcamp" target="_blank">WP BandCamp</a></strong> plugin. This simple widget allows Badger to embed the Bandcamp player with an easy to configure widget that only requires the band&#8217;s album ID number. Site visitors can listen to all the latest TwaüghtHammër tracks and buy single tracks or the full album. Share functionality is enabled, allowing the option for fans to spread the word. It&#8217;s Hammër time, yo!</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/a1a-coupon.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-9797" alt="A1A Car Wash Coupon" src="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/a1a-coupon.jpg?resize=300%2C178" /></a><strong>Skyler White</strong> &#8211; There&#8217;s no better way to &#8220;Make it an A1 Day&#8221; than to receive a coupon from your favorite car wash. As general manager of the A1A Car Wash, Skyler was focused on generating as much business as possible in order to facilitate the money laundering scheme. More customers means more money that can be laundered. What better way to keep customers coming back than a coupon for free air freshener or other car care professional services. To accomplish this Skyler could have utilized <strong><a title="Coupon Creator" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/coupon-creator/" target="_blank">Coupon Creator</a></strong> for making printable coupons. This simple plugin will allow Mrs. White to create and publish her first coupons within minutes. The simple coupon interface allows for changes in headlines, text color, background, images and expiration date. When inserted via shortcode, the plugin automatically creates a &#8220;Click to Print&#8221; link to allow customers to print their coupon right at home.</p>
<p>Even if you are not a fan of the show Breaking Bad, there are certainly a number of great plugins represented in this post to provide a creative spark in your own plugin applications. Remember to test and analyze your own results of these plugins on a staging site before going live. Too many plugins could cause your WordPress installation to overdose, which in turn might drive your dad to mistakenly force two passenger jets to crash in mid-air. Help prevent airline catastrophes! Use a staging site!</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:68:"WPTavern: This Week On WordPress Weekly – Book Author Scott Berkun";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:"http://www.wptavern.com/?p=9826";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:116:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/_z_seBdnOOo/this-week-on-wordpress-weekly-book-author-scott-berkun";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:2480:"<p>This Friday at 3P.M. Eastern on WordPress Weekly, book author Scott Berkun will be our special guest to talk about his experience working at Automattic on WordPress.com in his brand new book, <a title="http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633">The Year Without Pants</a>. I recently finished the book and it was a great read. I learned a bunch of things that I didn&#8217;t know before hand. In fact, here are 10 things I learned from the book.<span id="more-9826"></span></p>
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<li>Prior to Scott being hired, Automattic was a completely flat company from a hierarchy stand point. They had less than 50 employees when he was hired.</li>
<li>Do not play against Andy Peatling in any pub games, especially shuffleboard.</li>
<li>The code name for JetPack was &#8220;.org connect&#8221;</li>
<li>Scott was one of the people responsible for getting rid of the &#8216;NASCAR&#8217; effect of using share buttons from different services</li>
<li>While Automattic has a ton of P2 sites and wants everyone to know everything going on in the company, certain private back channels of communication proved necessary to acquire valuable feedback</li>
<li>IntenseDebate was a mess of code and architecture which was one of the reasons why no one wanted to tackle the project for so long</li>
<li>Scott finally got the opportunity to work on a pet peeve project and the result was <a title="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/get-instant-feedback-when-you-publish/" href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/get-instant-feedback-when-you-publish/">instant feedback</a> after publishing a post on WordPress.com</li>
<li>I believe Scott&#8217;s successful experiment as team lead has led to other teams and leaders throughout Automattic. It&#8217;s part of the way the company works now.</li>
<li>Scott and I are on the same page as it relates to the dashboard experience for WordPress.com. It could be vastly improved.</li>
<li>Many of the features at WordPress.com were built-in isolation, not taking into account how features will display or interact with each other.</li>
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<p>This is just a small sampling of great information I picked up from this book. If you have read it or have any questions you&#8217;d like me to ask Scott, post them 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:59:"WPTavern: 10 Outstanding Presentations From WordCamp Europe";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:"http://www.wptavern.com/?p=9793";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:111:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/5fsONHsdpsg/10-outstanding-presentations-from-wordcamp-europe";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:4519:"<p>The very first WordCamp Europe took place this last weekend in Leiden, The Netherlands, with over 700 WordPress fans in attendance. From all reports it seems to have been a resounding success. This was the first large-scale WordCamp to be held in Europe. It included two days of world-class speakers from all of the world and one day dedicated to contributing to WordPress. Many attendees reported that it was the best WordCamp they have ever attended. </p>
<p><div id="attachment_9831" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://i1.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/matt-at-wceu.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/matt-at-wceu.jpg?resize=500%2C333" alt="photo courtesy of @forbairt" class="size-full wp-image-9831" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">photo courtesy of <a href="https://twitter.com/forbairt" target="_blank">@forbairt</a></p></div><span id="more-9793"></span></p>
<p>For those of us who weren&#8217;t able to attend, you probably noticed your Twitter stream full of the #wceu hashtag, with photos and updates offering a window into all the activities surrounding WordCamp Europe. &#8220;Armchair WordCampers&#8221; could follow the event via the wceu.wparmchair.com website, created by <a href="https://twitter.com/dimensionmedia" target="_blank">David Bisset</a>. The site captured 1200+ photos and 3700+ tweets from WordCamp Europe, using the #wceu hashtag.</p>
<p>If you are at home wishing you could have attended all of the awesome sessions, the next best thing is getting your hands on the speakers&#8217; slides. We&#8217;ve selected a few of the fantastic presentations that were given this past weekend and have posted them here. If you attended WordCamp Europe or have links to slides from other presentations, please let us know in the comments below.</p>
<h2>WordPress: To OOP or not to OOP</h2>
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<h2>Writing Secure WordPress Code</h2>
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<div> <strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/williamsba/writing-secure-wordpress-code" title="Writing Secure WordPress Code" target="_blank">Writing Secure WordPress Code</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/williamsba" target="_blank">Brad Williams</a></strong> </div>
<h2>Herding Cats with the BuddyPress Activity Component</h2>
<p><a href="http://hardg.com/presentations/wordcamp-europe-2013/bp-activity/#/title"><img src="http://i1.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/herding-cats.jpg?resize=560%2C370" alt="herding-cats" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9839" /></a></p>
<h2>Why Big Brands Love WordPress</h2>
<p> 
<div> <strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/sara.rosso/why-big-brands-love-wordpress" title="Why Big Brands Love WordPress " target="_blank">Why Big Brands Love WordPress </a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sara.rosso" target="_blank">Sara Rosso</a></strong> </div>
