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Presenting WordPress 4.8 & 4.9 at State of the Word 2017
At WordCamp US 2017 last week, Mel Choyce and I had the opportunity to present the new features in WordPress 4.8 and 4.9 which we co-lead with Jeff Paul. We start presenting ~17 minutes into the State of the Word: State of the Word, 2017 (Photos courtesy of Jeff Golenski and Post Status.)
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Slides for “Building with JavaScript in the Customizer” WCUS 2017 Talk
Here are the slides from my WCUS 2017 talk “Building with JavaScript in the Customizer”
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Mel Choyce’s Recap on WordPress 4.9
Whereas my recap post about WordPress 4.9 focused mostly on the new features and enhancements, my co-release lead Mel Choyce just published a great post that gets into more of the process aspects of the release, including the key contributors: I think that 4.9 went really well by having essentially three co-release leads: Mel Choyce…
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WordPress 4.9
For the past few months I’ve been co-leading the WordPress 4.9 release with Mel Choyce (and Jeff Paul too). I’m really excited about all the new features and enhancements we’ve built which will now be rolling out across 29% of the Internet(!). In particular I’m excited about the powerful new capabilities being added to the Customizer. Now you…
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Customizer Features for WordPress 4.3 Kickoff
Here are the features I have suggested/proposed during the WordPress 4.3 kickoff: Partial Refresh This greatly improves performance of previewing changes in the Customizer for non-postMessage transport settings (JS-applied changes) by just refreshing the area of the page that has been changed. As such it eliminates some of the need to do postMessage in the…
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WordCamp Sydney talk: Customize all the things!
Today at WordCamp Sydney, I speak on The Customizer: The Customizer is one of the least known yet most powerful features of WordPress. We need to get past thinking of it as the “Theme Customizer” which only good for tweaking colors and a limited number of settings. No, the Customizer provides a framework for live-previewing any change…
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Re: Edit WordPress Posts and Postmeta in the Customizer
I couldn’t reply to Jeff’s comment on Sarah’s WP Tavern post because of a Jetpack problem, so I’m posting it here: With the Front-end Editor using the Customizer as a framework, I wonder if the interface will look similar to this experiment? I hope not. This plugin is really a prototype to demonstrate how the…
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Failures related to the WordPress APC Object Cache plugin
On a site for a newer X-Team client, APC was previously chosen as the object cache plugin. This has caused some headaches due to APC not being available while in CLI mode, rendering WP-CLI mostly broken: any commands which change parts of the database which get object-cached won’t appear until the cache gets invalidated, which may…
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Easily turn any webcam image into video on an OS X Dashboard widget
I have a few webcams on my network which I can access via URLs like http://198.162.1.30:8080/cam.jpg. Here’s a handy little bookmarklet (pagelet?) which allows you to turn any such webcam URL into live video (here, 1 fps): data:text/html,<img src=”http://198.162.1.30:8080/shot.jpg” onload=”var img = this; setTimeout( function(){ img.src = img.src; }, 1000 )”> Paste this data: URL into…