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Paul

What's your #1 marketing challenge or question? 2017 is right around the corner and I want to know how I can help you with your small business in the New Year. Paste your marketing challenge/question in the comments and share with business friends who would like their questions answered! I'll try to make a video answer for each question you send my way.

What's your #1 marketing challenge or question? 2017 is right around the corner and I want to know how I can help you with your small business in the New Year. Paste your challenge/question in the comments and share with business friends who would like their marketing questions answered! I'll try to make a video answer for each question you send my way. :-)

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WordPress 4.7 “Vaughan” Released

WordPress 4.7 "Vaughan" has just been released! Check out the new features in the article below.

Version 4.7 of WordPress, named “Vaughan” in honor of legendary jazz vocalist Sarah “Sassy” Vaughan, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard.

Awesome new features in 4.7 help you get your site set up the way you want it:

• New 2017 Theme brings your site to life with immersive featured images and video headers. Multiple sections. Personalize it with widgets, navigation, social menus, a logo, custom colors, and more.
• New customizer feature helps make initial setup of a theme easy, starter content, edit shortcuts, video headers and non-destructive live previews of all changes for an uninterrupted workflow.
•  Custom CSS! WordPress 4.7 allows you to add custom CSS and instantly see how your changes affect your site. No more plugins required!
•  Smoother menu building with automatic page creation. Add new pages while building menus instead of leaving the customizer and abandoning your changes. Once you’ve published your customizations, you’ll have new pages ready for you to fill with content.
• Multi-language dashboard makes administration of sites easy no matter where in the world your developer, admin, editor, or author is located! 
• WordPress 4.7 comes with REST API endpoints for posts, comments, terms, users, meta, and settings.
• Post Type Templates: Functionality to all post types has been opened up so theme developers have even more flexibility with the WordPress template hierarchy. 
• Custom Bulk Actions: List tables, now with more than bulk edit and delete.

Learn more plus videos at https://wordpress.org/news/2016/12/vaughan/

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Upcoming WordPress Features Will Require Hosts to Support HTTPS

Is your WordPress website HTTPS ready? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/upcoming-wordpress-features-will-require-hosts-to-support-https/

WordPress creator and Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg announced today that upcoming versions of the WordPress CMS would include features that would require hosts to support HTTPS.

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The WordPress megahack that wasn’t

Thanks to WordFence, a recently vulnerability in the WordPress update server was discovered and patched. Do you use WordFence on your WordPress website? If not, you should! https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/11/25/the-wordpress-megahack-that-wasnt/

The auto-update server had a flaw, now fixed, that would have let anyone add anything to websites, putting 27% of the entire web at risk.

Originally posted at The WP Guy - WordPress Web Design

WordPress 4.7 Release Candidate

The release candidate for WordPress 4.7 is now available.

RC means we think we’re done, but with millions of users and thousands of plugins and themes, it’s possible we’ve missed something. We hope to ship WordPress 4.7 on Tuesday, December 6, but we need your help to get there. If you haven’t tested 4.7 yet, now is the time! To test WordPress 4.7, you can use the WordPress Beta Tester plugin or you can download the release candidate here (zip).

WordPress 4.7 is a jam-packed release, with a number of features focused on getting a theme set up for the first time. Highlights include a new default theme, video headers, custom CSS, customizer edit shortcuts, PDF thumbnail previews, user admin languages, REST API content endpoints, post type templates, and more.

We’ve made quite a few refinements since releasing Beta 4 a week ago, including usability and accessibility enhancements for video headers, media and page template support in starter content, and polishing of how custom CSS can be migrated to and extended by plugins and themes. The REST API endpoints saw a number of bugfixes and notably now have anonymous comment off by default.

Not sure where to start with testing? Try setting up a fresh site on a new installation with Twenty Seventeen (hint: head into customizing your site before touching any pages or widgets) and taking notes on what you enjoyed and what got you stuck. For more details about what’s new in version 4.7, check out the Beta 1, Beta 2, Beta 3, and Beta 4 blog posts.