<h2>Real Security for WordPress</h2>
<p> 
<div> <strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/armeda/wordpress-security-17721777" title="Real Security for WordPress" target="_blank">Real Security for WordPress</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/armeda" target="_blank">Dre Armeda</a></strong> </div>
<h2>Perfecting Your Images Using WordPress</h2>
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<h2>Learnings from Growing Local WordPress Communities</h2>
<p> 
<div> <strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/naokomc/wordcamp-europe2013" title="Learnings from Growing Local WordPress Communities" target="_blank">Learnings from Growing Local WordPress Communities</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/naokomc" target="_blank">Naoko Takano (McCracken)</a></strong> </div>
<h2>On Internationalization: Plugins and Themes for the Whole World</h2>
<p><a href="http://wceu2013.ottopress.com/"><img src="http://i1.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/otto.jpg?resize=560%2C364" alt="otto" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9842" /></a></p>
<h2>Working towards great version control for WordPress</h2>
<p></p>
<h2>Unit Testing Like a Pirate</h2>
<p> 
<div> <strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/ptahdunbar/unit-testing-like-a-pirate-wceu-2013" title="Unit testing like a pirate #wceu 2013" target="_blank">Unit testing like a pirate #wceu 2013</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/ptahdunbar" target="_blank">ptahdunbar</a></strong> </div>
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Like software, we are iterating the product. This year we want to dive deeper into a couple subjects. The discussion&#8217;s on commercialization and distributed teams will be candid and insightful. There is a lot of dogma and political correctness around these two topics in our community that we hope to peel back a bit to have a frank conversation.</p></blockquote>
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<h2>Stories Discussed:</h2>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/news/2013/09/wordpress-3-7-beta-1/" title="http://wordpress.org/news/2013/09/wordpress-3-7-beta-1/">WordPress 3.7 beta 1 released </a><br />
<a href="http://www.wptavern.com/ridiculously-smart-password-meter-coming-to-wordpress-3-7" title="http://www.wptavern.com/ridiculously-smart-password-meter-coming-to-wordpress-3-7">Ridiculously smart password meter coming to WordPress 3.7</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wptavern.com/should-code-revisions-be-added-to-the-wordpress-core" title="http://www.wptavern.com/should-code-revisions-be-added-to-the-wordpress-core">Should code revisions be added to WordPress core?</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wptavern.com/new-user-profile-design-coming-to-wordpress-org" title="http://www.wptavern.com/new-user-profile-design-coming-to-wordpress-org">New Profile Design For WordPress.org</a><br />
<a href="http://wpengine.com/2013/10/04/letter-to-customers-founderceo/" title="http://wpengine.com/2013/10/04/letter-to-customers-founderceo/">WPEngine CEO Hired New CEO</a><br />
<a href="https://wpremote.com/2013/10/04/the-new-wpremote/" title="https://wpremote.com/2013/10/04/the-new-wpremote/">WP Remote Launches New Site Design and Premium Plan</a></p>
<h2>WPWeekly Meta:</h2>
<p><strong>Next Episode:</strong> Friday, October 11th 3 P.M. Eastern &#8211; Special Guest Scott Berkun author of the book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633" title="http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633">The Year Without Pants</a>. </p>
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<p><strong>Today <a href="http://wpremote.com/" target="_blank">WP Remote</a> is making its debut as a full-fledged WordPress site monitoring and backup service with new commercial backup plans and a powerful public API.</strong> The new WP Remote premium tier includes:</p>
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<li>Fully automatic Core, Theme, and Plugin updates</li>
<li>A daily email summary of what has been happening on your site.</li>
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<p>WP Remote is joining the ranks of services like <a href="https://managewp.com/" target="_blank">ManageWP</a>, <a href="http://infinitewp.com/" target="_blank">InfiniteWP</a>, <a href="http://cmscommander.com/" target="_blank">CMS Commander</a> and others offering the ability to manage multiple WordPress sites from one location. WordPress automation is a growing segment of the commercial WordPress plugins and services marketplace. If you don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a high demand for centralized WordPress site management, take a look at some of the numbers. WP Remote currently helps their customers manage more than 45,000 sites. Within the last month the app has updated 40,000 plugins, performed over 6,000 WordPress core updates and created backups totaling more than 350 GB.</p>
<h3>Manage WordPress Sites Using WP Remote and WP-CLI</h3>
<p>One thing that sets WP Remote apart from its competition is that they opted for an API-first approach to building their commercial WordPress service. The app is built 100% on top of their new publicly available <a href="https://wpremote.com/api-docs/" target="_blank">JSON API</a>. One place where you can see this API in action is in WP Remote&#8217;s unique capability to work with <a href="http://wp-cli.org/" target="_blank">WP-CLI</a>. The WP Remote CLI allows you to do a ton of stuff with your free or commercial plan &#8211; basically anything you can do from the WP Remote interface but using the command line instead.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a sampling of just a few of the WP Remote CLI commands available:</p>
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<p>Putting that comprehensive JSON API in place allows WP Remote to innovate in ways that other WordPress site management services haven&#8217;t yet tried. The WP Remote CLI gets the WP Remote capabilities into the developer&#8217;s workflow and makes it even easier to sign up new sites.  As you know, anything that makes a developer&#8217;s life easier is usually something that he won&#8217;t hesitate to promote. The WordPress automation services space is getting competitive.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to see how WordPress development shops can benefit from these kinds of services when offering maintenance packages to their clients. The ability to manage multiple WordPress sites without having to visit each dashboard is becoming a critical necessity for devs who want to efficiently manage their time. Those who build with WordPress often do so almost exclusively and can end up with dozens, if not hundreds of WordPress sites for which they are responsible. Realistically, who can track that many sites and effectively manage them for best practices? WP Remote and other similar services are making this possible.</p>
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<blockquote><p>Rather than editing content &#8220;inline&#8221; on the front-end, let users click editable chunks of content to drill down to the appropriate admin edit page. To be clear, this is explicitly and intentionally not front-end editing.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Please read through his idea and provide any feedback you have in the comments.  </p>
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<p>Once logged in you can take advantage of the new simple way to <a href="http://blog.gravatar.com/2013/10/02/add-your-wordpress-sites-to-your-gravatar-profile/" target="_blank">add WordPress sites</a>. Gravatar now displays a list of your WordPress.com and Jetpack-connected sites so you can easily select those you want to display on your profile.</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:59:"Gravatar: Add your WordPress sites to your Gravatar Profile";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:"http://blog.gravatar.com/?p=463";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:86:"http://blog.gravatar.com/2013/10/02/add-your-wordpress-sites-to-your-gravatar-profile/";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:1300:"<p>Now we&#8217;ve made it easy for you to promote your WordPress sites on your Gravatar Profile.</p>
