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<p>Developers who are new to BuddyPress sometimes find BP templates confusing to work with. Common questions include: <em>Why are there so many? Where do I place the files? How can I override the templates in my project?</em></p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/WebDevStudios/BP-Project-Framework" target="_blank">BP Project Framework</a> is a plugin from the folks at <a href="http://webdevstudios.com/" target="_blank">WebDevStudios</a> that provides a boilerplate for new custom BuddyPress projects. Essentially, it adds all the BuddyPress templates you need in the convenience of a plugin.</p>
<p>BuddyPress has included WordPress <a href="http://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/" target="_blank">theme compatibility</a> since version 1.7, which means that you can activate the plugin and it will work with nearly any theme. However, if you want to customize BuddyPress-specific features, you will need to override the BP templates. Ordinarily, you would copy those templates from the BuddyPress plugin folder into your theme folder. BP Project Framework allows you to skip this step by creating a new template stack.</p>
<p>The plugin includes all of the necessary BP templates in the /templates directory and customizing any of those files will override the core templates. You can also place custom JS and CSS in <code>/templates/js/bp-custom.js</code> and <code>/templates/js/bp-custom.css</code> respectively. The /inc directory includes files for placing custom actions, filters, template tags, and widgets.</p>
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<p>The bp-custom.php file contains example code for easily customizing BuddyPress. If you&#8217;re new to BuddyPress development, you&#8217;ll want to check out that file to get an overview of some quick customization options.</p>
<p>The advantage of putting BP templates into this plugin over building them into the current theme is that you can easily activate and deactivate the plugin. It also allows you to maintain your templates if you decide to change themes, without having to move the template files.</p>
<p>When you have the BP Project Framework installed, BuddyPress will first look to the plugin for its template files and then will default to BP core if any are missing. Simply activate the plugin and start adding custom code, edit the template markup and add custom CSS and JS. The plugin has no settings, but the development team at WebDevStudios plans to add some new features and options in the future.</p>
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<p>I&#8217;m most concerned about sites that export email addresses from existing comments. At least give those people the common courtesy of being notified and provide them the option to opt-out immediately. In fact, it may be against the law in certain countries to outright harvest the email addresses. Better yet, instead of getting involved with this practice, just turn commenting off on the site.</p>
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<p>When you have a question about a WordPress theme, where do you look for more information? Theme developers make use of a myriad of documentation methods, from bundling docs to linking to external resources. If you&#8217;ve already created a theme and taken the time to document it, then your next challenge is to make its documentation easy to discover.</p>
<p>When documentation isn&#8217;t readily available, users will take to the forums to get answers to common questions that could have easily been outlined in a few quick notes. This increases your support burden and causes delays for users who are trying to customize your theme. Let&#8217;s examine a few ways to make theme documentation easier to find.</p>
<h3>WordPress.org Theme Documentation Recommendations</h3>
<p>Themes hosted on WordPress.org tend to enjoy a large audience and have guidelines to protect their large user base. I spoke with <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chipbennett" target="_blank">Chip Bennett</a>, who heads up the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/" target="_blank">WordPress.org Theme Review team</a>, to find out how WordPress.org recommends documenting themes. These recommendations are helpful even if you&#8217;re documenting a commercial theme or one not hosted on WordPress.org.</p>
<p><strong> Where is the best place for a WordPress theme author to place documentation so that their users can easily find it?</strong></p>
<p>Bennett&#8217;s advice, as quoted below, includes a combination of four different methods:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>readme.txt</strong><br />
The Theme Review Team recommends placing all theme documentation in a readme file, ideally in the format of the Plugin-standard readme.txt markdown.</li>
<li><strong>Admin Contextual Help Tab</strong><br />
Another good documentation location that is woefully underused is the WP Admin contextual help tab. Themes that incorporate a settings page should definitely consider using the fairly rich <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Contextual_Help_to_Administration_Menus" target="_blank">Contextual Help API</a>. </li>
<li><strong>Forum Sticky Post</strong><br />
For any immediate support issues, a support forum sticky is a great idea.</li>
<li><strong>Theme URI for External Docs</strong><br />
And finally, themes can declare a Theme URI, which is intended to be an information/documentation resource for the theme. If any of the built-in documentation methods are too limiting, theme developers are welcome and encouraged to use ThemeURI (which can be a domain, subdomain, or landing page specific to the Theme, or even a GitHub repo/site for the Theme, with documentation).</li>
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<h3>Theme Documentation Best Practices and Examples</h3>
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<p>Now that we&#8217;ve covered where to place theme documentation, what should be included? Bennett recommends that you start with licensing attribution and use documentation to explain setup and anything out of the ordinary.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some best practices for theme documentation include explicitly stating the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2014/07/08/proper-copyrightlicense-attribution-for-themes/" target="_blank">copyright/license attribute</a> for all resources bundled with the theme, explaining any unusual/non-standard setup instructions for the theme, and explaining any non-core-UI theme functionality,&#8221; he said. &#8220;For inline documentation, I strongly encourage developers to follow the <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/inline-documentation-standards/php-documentation-standards/" target="_blank">phpDoc standard</a>, which improves readability, and allows for automation of generation of theme documentation.&#8221;</p>
<p>Best practices for theme documentation are not unduly strict, in that you can utilize virtually any route you choose, extending beyond the four methods recommended by the Theme Review Team.</p>
<p>&#8220;Almost any method of documentation is encouraged,&#8221; Bennett said. &#8220;Theme developers can certainly bundle help docs with their themes. Some use plain-text readme.txt or readme.md files; others use HTML files, rich-text documents, or even PDFs,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;The only downside is that there is no standard/easy way for the end user to find/use those documents,&#8221; Bennett cautioned. &#8220;Again, the Contextual Help API could be useful (it can be used to display rich text/HTML, or to link to a Theme-bundled PDF, for example), as well as the Theme URI.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bennett also notes that the way you choose to implement theme features will directly affect how much documentation you need to produce. &#8220;<span class="pullquote alignleft">Another important best practice is always to incorporate features using the WordPress core implementation, so that fewer such features even need to be documented</span>,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;For example, when implementing <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Headers" target="_blank">custom header</a> images or <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Backgrounds" target="_blank">custom backgrounds</a>, using the core implementation provides a standard, intuitive UI for the end user. Similarly, when implementing a custom static front page, or a custom blog posts template, properly implementing the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy" target="_blank">Template Hierarchy</a> will avoid the need to provide instructions for a non-standard implementation of those features.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bennett offered a few examples of themes that have solid easy-to-find documentation. He developed his <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/oenology" target="_blank">Oenology theme</a> with excellent documentation as an intentional goal. The Oenology options page makes use of the contextual help tab to provide additional information on settings, FAQ, a changelog, support, and licensing.</p>
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<p>Theme developers can check out Oenology theme files to see how Bennett incorporates documentation into the theme itself. He also recommends <a href="http://underscores.me" target="_blank">Underscores</a> as a well-documented theme.</p>
<h3>More Documentation Options Coming to WordPress.org</h3>
<p>WordPress.org plugin authors have the option of adding additional documentation to the FAQ and Installation tabs. When I spoke with Bennett, he explained that theme authors do not yet have this capability.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Theme Directory is much more limited because, while the Theme and Plugin directories look essentially the same on the front end, they are two entirely different beasts under the hood,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The infrastructures are different. That said, there will be some changes in the (nearish?) future, that will allow the Theme directory to emulate the same (or similar) functionality, based on a standard readme file format.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Theme Review Team will be discussing how improvements can be implemented, but it&#8217;s not yet clear what those changes will look like. In the meantime, theme authors can make use of the solid documentation recommendations Bennett outlined.</p>
<p>Good documentation requires a little bit of strategy to find the best way to connect with your users when they need help. Chip Bennett&#8217;s tips are useful to all WordPress theme authors, whether you&#8217;re creating a custom theme for a client, selling a commercial theme, or supporting a free theme on WordPress.org. A combination of approaches via the readme.txt, inline documentation, contextual help and external docs at the Theme URI will cover all your bases.</p>
<p>Take the time to create high quality documentation and you&#8217;ll find that the burden of support will decrease. As a WordPress.org theme author, I&#8217;d prefer to spend my time making updates and developing new features and themes. Using WordPress core implementation for features and providing good docs is the best way to free up your time to do more of the fun stuff &#8211; creating beautiful themes that users will love.</p>";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:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:34:45 +0000";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:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:3;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<h2>The Visual Editor</h2>
<p>For the longest time, the visual editor in WordPress has been the bane of existence for so many users. It has a reputation for screwing up code snippets and ruining the formatting of text. In the past two years, there have been several improvements to the editor that make it my favorite way to write a post. These are just a few of my favorites, some of which are <a title="http://wptavern.com/preview-wordpress-4-0-features-beta-1-now-available-for-testing" href="http://wptavern.com/preview-wordpress-4-0-features-beta-1-now-available-for-testing">slated for WordPress 4.0</a>.  oEmbed support, oEmbed previews, sticky toolbar, automatic resizing based on the amount and type of content, and the ability to easily edit inserted media.</p>