Think you’ve found a bug? Please post to the Alpha/Beta support forum. If any known issues come up, you’ll be able to find them here.

Developers, please test your plugins and themes against WordPress 4.7 and update your plugin’s Tested up to version in the readme to 4.7. If you find compatibility problems please be sure to post to the support forums so we can figure those out before the final release – we work hard to avoid breaking things. An in-depth field guide to developer-focused changes is coming soon on the core development blog.

Do you speak a language other than English? Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages! And if you haven’t yet done so, now is a great time to take the Annual WordPress Survey and send it on to your friends.

Happy testing! And now for another Rami Abraham haiku break.

Select your language
Then let your users choose theirs
get_user_locale()

Theme authors rejoice
Any option may employ
Selective refresh

Custom header video
Make sure to add_theme_support
Bling above the fold

A new template dawns
A hierarchy member
Post-type templates live

PDF updates
Pack a parade of polish
Prettier previews

Template Post Type: New
Template Post Type: And Useful
Template Post Type: Thing

Let lists live lively
Laud wp_list_sort()
Less laconic lists

WordPress 4.7 Release Candidate was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2016/11/wordpress-4-7-release-candidate/

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Grass Valley Web Design Company Launches New Site for Aanestad Law

Grass Valley CA web design firm SierraHosts.net is pleased to announce the completion and launch of Aanestad Law's brand new SEO and marketing-optimized WordPress website at AanestadLaw.com

Prior to the launch, the Grass Valley-based estate planning firm was using a static HTML site based on the GoDaddy Website Builder. Because the site was not optimized for SEO, the firm was ranking poorly in local search results and therefore generating few leads from their website. Also problematic was there there was no analytics on the site, so trying to measure and quantify referral traffic was impossible.

SierraHosts's initial step was to install Google analytics on the old site immediately so they could begin gathering data about the traffic that was coming to their site.

The next step was to review Aanestad Law's current marketing initiatives and develop goals as to what they wanted their site to achieve.

Third, in-depth keyword research was done to get a handle on what queries related to Aanestad Law's primary services were being made by prospects located within the law firm's primary service area (Placer and Nevada Counties).

Fourth, competitor research was conducted to determine Aanestad Law's primary competitors and their strengths and weaknesses in regards to their website's SEO optimization.

Next, a focus was placed on improving the page copy throughout the entire site. Erik Aanestad put a lot of work into writing the copy for each page using the primary keywords we discovered during the keyword research phase.

Once the new SEO-optimized page copy was reviewed and polished, it was added to a fresh install of WordPress and the mobile-friendly theme was customized to match the firm's existing branding and color scheme. Page titles, URLs, and meta descriptions were optimized for each page. Custom email forms were built for each main service page to encourage visitors to take immediate action. A dynamic RSVP form was built so that Aanestad Law can now accept sign-ups for their free estate planning workshops right on their website. And of course, metrics about site visitors, page views, referrals, keyword CTR's, and more can now be fully analyzed thanks to the power of Google Analytics.

In a thank you note sent from Mr. Aanestad, he wrote:

Many thanks Paul for all your work with the website to grow our business - we really appreciate it!

We're glad to help, Erik! And it was a true pleasure working with you.

Ready to Improve Your Company's Website & Search Visibility?

Please get in touch to discuss how small business website design firm SierraHosts.net can help your company increase it's leads, conversions, sales and profits.

(530) 613-4181
SierraHosts.net

Grass Valley Web Design Company Launches New Site for Aanestad Law

Grass Valley CA web design firm SierraHosts.net is pleased to announce the completion and launch of Aanestad Law's brand new SEO and marketing-optimized WordPress website at AanestadLaw.com

Prior to the launch, the Grass Valley-based estate planning firm was using a static HTML site based on the GoDaddy Website Builder. Because the site was not optimized for SEO, the firm was ranking poorly in local search results and therefore generating few leads from their website. Also problematic was there there was no analytics on the site, so trying to measure and quantify referral traffic was impossible.