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<p>A few weeks ago, we <a title="http://www.wptavern.com/justin-tadlock-publishes-the-results-of-his-themeforest-experiment" href="http://www.wptavern.com/justin-tadlock-publishes-the-results-of-his-themeforest-experiment">linked to the results</a> of Justin Tadlock&#8217;s one year ThemeForest experiment. One of Justin&#8217;s follow-up experiments was to separate functionality in themes to plugins:</p>
<blockquote><p>These plugins handle functionality that I often see in themes at ThemeForest. The idea is to get theme authors to adopt a standard (whether it’s my plugins or someone else’s). Think of the standards that BuddyPress, bbPress, WooCommerce, and others have set. That’s the type of thing I’m interested in.</p></blockquote>
<p>At least one person was paying attention. Learning from his mistakes with Risen, Steve built a content plugin that contains post types, taxonomies, and custom fields. This enables users to switch between any theme that supports his content plugin without the content disappearing.</p>
<p>I love how Steve has outlined the process from idea, to launching the business. He&#8217;s at the beginning stages and based on what I&#8217;ve read, he&#8217;s put himself in a good position both from a pricing stand point and he&#8217;s provided a method of recurring revenue. It helps that Resurrect is a great looking theme. I can see people using it for more than just churches. Please stop by <a title="http://churchthemes.com" href="http://churchthemes.com">Churchthemes.com</a> and use the comment form here to provide feedback for Steven.</p>
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<p><div id="attachment_9689" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/mert.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/mert.jpg?resize=250%2C250" alt="Mert Yazicioglu" class="size-full wp-image-9689" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mert Yazicioglu</p></div>Enhancing profiles.wordpress.org requires the ability to work with bbPress, BuddyPress, Trac and WordPress. This was not a problem for Mert, a regular WordPress rockstar who was able to jump in right away, despite being relatively new to BuddyPress. &#8220;It was really easy to pick it up and I had no trouble working on it back again after more than a year,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I believe if you&#8217;re familiar with WordPress, you&#8217;re pretty much already familiar with its sister projects. Most of the time, it&#8217;s just a matter of having a quick look at the Codex or the source files.&#8221;</p>
<p>Before we get into the details, here is a quick preview of updates Mert has made as well as the new design. The design is still subject to changes but this gives you a general idea of where profiles will be going.</p>
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<h3>Enhanced Activity Stream for WordPress.org</h3>
<p>User profiles on WordPress.org show a person&#8217;s involvement with the WordPress project and their activity on site. </p>
<p>For Mert, the most challenging aspect of the project was building the activity stream and creating a design that works well with users of varying levels of activity.</p>
<blockquote><p>The activity stream took the most of our time and effort so I think that was the most challenging part of the project but if we put the obvious aside, I think the hardest one is to prepare a design that works and looks good with users that have no content and the users that have too much content.</p></blockquote>
<p>The new profile activity streams track participation on the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Activities on Plugin and Theme Repositories</li>
<li>Support Forums</li>
<li>Tracs</li>
<li>Make.Wordpress.org Blogs</li>
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<p>Mert wrote new plugins that bring instant tracking to each user&#8217;s activity stream so visitors can see at a glance what the user has been up to lately.</p>
<blockquote><p>After deciding which activities should make it to the activity stream, I started writing plugins for each of those platforms (bbPress, Trac and WordPress) that trigger whenever an action takes place and immediately post an activity to the user&#8217;s activity stream. So now we can track activities on Plugin and Theme Repositories, Support Forums, Tracs and Make blogs. That means if I release a new plugin, receive props in a commit message, reply to a topic in an international support forum or publish a new blog post in the Make WordPress Core blog, it automatically gets published on my activity stream.</p></blockquote>
<h3>The Possibility of Adding Gamification to WordPress.org Profiles</h3>
<p>The enhanced activity stream will provide the groundwork for the possibility of other features that Mert was hopeful to include, such as the ability for users to follow each other, showcase their work and earn recognition for activity on the site. </p>
<blockquote><p>Initially, my plan regarding the activity stream was more along the lines of just making it more readable. When we started discussing my proposal, Nacin made a really good point saying that being able to collect and store good, sane data is crucial and the other features such as Gamification, Following Each Other and <a href="http://profiles.wordpress.org">Profiles Homepage</a> should be our next steps. So we decided to build a real activity stream from the ground up as the current one is simply gathering activities from different sources, making it impossible to use as a base for the follow-up features I have just mentioned.</p></blockquote>
<p>When the new activity stream goes into place, it will be time to discuss which new features to prioritize for making the profiles more social. Mert believes that the WordPress.org community can benefit from adding the dynamic of gamification. Whether that would come in the form of points, badges, progress bars or some kind of virtual currency has not yet been decided. There&#8217;s no doubt that gamification is a strong possibility for the future but it will probably be a ways off.</p>
<p>Mert hopes to continue working on profiles as this GSoC project was merely the beginning of what he had hoped to bring to WordPress.org. He said, <strong>&#8220;I strongly believe that profiles on WordPress.org have great potential and can be the center of the whole WordPress community just by making some simple additions here and there to help people better represent themselves.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Mert is a student from Ankara, Turkey who is currently pursuing a B.S. degree on Computer Technology and Information Systems at Bilkent University. He is a FOSS enthusiast and an avid WordPress developer who currently works at Izlesene, Turkey&#8217;s leading local video network. During his GSoC internship he had the chance to contribute to BuddyPress 1.8 and looks forward to having more time to contribute to the WordPress core. Now that his 2013 project is complete he plans to update <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-move/" target="_blank">WordPress Move</a>, which was his GSoC 2011 project.</p>
<p>I spoke with Scott Reilly, one of Mert&#8217;s mentors, who said that the new profile changes should be live on WordPress.org very soon. There will be a transitional time, however, wherein the activity stream section will still be in the old style. </p>
<p>Profiles on WordPress.org are long overdue for some love and it&#8217;s exciting to see how they are evolving. An enhanced activity stream on profiles is bound to inspire more connection and collaboration between developers, which strengthens the community and helps us to work faster.  What do you think about the new design? Would you be interested in future updates that allow you to follow developers and create a showcase? Do you think gamification can benefit WordPress.org activity and increase contributions? </p>
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<h3>WordPress 3.7 Helps New Users Make Better Password Decisions</h3>
<p>Have you ever wondered whether or not password strength meters help anyone? They&#8217;re employed on nearly every website with user capabilities, including WordPress sites, which account for a large chunk of the web. </p>
<p>Password strength meters can help users select stronger passwords but only if the script the meter uses to estimate password strength is helpful. That&#8217;s why WordPress 3.7 will be making use of Dropbox’s <a href="https://tech.dropbox.com/2012/04/zxcvbn-realistic-password-strength-estimation/" target="_blank">zxcvbn</a> library.</p>