<p>After using a few different themes, I&#8217;ve determined support for <a title="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_editor_style" href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_editor_style">visual editor styles</a> to be a killer feature. If executed properly, content within the visual editor looks the same as it does on the frontend of the site. After using a theme that executes this feature properly, it&#8217;s hard to use a theme that doesn&#8217;t support it.</p>
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<h2>One Click and Automatic Updates</h2>
<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned, any content management system that doesn&#8217;t have an easy way to upgrade within the software is stuck in the past. <a title="http://wordpress.org/news/2008/12/coltrane/" href="http://wordpress.org/news/2008/12/coltrane/">WordPress 2.7 &#8220;Coltrane&#8221;</a> introduced the ability to upgrade WordPress with one click. Gone are the days of manually uploading files via FTP. Being able to upgrade plugins, themes, and WordPress with the click of a button is a huge time saver. If you want to fully automate the process, you can <a title="http://wptavern.com/how-to-configure-automatic-core-updates-for-wordpress-3-7" href="http://wptavern.com/how-to-configure-automatic-core-updates-for-wordpress-3-7">configure WordPress to automatically update</a> core, themes, and plugins.</p>
<h2>Vast Amount Of Plugins and Themes To Choose From</h2>
<p>Considered a negative by some, I think the large amount of free themes and plugins to choose from is a huge benefit. It gives users across the world a chance to turn WordPress into <em>their WordPress</em>. Because of the wide assortment of themes and plugins available, the chances of two WordPress installations being exactly the same are slim. Sure, there is a lot to choose from, but I&#8217;d rather have too much choice than too little.</p>
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<h2>Akismet</h2>
<p>Despite <a title="http://akismet.com/" href="http://akismet.com/">Akismet</a> not being 100% accurate in determining who spammers are, it&#8217;s saved me a lot of time (24 days to be exact) and grief. It&#8217;s available for free for non-commercial use and ships with WordPress. There are plenty of alternatives to handle comment spam but I&#8217;ve never had a reason to switch. Other content management systems I&#8217;ve tested either don&#8217;t have an anti spam solution built-in or are tied into the Akismet service. At the time of writing, Akismet has protected the Tavern from <strong>109,288</strong> spam comments with an accuracy rating of <strong>99.19%. </strong></p>
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<h2>An Abundance Of Resources</h2>
<p>Being used on over <a title="http://w3techs.com/" href="http://w3techs.com/">22% of the web</a> has its perks. If I don&#8217;t know how to do something with or in WordPress, the answer is usually a Google search away. Someone has either written a tutorial or knows about a plugin that has the functionality I&#8217;m looking for and a lot of the information is free of charge.</p>
<h2>The WordPress Community</h2>
<p>The WordPress community is global. People all over the world are helping each other go farther with WordPress. People who don&#8217;t know each other are showing up to local area meetups and becoming best friends. I&#8217;ve seen first-hand veterans of the community stop what they are doing and provide a helping hand. More often than not, if we see someone struggling with their WordPress website, we do what we can to help them.</p>
<a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/483.jpg" rel="prettyphoto[27320]"><img class="size-full wp-image-8217" src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/483.jpg?resize=800%2C597" alt="WCSF Contributor Day" /></a>WCSF Contributor Day
<h2>The Time So Many People Spend Improving The Project</h2>
<p>Notice how I didn&#8217;t say <em>improving the software</em>. That&#8217;s because WordPress is more than just software, it&#8217;s like a big tree with several branches. There are a ton of people all over the world helping to make the project better through individual and team contributions. Most are not paid but simply want to improve their favorite part of the project. This includes documentation, organizing meetups, WordCamp planning, improving the core of WordPress, and other initiatives.</p>
<p>Many of the contributions go unnoticed and contributing to WordPress can be a thankless job sometimes. Not every contribution is world-changing; some are more important than others. The bottom line is, every contribution no matter how small, makes a difference.</p>
<h2>What Do You Take For Granted?</h2>
<p>I <a title="https://twitter.com/wptavern/status/494308557945204736" href="https://twitter.com/wptavern/status/494308557945204736">asked the Tavern followers</a> on <a title="https://twitter.com/wptavern" href="https://twitter.com/wptavern">Twitter </a>what aspect of the WordPress project do they take for granted. Here are a few of the responses.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="550"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/wptavern">@wptavern</a> not code related, but the thousands of volunteer hours and personal sacrifices that go into making it great.</p>
<p>&mdash; Ryan D. Sullivan (@ryandonsullivan) <a href="https://twitter.com/ryandonsullivan/statuses/494308912875585536">July 30, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="550"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/wptavern">@wptavern</a> The installation and upgrade process. Other pieces of software are an absolute nightmare compared to WordPress.</p>
<p>&mdash; Philip Arthur Moore (@philip_arthur) <a href="https://twitter.com/philip_arthur/statuses/494309581036601344">July 30, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="550"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/wptavern">@wptavern</a> beautiful hook system, plugin api, theme system, and install system for core, themes and plugins. Next inline would be admin UI</p>
<p>&mdash; Jeff Behnke (@validwebs) <a href="https://twitter.com/validwebs/statuses/494327674483929090">July 30, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="550"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/wptavern">@wptavern</a> Still have to go with CPT's and the ease of creating them.. It really I think what drove WP from "blog" to "CMS"</p>
<p>&mdash; RoyBoy789 (@royboy789) <a href="https://twitter.com/royboy789/statuses/494326168372273152">July 30, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="550"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/wptavern">@wptavern</a> You can type anything into google followed by "WordPress" and someone has already asked (and answered) it</p>
<p>&mdash; Jared Novack (@jaredNova) <a href="https://twitter.com/jaredNova/statuses/494322903739936768">July 30, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="550"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/wptavern">@wptavern</a> : Licensing GPLv2+</p>
<p>&mdash; VibeThemes (@VibeThemes) <a href="https://twitter.com/VibeThemes/statuses/494315673468665857">July 30, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="550"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/wptavern">@wptavern</a> If you can dream it you can do it in WordPress.</p>
<p>&mdash; Teri Williams (@teri_williams) <a href="https://twitter.com/teri_williams/statuses/494314334558765056">July 30, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<ul>
<li>Bloat</li>
<li>Poor performance on their webhosting account</li>
<li>Too many plugin/theme updates</li>
<li>Too many plugins in general with no vetting process</li>
<li>Difficult to use caching plugins</li>
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<p>Their number one reason for leaving WordPress is bloat but their explanation of bloat is different from most I&#8217;ve read.</p>
<blockquote><p>WordPress; like a lot of CMS platforms; relies heavily on plugins for extra functionality over and above the core services. The main issue, however, is that these plugins are not actively vetted out (or tested) by core team members to ensure they use optimized code and are safe for your site. This means that by installing a plugin, you can bring down your whole site and cause yourself mountains of headaches all because you wanted to add some extra functionality.</p></blockquote>
<p>The bloat they speak of is not from the core of WordPress, but due to the number of plugins they installed. They are the ones responsible for the bloat, not WordPress. While they raise a good point about plugins not being vetted from a code quality stand point, <a title="http://wptavern.com/behind-the-scenes-in-the-wordpress-plugin-directory-with-mika-epstein" href="http://wptavern.com/behind-the-scenes-in-the-wordpress-plugin-directory-with-mika-epstein">they <strong>are vetted</strong></a> to make sure they don&#8217;t contain security vulnerabilities and follow the <a title="https://wordpress.org/plugins/about/guidelines/" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/about/guidelines/">WordPress plugin directory guidelines</a>.</p>
<p>According to CMS Critic, Cramer reviews most of the modules before they end up in the official directory. He gives developers a list of improvements and advice that helps limit the potential of modules conflicting with each other. The review process has helped keep problems stemming from modules to a minimum but I don&#8217;t see how it can scale. If the CMS ever reaches the point of receiving 20-50 modules per day, Cramer will need to find help or risk losing precious development time.</p>
<h2>WordPress Plugin Update Fatigue Is Real</h2>
<p>As for updates, each plugin and theme installed in WordPress increases the chance you&#8217;ll see an upgrade notice each time you login to the backend. Despite upgrades being as easy as clicking a button, having to go through the process every day can become cumbersome. CMS Critic makes a good point in that you can&#8217;t tell the difference between a critical update and a bug fix release. As far as the user is concerned, every update is critical.</p>
<a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/TooManyPluginUpdates.png" rel="prettyphoto[27251]"><img class="size-full wp-image-27315" src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/TooManyPluginUpdates.png?resize=738%2C500" alt="Looks Like I Have A Few Plugins To Update" /></a>Looks Like I Have A Few Plugins To Update
<p>While most plugins have a changelog where you can see what changes are in the latest release, themes do not. This is something that will be addressed when the <a title="https://wordpress.org/themes/" href="https://wordpress.org/themes/">WordPress theme directory</a> receives a major overhaul. Even if a change log is available, it&#8217;s not always clear to the user if the update requires immediate.</p>
<p>What makes all of this a moot point is the security advice of <em>always run the latest version of WordPress</em> which could be extended to plugins and themes. If you follow that advice, it doesn&#8217;t matter whether an update is critical or not. There will likely never be a system in place to determine the importance of an update because it creates another layer of complexity involving a decision that shouldn&#8217;t be complex at all.</p>
<p>The development philosophy of &#8220;<em>iterate and release often</em>&#8221; works fine for services like WordPress.com, but not so much for WordPress, themes, and plugins. Coen Jacobs <a title="http://coenjacobs.me/wordpress-plugins-shouldnt-release-often/" href="http://coenjacobs.me/wordpress-plugins-shouldnt-release-often/">wrote an excellent post</a> explaining why not all WordPress plugins should iterate quickly and release often.</p>