SierraHosts's initial step was to install Google analytics on the old site immediately so they could begin gathering data about the traffic that was coming to their site.

The next step was to review Aanestad Law's current marketing initiatives and develop goals as to what they wanted their site to achieve.

Third, in-depth keyword research was done to get a handle on what queries related to Aanestad Law's primary services were being made by prospects located within the law firm's primary service area (Placer and Nevada Counties).

Fourth, competitor research was conducted to determine Aanestad Law's primary competitors and their strengths and weaknesses in regards to their website's SEO optimization.

Next, a focus was placed on improving the page copy throughout the entire site. Erik Aanestad put a lot of work into writing the copy for each page using the primary keywords we discovered during the keyword research phase.

Once the new SEO-optimized page copy was reviewed and polished, it was added to a fresh install of WordPress and the mobile-friendly theme was customized to match the firm's existing branding and color scheme. Page titles, URLs, and meta descriptions were optimized for each page. Custom email forms were built for each main service page to encourage visitors to take immediate action. A dynamic RSVP form was built so that Aanestad Law can now accept sign-ups for their free estate planning workshops right on their website. And of course, metrics about site visitors, page views, referrals, keyword CTR's, and more can now be fully analyzed thanks to the power of Google Analytics.

In a thank you note sent from Mr. Aanestad, he wrote:

Many thanks Paul for all your work with the website to grow our business - we really appreciate it!

We're glad to help, Erik! And it was a true pleasure working with you.

Ready to Improve Your Company's Website & Search Visibility?

Please get in touch to discuss how small business website design firm SierraHosts.net can help your company increase it's leads, conversions, sales and profits.

(530) 613-4181
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Grass Valley SEO Firm Offers Free Website Audits On Google Algo Changes

Grass Valley SEO offers free website audits to small business owners

60% of all searches are done on a smartphone. Now, Google is taking a "mobile-first" approach to ranking websites in their search results.

The big question for small business owners is: is your website ready -- and more importantly -- are you leaving serious money on the table by not adapting to these Google algo changes accordingly?

In early November, news reports revealed that Google began experimenting with their "mobile-first indexing of the Web". This means they are now moving to indexing the mobile version of websites instead of the desktop version, as was their common practice in the past. The important take-away of this development is that Google will now analyze a site's mobile pages against ranking signals to determine how a site will rank in both mobile and desktop search results.

Soon, all the information about your mobile site (page speed, content, meta tags, structured data, etc.) will determine both your mobile and desktop rankings in Google.

Is your business website ready for this change?

Grass Valley CA SEO expert The SEO Guy is offering small businesses a FREE SEO Website Audit to find out if these new changes will affect their website's search rankings and how those rankings can be maintained or improved going forward.

 To find out more, visit:  http://theseoguy.biz

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Google begins mobile-first indexing, using mobile content for all search rankings

WordPress 4.7 Beta 4

WordPress 4.7 Beta 4 is now available!

This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.7, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip).

For more information on what’s new in 4.7, check out the Beta 1, Beta 2, and Beta 3 blog posts, along with in-depth developer guides on make/core. We’ve made about 60 changes in the last few days for beta 4, including tweaks to Twenty Seventeen, custom CSS, and the REST API content endpoints.

Do you speak a language other than English? Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages!

If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. We’d love to hear from you! If you’re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, file one on WordPress Trac, where you can also find a list of known bugs.

We are almost there
Please test your plugins and themes
RC coming soon

WordPress 4.7 Beta 4 was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2016/11/wordpress-4-7-beta-4/

WordPress 4.7 Beta 3

WordPress 4.7 Beta 3 is now available!

This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.7, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip).