<p>A cursory test of the new password meter in WordPress reveals that it is stricter in what it considers to be a strong password.</p>
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<p>But the new password strength meter goes far beyond simply being &#8220;stricter&#8221; and is actually much <em>smarter</em> in how it performs its estimations.</p>
<h3>Smarter Password Strength Estimations</h3>
<p>The challenge of creating passwords that are easy for you to remember, yet difficult for hackers to crack, led to the common practice of l33t speak substitutions, ie. using 3 for e, 0 for o, etc.  However, this practice is so common now that it&#8217;s quite easy for these kinds of passwords to be cracked. Nevertheless, password meters are still ranking these passwords as strong because they contain a combination of letters, numbers and symbols. </p>
<p>The zxcvbn library actually accounts for this and therefore its evaluation is not merely stricter but rather, it&#8217;s a smarter estimation of password strength. Whereas &#8220;G00dm0rn1ng!&#8221; may have previously been considered a strong password in WordPress 3.6, the new password meter rates it as being very weak.</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s interesting to note that &#8220;G00dm0rn1ng!&#8221; scores very well on a <a href="http://www.passwordmeter.com/" target="_blank">password scoring checklist</a>, but due to its common number/letter substitutions, it would not be considered a strong password by WordPress 3.7&#8242;s new password meter.</p>
<p>How does it perform better calculations? Well, this is a matter of some major geekery. zxcvbn first performs a match to see if the password entered matches against common passwords and patterns that are easy to crack. Currently it matches against:</p>
<ul>
<li>Several dictionaries (English words, names and surnames, Burnett’s 10,000 common passwords)</li>
<li>Spatial keyboard patterns (QWERTY, Dvorak, and keypad patterns), repeats (aaa), sequences (123, gfedcba), years from 1900 to 2019, and dates (3-13-1997, 13.3.1997, 1331997). </li>
<li>Recognizes uppercasing and common l33t substitutions for all dictionaries</li>
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<p>Secondly, it assigns the password a score based on entropy in bits. Password entropy is calculated by the number of times a space of possible passwords can be cut in half, as outlined by Dan Wheeler in his <a href="https://tech.dropbox.com/2012/04/zxcvbn-realistic-password-strength-estimation/" target="_blank">article</a> explaining zxcvbn&#8217;s model of estimating realistic password strength. </p>
<blockquote><p>zxcvbn calculates a password’s entropy to be the sum of its constituent patterns. Any gaps between matched patterns are treated as brute-force “patterns” that also contribute to the total entropy</p></blockquote>
<p>This is a simple calculation but without checking for commonly used patterns, older methods of determining password entropy are too simplified to be useful.</p>
<p>Lastly, the search aspect of the model finds the simplest (lowest entropy) non-overlapping sequence after analyzing the possibilities for overlapping matches. It can then give a more accurate estimation of the complexity of the password structure.</p>
<p>All that to say, with the help of <a href="https://tech.dropbox.com/2012/04/zxcvbn-realistic-password-strength-estimation/" target="_blank">zxcvbn</a>, WordPress is giving much more sound password advice to its users in 3.7. It&#8217;s important to note that WordPress doesn&#8217;t actually force you to use a stronger password. You can still go on using &#8220;admin123&#8243; if you want to leave all your doors unlocked for hackers. But the new password strength meter in WordPress 3.7 should help users make better decisions.</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:57:"WPTavern: Why Is Explaining WordPress To Someone So Hard?";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:"http://www.wptavern.com/?p=9626";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:108:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/NQ1ZguXmrIE/why-is-explaining-wordpress-to-someone-so-hard";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:8388:"<p>At a recent local WordPress meetup I attended, I went through an experience that is becoming the norm. That is, trying to explain WordPress to those who have either never used it, or were just getting started. It used to be the most difficult thing for me to explain to people was the process of getting a domain, attaching it to a web host and then explaining how to FTP files to their web server to install WordPress. After WordPress was installed, it was easy to browse around and publish content, or it was a few years ago. Now, not so much. </p>
<p>After telling people how to install WordPress, I then explain that they need to sign up for WordPress.com even if they won&#8217;t use it because they&#8217;ll need an API key for Akismet as well as connect their account to Jetpack. I probably spent 20 minutes trying to explain this, all while thinking how unnecessarily complicated things were. Once their website was up and running, they wanted to know what post formats were. </p>
<p>Explaining them in plain English to new WordPress users is either hard, or I don&#8217;t have the communication skills to turn a hard subject into something easier to<br />
understand. I can do it, it just takes me awhile to get the point across. Here is why I think WordPress is becoming more difficult to explain. <span id="more-9626"></span></p>
<h2>Steeper Learning Curve</h2>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/LearningCurve2.png" rel="thumbnail"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9629" alt="Learning Curve Two" src="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/LearningCurve2.png?resize=300%2C200" /></a></p>
<p>A <a title="http://www.wptavern.com/the-wordpress-learning-curve-how-steep-or-shallow-is-it" href="http://www.wptavern.com/the-wordpress-learning-curve-how-steep-or-shallow-is-it">few years ago</a>, I used the image above as a way to show the learning curves for each CMS I&#8217;ve used. This image represents my personal experience. Two years later, if I were to remake this graphic, I&#8217;d make the WordPress curve steeper. Things are not all bad though. Since 2011, WordPress has added <a title="http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Screens#Help" href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Screens#Help">contextual help</a> accessible via the Help tab that hangs under the toolbar, a Welcome Screen for new installs as well as each major version upgrade, and pointer tips. Most of these new user experience improvements were part of <a title="http://wordpress.org/news/2011/12/sonny/" href="http://wordpress.org/news/2011/12/sonny/">WordPress 3.3 &#8216;Sonny&#8217;</a> and while they have helped, there is still a long way to go.</p>
<h2>With WordPress, More Is Not Less</h2>
<p>Near the end of the meetup, I told attendees that WordPress was at an interesting crossroad. WordPress has its roots in blogging software <a title="http://ma.tt/2003/01/the-blogging-software-dilemma/" href="http://ma.tt/2003/01/the-blogging-software-dilemma/">thanks to b2</a>. The early days of WordPress focused on users who just wanted an easy way to publish content to the web. Over time, enhancements were added such as tags, category improvements, etc. Within the past 3-4 years, we&#8217;ve seen more improvements to WordPress that cover use cases far outside of blogging such as heavy content management, large social sites, taxonomies, custom post types, and dare I say post formats. As WordPress development continues, it&#8217;s slowly but surely losing that blogging identity it was built upon. WordPress is turning into something more. More complicated, more frustrating, more difficult to comprehend, and more difficult to explain.</p>
<h2>Removing Hurdles</h2>
