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The reasoning behind the new open source WordPress.com interface, named “Calypso,” is simple. The existing PHP codebase served the company and the WordPress community well since the company’s founding in 2003 , and made a lot of sense three, five, and certainly ten years ago. But in the super-fast, mobile-first era, it had become a hindrance. At least that’s what Andy Peatling, the Calypso project lead, thought. Peatling and the rest of WordPress core team asked themselves, “What would wordpress.com look like if we were to start building it today?” The answer is a new admin interface, which is moving WordPress away from MySQL and PHP to JavaScript and REST API. “What would wordpress.com look like if we were to start building it today?” – Andy Peatling & WordPress Core Team Calypso represents the biggest change to WordPress since its launch. Unsurprisingly, this new interface has been received with a mixed bag of responses. While most seasoned WordPress developers , … [Read more...] about Is The New Javascript Based WordPress Complicating Things?

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Last week saw the halfway point for 2015, yay! This seems like a good time to update you on WordCamp happenings in the first half of this year. There have been 39 WordCamps in 2015 so far, with events organized in 17 different countries and on 5 continents. More than 14,000 people have registered for WordCamp tickets so far this year, isn’t that amazing? WordCamp Europe was held in Seville, Spain just a few weeks ago, with close to 1,000 registered participants and over 500 live stream participants. You can watch Matt Mullenweg’s keynote Q&A session from WordCamp Europe right now on WordPress.tv. WordPress.tv has published 537 videos so far in 2015 from WordCamps around the world. Some of the more popular 2015 WordCamp talks on WordPress.tv include Tammie Lister: Theme, Don’t Be My Everything from WordCamp Maui, Jenny Munn: SEO for 2015 – What’s In, What’s Out and How to Be In It to Win It (For Good) from WordCamp Atlanta, Fabrice Ducarme: Les Constructeurs de Page … [Read more...] about WordCamps Update

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On the 10th anniversary of WPBeginner, I shared that WPBeginner hosting infrastructure got a huge upgrade thanks to our web hosting partner, HostGator . Shortly after, I started getting emails from readers asking me to share the details on how we made WPBeginner load blazing fast. Yes, WPBeginner load faster than most static site generators and in some cases faster than Google AMP sites too. In this article, I will give you behind the scenes look at how we made WordPress faster than static site generators and headless CMS platforms. Note: This article is a bit more technical than what we typically publish on WPBeginner. For non-techy users, I recommend following our ultimate guide on how to speed up WordPress . Update: We’re no longer using the setup shared in this article. Instead we have switched entirely to Google Cloud platform managed by SiteGround . We have the same speed results and have unlocked even faster back-end performance. Read why we switched to … [Read more...] about How We Made WordPress Faster than Static Site Generators (Case Study – Speeding up WPBeginner)

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The first thing you’ll notice about 2.7 is its new interface. From the top down, we’ve listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that’s just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version. ( Download it now , or read on for more.) Next you’ll begin to notice the new features subtly sprinkled through the new interface: the new dashboard that you can arrange with drag and drop to put the things most important to you on top, QuickPress, comment threading, paging, and the ability to reply to comments from your dashboard, the ability to install any plugin directly from WordPress.org with a single click, and sticky posts. Digging in further you might notice that every screen is customizable. Let’s say you never care about author on your post listings — just click “Screen Options” and uncheck it and it’s instantly gone from the page. The same for any … [Read more...] about WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane”

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2015 is about to come to an end and what a great year it was. We want to thank all of you for your continued support of WPBeginner over the past 6 years of our existence. As we look back at the year of 2015, it was full of success and joy for the WPBeginner team. WPBeginner 2015 Recap from Syed Balkhi Like every year, WPBeginner grew in all aspects from traffic to team size to revenue (coming from variety of our projects). I will be sharing a series of traffic growth tips posts on my personal blog SyedBalkhi.com starting with the one on how we grew our Facebook traffic by 332% this year which will be coming out this week, so go ahead and subscribe to the newsletter (it’ll be good). A lot of folks haven’t realized, but we added over 204 new video tutorials on WPBeginner’s YouTube channel this year. If you aren’t subscribed to our channel, then I would appreciate your support. This was also a great year for WPBeginner’s family of products. We converted our premium … [Read more...] about Best of Best WordPress Tutorials of 2015 on WPBeginner

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