<blockquote><p>Of course, it’s a great thing to be able to develop new features at a fast pace, be able to quickly deliver this to your users (or to add an extra layer of complexity: to your customers) and release a couple fix releases in the time between. But it also requires your users to deal with this number of updates, or they might be at risk of falling behind or have potential security issues in their websites.</p></blockquote>
<p>Update fatigue is a real and should be avoided if possible. The problem is compounded as the number of installed plugins increases. I&#8217;d like more plugin developers to come up with a better release strategy instead of sending out an update as soon as they&#8217;ve fixed a bug. Beginning with WordPress 3.7, users have the ability to <a title="http://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates" href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates">automatically upgrade core, plugins, and themes</a>. However, turning on automatic updates because a plugin is updating too much is a poor reason to use the feature. It&#8217;s worth noting that automatic updates are impossible for certain sites to use such as eCommerce or those that use version control to verify updates before they go live.</p>
<h2>My Experience Using ProcessWire</h2>
<p>In order to see what all the fuss is about, I installed ProcessWire on my local server. Installation is easy and didn&#8217;t require me to edit a configuration file. Here is what a sites looks like after a fresh install.</p>
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<p>The backend of ProcessWire is simple but coming from WordPress, is like being on a new planet. Everything I&#8217;m familiar with in terms of creating content is missing. I can create pages but from a background of knowing pages are more for static content, I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s the optimum method of creating content. There&#8217;s no welcome screen, no signs of help if I need it, and it quickly becomes obvious this is created by developers, for developers.</p>
<a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ProcessWireBackend.png" rel="prettyphoto[27251]"><img class="size-full wp-image-27306" src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ProcessWireBackend.png?resize=1025%2C424" alt="The Backend Of ProcessWire" /></a>The Backend Of ProcessWire
<p>After using the CMS for 30 minutes, I promptly gave up trying to do anything cool with it. ProcessWire has a <a title="http://modules.processwire.com/" href="http://modules.processwire.com/">modules directory</a> to add functionality to the platform but it&#8217;s not accessible from within the CMS without the <a title="http://modules.processwire.com/modules/modules-manager/" href="http://modules.processwire.com/modules/modules-manager/">modules manager</a>.</p>
<p>ProcessWire comes with a lot of bundled modules that can be turned on or off. This allows you to specifically determine how much functionality your site has. Over the years, there have been <a title="http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2009-February/024242.html" href="http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2009-February/024242.html">several discussions</a> on whether WordPress should start moving its feature set into separate plugins. This is where I appreciate the <a title="https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/" href="https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/">decisions, not options</a> philosophy of WordPress. I&#8217;d rather be given a strict feature set and then add-on to it with plugins. I couldn&#8217;t care less about enabling/disabling core functionality but I understand how this is a great feature for developers.</p>
<a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ProcessWireCoreModules.png" rel="prettyphoto[27251]"><img class="size-full wp-image-27311" src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ProcessWireCoreModules.png?resize=1025%2C729" alt="Core Modules In ProcessWire" /></a>Module Management In ProcessWire
<p>ProcessWire is based on the premise of <a title="http://processwire.com/about/background/" href="http://processwire.com/about/background/">everything being an API call away</a>. &#8220;Underneath, ProcessWire 2 is a purely API-driven content management framework that is fully functional without any sort of admin interface.&#8221; WordPress is steadily moving in the same direction, especially once the JSON REST API <a title="http://wptavern.com/json-rest-api-slated-for-wordpress-4-1-release" href="http://wptavern.com/json-rest-api-slated-for-wordpress-4-1-release">makes its way into core</a>.</p>
<h2>ProcessWire Wouldn&#8217;t Be My First Choice</h2>
<p>I&#8217;m happy to see another <a title="http://processwire.com/about/license/" href="http://processwire.com/about/license/">GPL licensed project</a> gaining steam and finding a place all its own. The <a title="https://processwire.com/talk/" href="https://processwire.com/talk/">community is active</a> and the main developer has over 8,000 forum posts. They also have a <a title="http://processwire.com/about/sites/" href="http://processwire.com/about/sites/">showcase</a> filled with websites using the software. If you&#8217;d like to check out ProcessWire for yourself, they have a <a title="http://processwire.com/demo/" href="http://processwire.com/demo/">demo available</a> which shows an already created, public facing website. You can also log in to the backend to see how it looks and functions.</p>
<p>If I were going to switch from WordPress to another publishing system, ProcessWire wouldn&#8217;t be my first choice. There are several reasons why. First, I&#8217;m not a user within their target market. Second, most of what I want out of a publishing system it doesn&#8217;t have out of the box. If it does, it&#8217;s not obvious. Last but not least, because of the way ProcessWire functions, it <a title="https://processwire.com/talk/topic/6653-how-can-i-apply-a-new-theme-to-processwire/?hl=%2Binstall+%2Bnew+%2Btheme" href="https://processwire.com/talk/topic/6653-how-can-i-apply-a-new-theme-to-processwire/?hl=%2Binstall+%2Bnew+%2Btheme">doesn&#8217;t have a way</a> to install new themes for the frontend of the site. Great for developers, terrible for users.</p>
<p>Several of the reasons CMS Critic moved from WordPress I think are benefits, not detriments to the project. It&#8217;s great that they&#8217;ve found a project that is more in line with what they need but with the nature of evolving software, how long will it take before iterations and improvements have them looking for yet another CMS to switch to? In most software projects, end users far outnumber developers. I get the impression that most of the users for ProcessWire are developers. If the project doesn&#8217;t decide to cater to end users, I don&#8217;t see it ever becoming much more than an addition to a developer&#8217;s toy box.</p>
<p>There are plenty of things that need improvement in WordPress, but after using ProcessWire for 30 minutes, I was reminded of how many things I take for granted. More on that in a future post.</p>
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<p>Vietnam is getting its first WordCamp on September 6th, 2014. <a href="http://2014.hanoi.wordcamp.org/" target="_blank">WordCamp Hanoi</a> was born out of the <a href="http://www.meetup.com/hanoi-wordpress/events/196954212/" target="_blank">Hanoi WordPress Group</a>, an active local meetup with nearly 300 members. The group connects WordPress enthusiasts in the area for relaxed chats and presentations. As of last month, <a href="http://wptavern.com/wordpress-in-vietnamese-now-100-translated" target="_blank">WordPress is now 100% translated into Vietnamese</a>, and some of the meetup members were active in helping to reach that goal.</p>
<p>WordCamp Hanoi is set to have three presentation tracks to include the business side of WordPress, using WordPress, and developing for WordPress. The <a href="http://2014.hanoi.wordcamp.org/2014/07/30/keu-goi-dang-ky-tro-thanh-speaker-call-for-speakers/" target="_blank">call for speakers</a> is open and applications will close on August 11. Organizers are <a href="http://2014.hanoi.wordcamp.org/2014/07/29/tuyen-tinh-nguyen-vien-cho-wordcamp-ha-noi-2014-call-for-volunteers/" target="_blank">looking for volunteers</a> to help with food, shopping, creating speaker gift bags, designing and organizing badges, and all the other behind-the-scenes magic that powers WordCamps.</p>
<p>The Hanoi WordPress Group has been meeting for the past two years and its members have created a friendly atmosphere for connecting with other local enthusiasts. <a href="https://philiparthurmoore.com/" target="_blank">Philip Arthur Moore</a>, one of the organizers of the event, is hoping that same atmosphere will be part of Vietnam&#8217;s first WordCamp. &#8220;Our goal this year is to keep the event simple, cozy, small, and familial, something that our group has done a good job of maintaining since its 2012 start,&#8221; he said.</p>
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<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/stellar-places/" target="_blank">Stellar Places</a> is a new plugin designed to provide an intuitive way to create, manage and display locations in WordPress. The plugin registers a custom post type for locations with integrated Google maps. Once activated, a new Places menu shows up in the WordPress admin:</p>
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<p>Scroll down to enter location data, which is pulled in via Google Maps. You can enter an exact address, just the cross streets, exact coordinates, etc. There&#8217;s a good deal of flexibility in entering a location to pinpoint. The map and extra data fields are automatically updated with your location, without refreshing the page.</p>
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<p>Places added can be accessed on the front end via the location listing view or single location view with the associated maps. Maps can be inserted into a page or post using the <code>[stellar_places_map]</code> shortcode. Stellar Places also allows you to display multiple locations on the same map.</p>
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<p>The <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/stellar-places/faq/" target="_blank">shortcode for embedding places</a> is extremely customizable and includes parameters for customizing HTML attributes, such as ID, class, width, and height. It also includes query parameters for limiting the display by post_type, taxonomy, term, category, and post_id. Shortcode map settings allow you to specify latitude/longitude for the map center, mapType, scrollwheel, zoom, minzoom, maxzoom, and infowindows.</p>
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<p>In the future, the <a href="http://stellarplaces.com/" target="_blank">Stellar Places development team</a> plans to build extensions for the plugin that you can install to gain additional functionality.</p>
<p>An easy-to-use maps plugin that looks and feels like native WordPress is long overdue. I tested Stellar Places and found that it works as advertised. The process of adding new places is intuitive and maps can be tailored to your exact specifications with the many options available in the shortcode. If you&#8217;re looking to try a new Google Maps plugin for WordPress, download <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/stellar-places/" target="_blank">Stellar Places</a> for free from WordPress.org.</p>";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:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:04:43 +0000";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:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:11;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>Founder <a href="http://ghost1227.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Griffiths</a> describes MigrateWP as a curated migration and conversion service for WordPress.  Griffiths is best known for his work as an <a href="http://easydigitaldownloads.com/" target="_blank">Easy Digital Downloads</a> extension developer and is also the founder of the <a href="http://reduxframework.com/" target="_blank">Redux Framework</a>. During the course of his work, he found migrations to be a source of continual frustration for the average WordPress user.</p>