<p>It&#8217;s great to see that WordPress 3.3 focused on the new user experience and I hope to see further iterations in that area of WordPress because as it stands, WordPress is <a title="http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/wordpress_powers_1_in_5_websites" href="http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/wordpress_powers_1_in_5_websites">powering 20% of the web</a>. While reading Scott Berkun&#8217;s book <a title="http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633">The Year Without Pants</a> Scott described a series of processes that WordPress.com customers go through with this one being the ideal candidate; <em>Get Idea -&gt; Write it -&gt; Publish -&gt; Be Happy</em>. For a hosting service like WordPress.com, that is an incredibly simple process to go through, especially when all of the hard work of managing domains, hosting, etc., are taken care of. Scott determined the most likely experience users were encountering when trying to publish content. Listed from most common to less common.</p>
<ul>
<li>Get Blog -&gt; Abandon (<strong>This scenario and the one after are the most common</strong>)</li>
<li>Get Blog -&gt; Get Idea -&gt; Abandon</li>
<li>Get Idea -&gt; Draft A Post -&gt; Abandon.</li>
<li>Get Idea&nbsp;-&gt; Draft A Post&nbsp;-&gt; Edit/Revise&nbsp;-&gt; Abandon</li>
<li>Get Idea -&gt; Draft A Post -&gt; Edit/Revise -&gt; Publish -&gt; Get Love And Attention (<strong>Best case scenario</strong>)</li>
<li>Get Idea -&gt; Draft A Post -&gt; Edit/Revise -&gt; Publish -&gt; Get Silence (<strong>Most likely scenario from those that make it this far</strong>)</li>
</ul>
<p>This information is based on data from the 2010-2012 time frame but I found it fascinating. If that&#8217;s the kind of process WordPress.com users went through, I wonder how much worse it was for the self installed version of WordPress? I would have thought that most of the hurdles to publish content would be removed on WordPress.com but that wasn&#8217;t the case. If WordPress usage is to surpass 20 &#8211; 30% across the web, the new user experience will need to have a strong focus on removing any hurdles that prevent the common layman from publishing content. This is easier said than done.</p>
<h2>WordPress Is Evolving, But Into What?</h2>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/PlatformLegos.jpg" rel="thumbnail"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9631" alt="Platform Legos" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/PlatformLegos.jpg?resize=150%2C150" /></a>WordPress 3.7 is supposed to be a release aimed at helping shape WordPress into more of a platform with a focus on stability and security. Matt Mullenweg specifically highlighted this topic during his <a title="http://wordpress.tv/2013/07/29/matt-mullenweg-state-of-the-word-2013/" href="http://wordpress.tv/2013/07/29/matt-mullenweg-state-of-the-word-2013/">State Of The Word presentation</a> this year at WordCamp San Francisco. We&#8217;ve gone through a cycle of discussing whether WordPress is for blogging, a CMS, or an application platform. Matt points out that we&#8217;ve been going about this all wrong. Instead, WordPress is all three at the same time, just at different levels. My fear, is that some levels are creeping into others, especially the CMS into blogging components. After speaking with a number of people close to the heart of WordPress development over the years, I now understand why it would have been better to use <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/interview-with-beau-lebens-talking-backpress" title="http://www.wptavern.com/interview-with-beau-lebens-talking-backpress">BackPress</a> and just build blogging as a component on top of it. Instead, WordPress has blogging built-in with CMS, and platform stuff built on top. For those that are wondering about BackPress, I&#8217;ll be publishing a more in-depth story in the future that explains why we&#8217;re using WordPress today instead of BackPress.</p>
<p>When someone asks, <em>What is WordPress?</em>, I tell them it&#8217;s free, open-source publishing software. I&#8217;ve found it to be the easiest explanation&nbsp; but then I have to explain open-source, and a number of other things. That&#8217;s what I think WordPress is now. After 3.8, 3.9, and finally 4.0, I have no idea what WordPress will be. I&#8217;m thinking sooner rather than later, I&#8217;ll be the one asking the question <em>What is WordPress?</em></p>
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<p>The idea was proposed by <a href="http://yrnxt.com/" target="_blank">Alexander Höreth</a> in one of the most controversial Google Summer of Code <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/code-revisions/" target="_blank">projects</a> to date. His completed <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/code-revisions/" target="_blank">Code Revisions</a> plugin adds native revisions for the dashboard theme and plugin editors.</p>
<div id="attachment_9609" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://i1.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/code-revisions.png" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/code-revisions.png?resize=560%2C224" alt="Code Revisions plugin in action" class="size-full wp-image-9609" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Code Revisions plugin in action</p></div>
<p>I chatted with Alexander about his experience creating the plugin. He wasn&#8217;t surprised by how much controversy and discussion the proposal generated.</p>
<blockquote><p>I expected it to be very controversial. It wasn&#8217;t the only project I proposed, because I actually expected it to be hard from a community point of view. The initial idea for the project was from Andrew Nacin from GSoC 2011. Back then someone actually already worked on revisions for the theme code editor, but he had a very different, more dev-focused, approach. While I expected the criticism, it still was quite heavy when I dropped <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/06/14/summer-of-code-revisions/" target="_blank">my first post on make/core</a>. But quite a few people also supported me so I did not have to deal with the critics all by myself.</p></blockquote>
<p>Those opposed to the inclusion of code revision capabilities are concerned about possible security risks. Many developers who joined in the discussion are wary of giving users any access to the built-in code editors, given how easily an untrained person can break things when tinkering around.</p>
<p>Alex believes his plugin is a good introduction for new WordPress users who want to start experimenting with their code without having to worry about breaking something. &#8220;I think the code editors are an important launch pad for WordPress users (not developers) to get into touch with their site’s code base,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Using them is a first step on the way to submitting a patch to core in the future.&#8221;</p>
<p>The plugin has a built-in way for checking PHP files for fatal errors when updating them using the code editors. Alex said that this was one of the most challenging aspects of getting it all to work:</p>
<blockquote><p>WordPress by default checks for fatal errors in plugins when they are edited or activated. The plugin was intended to enhance this functionality and also bring it to themes. I expected this to be easier than it turned out to be. PHP once had a function which was capable of doing so, but it was removed some time ago. So I ended up adding functionality which is not available on all hosts.</p></blockquote>
<p>The decision to add Code Revisions to the core has not yet been made. Alex is hopeful that it will be included but he recognizes that there are many strong opinions on the subject:</p>
<blockquote><p>I expect it to be quite a discussion and it depends on how much complexity it adds to core. Core is moving into a more modular direction. Therefore many people maybe will want to leave it as a plugin and don&#8217;t include it. The code revisions plugin was coded with the idea of staying as close to core as possible without adding new complexity to the user interface &#8211; it won&#8217;t be a big deal to include it into core.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now that GSoC is concluding, Alex is working on working on a single page application, using a custom JSON REST API for his study in Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück. He said that he is really looking forward to the <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/ryan-mccue-on-creating-the-json-rest-api-for-wordpress" target="_blank">JSON REST API project</a> being added to core.   </p>
<p>The fate of his <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/code-revisions/" target="_blank">Code Revisions</a> plugin has not yet been decided. The good news is that either way, none of this work will be lost. If you love the idea of code revisions and it never makes it into core, you can still use the plugin version. What do you think? Would you like to see Code Revisions added to the core? Do the benefits outweigh the risks?</p>
