Main content: ● WordPress 4.1 (beta 1) ● Theme Twenty Fifteen ● WP-API JSON ● WordSesh 3 ● Community News Event: November Saigon WordPress Meetup, November 29, 2014 Link: http://www.meetup.com/Saigon-WordPress/events/218676308/

1. WordPress
Fresh News
(Nov 29, 2014)

2. Me and Company
Dat Hoang
● Community & Support
at OnTheGoSystems
● Marketing Online
OnTheGoSystems
● WPML
● Toolset plugins
● ICanLocalize

3. Main content
● WordPress 4.1 (beta 1)
● Theme Twenty Fifteen
● WP-API JSON
● WordSesh 3
● Community News

4. WordPress 4.1 (for users)
● A new distraction-free writing (DFW) mode for
the editor.
○ Things you don’t need while typing just go away.
○ Your scroll position is maintained.
○ It’s the same editor, whereas before it was a separate
one.

5. WordPress 4.1 (for users)
New DFW mode

6. WordPress 4.1 (for users)
● A new inline formatting toolbar for images
embedded into posts.

7. WordPress 4.1 (for users)
● The ability to automatically install new
language packs right from the General
Settings screen (available as long as your site’
s filesystem is writable).
● New default theme, Twenty Fifteen (talk in the
later slide).

8. WordPress 4.1 (for developers)
● A single term shared across multiple
taxonomies is now split into two when
updated.
In the past, terms with the same slug but on
different taxonomies shared the term_id, slug
and name and just had a different
term_taxonomy_id.
(Explained by Juan, Toolset team)

9. WordPress 4.1 (for developers)
● Improvements to meta, date, comment, and
taxonomy queries, including complex (nested,
multiple relation) queries; and querying
comment types.
● A new and better way for themes to handle
title tags.
add_theme_support( 'title-tag' );

10. WordPress 4.1 (for developers)
● Several improvements to the Customizer API,
including contextual panels and sections, and
JavaScript templates for controls.
● Remove Custom Background and Header
under Appearance in Admin Screens

11. Theme Twenty Fifteen

12. Theme Twenty Fifteen
● Mobile first approach
● Clean, blog-focused theme
● Font Google’s Noto Serif and Sans - support
many languages

13. WP-API JSON
● An important feature - make WordPress
connected with other systems.
● Being not ready in WordPress 4.1 as it was
expected.
● Interesting case study at WordCamp SF:
Content Management for Node Using REST
More plugins for monitoring: https://make.wordpress.org/core/features-as-plugins/

14. WordSesh 3
● Anywhere accessing (streamed live)
● 24 hours of live WordPress presentations from
all over the world streamed live
● It's FREE!
● Saturday, December 20, 2014
00:00 - 24:00 UTC.
● WordSesh.org

15. Community news
State of the Word by Matt (WordCamp SF 2014 )
● 2014 - first year non-English downloads
surpassed English downloads.
● 33k took our survey: 7,539 (25%) of survey
participants make their living from WordPress.
● Market share has risen from 19% in 2013 to
23% now.
● We need to work hard to harmonize the REST
API plugin and the WordPress.com REST API.

16. Discussion
Image credit: http://sweetclipart.com/diverse-people-raising-hands-968

17. Useful links
1. http://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-1-to-introduce-theme-support-for-the-
title-tag
2. https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-1-beta-1/
3. http://wptavern.com/first-look-at-designs-for-the-twenty-fifteen-default-
wordpress-theme
4. http://wptavern.com/json-rest-api-slated-for-wordpress-4-1-release
5. http://wordpress.tv/2014/11/03/k-adam-white-wordpress-in-weird-places-
content-management-for-node-using-rest/
6. http://wptavern.com/json-rest-api-slated-for-wordpress-4-1-release
7. https://make.wordpress.org/core/features-as-plugins/
8. http://wordsesh.org
9. http://ma.tt/2014/10/sotw-2014/
10. https://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/11/25/an-update-on-shared-term-
splitting/

18. Big Thanks!
Dat Hoang
Community & Support Vietnam
E: dat.h@icanlocalize.com
W: wpml.org | wp-types.com | icanlocalize.com
Saigon, November 29, 2014