THE PENDING DRAFT

WordCamp US – State of the Word 2015

December 7, 2015

Last weekend, the first WordCamp US – the biggest WordCamp ever – was held in Philadelphia and of course Matt Mullenweg gave the annual State of the Word Keynote. He talked about a bunch of things including the upcoming version 4.4 (which brings a lot of interesting stuff like term_meta and support for responsive images using srcset) or changes to how translations for plugins and themes in the repository work and he shared some thoughts about the development Calypso, Automattic’s react-based new interface for WordPress.com as well as self-hosted sites with Jetpack enabled. Also, he announced who the lead developers for versions 4.5 (Mike Schroder), 4.6 (Dominik Schilling) and 4.7 (Matt Mullenweg) will be as well as seven new core committers.

He made it very clear how important he thinks JavaScript is and will be in the future and that we all should take on that challenge and learn JavaScript, deeply.

Matt Mullenweg: State of the Word 2015

WP REST API – Core Merge Proposal

September 22, 2015

In case you missed it: WP REST API is finally being officially proposed to merge into WordPress Core. The idea is to first integrate the infrastructure of the API in Version 4.4 and then merge the endpoints in Version 4.5 as a second step.

What’s also great is that the Team working on the API used GitHub during Development and the experience they gained could lead to a tighter integration of GitHub for the work on WordPress core too, which would be a great side effect.

Make WordPress Core – WP REST API Merge Proposal

Quotes on Design fetches Quotes using the WP-API

May 13, 2015

Quotes on Design is a page that serves quotes about design, curated by Chris Coyier. They just rebuilt it using the WP-API to fetch posts from WordPress.

Up to this point, Quotes on Design (QoD) used a bit of custom code to query the WordPress database and serve up quotes. This was used for the site itself, and for its API to allow use on external sites. With the excitement surrounding the upcoming WordPress JSON REST API, we thought it would be fun to rebuild the site to use the WP API instead of our own custom code.

It’s nice to see more and more real world examples using the WP-API popping up lately. In this post on CSS-Tricks, Andy Adams details exactly how they built it which makes it a perfect tutorial if you want to get familiar with the WP-API.

Using the WP-API to Fetch Posts