WordPress 4.4 is scheduled for release towards the end of this year, and it will bring with it many exciting new changes and features. The beta version is already out so you can give WordPress 4.4 a spin right now using the WordPress Beta Tester plugin, however, the stable release is expected to arrive by Dec. So, what does WordPress 4.4 intend to bring to the table? In this post, I will be discussing what exactly we can expect from WordPress 4.4 First up, the developer stuff, or, as WordPress likes to call it, what’s “under the hood.” Under The […]
Photoblogging Made Easier with Postbot
Photos are an important part of the WordPress.com blogging experience. They can illustrate, emphasize, and sometimes even narrate the stories we want to tell. Photos provide an artistic element to millions of WordPress blogs. Some blogs are even centered entirely around photographs, rather than text. These are called photoblogs. Whatever your interest, it’s likely that you can find a photoblog that is captivating to you. If you’re a blogger using WordPress.com then it’s likely you’ve gone through the process of individually uploading and scheduling photos for your blog. To help facilitate this process, Automattic has developed a favorable panacea—Postbot. This application enables […]
Dictator: Configuring WordPress One State at a Time
On March 31, Daniel Bachhuber announced the release of Dictator. Dictator aims to alleviate the difficulties of website configuration by providing users with the ability to easily configure WordPress to YAML state files. This has been cultivated through the way that Dictator understands WordPress as states. Bachhuber breaks down exactly what states are in the announcement: States are collections of regions. Each state file has the state declaration along with tracked configuration details for each region. Regions have a defined schema which produces the translation between the human-readable YAML file and how WordPress stores state in the database. Additionally, Dictator provides users with the […]
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