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<p><strong>Automatic, background updates.</strong> 3.7 Beta 1 will keep itself updated. That&#8217;s right &#8212; you&#8217;ll be updated each night to the newest development build, and eventually to Beta 2. We&#8217;re working to provide as many installs as possible with fast updates to security releases of WordPress &#8212; and you can help us test by just installing Beta 1 on your server and seeing how it works!</p>
<p>When you go to <strong>Dashboard ? Updates</strong>, you&#8217;ll see a note letting you know whether your install is working for automatic updates. There are a few situations where WordPress can&#8217;t reliably and securely update itself. But if it can, you&#8217;ll get an email (sent to the &#8216;Admin Email&#8217; on the General Settings page) after each update letting you know what worked and what didn&#8217;t. If it worked, great! If something failed, the email will suggest you make a post in the support forums or create a bug report.</p>
<p>Here are some other things you should test out:</p>
<ul>
<li>If you&#8217;re running <strong>WordPress in another language</strong>, we&#8217;ll automatically download any available translations for official WordPress importers and the default themes. (More to come here.)</li>
<li>Our <strong>password meter</strong> got a whole lot better, thanks to Dropbox&#8217;s <a href="https://tech.dropbox.com/2012/04/zxcvbn-realistic-password-strength-estimation/">zxcvbn</a> library. Again, subtle but effective. Strong passwords are very important!</li>
<li><strong>Search results</strong> are now <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/25632">ordered by relevance</a>, rather than just by date. When your keywords match post titles and not just content, they&#8217;ll be pushed to the top.</li>
<li>Developers should check out the new <strong>advanced date queries</strong> in <code>WP_Query</code>. (<a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18694">#18694</a>)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>This software is still in development</strong>, so we don&#8217;t recommend you run it on a production site. I&#8217;d suggest setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 3.7, try the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">WordPress Beta Tester</a> plugin (you&#8217;ll want &#8220;bleeding edge nightlies&#8221;). Or you can <a href="http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.7-beta1.zip">download the beta here</a> (zip).</p>
<p>As always, <strong>if you think you’ve found a bug</strong>, you can post to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta">Alpha/Beta area</a> in the support forums. Or, if you’re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/">file one on the WordPress Trac</a>. There, you can also find <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/report/5">a list of known bugs</a> and <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&group=component&milestone=3.7">everything we’ve fixed</a> so far.</p>
<p>Happy testing!</p>
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Saves your weary hand a click<br />
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:21:"Matt: Decade From Now";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:21:"http://ma.tt/?p=43131";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:37:"http://ma.tt/2013/09/decade-from-now/";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:258:"<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m tired of hearing about who you&#8217;re checking for now<br />
Just give it time, we&#8217;ll see who&#8217;s still around a decade from now.</p></blockquote>
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<h3>BuddyDocs: A Free Documentation Style Theme For BuddyPress</h3>
<p><a href="http://buddydev.com/themes/buddydocs/" target="_blank">BuddyDocs</a> is a free BuddyPress theme from Brajesh Singh of BuddyDev. I&#8217;ve always admired Brajesh&#8217;s work and dedication to customer support. Brajesh is a prolific BuddyPress plugin developer and has long been a contributor to the project. He has released <a href="http://buddydev.com/plugins/?type=free" target="_blank">52 free plugins</a> to date on BuddyDev, in addition to the commercial plugins that he offers. This is a large collection of work that you can only find on the BuddyDev site. </p>
<p>BuddyDocs is the first publicly released WordPress theme from BuddydDev. It&#8217;s designed with a front page FAQ display for building a knowledge base, help center or documentation website.</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/buddy-docs-home.png" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/buddy-docs-home.png?resize=560%2C372" alt="buddy-docs-home" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9588" /></a></p>
<p>BuddyDocs is a responsive theme with clean, semantic markup and HTML5 validated code. A few of the features include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Multiple Layout options</li>
<li>3 page templates included</li>
<li>Admin options for logo, favicon,  javascript/analytics code, import/export and more</li>
<li><a href="http://andreaslagerkvist.com/jquery/live-search/" target="_blank">Live Search</a> module</li>
<li>Taxonomy Posts List shortcode</li>
<li><a href="http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/" target="_blank">Font Awesome</a> Icons</li>
<li>Translation ready</li>
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<p>Check out a <a href="http://wp.buddydev.com/buddydocs/" target="_blank">live demo</a> of BuddyDocs in action.</p>
<p>The live search feature is of particular interest to sites that will be using the theme for documentation. Search results are updated live as the user types. This helps users to quickly and easily find what they are looking for, which is likely to save you a lot of extra time spent on support.</p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/livesearch.png" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/livesearch.png?resize=560%2C597" alt="livesearch" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9595" /></a></p>
<p>Best of all, the theme is GPL licensed and open source. <a href="https://github.com/sbrajesh/buddydocs" target="_blank">Fork it on github</a> if you like or <a href="http://buddydev.com/themes/buddydocs/" target="_blank">download BuddyDocs</a> from BuddyDev. Brajesh plans to use the theme in the upcoming documentation section of BuddyDev. </p>
<p>Themes that organize information get me excited about WordPress. It&#8217;s also encouraging to know that BuddyPress themes are not dead. In fact, I think we&#8217;re likely to see more highly customized themes, especially those that are heavily styled for specific components. Many thanks to Brajesh for making his documentation theme available for free to the community.</p>
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<p>Chris&#8217; initial idea was to create a blacklist. However, after speaking with Andrea Middleton, the idea of a national blacklist was thrown out the window.</p>
<blockquote><p>I’ll admit that my first thought was that we should have a blacklist. If you get on it, you have to work hard to get off it. But more importantly, a central black list would protect all our events to make sure people who were pitching themselves would be ousted, once and for all.</p></blockquote>
<p>Personally, I think a blacklist would be a terrible idea because WordCamps are supposed to focus on the local community. These communities are made up of people most of us have never heard of. My fear is that they would speak at an event like WordCamp, screw up once and then be placed on the blacklist. It&#8217;s like taking someone who meant no harm, throwing them in a pit and wishing them good luck as they try to work themselves out of it. That&#8217;s the last thing the WordPress community needs. I think the WordPress community is excellent at policing itself, especially when it comes to things like this. If a speaker goes on stage and it becomes a session of Me, Me, Me, that information will immediately be known via blog posts and Twitter. </p>
<h2>WordCamp Speaker Ratings And Reviews</h2>