For more information on what’s new in 4.7, check out the Beta 1 and Beta 2 blog posts, along with in-depth field guides on make/core. Some of the changes in Beta 3 include:

• REST API: The unfiltered_html capability is now respected and rest_base has been added to response objects of wp/v2/taxonomies and wp/v2/types, while get_allowed_query_vars() and the rest_get_post filter have been removed.
• Roles/Capabilities: Added meta-caps for comment, term, and user meta, which are currently only used in the REST API.
• I18N: Added the ability to change user’s locale back to site’s locale. (#38632)
• Custom CSS: Renamed the unfiltered_css meta capability to edit_css and added revisions support to the custom_css post type.
• Edit shortcuts: Theme authors should take a look at the developer guide to the customizer preview’s visible edit shortcuts and update their themes to take advantage of them if not already implementing selective refresh.
• Various bug fixes: We’ve made over 50 changes in the last week.

Do you speak a language other than English? Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages!

If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. We’d love to hear from you! If you’re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, file one on WordPress Trac, where you can also find a list of known bugs.

Building the future
A global community
Stronger together

WordPress 4.7 Beta 3 was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2016/11/wordpress-4-7-beta-3/

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WordPress 4.7 Beta 2

WordPress 4.7 Beta 2 is now available!

This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.7, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip).

Notable changes since WordPress 4.7 Beta 1:

• Twenty Seventeen: The theme wasn’t being installed on upgrades – sorry about that! Now you should see it if you’re upgrading an existing site. There are also plenty of fixes, especially for the header and small screen views.
• Edit shortcuts: These are always visible while editing (hide them on bigger screens by collapsing the controls) and should now work properly in Firefox. (#27403 and #38532)
• REST API endpoints: There have been a number of changes over the past week; your attention is requested on the following:
  • The DELETE response format has changed and may need to be accounted for. (#38494)
  • Enabled querying by multiple post statuses. (#38420)
  • Return an error when JSON decoding fails. (#38547)
• More developer notes
  • Fine grained capabilities for taxonomy terms
  • WP_Taxonomy
  • wp_list_sort() and WP_List_Util
  • Post type templates
  • New post type labels
  • Attributes for resource hints
• Various bug fixes: We’ve made almost 150 changes in the last week.

For more of what’s new in version 4.7, check out the Beta 1 blog post.

If you want a more in-depth view of what major changes have made it into 4.7, check out posts tagged with 4.7 on the main development blog, or look at a list of everything that’s changed. There will be more developer notes to come, so keep an eye out for those as well.

Do you speak a language other than English? Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages!

If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. We’d love to hear from you! If you’re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, file one on WordPress Trac, where you can also find a list of known bugs.

Happy testing!

Ya es la hora
Time for another beta
请您帮下忙!

WordPress 4.7 Beta 2 was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2016/11/wordpress-4-7-beta-2/

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WordPress 4.7 Beta 1

WordPress 4.7 Beta 1 is now available!

This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.7, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip).

WordPress 4.7 is slated for release on December 6, but we need your help to get there. We’ve been working on a lot of things, many of them to make getting your site set up the way you want it much easier. Here are some of the bigger items to test and help us find as many bugs as possible in the coming weeks:

• Twenty Seventeen – A brand new default theme brings your site to life with immersive featured images, video headers, and subtle animations. With a focus on business sites, it features multiple sections on the front page as well as widgets, navigation and social menus, a logo, and more. Personalize its asymmetrical grid with a custom color scheme and showcase your multimedia content with post formats. Our default theme for 2017 works great in many languages, for any abilities, and on any device.
• Video Headers – Sometimes a big atmospheric video as a moving header image is just what you need to showcase your wares; go ahead and try it out with Twenty Seventeen. Need some video inspiration? Try searching for sites with video headers available for download and use.
• Set up your site in one flow – From finding and installing themes right inside the customizer, to automatically staged theme-specific starter content, to clickable shortcuts that jump directly to editing an item from the preview pane, to adding pages while you’re building a nav menu or setting a static front page: getting a new site spun up and ready to share with a friend or a coworker is faster and easier than it’s ever been. Note: starter content appears when live previewing brand new sites and is currently only available in Twenty Seventeen. We’ll be expanding this to other bundled themes very soon, and perhaps to sites with existing content in future releases of WordPress.
• Custom CSS with live previews – Ever needed to hide or tweak the look of something in your theme or from a plugin? Now you can do it with CSS and live preview the results while customizing your site. CSS can be a powerful tool; you may find that you won’t need the theme editor or child themes anymore.
• User admin languages – Just because your site is in one language doesn’t mean that everybody helping manage it prefers that language for their admin. To try this out, you’ll need to have more than one language installed, which will make a user language option available in your profile.
• PDF thumbnail previews – Uploading PDFs will now generate thumbnail images so you can more easily distinguish between all your documents.