<p>&#8220;The idea came about as a direct result of a series of issues posted in the Easy Digital Downloads support forum related to migration issues experienced by one of our users,&#8221; Griffiths said. &#8220;<span class="pullquote alignleft">I came to the realization that no matter how well documented, migrations suck!</span> Even for someone who’s done a few, they’re a headache and for a new user, they’re downright impossible.&#8221;</p>
<h3>A Hands-On Migration Service with No Automation</h3>
<p>After researching the problem, Griffiths found that there are very few resources available to facilitate site migration, let alone conversion, for end users who aren&#8217;t technically inclined. <strong>&#8220;Yes, there are a few other services, but they all suffer from one fatal flaw: automation,&#8221;</strong> he said. &#8220;MigrateWP was built on the premise that no matter how well thought out, automated systems can&#8217;t compare with the reliability that manual processes can.&#8221;</p>
<p>Griffiths hand-tailors the migration process for each user&#8217;s unique scenario, and all migrations are completed hands-on by specialists with a high level of experience. This enables MigrateWP employees to ensure data integrity and customer satisfaction.</p>
<p>&#8220;Beyond the basic migration component, we do site conversions, full site auditing, and every migration is run through malware checks both before and after the migration process to ensure the client receives a clean site when the process is finished,&#8221; Griffiths said.</p>
<p>Customers often have no idea how much information they will need to provide access to in the course of a migration. I asked Griffiths how he plans to simplify the process of interfacing with his clients&#8217; old and new hosts. &#8220;Before the migration begins, we personally contact every client to work out the details of the migration,&#8221; he said. However, the initial contact on the website is designed to be quick, without attempting to capture all of the information required.</p>
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<p>Welcome to the fifth “<a href="http://www.poststat.us/category/week-in-review/">Week in Review</a>” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so.</p>
<h3>Sass is coming to Underscores</h3>
<p>A long-awaited feature, the first pass at introducing Sass to the <a href="http://underscores.me">Underscores</a> (_s) theme has been committed. This morning&#8217;s <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/_s/commit/55085b74a34097026711e33b5342b55ac2f5cafd">commit</a> by Tammie Lister follows a number of <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/_s/pull/410">much-discussed Github threads</a>, and it looks promising. The Sassy version of Underscores is <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/_s/tree/_sass">in its own branch</a>, if you want to explore it further and get started with that version right away.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been using my own forked version of Underscores for some time now, that includes Sass, and I&#8217;m happy to see this change. I look forward to comparing their version with my own and learning from it. Underscores has become one of the most popular WordPress themes to build custom websites from, and this is a great change.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re ready for Sass, Josh Pollock has a <a href="http://torquemag.io/developers-guide-learning-sass-twenty-minutes-less/">nice post on Torque</a> to help you out.</p>
<h3>Custom post type standards are underway</h3>
<p>After my post recommending that Jetpack <a title="WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types" href="http://www.poststat.us/wordpress-com-jetpack-lead-way-toward-standardizing-custom-post-types/">lead the way for standardizing custom post types</a>, Justin Tadlock wrote <a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2014/07/25/custom-post-type-standards">an excellent follow-up piece</a>.</p>
<p>Furthermore, he started a Github repo for a <a href="https://github.com/justintadlock/content-type-standards">community-based, unofficial standards document</a>. This is exactly the type of discussion that I hoped would occur, and I encourage you all to get involved. If enough of us encourage standards for some common custom content types, we can make portability between WordPress themes even better, and that would be great.</p>
<p>The first issue is to decide what post types to standardize, so <a href="https://github.com/justintadlock/content-type-standards/issues/1">go get involved</a>.</p>
<h3>Standard site logo support for the customizer</h3>
<p>Also along the standardization theme, WordPress.com has introduced a feature for theme developers to create <a href="http://wptavern.com/wordpress-com-moves-to-standardize-theme-support-for-logos">standard support for site logos</a>, a feature that&#8217;s in almost any WordPress theme.</p>
<p>The feature is live on WordPress.com, and coming to a Jetpack near you. WordPress.com <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/site-logo/">added support for about a dozen themes</a> for the launch of the feature.</p>
<h3>MailPoet and Sucuri spar over the handling of security disclosures</h3>
<p>On July 1st, Sucuri <a href="http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/remote-file-upload-vulnerability-on-mailpoet-wysija-newsletters.html">disclosed a vulnerability in MailPoet</a>, a very popular WordPress-centric newsletter plugin. Over the next few days, <a href="http://www.mailpoet.com/critical-security-update-mailpoet-2-6-7/">MailPoet released a variety of updates</a>. A <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2458080/thousands-of-sites-compromised-through-wordpress-plugin-vulnerability.html">bunch</a> of WordPress websites were estimated to be hacked. Updates were available, and many hosts made server level changes, but it affected every version and was a serious issue.<span id="more-6979"></span></p>
<p>However, MailPoet was unsatisfied with how Sucuri handled the disclosure, and <a href="http://www.mailpoet.com/sucuri-hack-lessons-learned/">posted some lessons learned</a> on their blog a couple of days ago. That post is worth reading on its own, but essentially they&#8217;re displeased at the rapidity of Sucuri&#8217;s actions from notification of the vulnerability to publishing the news on their blog. Sucuri says it was standard practice, and <a href="http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/responsible-disclosure-sucuri-open-letter-to-mailpoet-and-future-disclosures.html">give a rundown in an open letter to MailPoet</a> on their own blog.</p>
<p>When your primary software product has something like this happen, your emotions definitely tick up a notch or three. I can see both sides of this story. In the end, it&#8217;s important that the fix gets in and site owners and hosts get notified so they can get their sites fixed. I don&#8217;t know who is more correct in this story (I haven&#8217;t given it enough thought, honestly), but I think most things are better settled in a different venue than trading accusatory and pointed open letters &#8212; something both parties are guilty of here.</p>
<h3>Starting a WordPress blog?</h3>
<p>Oli Dale has some really interesting insight where he raises the hypothetical, &#8220;<a href="http://wplift.com/start-blog-wordpress-today">If I were to start a blog about WordPress today.</a>&#8221; He highlights how he thinks some genres (like WordPress news) are well covered, but that he sees a great deal of potential in more niche markets.</p>
<p>Definitely read Oli&#8217;s advice if you&#8217;re looking to start a blog. Also keep in mind, really there is so much opportunity, no matter what you see out there today; just do it better than anyone else and you can succeed. (Notable on this topic, <a href="http://wpscoop.com/version-2-0/">WP Scoop</a> just rebranded itself)</p>
<p>Related, but more general: <a href="https://medium.com/message/you-are-not-late-b3d76f963142">You are not late</a>.</p>
<h3>GravityView: display entries of Gravity Forms anywhere on your site</h3>
<p>Zack Katz has released <a href="http://gravityview.co/">GravityView</a>, a plugin that takes Gravity Forms submissions and lets you put them anywhere on your site. This plugin look really slick, and I see a lot of potential uses for it.</p>
<p>Zack is the developer of the free <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-addons/">Gravity Forms Directory</a> plugin, and GravityView is a different plugin, but expanded version of that. Zack talks about GravityView and his thinking behind it on the <a href="http://applyfilters.fm/podcast/episode-22/">latest Apply Filters podcast</a>, which he recorded right before he released the plugin.</p>
<h3>Automating WP App Store</h3>
<p>Iain Poulson wrote a fun little post about how he&#8217;s <a href="http://polevaultweb.com/2014/07/workflow-automation-wp-app-store/">automated most of the work that goes into WP App Store</a>, a former marketplace product <a title="WP App Store has a new owner" href="http://www.poststat.us/wp-app-store-new-owner/">turned email deals product</a>.</p>
<h3>Brian Richards goes full-time on WP Sessions, introduces first course</h3>
<p>Brian Richards has left his position at WebDevStudios to attempt a full-time career building WP Sessions, his WordPress learning website.</p>
<p>As I noted last week, he&#8217;s giving away a $2,000 value trip to WCSF to those that sign up for his VIP program, and there are <a href="http://wpsessions.com/great-big-give-away/">still a couple of days to enter</a>.</p>
<p>He also just released a <a href="http://wpsessions.com/course/first-wordpress-plugin/">course on building WordPress plugins</a>, <a href="https://pippinsplugins.com/first-wordpress-plugin-course-wp-sessions/">which Pippin Williamson is teaching</a>; it doesn&#8217;t get much better than that. I wish Brian the best of luck, and hope WP Sessions sustains him.</p>
<h3>My first WordCap San Francisco</h3>
<p>I guest posted on the WordCamp San Francisco blog, where I talked about my first experience at WCSF. Incredible relationships and experiences are made at WordCamps; <a href="http://2014.sf.wordcamp.org/2014/07/21/my-first-wordcamp-san-francisco/">this is my story</a>.</p>
<p>Along a similar vein, <a href="http://bluelimemedia.com/2014/07/27/bother-wordcamps/">Christine Rondeau answers</a>, &#8220;Why bother with WordCamps?&#8221;</p>
<h3>Meet me in New York</h3>
<p>I&#8217;m really excited to attend <a href="http://2014.nyc.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp New York City</a> Friday through Sunday. If you&#8217;re there, I&#8217;d love to meet. The lineup of <a href="http://2014.nyc.wordcamp.org/attendees">attendees</a> and <a href="http://2014.nyc.wordcamp.org/speakers">speakers</a> is insane. I&#8217;ll also be doing some hallway interviews, so Post Status readers will hopefully enjoy the results of those. I&#8217;ll probably be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PHOeXIPNZE">singing Alicia Keys to myself</a> for the next few days, so you can have that mental image for free.</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s not quite midnight on Monday in Alabama, as I wrap this up. So while the week in review is a bit late this week, I hope you still enjoyed it and learned something new. If you did, I of course appreciate if you&#8217;ll share it with your social network of choice.</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:75:"WPTavern: This Week On WPWeekly – A Roundtable Discussion On Crowdfunding";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:28:"http://wptavern.com/?p=26916";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:186:"http://wptavern.com/this-week-on-wpweekly-a-roundtable-discussion-on-crowdfunding?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-week-on-wpweekly-a-roundtable-discussion-on-crowdfunding";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:2221:"<p>This <a title="http://wptavern.com/wordpress-weekly" href="http://wptavern.com/wordpress-weekly">Friday at 3PM Eastern</a>, we&#8217;ll be joined by three individuals to discuss the topic of crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is defined as &#8220;the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.&#8221; While some projects fail, others are exceedingly successful.</p>
