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WordPress REST API Merge Proposal Submitted For WordPress Version 4.4 And 4.5 (torquemag.io) After months of excitement and speculation, over the weekend the WordPress core team made a big announcement: It’s time to merge the REST API into the WordPress core.
The proposal is still in its earliest stages, and so the team is currently looking for community feedback to take the project forward.
Highlights From Matt Mullenweg’s Q&A Session on Product Hunt (wptavern.com) On September 22nd, Matt Mullenweg participated in a question and answer session on Product Hunt. Product Hunt is a site that lets users share and discover new products. In the session, Mullenweg answers questions like what advice he’d give to his 20 and 25-year-old self and how he combats burn out. Here are a few highlights from the session.
Productized Services – Are They The Right Choice For Your WordPress Business? (www.elegantthemes.com) Along with marketing automation, productized services is another buzzword that’s difficult to escape these days. It seems like every time you turn around, someone in the web design or development space is preaching the benefits of productized services. In this article, we're going to discuss exactly what productized services are as well as some of the pros and cons of productizing your business.
Jetpack Hater? The Top 10 Alternatives for Jetpack-Style Functionality (premium.wpmudev.org) Whether you have a .com or .org site, you’re probably not using all of the functionality Jetpack has to offer. Jetpack is great, but it has a lot of features loaded into one meta-plugin. Maybe a ‘mini-Jetpack’ would be the next big thing. But until that happens, why not look at some alternatives for Jetpack-style functionality?
WordPress Plugin Roundup – September 2015 (ithemes.com) This month’s list of 10 cool, powerful and useful (oh, and free!) WordPress plugins include everything from an easy way to clean your WordPress Media Library of unused files to an SSL quality checker.
10 Free and Clean WordPress Themes (torquemag.io) In this post, we’ll discuss 10 themes that feature clean layout, the right blend of minimalism, and above all, good typography. Now, picking 10 among hundreds is always a tough job, especially because new WordPress themes are released almost every other day; so we limited ourselves to themes that were released fairly recently, in order to keep this roundup concise and relevant.
Easy-to-Follow Checklist for Buying a WordPress Premium Theme (www.wpzoom.com) Pretty soon all the themes all begin look both the same and different at the same time. It’s enough to make your head spin.
With that in mind, we’ve made a checklist for you. This should keep you focused and clear about what you’re looking for.
Using Tools for Quality WordPress Development (code.tutsplus.com) As with most things, developers have their particular choices as to the tools that they enjoy using and why they enjoy using them.
In this article, we're going to share a few of the tools that we prefer to use and that we've found useful in our professional WordPress development efforts.
WooCommerce Theme Development (teamtreehouse.com) Treehouse just released a new course on WooCommerce Theme Development. You can go over each of the WooCommerce template files so you know what theme includes are located where, and more advanced topics.