As always, there have been exciting changes for developers to explore as well, such as:

• REST API content endpoints – If you only test one thing as a developer, please test these. This phase is particularly helpful for people building plugins, themes, and in-admin interfaces. Can you build the things you need? Are these ready for release, and is the world ready for them? (#38373)
• WP_Hook – The code that lies beneath actions and filters has been overhauled. You likely aren’t affected, but if you’ve done things to the $wp_filter global or experienced funky recursion bugs in the past, please take a moment to read the dev note and test your code.
• Custom bulk actions – List tables, now with more than bulk edit and delete.
• Expanded Settings Registration API via register_setting().
• For theme developers: Post type templates (#18375)
• More goodies for theme developers!
• Locale switching (#26511)
• Comment allowed checks have the potential for a back-compat break.

If you want a more in-depth view of what major changes have made it into 4.7, check out posts tagged with 4.7 on the main development blog, or look at a list of everything that’s changed. There will be more developer notes to come, so keep an eye out for those as well.

If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. We’d love to hear from you! If you’re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, file one on WordPress Trac, where you can also find a list of known bugs.

Happy testing, and please enjoy this extended haiku break, courtesy of Rami Abraham.

Exquisite endpoints
Extol epic exabytes
Enabling earthlings

Careful interfaces
Considerately conjured
Customizer chic

Ring in the new year
With elegance and balance
Twenty Seventeen

Hooks hook healthily
17817
Sane iterations

Admin in your tongue
One site, many languages
We all speak WordPress

WordPress 4.7 Beta 1 was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2016/10/wordpress-4-7-beta-1/

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Wordpress urges users to update now to fix critical security holes | ZDNet

WordPress recommends an immediate update to 4.6.1 to avoid several detected vulnerabilities. Wordpress urges users to update now to fix critical security holes ... http://www.zdnet.com/article/wordpress-urges-users-to-update-now-to-fix-critical-security-holes/

The update fixes two critical errors, a cross-site scripting flaw and path traversal vulnerability.

Originally posted at The WP Guy - WordPress Web Design

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WordPress 4.6.1 Security and Maintenance Release

WordPress 4.6.1 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.

WordPress versions 4.6 and earlier are affected by two security issues: a cross-site scripting vulnerability via image filename, reported by SumOfPwn researcher Cengiz Han Sahin; and a path traversal vulnerability in the upgrade package uploader, reported by Dominik Schilling from the WordPress security team.

Thank you to the reporters for practicing responsible disclosure.

In addition to the security issues above, WordPress 4.6.1 fixes 15 bugs from 4.6. For more information, see the release notes or consult the list of changes.

Download WordPress 4.6.1 or venture over to Dashboard → Updates and simply click “Update Now.” Sites that support automatic background updates are already beginning to update to WordPress 4.6.1.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to 4.6.1:

Andrew Ozz, bonger, Boone Gorges, Chaos Engine, Daniel Kanchev, Dion Hulse, Drew Jaynes, Felix Arntz, Fredrik Forsmo, Gary Pendergast, geminorum, Ian Dunn, Ionut Stanciu, Jeremy Felt, Joe McGill, Marius L. J. (Clorith), Pascal Birchler, Robert D Payne, Sergey Biryukov, and Triet Minh.