<p>Our guests will share their experience, lessons learned, and what they would have done differently. We&#8217;ll also discuss the impact of crowdfunding open source software development.</p>
<ul>
<li>Scott Kingsley Clark &#8211; <a title="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sc0ttkclark/pods-development-framework-20" href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sc0ttkclark/pods-development-framework-20">Clark used Kickstarter</a> to successfully raise enough funds to develop Pods 2.0 and the community website. Although he only asked for $1,500, he ended up with nearly $4,200.</li>
<li>Nick Haskins &#8211; Lead developer of the AESOP Story Engine plugin and hosted service, <a title="https://aesop.crowdhoster.com/storytelling-engine" href="https://aesop.crowdhoster.com/storytelling-engine">Haskins asked for $6,000</a> and received $6,572 using Crowdhoster. <a title="https://open.crowdtilt.com/" href="https://open.crowdtilt.com/">Crowdhoster</a> is the open source version of <a title="https://www.crowdtilt.com/" href="https://www.crowdtilt.com/">Crowdtilt</a>.</li>
<li>John Saddington &#8211; Lead developer of Pressgram, <a title="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tentblogger/pressgram-an-image-sharing-app-built-for-an-indepe" href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tentblogger/pressgram-an-image-sharing-app-built-for-an-indepe">asked for $50,000</a> and received $56,500 using Kickstarter to fund his image sharing app.</li>
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<p>Crowdfunding enables people to not only gauge interest in an idea or product, but also allows them to receive funding without having to deal with venture capitalists or banks.</p>
<p>If you have any questions for our guests, or about the topic of crowdfunding, feel free to post them in the comments.</p>";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:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Mon, 28 Jul 2014 23:20:48 +0000";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:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:18;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>A WordPress community initiative is underway to standardize content types used by plugin developers. Justin Tadlock is spearheading an <a href="https://twitter.com/justintadlock/status/493083812683718656" target="_blank">initiative</a> to create WordPress community-curated standards for common post types, taxonomies, and metadata.</p>
<p>WordPress developers are invited to join the discussion taking place in the <a href="https://github.com/justintadlock/content-type-standards" target="_blank">Content Type Standards</a> repo on Github where Tadlock outlined the objective: <strong>&#8220;The purpose of this repository is to create an open set of standards for the WordPress developer community on how to name custom post types as well as related taxonomies and metadata.&#8221;</strong> This would include common post types, such as testimonials, portfolios, recipes, FAQ, events, and products.</p>
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<p>Tadlock, who has historically been a vocal advocate of <a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2013/09/14/why-custom-post-types-belong-in-plugins" target="_blank">data portability</a>, is hoping that the standards will enable users to painlessly switch between plugins that compete in the same space, without losing any data. Standards will also make it easier for developers to build extensions in such a way that they can be more widely adopted by theme developers. He identifies a few benefits that both users and developers would enjoy as a result of content type standards:</p>
<ul>
<li>Less worry about what to name things when creating a plugin.</li>
<li>We can have competing plugins in the same space.</li>
<li>Cool things like add-on plugins become easier to build.</li>
<li>Users can switch between similar plugins to find the one they like best.</li>
<li>It would be easier to push for things in core WP like custom Dashicons.</li>
<li>Theme authors could potentially support multiple plugins.</li>
</ul>
<p>The project will first be focused on establishing a set of standards for plugin authors to follow, based on the core WordPress methods. Tadlock also suggests a secondary goal of creating a few PHP scripts for developers to copy/paste for registering a post type or taxonomy that make use of the new standards.</p>
<h3>The Need for a Community-Curated Initiative</h3>
<p>Brian Krogsgard recently published an <a href="http://www.poststat.us/wordpress-com-jetpack-lead-way-toward-standardizing-custom-post-types/" target="_blank">article</a> calling for Jetpack and WordPress.com to lead the way toward standardizing custom post types. While Jetpack and WordPress.com are in a good position to lead the way on this, there are many community developers outside of Automattic who have valuable input to offer on the creation of a truly open set of standards.</p>
<p>In a recent article that <a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2014/07/25/custom-post-type-standards" target="_blank">outlines the need for custom post type standards</a>, Tadlock argues that standardization goes far beyond simple naming conventions:</p>
<blockquote><p>People are still using their own, separate code rather than adopting existing solutions, preferring a solution built in-house instead of joining together with others. That’s the reason we don’t have standards. It really has little to do with post type naming conventions.</p></blockquote>
<p>The idea behind the community-curated standards is to help WordPress developers work together without the need to reinvent the wheel every time with their own solutions. Instead of closing off products with naming conventions that won&#8217;t be able to transfer users&#8217; data, Tadlock encourages developers to work on creating plugins that become standards in their own right.</p>
<blockquote><p>Standards are created after we&#8217;ve made them and they’ve been adopted by enough people. In other words, we create standards by building good plugins, getting users to install them, and having theme authors integrate with them.</p></blockquote>
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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:73:"Post Status: An introduction to setting up SSH keys for server management";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:30:"http://www.poststat.us/?p=6970";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:120:"http://www.poststat.us/ssh-keys-server-management/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ssh-keys-server-management";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:8994:"<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-6973" src="http://www.poststat.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ssh-keys-intro-752x300.jpg" alt="ssh-keys-intro" width="752" height="300" />Utilizing SSH keys in conjunction with the servers you connect to is a great and highly recommended security practice. SSH stands for &#8220;Secure Shell&#8221; and enabling SSH for a server creates a secure channel between you (via the command line) and your server.</p>
<p>SSH keys help the server validate and authenticate who you are. SSH servers can even be setup to require a known valid SSH key in order for the server to acknowledge you to begin the login process.</p>
<p>Using SSH from a Linux or Mac system is straightforward. You may not realize it but your system will automagically generate an SSH key for you the first time you use SSH if you do not have one already. This key will then be sent with all subsequent request to that server and all other servers. This is a great start, however it is possible to maintain multiple SSH keys on your system.</p>
<p>If the one SSH key allows you to get into all your systems why would you want additional keys? Simple, extra security.</p>
<p>Having a unique key per system you are logging into will create additional security by only allowing that key to be used on that system and no other. If your account somehow gets compromised and the key to the server taken you do not have to worry about all the systems you have logged into with that key and remember to go secure them. You simply delete the key for that system and generate another.</p>
<p>Managing multiple keys is easy. Let me show you how you can accomplish this on your own system.</p>
<p>This tutorial assumes you have basic knowledge of the command line. It was originally written as <a href="https://github.com/WebDevStudios/CLI-Cheat-Sheet">part of a series</a> of CLI (command line interface) cheat sheets, and I&#8217;m reposting it here so that a broader audience can take advantage of SSH for server management. The CLI cheat sheet has other excellent resources I recommend you check out as well.</p>
<h3>Where to find SSH files</h3>
<p>All the SSH files live in a hidden folder <code>.ssh</code> in your user directory. If your system is using the generic key file this folder may not exist. You can safely create this folder yourself. We will be working out of it for the remainder of this tutorial.</p>
<p>We will also be working from the terminal for the rest of this process.</p>
<p>Open up your terminal and get setup.</p>
<p><code>cd ~/.ssh</code></p>
<p>If you get an error that the directory does not exist create it with:</p>
<p><code>mkdir ~/.ssh</code></p>
<h3>Lets make some keys!</h3>
<p><span id="more-6970"></span></p>
<p>For this example we will setup keys for two servers: abc.com and xyz.com.</p>
<p>SSH includes a simple utility for creating SSH keys called `<code>ssh-keygen</code>. The following is an example of what creating a key would look like.</p>
<pre><code>blobaugh@devbox$ ssh-keygen
Generating public/private rya key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/blobaugh/.ssh/id_rsa): [id_rsa.abc.com]
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): [Enter a passphrase]
Enter same passphrase again: [Repeat passphrase]
Your identification has been saved in /Users/blobaugh/.ssh/id_rsa.abc.com
Your public key has been saved in /Users/blobaugh/.ssh/id_rsa.abc.com.pub
The key fingerprint is:
[Long crazy string]
The key’s random art image is:
[Cool ascii art]
</code></pre>
<p>Type <code>ls</code> into the terminal and you should now see two new key files that have been created for abc.com. Repeat the process with xyz.com.</p>
<p>Passphrases are recommended but not strictly necessary. If you are creating a passwordless login you can hit enter to leave it blank. Later on when we get into the configuration file there are additional login options you can set.</p>
<p>Since you are now a pro at creating SSH keys I suggest you also create a generic key. This key will be used on any systems you login to where you do not have a unique key created.</p>
<h3>Setup the configuration file</h3>
<p>Likely there will not be a configuration file in your <code>.ssh</code> directory. This is normal. You will create it in this step.</p>
<p>To utilize your shiny new SSH key with a specific system you will need to create a new entry into the <code>~/.ssh/config</code> file related to that host. You can use either the hostname or the IP. One key can have multiple entries, so if you have multiple hostnames for one system, or want to use both the hostname and IP to login simply create an additional entry in the config file. The * wildcard can also be used.</p>
<p>To get started open the <code>~/.ssh/config</code> file in your editor of choice and add the following lines:</p>
<pre><code>Host abc.com
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa.abc.com

Host xyz.com
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa.xyz.com
</code></pre>
<p>That is it! You will now be utilizing a different key for each of those hosts.</p>
<p>Setup the generic key with</p>
<pre><code>Host *
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa.generic
</code></pre>
<h3>Configuration options</h3>
<p>There are many configuration options available to you in this file. Lets break down a few here.</p>
<p><strong>Host</strong><br />
The Host option is a bit tricky. Host is for the name you use on the command line with the ssh command. This does not have to be a real machine but can be an alias. When used as an alias you need to supply the HostName option as well. Here are a couple examples to help make this more clear.</p>
<pre><code>Host lobaugh.net
    ….
