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WordPress 4.4 Streamlines Content Sharing (wptavern.com) For the last six years, WordPress has been an oEmbed consumer, adding support for services with nearly every major release since 2.9. In WordPress 4.4, it switches roles and is an oEmbed provider.
93Digital Publishes WordPress Time Machine (wptavern.com) 93Digital, a London-based WordPress development agency, has published a WordPress time machine. The page features a timeline where visitors can browse every major version of WordPress released since 1.0.
A Free WordPress Membership Plugin – Paid Member Subscriptions (www.cozmoslabs.com) Sometimes, WordPress membership plugins can cause issues even for experienced developers. The team behind Paid Member Subscriptions plugin focused on ease of use and good user experience, creating a core of features that can support all their users, the possibility to extend the plugin through hooks and filters and make sure it works well with other plugins. Give it a look here!
AmpedSense: Add AdSense to Your WordPress Site & Increase income with Split-Testing (wplift.com) Today we are looking at a plugin named AmpedSense, which is a plugin for displaying Adsense ads by Google on your WordPress website. As well as provising an easy method for inserting the adsense code into your WordPress site, it aims to increase your earnings by allowing you to run A/B split-tests to determine which ads perform the best for your site.
Top 10 Best Free WordPress Themes in November 2015 (www.codeinwp.com) Although it does depend on where you’re sitting, November isn’t usually considered a particularly fun month… It’s a different story in WordPress, though. And especially when it comes to free WordPress themes!
Today, we’re looking into what the autumn has to offer when it comes to great-looking designs. This is a list of the top 10 best free WordPress themes in November 2015.
How to Use the WordPress REST API (and the Companies Already Using it Successfully) (premium.wpmudev.org) In a nutshell, the REST API it allows developers to completely de-couple the front-end from the core WordPress package. This will lead to better mobile apps, highly customized themes and – hopefully – clever implementations we haven’t even thought of yet.
In this article, we’ll show you how to get started with the REST API and some companies already using it successfully.
WordPress and the GPL - Everything You Need to Know (kinsta.com) If you use WordPress, the GPL should matter to you, and you should understand it. Why? Because the GPL defines how WordPress is utilized—by users and developers alike.With the above in mind, this concise guide will reveal everything that you need to know about GPL licensing as it relates to WordPress, with not a single reference to legalese or unnecessarily complex language.