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NOV 2015

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November 2015 News• WordPress 4.4 due to ship December 8th

• oEmbed for posts and more external sites• Twenty Sixteen Theme https://wordpress.org/themes/twentysixteen/

• Responsive Images (srcset and sizes)• REST API (phase 1 of 2)• Term Metadata move into core ($wpdb->termmeta)• wp_title() (zombie function) Will be deprecated soon• New WP_Comment class• Comment query change

• no longer queries all comments on a post (comments_per_page pagination)

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/11/11/wordpress-4-4-field-guide/

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November 2015 News• WordPress now powers 25% of the entire Interwebs

http://wptavern.com/a-quarter-of-the-top-10-million-sites-ranked-by-alexa-use-wordpress

WordPress Growth %

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November 2015 News• WordPress Calypso – The future of WordPress?

• New WP Admin “app” – writing entirely in Javascript• WP REST API + node.js (on server) + REACT (on client)

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November 2015 News• For more on Calypso

• https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/the-new-wordpress-dot-com/

• https://developer.wordpress.com/calypso/

• http://www.cozmoslabs.com/47708-what-is-wordpress-calypso/

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November 2015 News• PHP 7 being released on December 3rd #php7

• https://secure.php.net/archive/2015.php#id2015-11-26-1

• http://www.sitepoint.com/php-7-revolution-return-types-removed-artifacts/

• https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/getting-ready-for-php-7/

• https://blog.engineyard.com/2015/what-to-expect-php-7

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Upcoming WPSyd EventsDecember 7th WP Parramatta

Yearly Review

All meetups will resume in Feb 2016

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End of Year Mixer 2015Thursday December 3rd

Standard Bowl Darlinghurst

WordPress Sydney, Joomla User Group Sydney, Drupal Users Group, Sydney

DevOps and Product Mavens

TICKET ONLYhttp://meetupmixup.github.io/

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Give us your feedback – What You Want?

Separate User/Dev meetups?Workshops?

Would you pay for a WordPress Day workshop?