<p>Chris&#8217; follow up idea to solve this problem is speaker ratings and reviews. WordCamp Central would host a centralized area where the speaker ratings and reviews could be housed and on each individual WordCamp page, using an embed link or a standard form, attendees could rate and provide feedback for individual speakers. This would give them a speaker profile that would contain ratings, reviews, etc. As someone mentioned in the comments of the post, adding the speaker information to their WordPress.org user profile seems like a natural place to put it. </p>
<p>The comments in his post are definitely worthy of reading as they bring up some great points. For example, many have agreed that making the speaker reviews private would be better for the speaker vs. having them in public. I agree with that. Placing the reviews as private would give attendees the opportunity to really tell the speaker what they thought of their performance without the fear of being chastised or attacked for their critical words in public. In the WordPress community, we are typically too nice to each other at times where being critical would be more beneficial. By keeping reviews private, both attendees and speakers win, although I&#8217;d give a slight edge to the speaker, as they get a chance to receive constructive criticism that can help them improve their stage presence. </p>
<h2>SpeakerRate &#8211; A Service For Reviewing Talks And Speakers</h2>
<p>I remember seeing this service in use a few years ago on a couple of different WordCamp sites and at the time, I thought it was a neat idea. It&#8217;s called <a href="http://speakerrate.com/" title="http://speakerrate.com/">SpeakerRate</a> and enables users to add talks they have given while other registered members can rate those talks and provide testimonials of the speaker. </p>
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<p>After signing up, I discovered that there is no way to make the testimonial section private. There is no easy alternative to provide private feedback which is definitely a black mark against using this across the board for WordCamps. However, the service itself is a great example for WordCamp Central if they wanted to create something similar for all WordCamp sites. </p>
<h2>Not Really A Problem For Now</h2>
<p>I have not attended a large amount of WordCamps but for each one that I have, I&#8217;ve yet to encounter a session with a presenter that made think about their motives for being at the event. I don&#8217;t think bad presenters are a problem for WordCamps right now. At the same time, if there was a bad presentation, I&#8217;d love to be able to submit my thoughts and recommendations to the speaker in private versus on Twitter or inside of blog comments. I&#8217;d like for WordCamp websites to offer me that option after attending the event. I&#8217;ve filled out surveys after attending WordCamps and they usually contain questions with ratings that tell the organizers whether I had a good time or not. I&#8217;m with Chris in as far as that some type of feedback system should be in place for every WordCamp so attendees can rate, review, and comment on the sessions they attended. I also think those reviews should be accessible to both WordCamp organizers and speakers. This way, both parties are kept in the loop and know what the audience thinks. </p>
<p>This is a great discussion and I&#8217;m curious to read feedback from all parties involved. Speakers, organizers, and attendees. </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:57:"WPTavern: What WordPress Can Learn From the Ghost Project";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:"http://www.wptavern.com/?p=9266";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:109:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/464uCLCN3K4/what-wordpress-can-learn-from-the-ghost-project";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:11643:"<p>Last year John O&#8217;Nolan caused quite a stir when he <a href="http://john.onolan.org/ghost/" target="_blank">announced</a> that he intended to fork WordPress to create Ghost, a new open source blogging platform.</p>
<p>O&#8217;Nolan posted his proposed designs for Ghost on his website, originally intending for it to be a minimalist concept of WordPress with a blog-oriented dashboard, fewer options to configure, no native comments, and very limited backwards compatibility. <span id="more-9266"></span></p>
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<p>The project was fully funded on <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-blogging-platform" target="_blank">Kickstarter</a> and many in the WordPress community contributed, recognizing the value of the project as an alternative to what they perceived to be an increasingly CMS-focused WordPress core. The project actually raised more than $100,000 in its first 48 hours of funding and was recently backed by Microsoft.</p>
<p>Over the past year <a href="http://ghost.org/" target="_blank">Ghost</a> has evolved and the team eventually chose to build the application on Node.js, powered by the <a href="http://expressjs.com/" target="_blank">Express</a> framework.</p>
<h3>Why O&#8217;Nolan Decided Not to Fork WordPress</h3>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/john.jpeg" rel="thumbnail"><img src="http://i0.wp.com/www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/john.jpeg?resize=143%2C143" alt="john" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-9548" /></a>I had the opportunity to chat with John O&#8217;Nolan about his journey with Ghost over the past year.  I asked him why he and his development lead, <a href="http://twitter.com/erisds" target="_blank">Hannah Wolfe</a>, decided to make Ghost a new application, instead of running with his original idea for a fork of WordPress. </p>
<p>O&#8217;Nolan explains why attempting to fork WordPress ended up being a dead end path for their team:</p>
<blockquote><p>When I first put up <a href="http://john.onolan.org/ghost" target="_blank">the idea</a> for Ghost, I suggested that it might be a WordPress fork. Ideas change a lot though, and after talking to a lot of very smart people about it (largely core+lead WordPress developers) it was clear that a fork would be the worst possible option. I followed up the original post with <a href="http://john.onolan.org/ghost-from-fiction-to-function/" target="_blank">my intentions</a> to build Ghost initially as a WordPress plugin proof-of-concept, and later as a standalone platform.</p>
<p>Initially we did start going down this road. Hannah and I started to build a WordPress plugin, but we hit so many roadblocks that it quickly became very clear this was going to be a dead-end path. A dead-end not necessarily because the technological challenges were insurmountable, but because we were realising the same frustrations that were the basis for Ghost in the first place: bumping up against, and working within, the limitations of both WordPress and PHP. Both from a technical standpoint as well as a philosophical one.</p></blockquote>
<p>Once they settled the fact that the Ghost project was philosophically different from WordPress in many distinct ways, it was only natural that they select a new technological approach for building the platform. O&#8217;Nolan outlined the determining factors:</p>
<blockquote><p>Once we&#8217;d decided to create something entirely new, the question of what language to go with was one of pragmatism. From that perspective the decision was clear. Today&#8217;s web is almost entirely JavaScript-driven. As well as being the backbone of every HTML5 API out there, it lends itself to high levels of scale, interactivity, responsiveness and robust user experiences for all of the same reasons. Extending our usage of JavaScript to both the back end with Node.js as well as the front end makes sense for all of these reasons. Our approach we feel is the best way to allow developers to create the next generation of engaging, cross-platform web experiences, whether that be touch, click, mobile or desktop.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ghost was just released to 6,000+ Kickstarter backers and will very soon be opened up to the public on github. After that they have much more planned, including a hosted version.</p>
<h3>How Ghost and WordPress Differ</h3>
<p>While both projects are dedicated to providing users with open source software for publishing, they get there through very different approaches. </p>