WordPress 4.6.1 Security and Maintenance Release was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2016/09/wordpress-4-6-1-security-and-maintenance-release/

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The WP Guy: WordPress 4.6 “Pepper”

WordPress 4.6 "Pepper" has been released. Before updating, don't forget to back your site and database up first. After, make sure to update your plugins and check that everything works as it should. http://thewordpressguy.blogspot.com/2016/08/wordpress-46-pepper.html

Version 4.6 of WordPress, named “Pepper” in honor of jazz baritone saxophonist Park Frederick “Pepper” Adams III, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. New features in 4.6 help you to focus on the important things while feeling more at home.

Originally posted at The WP Guy - WordPress Web Design

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WordPress 4.6 “Pepper”

Version 4.6 of WordPress, named “Pepper” in honor of jazz baritone saxophonist Park Frederick “Pepper” Adams III, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. New features in 4.6 help you to focus on the important things while feeling more at home.

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Streamlined Updates

Don’t lose your place: stay on the same page while you update, install, and delete your plugins and themes.

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Native Fonts

The WordPress dashboard now takes advantage of the fonts you already have, making it load faster and letting you feel more at home on whatever device you use.

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Editor Improvements

Inline Link Checker

Ever accidentally made a link to https://wordpress.org/example.org? Now WordPress automatically checks to make sure you didn’t.

Content Recovery

As you type, WordPress saves your content to the browser. Recovering saved content is even easier with WordPress 4.6.

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Under The Hood

Resource Hints

Resource hints help browsers decide which resources to fetch and preprocess. WordPress 4.6 adds them automatically for your styles and scripts making your site even faster.

Robust Requests

The HTTP API now leverages the Requests library, improving HTTP standard support and adding case-insensitive headers, parallel HTTP requests, and support for Internationalized Domain Names.

WP_Term_Query and WP_Post_Type

A new WP_Term_Query class adds flexibility to query term information while a new WP_Post_Type object makes interacting with post types more predictable.

Meta Registration API

The Meta Registration API has been expanded to support types, descriptions, and REST API visibility.

Translations On Demand

WordPress will install and use the newest language packs for your plugins and themes as soon as they’re available from WordPress.org’s community of translators.

JavaScript Library Updates

Masonry 3.3.2, imagesLoaded 3.2.0, MediaElement.js 2.22.0, TinyMCE 4.4.1, and Backbone.js 1.3.3 are bundled.

Customizer APIs for Setting Validation and Notifications

Settings now have an API for enforcing validation constraints. Likewise, customizer controls now support notifications, which are used to display validation errors instead of failing silently.

Multisite, now faster than ever

Cached and comprehensive site queries improve your network admin experience. The addition of WP_Site_Query and WP_Network_Query help craft advanced queries with less effort.

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The Crew

This release was led by Dominik Schilling, backed up by Garth Mortensen as Release Deputy, and with the help of these fine individuals. There are 272 contributors with props in this release. Pull up some Pepper Adams on your music service of choice, and check out some of their profiles:

A5hleyRich, Aaron Jorbin, achbed, Adam Silverstein, Adam Soucie, Adriano Ferreira, afineman, Ahmad Awais, aidvu, Aki Björklund, Alex Concha, Alex Dimitrov, Alex King, Alex Mills (Viper007Bond), alexvandervegt, Alice Brosey, Ana Aires, Andrea Fercia, Andrea Gandino, Andrew Nacin, Andrew Ozz, Andrew Rockwell, Andy Fragen, Andy Meerwaldt, Andy Skelton, Anil Basnet, Ankit K Gupta, anneschmidt, Antti Kuosmanen, Arunas Liuiza, Barry, Barry Ceelen, bassgang, Bernhard Kau, Birgir Erlendsson (birgire), bobbingwide, Boone B. Gorges, Brad Touesnard, Brandon Kraft, brianvan, Bruno Borges, Bryan Petty, Bryan Purcell, Chandra Patel, Chouby, Chris Christoff (chriscct7), Chris Mok, Chris Olbekson, Christopher Finke, christophherr, Cliff Seal, clubduece, cmillerdev, Craig Ralston, crstauf, dabnpits, Daniel Bachhuber, Daniel Hüsken, Daniele Scasciafratte, dashaluna, davewarfel, David A. Kennedy, David Anderson, David Brumbaugh, David Cavins, David Herrera, David Mosterd, David Shanske, Derek Herman, Devin Price, Dion Hulse, Doug Wollison, Drew Jaynes, Ella Iseulde Van Dorpe, elrae, Eric Andrew Lewis, Erick Hitter, Fabien Quatravaux, Faison, Felix Arntz, flyingdr, FolioVision, francescobagnoli, Frank Bueltge, Frank Klein, Frank Martin, Fredrik Forsmo, Gabriel Koen, Gabriel Maldonado, Gary Pendergast, gblsm, Geeky Software, George Stephanis, Hardeep Asrani, Helen Hou-Sandí, Henry Wright, Hugo Baeta, Iain Poulson, Ian Dunn, Ignacio Cruz Moreno, imath, Inderpreet Singh, Ipstenu (Mika Epstein), J.D. Grimes, James Huff, Janne Ala-Äijälä, Jasper de Groot, javorszky, Jeff Farthing, Jeffrey de Wit, Jeremy Felt, Jeremy Green, Jeremy Herve, Jeremy Ward, Jerry Bates (jerrysarcastic), Jesin A, Jip Moors, jnylen0, Joe Dolson, Joe Hoyle, Joe McGill, Joel Williams, Johan Falk, John Blackbourn, John James Jacoby, John P. Green, John_Schlick, Jon (Kenshino), Jonathan Brinley, Jonny Harris, Joost de Valk, Joseph Scott, Josh Pollock, Joshua Goodwin, jpdavoutian, jrf, jsternberg, Juanfra Aldasoro, Juhi Saxena, julesaus, Justin Sainton, Kelly Dwan, Kevin Hagerty, Kite, kjbenk, Konstantin Kovshenin, Konstantin Obenland, Kurt Payne, Laurens Offereins, Luke Cavanagh, Lutz Schröer, Marcel Pol, Marius L. J. (Clorith), Mark Jaquith, Mark Uraine, martin.krcho, Matt Miklic, Matt Mullenweg, Matthew Batchelder, mattyrob, Mayeenul Islam, mdwheele, medariox, Mehul Kaklotar, Meitar, Mel Choyce, Michael Arestad, Michael Arestad, Michael Beil, Mike Bijon, Mike Hansen, Mike Schroder, Milan Dinić, Morgan Estes, moto hachi ( mt8.biz ), Mustafa Uysal, Nextendweb, Niall Kennedy, nicholas_io, Nick Halsey, Nikhil Chavan, Nilambar Sharma, Ninos, Noah, noahsilverstein, odyssey, Olar Marius, ovann86, pansotdev, Pascal Birchler, Paul Bearne, Paul Wilde, pavelevap, pcarvalho, Peter Westwood, Peter Wilson, PeterRKnight, Petter Walbø Johnsgård, Petya Raykovska, Pieter, Pollett, postpostmodern, Presskopp, prettyboymp, r-a-y, Rachel Baker, rafaelangeline, raffaella isidori, Rahul Prajapati, Rami Yushuvaev, Rask, Rian Rietveld , Richard Tape, Robin Cornett, Rodrigo Primo, Ronald Huereca, Ruud Laan, Ryan McCue, Ryan Welcher, Sören Wrede, Samantha Miller, Samir Shah, Sara Rosso, schlessera, Scott Basgaard, Scott Kingsley Clark, Scott Reilly, Scott Taylor, screamingdev, Sebastian Pisula, semil, Sergey Biryukov, shahpranaf, Sidati, Silvan Hagen, Simon Vikström, sirjonathan, smerriman, southp, Stanko Metodiev, Stephane Daury (stephdau), Stephen, Stephen Edgar, Stephen Harris, Steven Word, stubgo, Sudar Muthu, Swapnil V. Patil, Taco Verdonschot, Takashi Irie, Tammie Lister, Taylor Lovett, theMikeD, thomaswm, Thorsten Frommen, Timothy Jacobs, tloureiro, Travis Northcutt, Ulrich, Unyson, Viktor Szépe, Vishal Kakadiya, vortfu, vovafeldman, websupporter, Weston Ruter, wp_smith, wpfo, Xavi Ivars, Yoav Farhi, Zack Tollman, and zakb8.