</code></pre>
<p>On the command line you would use <code>ssh yahoo.com</code> to connect to the machine still.</p>
<pre><code>Host ben
    HostName lobaugh.net
    ….
</code></pre>
<p>In this example you would call <code>ssh ben</code> and still be connected to the lobaugh.net server.</p>
<p><strong>User</strong><br />
Allows you to set the username that is supplied to the connection by default. This can be different than the currently logged in user that is supplied by the system if one is not supplied. This setting can be overwritten at run time on the command line.</p>
<pre><code>Host lobaugh.net
    User ben
</code></pre>
<p><strong>ServerAliveInterval</strong><br />
Some servers have a timeout setting that will automatically disconnect a user if they do not perform an action for a specified period of time. This is great for security, however some hosts are a bit aggressive with disconnects and will bump you rather quickly (looking at you MediaTemple). This option tells your client to send keep alive packets to the server so you do not get disconnected too quickly. This setting is in seconds.</p>
<pre><code>Host lobaugh.net
    ServerAliveInterval 60
</code></pre>
<p><strong>IdentityFile</strong><br />
This is the key file we created in the beginning that should be used for the connection.</p>
<pre><code>Host lobaugh.net
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa.lobaugh.net
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Port</strong></p>
<p>Allows changing the port number the connection uses for non-standard ports.</p>
<pre><code>Host lobaugh.net
    Port 5000
</code></pre>
<p>A complete list of configuration options can be found at <a href="http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?topic=ssh_config">http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?topic=ssh_config</a></p>
<h3>Setup the server side of things</h3>
<p>Now that we have things on the client side setup we need to let the server know what is happening. This will ensure that the server knows who we are. This is as simple as ensuring the public key is present in the authorized_keys file.</p>
<p>We will use a couple “magic” ssh commands that run remote commands on the server for us.</p>
<p>First we need to ensure the .ssh directory exists on the server or the transfer of the key will fail.</p>
<pre><code>ssh USER@SERVER mkdir ~/.ssh
</code></pre>
<p>Now we will send the <strong>public</strong> key to the server.</p>
<pre><code>cat .ssh/KEY_FILE.pub | ssh USER@SERVER ‘cat &gt;&gt; .ssh/authorized_keys’
</code></pre>
<p>You are now all set with multiple unique keys per machine you are connecting into, complete with verification of the key on the server side of things.</p>
<hr />
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<p>The <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/json-rest-api/" target="_blank">JSON REST API plugin</a> for WordPress released a <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/07/26/json-rest-api-version-1-1-1-security-release/" target="_blank">security update</a> over the weekend. Version 1.1.1 includes a fix for a vulnerability wherein the JSONP support built-in to the API could be used to serve up arbitrary Flash SWF files. This <a href="http://miki.it/blog/2014/7/8/abusing-jsonp-with-rosetta-flash/" target="_blank">technique</a> has been known to be used in the past to abuse JSON endpoints to allow Flash files to bypass browser cross-origin domain policies.</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:95:"WPTavern: New WordPress Plugin By Pressware Provides An Easy Way To Insert Images Into A Widget";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:28:"http://wptavern.com/?p=27142";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:234:"http://wptavern.com/new-wordpress-plugin-by-pressware-provides-an-easy-way-to-insert-images-into-a-widget?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-wordpress-plugin-by-pressware-provides-an-easy-way-to-insert-images-into-a-widget";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:4709:"<p><a title="http://wordpress.org/plugins/pressware-image-widget/" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/pressware-image-widget/">Pressware Image Widget</a> is a new plugin by Tom Mcfarlin, of <a title="http://pressware.co/" href="http://pressware.co/">Pressware, </a>that makes it really simple to add an image to a widget. While there are plenty of existing plugins that provide similar functionality, Pressware Image Widget stays close to the core of WordPress and is a no frills approach to the problem. The plugin is a result of a few projects Mcfarlin has worked on to provide clients an easy way to upload images through the media library into a widget.</p>
<p>After installing and activating the plugin, you&#8217;ll need to browse to <strong>Appearance &gt; Widgets</strong> and locate the Pressware Image Widget. Drag the widget to a sidebar of your choice. When you click the upload button, the same pop up window used for inserting an image into a post will appear. You can either use an image that already exist or upload a new image to the media library. The image will automatically be proportionate to the width of the sidebar.</p>
<a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/PresswareImageWidgetInaction.png" rel="prettyphoto[27142]"><img class="size-full wp-image-27168" src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/PresswareImageWidgetInaction.png?resize=441%2C676" alt="Assigning An Image To Pressware Image Widget" /></a>Assigning An Image To Pressware Image Widget
<p>You can use multiple instances of the widget to display multiple images on the front end of the site. You can tell which image is being used in the widget by its title.</p>
<a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/PresswareWidgetUsesImagetitles.png" rel="prettyphoto[27142]"><img class="size-full wp-image-27169" src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/PresswareWidgetUsesImagetitles.png?resize=436%2C260" alt="A Good Reason To Use Descriptive Image Titles" /></a>A Good Reason To Use Descriptive Image Titles
<p>One feature missing from the plugin that I&#8217;d find valuable is the ability to set a URL. This would make it easy to point people to a specific post using its featured image. Or, I could use a sidebar to highlight a collection of posts using images instead of text. Being able to set a URL for the image opens up more possibilities to use the widget.</p>
<h2>The Business Model Behind Pressware Image Widget</h2>
<p>The plugin is available for free on the <a title="http://wordpress.org/plugins/pressware-image-widget/" href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/pressware-image-widget/">WordPress plugin directory</a> but if you need support or want to access additional features, you&#8217;ll need to purchase the commercial version <a title="http://shop.pressware.co/image-widget/" href="http://shop.pressware.co/image-widget/">available on Pressware.co</a>. The pro version doesn&#8217;t have any distinctive features over the free one but that will change as Mcfarlin plans to release an update next month. Mcfarlin <a title="http://tommcfarlin.com/image-widget-wordpress/" href="http://tommcfarlin.com/image-widget-wordpress/">outlines the reasons</a> for two different versions and explains why having a free version will build brand awareness. However, he also mentions that the business model around the plugin is a bit of an experiment.</p>
<blockquote><p>To be honest, it’s all a bit of an experiment to see how it goes, but that doesn’t change the fact that a significant amount of effort has gone into trying to create a well-architected, lightweight, easy-to-use plugin that helps users add images to their sidebar.</p>
<p>Whether or not this particular approach will work is yet to be proven, so I’m eager to see it play out.</p></blockquote>
<p>I asked Mcfarlin how he&#8217;ll decide which features are added to the free or commercial product. &#8220;<span id="mailbox-conversation">In short, the plugin has a roadmap right now of a few more things to add. However, the majority of the features will be relegated to premium customers</span>&#8220;, Mcfarlin said. He plans on managing both products based on value. Despite being subjective, the more valuable features will be developed into the commercial product. Users of the commercial version are granted access to features first with an eventual delivery to the free version.</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:80:"WPTavern: WPWeekly Episode 155 – Facebook Groups, Selfies, and Heavy Analytics";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:44:"http://wptavern.com?p=27172&preview_id=27172";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:192:"http://wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-155-facebook-groups-selfies-and-heavy-analytics?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wpweekly-episode-155-facebook-groups-selfies-and-heavy-analytics";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:3137:"<p>In this weeks short and sweet edition of WordPress weekly, we get you caught up on the news of the week. We share our reactions to Automattic&#8217;s new <a href="http://getselfies.com/" title="http://getselfies.com/">Selfies app</a> for Android and whether it&#8217;s a sign of things to come with the Gravatar mobile app.</p>
<p>Heavy analytics ceases development but the code lives on. Outside of what Heavy Analytics offers, I&#8217;ve never seen a collection of analytics specifically catered to WordPress and BuddyPress. Hopefully, someone or a team picks up the reigns and continues development. Last but not least, we discuss the trend of theme shops dropping option frameworks in favor of using the customizer built into WordPress.</p>
<h2>Stories Discussed:</h2>
<p><a href="http://wptavern.com/heavy-analytics-for-wordpress-now-open-source-and-available-on-github" title="http://wptavern.com/heavy-analytics-for-wordpress-now-open-source-and-available-on-github">Heavy Analytics for WordPress Now Open Source and Available on GitHub</a><br />
<a href="http://wptavern.com/wordpress-tv-seeks-bilingual-moderators-to-help-expand-international-coverage" title="http://wptavern.com/wordpress-tv-seeks-bilingual-moderators-to-help-expand-international-coverage">WordPress.tv Seeks Bilingual Moderators to Help Expand International Coverage</a><br />
