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Planning for WordCamp US 2017 has commenced. Applications for the WCUS 2017 and 2018 host city are now open! Applicants are asked to provide names and contacts for organizing teams as well as proposed venue information and average hotel and flights costs. The survey also requires details on contributor day, including venue and wifi information. You can read the full list of requirements here. The call for a host city for the inaugural WCUS opened in June, 2015, just six months before the event. Regardless of the tight deadlines, organizers were still able to pull off a very successful WordCamp. For WCUS 2017, organizers […]

WordPress 4.4.1 shipped today. The announcement says that Crtc4L reported that anything 4.4 or older could be “affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability that could allow a site to be compromised.” Users are advised to update as soon as possible. WordPress 4.4.1 addresses issues found in older versions of OpenSSL and includes updated emoji support. The update fixes 52 bugs discovered in WordPress 4.4. To see a full list of the fixes, check the Installation/Update information. You can update your site directly on WordPress.org or in your WordPress dashboard.  

A Day of REST, the first ever WordPress REST API conference, will be held on Jan. 28, at Conway Hall in London. The speaker line-up for the event has been confirmed. Sessions will focus on different uses of the WP REST API and will take an in-depth look at several real-life applications. For example, Director of Engineering at Wired, Kathleen Vignos, will talk about how Wired is leveraging the WP REST API, while Automattician, Nikolay Bachiyski, will discuss how to build Calypso-like applications with it. All speakers have direct experience using and working with the API. Here’s the current line-up: Ryan McCue […]