Menu Customizer Officially Proposed for Merge Into WordPress 4.3

Contributors on the Menu Customizer feature plugin are proposing its inclusion in WordPress 4.3. Nick Halsey posted the Customizer Team’s proposal last night, beginning with a summary of the purpose of moving menu management into the customizer: In the process, we hope to offer an updated design with improved user flow, a mobile-first interface, improved…

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WordPress Parent Automattic Buys WooCommerce | Re/code

Last year Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, raised $160 million. Now the publishing software company is spending some of that money, by acquiring WooCommerce, an e-commerce tools company. Sources say Automattic will spend more than $30 million in cash and stock to buy the 55-person company. Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg wouldn’t comment on the price…

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Announcing National Day of Civic Hacking Challenges | National Day of Civic Hacking

<![endif] Start Fluid Video Embeds Style Tag End Fluid Video Embeds Style Tag All in One SEO Pack 2.2.3.1 by Michael Torbert of Semper Fi Web Design[490,582] /all in one seo pack Announcing National Day of Civic Hacking Challenges Posted on Tue, 12th May 2015 by Nicholas Skytland /intro-content /container /intro National Day of Civic…

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Its journalism is behind a paywall, but The Times of London’s developers embrace open source » Nieman Journalism Lab

LONDON — For Callum Jones, a digital reporter at The Times of London, every morning begins with a 4:30 a.m. wakeup call. Jones is responsible for assembling and sending Red Box, a newsletter from The Times and Sunday Times that delivers a roundup of political news, commentary, and polling every morning. Red Box — which…

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Stack Overflow Developer Survey Ranks WordPress as the 3rd Most Dreaded Technology

Stack Overflow has released the results of its 2015 developer survey, which covers a wide range of topics including preferred programming languages, education, compensation, and even caffeine consumption. The 45-question survey ran for just two weeks in February and the site was able to collect results from more than 26,000 participants. Obviously, Stack Overflow survey…

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Flux | Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces

Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React’s composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It’s more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you can start using Flux immediately without a lot of new code. <br /> Flux applications have three major…

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GitHub Still Fighting DDoS Attack | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

What began around 10 p.m. Eastern Wednesday was still underway on Monday morning, according to GitHub. GitHub is still battling what it says is the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in the service’s history. What began around 10 p.m. Eastern Wednesday was still underway on Monday morning, according to GitHub’s Twitter feed. The…

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