<a href="http://wptavern.com/wpcore-plugin-manager-adds-favoriting-and-custom-plugins-to-collections" title="http://wptavern.com/wpcore-plugin-manager-adds-favoriting-and-custom-plugins-to-collections">WPCore Plugin Manager Adds Favoriting and Custom Plugins to Collections</a><br />
<a href="http://wptavern.com/gavickpro-abandons-theme-framework-in-favor-of-wordpress-customizer" title="http://wptavern.com/gavickpro-abandons-theme-framework-in-favor-of-wordpress-customizer">GavickPro Abandons Theme Framework in Favor of WordPress Customizer</a><br />
<a href="http://wptavern.com/automattics-planned-gravatar-app-morphs-into-a-selfies-app-for-android" title="http://wptavern.com/automattics-planned-gravatar-app-morphs-into-a-selfies-app-for-android">Automattic’s Planned Gravatar App Morphs Into a Selfies App for Android</a><br />
<a href="http://wptavern.com/a-facebook-group-dedicated-to-advanced-wordpress-topics" title="http://wptavern.com/a-facebook-group-dedicated-to-advanced-wordpress-topics">A Facebook Group Dedicated To Advanced WordPress Topics</a></p>
<h2>WPWeekly Meta:</h2>
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<p><strong>Listen To Episode #155:</strong><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:64:"WPTavern: A Beautiful Way to Display Color Palettes in WordPress";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:28:"http://wptavern.com/?p=27151";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:172:"http://wptavern.com/a-beautiful-way-to-display-color-palettes-in-wordpress?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-beautiful-way-to-display-color-palettes-in-wordpress";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:3137:"<p>Color palettes are fun way to explore colors for a concept, redesign, decoration ideas or home improvement projects. If you get excited when walking into a paint store, then you understand the small thrill of viewing colors together in coordinated palettes. Many design-oriented sites, such as <a href="http://www.colourlovers.com/" target="_blank">ColourLovers.com</a> or <a href="http://design-seeds.com/" target="_blank">Design Seeds</a>, are devoted entirely to the concept of creating pleasing color palettes.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/awesome-color-palettes/" target="_blank">Awesome Color Palettes</a> is a new plugin that makes it easy to display color palettes in WordPress content. The plugin allows users to create their own color palettes using a shortcode that passes a list of colors:</p>
<p><code>[awe_palette colors="434858,5886c5,#f2674a,c6006d"]</code></p>
<p>The shortcode is not sensitive, so you can include the # or not; it doesn&#8217;t affect the output. Multiple shortcodes can be listed on the same post or page and will display as stacked palettes:</p>
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<p>Including palettes in your posts lets you easily discuss color trends or ideas for a project in your article with interactive palettes to illustrate. Mouseover any palette to display its hexadecimal color codes:</p>
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<p>Check out a <a href="http://halgatewood.com/palettes/" target="_blank">live demo</a> of the palette display on the plugin author&#8217;s website. You can see how easy it would be to curate your own list of beautiful color combinations.</p>
<p>The plugin&#8217;s author includes a template tag if you want to add palettes to your theme. You can also create an awesome-color-palette.php file and add it to your theme folder to create custom palettes for whatever you need.</p>
<p>The palettes can handle up to 10 colors out of the box, but the CSS is very easily to edit, should you wish to include more or desire to change how they are displayed.</p>
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<p>WordPress developers <a href="https://katz.co/" target="_blank">Zack Katz</a> and <a href="http://tinygod.pt/" target="_blank">Luis Godinho</a> launched <a href="https://gravityview.co/" target="_blank">GravityView</a> this week, a new suite of products that makes it easy to display <a href="http://www.gravityforms.com/" target="_blank">Gravity Forms</a> entries on your site. The idea was born when Katz decided to rewrite his popular <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-addons/" target="_blank">Gravity Forms Directory</a> plugin, which has received more than 87,000 downloads on WordPress.org.</p>
<p>The new <a href="http://wptavern.com/gravityforms-1-8-beta-released-introduces-api" target="_blank">Gravity Forms API</a> enabled the duo to create their own templating system that allows users to edit Gravity Forms on the frontend of their websites. GravityView is launching with a number of preset views that can be customized to display profiles, resumes, a job board, an issues tracker, business listings, and more. The plugin packages a drag-and-drop UI which allows users to fine-tune the view layout, and add/remove field entries and widgets.</p>
<p>I spoke with <a href="http://www.rocketgenius.com/" target="_blank">Carl Hancock</a>, creator of Gravity Forms, who said that the GravityView team asked for his input from the beginning. &#8220;We think it&#8217;s great for our ecosystem just like all the free 3rd party add-ons,&#8221; he said, but noted that this product goes beyond a simple add-on:</p>
<blockquote><p>GravityView is more of an App for Gravity Forms than an add-on. We view Add-Ons as plugins that provide integration with 3rd party services or add simpler enhancements and features to Gravity Forms vs. more of an app that adds a wide array of functionality.</p></blockquote>
<p>Viewing form entries on the frontend of a website has been one of Gravity Forms&#8217; most requested features for a long time. Hancock has considered creating something along these lines in a much simpler form. &#8220;We did have plans to develop an add-on that allows you to display form entries on the front end of your site and we may still pursue that, but it would not go to the level that GravityView does,&#8221; Hancock said. For more functionality he would point customers to GravityView, in the same way he currently does for other third-party add-ons.</p>
<p>&#8220;We encourage developers to create 3rd party add-ons because there are so many feature requests and 3rd party integration requests that it is just impossible for us to create them all in house,&#8221; Hancock said. In fact, the very existence of GravityView is the result of Gravity Forms&#8217; developer-friendly architecture. &#8220;From the beginning we&#8217;ve designed things to be extremely extensible with a huge array of hooks, filters and a complete API,&#8221; Hancock said.</p>
<p>Gravity Forms users can expect even more apps coming their way in the future.<strong> &#8220;I know there will definitely be other commercial plugins designed to work with Gravity Forms that are apps and not merely add-ons because that is precisely what we plan on doing ourselves,&#8221;</strong> Hancock told the Tavern. Building an API for Gravity Forms has helped spur the plugin on to further success, and <a href="https://gravityview.co/" target="_blank">GravityView</a> is just the beginning of a new wave of apps designed to work with it.</p>";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:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:38:14 +0000";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:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:42;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>The new <a href="http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-logo/" target="_blank">site logo</a> feature allows you to optionally display the site&#8217;s title and tagline along with the logo, which will automatically appear on any of WordPress.com&#8217;s <a href="http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/site-logo/" target="_blank">supported themes</a>. All future themes will come with the site logo feature and WordPress.com developers are working to add support to previously released themes.</p>
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<p>As WordPress.com moves to standardize theme support for site logos, the rest of the WordPress ecosystem may soon follow suit. The Jetpack team is <a href="https://twitter.com/kwight/status/492204961619398656" target="_blank">considering adding the site logos feature</a> into the mix after getting it running on WordPress.com, making it possible for self-hosted WordPress sites to enjoy logo portability. The availability of a standardized site logo plugin would improve data portability across the board, whether it comes through Jetpack or another community-supported plugin. It would also help theme developers everywhere to be more efficient when building products.</p>
<p>Brian Krogsgard recently published a piece proposing that <a href="http://www.poststat.us/wordpress-com-jetpack-lead-way-toward-standardizing-custom-post-types/" target="_blank">WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types</a> so that users can easily move from theme to theme without losing data.</p>
<blockquote><p>But if you have a post type for a portfolio, or testimonials, or staff bios, or something more generic, it could be a great thing to standardize so that different themes could support the same post type, which would result in better transitions for users from theme to theme.</p></blockquote>
<p>Standardizing CPTs also helps theme developers create designs that can be used with any number of third-party extensions. Two plugins may use the same prefix to create testimonials and the user has the option the select the one he thinks is best.</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s no secret that BuddyPress sites attract a serious amount of registration spam. Plugins such as <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-recaptcha/" target="_blank">BuddyPress reCAPTCHA</a>, <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-security-check/" target="_blank">BuddyPress Security Check</a>, <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/" target="_blank">SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/pixeljar/BuddyPress-Honeypot" target="_blank">BuddyPress Honeypot</a> are either ineffective, inconvenient, or not well maintained. The often-recommended, though unfortunately named, <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wangguard/" target="_blank">WangGuard</a> plugin is moderately successful at stopping BuddyPress spam, but is linked up to a commercial service.</p>