<p>For example, the theming structure for Ghost is vastly different from that of WordPress, where the average theme is split into a couple dozen template files: </p>
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<p>Ghost has prioritized its editor which uses markdown and &#8220;aims to allow you to type continuously, formatting on the fly, without clicking buttons or writing long HTML or switching tabs to preview your post.&#8221;</p>
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<p>I asked O&#8217;Nolan if he thought that using markdown would be a hindrance to Ghost catching on, but so far he has received overwhelmingly positive reports of user experiences.</p>
<blockquote><p>I actually think it&#8217;ll be a massive benefit to Ghost catching on. Markdown has, until now, been something that&#8217;s only really been exposed to the more technically minded users of the world and I firmly believe that it will become a standard for the future of writing on the web. There is a long way to go, of course, but we are now fortunate to have an incredible opportunity to be at the heart of the education process around Markdown. I&#8217;m really excited about how Ghost can influence and affect a new generation of writers on the web.</p></blockquote>
<p>Beyond the differences in code, structure and features, Ghost takes a major departure from WordPress when it comes to a commercial marketplace. O&#8217;Nolan has confirmed that the Ghost project website will also include an open <a href="http://marketplace.ghost.org/" target="_blank">marketplace</a> for both free and commercial plugins. </p>
<p>While the GPL might complicate an officially sponsored marketplace for WordPress, the Ghost project has adopted an MIT license that O&#8217;Nolan believes will offer more freedoms to their community.</p>
<blockquote><p>With the MIT license you have the same freedom to decide how you want to engage with Open Source software. You decide whether your plugin is MIT, GPL, or any license you like. We believe feel that publishing needs the same freedom in software licensing decisions that it already enjoys with the content which is published.</p></blockquote>
<h3>The Hosted Version of Ghost</h3>
<p>Realistically, you cannot expect everyone who wants to blog to have their own hosting and install the software for themselves. Many people have no time for managing hosting and software updates, hence the <a href="http://www.wptavern.com/wordpress-com-is-ranked-8-for-internet-traffic-in-the-us" target="_blank">success</a> of WordPress.com, which is currently ranked #8 for traffic in the US. Ghost intends to offer a hosted solution as well, with some notable differences. </p>
<p>While WordPress.com is one massive multisite installation, Ghost plans offer something more akin to a managed hosting solution. Ghost customers will enjoy their own hosted instances and will also be given full control of code and themes.  This is essentially all the flexibility of WordPress.org with the support and reliability you&#8217;d expect from WordPress.com. All of the profits made from the hosted version of Ghost will go directly back into their non-profit organization to fund the improvement of the software.</p>
<h3>How Ghost Might Affect and Influence the WordPress Ecosystem</h3>
<p>Some are heralding Ghost as the future of blogging, a bold statement to bestow upon a very new open source project. Since Ghost was born out of O&#8217;Nolan&#8217;s dissatisfaction with WordPress for blogging, the two platforms are bound to be compared from time to time. O&#8217;Nolan believes that these comparisons will be beneficial for both projects.</p>
<blockquote><p>Aaron Jorbin <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronjorbin/status/381523797306007552" target="_blank">recently said</a>, &#8220;Open source isn&#8217;t a zero sum game. We all win when we advance open source.&#8221; I think he&#8217;s spot on. </p>
<p>A couple of weeks after my original post about Ghost last year it was fantastic to see new core initiatives being rolled out to drastically improve the WordPress admin UI as well as a new back-to-blogging approach for the front end. These ideas ultimately came to life this year as they evolved into the MP6 plugin and the Twenty Thirteen theme.</p></blockquote>
<p>O&#8217;Nolan believes that there is room for open source projects to learn from one another and push each other to provide users with the best possible publishing experience. </p>
<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s a big open source world out there, and I think different projects can all learn a great deal from each other. In a couple of months I&#8217;ll be speaking at a Drupal Conference in Vienna. The organisers invited me to speak as a part of Drupal&#8217;s current initiative for developers to &#8220;<a href="http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/off-the-island-2013" target="_blank">get off the island</a>,&#8221; which is very cool, and something I think the WordPress ecosystem could learn a lot from.</p>
<p>Ultimately when developers diversify and push each other to do better and try new things &#8211; the end user wins &#8211; and the entire open source ecosystem is strengthened further.</p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that the WordPress community has benefited from the realization of the Ghost project, especially through all the discourse surrounding how to provide bloggers with the best possible experience on the web. Ghost&#8217;s intuitive editor and simplified dashboard challenge WordPress by demonstrating the possibilities of a more simplified UI.</p>
<p>WordPress is well on its way towards what Matt Mullenweg calls a &#8220;<a href="http://ma.tt/2012/05/simpler/" target="_blank">radically simplified</a>&#8221; UI, but will that be enough for those who simply want to blog? Right now WordPress offers unparalleled flexibility for content managers. But these CMS capabilities can also make the WordPress dashboard an intimidating place for someone who only wants to blog.</p>
<p>The question remains &#8211; How can WordPress continue to move forward with more sophisticated support for CMS architecture without overwhelming the average blogger with too many options?</p>
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<blockquote><p>The snippet that I developed worked great and <a href="http://www.woothemes.com/2012/09/every-line-of-code-audited/">WooThemes added it to all their themes</a>. Unfortunately, their customers started complaining as soon as it was rolled out. Many didn’t know where the menu item had come from. They were confused by it. Some thought their site had been hacked and that it was spyware.</p>
<p>Two months after adding it, <a href="http://www.woothemes.com/2012/11/wooframework-version-5-5-0-released/">WooThemes removed the installer from their themes</a>.</p>
<p>In those two months, we saw significant gains in registrations and sales, so this mistake was costly. Clearly the <em>WP App Store</em> menu item should have been tucked under the <em>WooThemes</em> menu item to make it clear that it was part of the theme.</p></blockquote>
<p>Brad goes on to explain that while there was quite a bit of interest from webhosting companies to integrate the app store into their control panels, many of them wanted to see traction first. Talk about being in a tough spot. You need webhosting companies to gain traction but they won&#8217;t jump on board until they see traction. At the end of the day, <a title="http://wpappstore.com/" href="http://wpappstore.com/">WP App Store</a> will still be around but in the form of a product newsletter, not a store. Once or twice a month, an email will be sent out containing exclusive coupon codes for products.</p>
<h2>If Not WP App Store, Who Else?</h2>
<p>I remember a few years ago when a number of discussions were happening throughout the WordPress community where there was apparent demand for something like the WordPress plugin repository, but for commercial themes and plugins. More so for plugins than themes since the repo already had a page dedicated to commercial theme companies who follow the GPL licensing. These discussions began around the same time WPPlugins was launched in 2009. They gave it a ride for a few years but eventually folded. WordPress plugin app stores have come and gone over the past few years, is it an idea that can still be capitalized on or has sites such as CodeCanyon and ThemeForest eroded any chance of being successful?</p>
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