News, Views ‘n’ Stuff

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AUG 2015

Venue Sponsors

www.fishburners.org

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fishburners.org

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Thanks to Fishburners for

supplying beer tonight.

http://www.envato.com/

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Proud sponsors of this meetup.

We are the creators of ThemeForest, the world's biggest marketplace for WordPress themes, and

CodeCanyon, the world's biggest marketplace for WordPress plugins.

We ♥ WordPress, and want to give something back.

• We sponsor WordPress meetups, PressNomics, and the WordPress community summit

• We've published over 960 WordPress tutorials on Tuts+ (http://tutsplus.com)

• We contribute to open source development including WordPress core contributions and plugins

• We’ve donated $20,000+ to WordPress open source projects

We're always looking for ways to give back to WordPress. If you have suggestions, please get in touch: envato.com/contact

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Free WordPress Beginners Tutorials

http://tutsplus.com/learn/wordpress-meetup

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August 2015 News

• WordPress 4.3 https://wordpress.org/news/2015/08/billie/

• Menus in customizer

• Formatting Shortcuts (markup)

• # heading 1, … #### heading 4

• * unorder list

• 1. list item, 2. list item, … .10. list item

• > content for “content” (block quote)

• Site Icons (favicon, appleicon)

• Better Passwords

• Comments on pages turned off (default)

• New singular.php

More: https://poststatus.com/wordpress-4-3-billie-released/

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August 2015 News

• New iOS WordPress App version

• Add files from local & media uploads

• New stats emulating “Right Now” dashboard widget

• Improved search

• More: http://wptavern.com/wordpress-for-ios-version-5-4-adds-statistical-insights

• Philadelphia is to hold 1st US national WordCamp

https://2015.us.wordcamp.org/

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Upcoming WPSyd Events

September 7th WP Parramatta

Optimising WP for better conversions

August 13th WP Syd North

WordPress Security Best Practices

September 28th WP Syd Central

Monetising WordPress

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Give us your feedback – What You Want?

Separate User/Dev meetups?

Workshops?

Would you pay for a WordPress Day workshop?