The document provides news and updates from November 2015 related to WordPress, including the upcoming release of WordPress 4.4 on December 8th, new features like oEmbed support and the Twenty Sixteen theme. It also discusses the future of WordPress with the Calypso project which is building a new WordPress.com admin app using modern technologies like React and Node.js. Upcoming WP events are noted along with a request for feedback on future meetup formats.

1. News, Views ‘n’ Stuff
#wpsyd
NOV 2015

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November 2015 News
• WordPress 4.4 due to ship December 8th
• oEmbed for posts and more external sites
• Twenty Sixteen Theme https://wordpress.org/themes/twentysixteen/
• Responsive Images (srcset and sizes)
• REST API (phase 1 of 2)
• Term Metadata move into core ($wpdb->termmeta)
• wp_title() (zombie function) Will be deprecated soon
• New WP_Comment class
• Comment query change
• no longer queries all comments on a post
(comments_per_page pagination)
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/11/11/wordpress-4-4-field-guide/

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November 2015 News
• WordPress now powers 25% of the entire Interwebs
http://wptavern.com/a-quarter-of-the-top-10-million-sites-
ranked-by-alexa-use-wordpress
WordPress Growth %

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November 2015 News
• WordPress Calypso – The future of WordPress?
• New WP Admin “app” – writing entirely in Javascript
• WP REST API + node.js (on server) + REACT (on client)

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November 2015 News
• For more on Calypso
• https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/the-new-
wordpress-dot-com/
• https://developer.wordpress.com/calypso/
• http://www.cozmoslabs.com/47708-what-is-
wordpress-calypso/

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November 2015 News
• PHP 7 being released on December 3rd #php7
• https://secure.php.net/archive/2015.php#id2015-11-26-1
• http://www.sitepoint.com/php-7-revolution-return-types-
removed-artifacts/
• https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/getting-
ready-for-php-7/
• https://blog.engineyard.com/2015/what-to-expect-php-7

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Upcoming WPSyd Events
December 7th WP Parramatta
Yearly Review
All meetups will resume in Feb 2016

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End of Year Mixer 2015
Thursday December 3rd
Standard Bowl Darlinghurst
WordPress Sydney, Joomla User Group
Sydney, Drupal Users Group, Sydney
DevOps and Product Mavens
TICKET ONLY
http://meetupmixup.github.io/
#mumu15

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Give us your feedback – What You Want?
Separate User/Dev meetups?
Workshops?
Would you pay for a WordPress Day workshop?