This Meetup focused on the upcoming release of WordPress 4.0

33 Members RSVP for the event: For our 1st meetup at the new location in New Port Richey , that was an excellent turnout.

August 13, 2014

Presentation by:

http://www.meetup.com/Tampa-Bay-WordPress/

Welcome to Tampa Bay WordPress Meetup New Port Richey

August 13, 2014

Sponsored by:

Cavi Velásquez

www.slidecreation.comGreg Smithwww.savealator.com

Ann Clark Jeffrey Hiltonwww.brilliantfactory.com

Tom Townsendwww.smbsocial.com

Food and drink sponsored for this Meetup by SMARTstart Incubator Member Businesses

Pizza provided by: Mezzaluna Italian Restaurant

5749 Main StNew Port Richey, FL727-264-8980

Owner: Michelle

http://www.mezzalunahalfmoon.com/

    Located in the Historic Chasco Inn Building

Statistics

What US State has the lowest population ?

What US State has the highest population ?

What Country has the equivalent population but a larger land mass then the last question above ?

2007

I was vice president Information Technology for an online based lead generation company here in Tampa, with over 1 Billion in Sales in that year.

As the IT guy, I had a dotted line in this Matrix organization to direct support of a team of marketers.

The Marketing dept had a team of copywriters generating hundreds of pages of content about home buyers & beautiful locations with vibrant communities to live-in all across the United States. Many extolled the virtues of specific models of New Homes offered by Top Builders....with all sorts of amenities...to seduce them into the buy.

The era of -Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz and Dexter Gordon

Those copy writers were writing articles for our more than 100 web sites and over a dozen Blog sites run on Wordpress. Supporting our online based Real Estate model. Coincidentally, my wife had become a Florida Realtor in 2006

Blogging was just hitting its stride....Early adopters like myself had various reasons for jumping Into blogging with some having to learn how to hack the Code to get it to look the way they wanted to…..Updates were painful and the less experienced fumbled with FTP tools and often crashed the app and had to start over...lots of frustration ....when updates came out…

.... That was Wordpress versions 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 Many outside of WordPress are not aware that Major releases are named after Jazz musicians.

WordPress core developers share a love of jazz music, and since WordPress 1.0 all major releases are named in honor of jazz musicians they admire. Jazzers and Release Dates

Charlie Parker / Jimmy Smith / ???

2014

WP versions 3.8 3.9 and 4.0

3.8 took us into a True CMS

Now installing and updating is much easier and intuitive. Minor updates are automatically applied.

You can listen to a Last.fm station of all the musicians wordpress named a release for.

StatisticsWhat US State has the lowest population ?

What US State has the highest population ?

Wyoming - 532,668

California - 36,756,666

Back to those Statistics: Some facts you may not know about WP

http://wordpress.org/download/counter/

By comparison, that’s more than the entire population of Australia.

or the State of California 36,756,666

US Population 313.9 Million 2012

Australia - 23,563,773

What Country has the equivalent population but a larger land mass than Texas or California ?

http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/populations/usapopl.htm

California - 36,756,666

WordPress TRIVIA

Over 23% of all websites WW are run on WordPress.

Of those that are CMS WordPress has the Market Share at 60.6%.

Today that's over 60 Million websites World Wide.

http://en.wordpress.com/stats/

W3Tech Web Technology Survey: August 12, 2014 http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all

http://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/40-most-notable-big-name-brands-that-are-using-wordpress/

WordPress is open source software, meaning that it is worked on by the community and is free for users to download and install. Open source software sometimes can suffer from not being maintained and updated regularly. WordPress, however, doesn’t have that problem. It is continually improved and updated, and has become a mature and stable product.

With the release of version 3.8, WordPress moved from being a blog platform to being a content management system.

WordPress 4.0

So what’s in it?

Key Changes to the back-end:

• Changes to Editor Screen (the screen you use when composing new posts or pages).

A nice change involves the way you view video as you insert it into articles and pages. Videos that can be inserted by simply adding the URL to your page’s HTML code, such as YouTube or WordPress.tv videos, can now be seen in the Visual editor screen.

The new editor will also intelligently resize itself to the full height of the article you are editing. This allows the largest possible working area while keeping the editor’s top toolbar and footer in view at all times.

This change also completely removes the scroll bar in the editor. This change takes a bit of getting used to

Slated to be released August 27, 2014 Currently at Beta 3 release

•Changes to Media Library

Media Library now offering a grid view similar to what you get when you hit the Add Media button in a post. But WordPress also still offers the current list view.

•Changes to Plugin Search Screens

Redesigned the plugin area a bit. On the back end of WordPress, when you click on the menu item to install new Plugins, and search by topic to find a plugin, you now get more information right there.

You can now see the last time a plugin was updated. You can also see if it was tested with your particular install. This addresses a common issue with plugins, which is that some plugins are not updated regularly. When plugins are not updated regularly, they may either not work with newer versions of WordPress or pose a security risk.

4.1 Release?

GSoC Menu Customizer The Menu Customizer adds custom menu management to the Customizer. Development transitions feature-plugin format, for core consideration by 4.1 currently in plugin format (Alpha)

The entire Menus experience is now consolidated into a Menus panel in the Customizer, where you can preview your menus as you make changes. It’s really nice to have Menus easily accessible alongside the rest of the site-appearance-management tools in the Customizer.

http://wordpress.org/plugins/menu-customizer/

Google Summer of Code (GSOC) is a program that promotes the development of open source projects by providing funds to student developers while they develop their projects.

Get Involved

http://make.wordpress.org/core/

Lets take a look at WP 4.0 Beta 3

This was a live demonstration of WordPress 4.0 Beta 3

The Future for WordPress:

WordPress 4.1 may officially announce the arrival of WordPress' next transition, this time from a content management system to an application framework that is likely to accelerate the change by providing an API directly from the WordPress core..

"It's likely that the core WordPress API will lead to an explosion in compatible API offerings by major plugins."

The API uses JSON which is a very popular data format because almost every programming language can understand it. Any program which can access the web can use the API, leaving developers only the WordPress-specific code to write.

"The JSON REST API is a simple but powerful way to interact with WordPress. Mobile, desktop and web applications can get data from WordPress and do anything you can do via the admin panel. It’s like the admin panel, minus the UI. This project will affect everyone who works with WordPress. Mobile and desktop applications can move past restrictions on WordPress’ existing APIs and start working with WordPress in much deeper ways, while themes and plugins can become much more interactive. The availability of this as a core feature also means less time spent by developers creating something similar, and more time spent creating actual features."

SMBsocial covers this in detail on the blog "Touchpoints"http://www.smbsocial.com/introducing-touchpoints/

How Will This Change WordPress?

Ever hear of IoT – The Internet of Things ?

Useful Links

• The WP API site: http://wp-api.org/

• WP API Documentation: http://wp-api.org/guides.html

• WP API on Github: https://github.com/WP-API/WP-API

• WordPress REST API Team site: http://wpapiteam.wordpress.com/

• Google Summer of Code posts: http://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/json-api/

What's Next ?• TAMP BAY WordPress Meetup – New Port Richey

• September 17, 2014

• WORDCAMP TAMPA – October 4-5

http://2014.tampa.wordcamp.org/