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JULY 2015

Venue Sponsors

www.fishburners.org

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Beer Sponsors

fishburners.org

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Thanks to Fishburners for supplying beer tonight.

Pizza Sponsors

http://www.envato.com/#wpsyd

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Proud sponsors of this meetup.

We are the creators of ThemeForest, the world's biggest marketplace for WordPress themes, and CodeCanyon, the world's biggest marketplace for WordPress plugins.

We ♥ WordPress, and want to give something back.

• We sponsor WordPress meetups, PressNomics, and the WordPress community summit

• We've published over 960 WordPress tutorials on Tuts+ (http://tutsplus.com)

• We contribute to open source development including WordPress core contributions and plugins

• We’ve donated $20,000+ to WordPress open source projects

We're always looking for ways to give back to WordPress. If you have suggestions, please get in touch:

envato.com/contact

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Free WordPress Beginners Tutorials

http://tutsplus.com/learn/wordpress-meetup

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July News• WordPress 4.2.3 Security & Maintenance Release

https://wordpress.org/news/2015/07/wordpress-4-2-3/

• WordPress REST API v2 released on WordPress.orghttps://wordpress.org/plugins/rest-api/

• JetPack and EU Cookie Lawhttp://wpandlegalstuff.com/automattic-wordpress-com-jetpack-european-cookie-laws-and-transparency/

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July News• Genesis Camp videos on YouTube• https://

www.youtube.com/channel/UCNTk_BVkv0eLEa9EYDlRSMg

• Envato (Themeforest) under DDoS Attackhttp://wptavern.com/envato-targeted-by-ddos-attack-wordpress-theme-authors-report-major-decline-in-sales

• Theme translation & language packs coming soonhttp://wptavern.com/theme-translations-and-language-packs-are-coming-to-wordpress-org

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July NewsWordPress 4.3 Beta 1 (Final release due mid August)https://wordpress.org/news/2015/07/wordpress-4-3-beta-1/

• Menus can be managed from the Customizer• Site Icon (favicon) can be managed from Customizer• Better password management

• Strong password selected by default• Passwords not sent by email – reset link now sent• Password reset link now has a life-time

• Dev: Shared taxonomies scrapped• Dev: new singular.php fallback on single.php and

page.php

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Upcoming WPSyd Events

August 3rd WP ParramattaAdventures in Theming

August 13th WP Syd NorthTopic TBC

August 31st WP Syd CentralResponsive Web Design

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Give us your feedback – What You Want?

Separate User/Dev meetups?Workshops?

Would you pay for a WordPress Day workshop?