<p>When a new plugin comes along with support for combating BuddyPress spam, community managers take note. This week we&#8217;ve been following the <a href="http://wptavern.com/hashcash-wordpress-plugin-makes-bots-and-spammers-work-for-you" target="_blank">Hashcash.io WordPress plugin</a>, which utilizes a unique approach to eliminating spam on registration, login, and comment forms. Pavel Karoukin, the project&#8217;s creator, has a <a href="http://wptavern.com/hashcash-io-reveals-strategy-for-capitalizing-on-spammers" target="_blank">strategy to capitalizing on spammers</a> by using the <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_work" target="_blank">proof-of-work</a> concept in combination with open technologies to generate <a href="http://dogecoin.com/" target="_blank">Dogecoin</a> profits for site admins.</p>
<p>In the latest 1.0.6 release of the Hashcash plugin, Karoukin <a href="https://github.com/hashcash/wordpress-hashcash/commit/a95d20e07f019c1e09c0b24f8e61b2587ca9122b" target="_blank">added support</a> for BuddyPress and sites that use <a href="http://diythemes.com/" target="_blank">Thesis</a> themes. The update adds the Hashcash unlock switch to the BuddyPress signup form, which uses a different registration process than the regular WordPress form.</p>
<p><a href="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/registration.jpg" rel="prettyphoto[27021]"><img src="http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/registration.jpg?resize=956%2C792" alt="registration" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27046" /></a></p>
<p>The Hashcash plugin enables BuddyPress site admins to protect their registration forms in addition to login and comment forms. Keys for Hashcash.io are automatically generated within the WordPress admin, making it quick and easy to set up.</p>
<p>Essentially, Hashcash.io stops spammers by forcing the user&#8217;s browser to do math. Hashcash plugin users have <a href="http://wptavern.com/hashcash-io-reveals-strategy-for-capitalizing-on-spammers#comment-57142" target="_blank">complained</a> about the painfully slow mobile experience. Karoukin is currently <a href="http://wptavern.com/hashcash-io-reveals-strategy-for-capitalizing-on-spammers#comment-57203" target="_blank">working on</a> an idea where calculations will be happening in the background, so that in most cases users will not be waiting on the browser. &#8220;Yesterday I brainstormed some ideas on how to make it even less painful for users (including mobile users.) The concept will stay the same, but UX will be different,&#8221; he <a href="http://wptavern.com/hashcash-io-reveals-strategy-for-capitalizing-on-spammers#comment-57185" target="_blank">said</a>.</p>
<p>As far as BuddyPress spam-blocking plugins go, Hashcash is a fairly simple and relatively unobtrusive way to ensure that no bots register for your network. It also has excellent support for accessibility guidelines. The developer is very responsive to feedback and is continually evolving the plugin to become a truly painless solution on the human user end.</p>
<p>If the project succeeds at reaching the critical mass required to make it profitable for website owners, BuddyPress site admins will be in a good position to capitalize on the steady onslaught of registration spam. In the meantime, the <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/hashcash/" target="_blank">Hashcash plugin</a> provides a decent method of deterring spam, even without the cash feature.</p>";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:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Thu, 24 Jul 2014 18:58:52 +0000";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:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:47;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/WPBeginner5thBDayFundingGoalReached.png" rel="prettyphoto[27011]"><img class="size-full wp-image-27016" src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/WPBeginner5thBDayFundingGoalReached.png?resize=683%2C272" alt="WPBeginner Funding Goal Reached" /></a>WPBeginner Funding Goal Reached
<p>When asked if he was surprised by how well the campaign did, Balkhi said, &#8220;Yes I was really surprised that we had such a good turn around from the community compared to last year.&#8221; I also asked him what he plans to do for next years charity event, &#8220;the goal for next year is to build 3 schools.&#8221;</p>
<p>Three schools equals $75,000 which will require more companies to become platinum sponsors. However, Balkhi is not worried for two reasons. There will be more WordPress companies this time next year and existing ones will likely be larger.</p>
<p>The event is becoming an annual tradition with each year promising to be bigger than the last. The success of this charitable event is another indication of how the WordPress community can rally together to support a great cause.</p>";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:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:50:56 +0000";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:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:48;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/WPSessionsLogo.png" rel="prettyphoto[26987]"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7588" src="http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/WPSessionsLogo.png?resize=316%2C77" alt="WPSessions Logo" /></a></p>
<p>WPSessions was launched in 2013 and provides high quality content to help train the greater WordPress community. Richards pays presenters for their expertise and time to give high quality presentations on an ongoing basis. Since the launch, there have been sessions on <a title="http://wpsessions.com/sessions/good-wordcamp-presentations/" href="http://wpsessions.com/sessions/good-wordcamp-presentations/">how to be a better presenter at WordCamps</a>, <a title="http://wpsessions.com/sessions/working-with-buddypress/" href="http://wpsessions.com/sessions/working-with-buddypress/">working with BuddyPress</a>, and <a title="http://wpsessions.com/sessions/security-for-developers/" href="http://wpsessions.com/sessions/security-for-developers/">security for developers</a>.</p>
<p>The success of the site has even surprised Richards, &#8220;I had no idea WPSessions would catch on like it has. I thought it would just be a fun little thing for me to do on the side and learn lots of cool things.&#8221; The site generates revenue by selling tickets to each session. The majority of sessions are priced at <strong>$30</strong>. However, the site offers a <a title="http://wpsessions.com/vip/" href="http://wpsessions.com/vip/">VIP membership</a> account that allows members to download the entire library of sessions, participate in the community, and learn directly from professionals. VIP membership is <strong>$24.75/mo</strong>, making it cheaper than purchasing tickets to each session.</p>
<h2>A Chance To Win A Trip To WordCamp San Francisco 2014</h2>
<a href="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/wps-give-away.jpg" rel="prettyphoto[26987]"><img class="size-full wp-image-27004" src="http://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/wps-give-away.jpg?resize=640%2C417" alt="The Big WPSessions Giveaway" /></a>The Big Giveaway
<p>To thank VIP members that have supported the site, Richards is hosting an incredible give away. He will give one lucky VIP Member a $2,000 USD cash prize specifically so they can join him at <a title="http://2014.sf.wordcamp.org/" href="http://2014.sf.wordcamp.org/">WordCamp San Francisco 2014</a>. Richards describes his first time at WordCamp San Francisco as &#8220;beyond amazing&#8221; and wants to pass on the opportunity to someone else. He&#8217;ll also purchase three VIP&#8217;s a full-year membership to any other training site of their choice, up to $350 per membership.</p>
<p>The giveaway is exclusively for VIP members. WPSessions has a maximum of 100 VIP accounts available. Richards told the Tavern, &#8220;only half of those are filled.&#8221; Even if all the VIP slots are filled, the odds of winning a prize are 1 in 25.</p>
<p>The drawing takes place on <strong>August 1st</strong> but everyone who registers as a VIP Member <strong>by 11:59pm PST on July 31st, 2014</strong> is eligible to win.</p>
<h2>The Future Of WPSessions</h2>
<p>WPSessions continues to evolve and will soon offer courses. &#8220;So far, most presenters have been almost as excited about this as I am,&#8221; Richards said. The first of these courses is <em>Writing Your First Plugin</em> by <a title="https://pippinsplugins.com/" href="https://pippinsplugins.com/">Pippin Willamson</a>. In the future, a members only forum will be created to discuss courses, sessions, and client work. It will also be used to generate ideas and provide insight into what type of material members want to see. There&#8217;s also a members only discount section in the works.</p>
<p>When asked what he thinks is his competition, Richards said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if I have any competition, to be honest. I think of WPSessions as more of a compliment to things like <a title="http://webdesign.com/" href="http://webdesign.com/">WebDesign.com</a>, <a title="http://bobwp.com/" href="http://bobwp.com/">BobWP</a>, <a title="http://www.wp101.com/" href="http://www.wp101.com/">WP101</a>, etc, not a competitor.&#8221; The site has the support of several thought leaders in the WordPress community such as <a title="http://chrislema.com/" href="http://chrislema.com/">Chris Lema</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>WPSessions has a simple focus – to educate you by bringing incredible talent together to focus on specific topics you need to know. They could charge much, much more, but their focus isn&#8217;t on money as much as it is education.</p></blockquote>
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