 

Special thanks go to Jerry Bates for producing the release video and Hugo Baeta for providing marketing graphics.

Finally, thanks to all the community translators who worked on WordPress 4.6. Their efforts make it possible to use WordPress 4.6 in 50 languages. The WordPress 4.6 release video has been captioned into 43 languages.

If you want to follow along or help out, check out Make WordPress and our core development blog. Thanks for choosing WordPress. See you soon for version 4.7!

WordPress 4.6 “Pepper” was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2016/08/pepper/

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WordPress 4.6 RC2

The second release candidate for WordPress 4.6 is now available.

We’ve made over 30 changes since the first release candidate. RC means we think we’re done, but with millions of users and thousands of plugins and themes, it’s possible we’ve missed something. We hope to ship WordPress 4.6 on Tuesday, August 16, but we need your help to get there.

If you haven’t tested 4.6 yet, now is the time!

Think you’ve found a bug? Please post to the Alpha/Beta support forum. If any known issues come up, you’ll be able to find them here.

To test WordPress 4.6, you can use the WordPress Beta Tester plugin or you can download the release candidate here (zip).

For more information about what’s new in version 4.6, check out the Beta 1, Beta 2, Beta 3, Beta 4, and RC 1 blog posts.

A few changes of note since the first release candidate:

• Support for custom HTTP methods and proxy authentication has been restored.
• Various fixes for the streamlined updates, including better failure messages and error handling, basic back-compat styling for custom update notifications, and additional and standardized JavaScript events.
• Unnecessary reference parameters have been removed from new multisite functions.
• A compatibility issue with PHP 7.0.9 (and PHP 7.1) has been fixed.

Developers, please test your plugins and themes against WordPress 4.6 and update your plugin’s Tested up to version in the readme to 4.6. If you find compatibility problems please be sure to post to the support forums so we can figure those out before the final release – we never want to break things.

Be sure to read the in-depth field guide, a post with all the developer-focused changes that take place under the hood.

Translators, strings are now frozen, including the About Page, so you are clear to translate! Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages!

Happy testing!

The verdict is in,
Can I haz all the features,
Your best WordPress yet.

️‍

WordPress 4.6 RC2 was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2016/08/wordpress-4-6-rc2/

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WordPress 4.6 Release Candidate

The release candidate for WordPress 4.6 is now available.

We’ve made a few refinements since releasing Beta 4 a week ago. RC means we think we’re done, but with millions of users and thousands of plugins and themes, it’s possible we’ve missed something. We hope to ship WordPress 4.6 on Tuesday, August 16, but we need your help to get there.

If you haven’t tested 4.6 yet, now is the time!

Think you’ve found a bug? Please post to the Alpha/Beta support forum. If any known issues come up, you’ll be able to find them here.

To test WordPress 4.6, you can use the WordPress Beta Tester plugin or you can download the release candidate here (zip).

For more information about what’s new in version 4.6, check out the Beta 1, Beta 2, Beta 3, and Beta 4 blog posts.

Developers, please test your plugins and themes against WordPress 4.6 and update your plugin’s Tested up to version in the readme to 4.6. If you find compatibility problems please be sure to post to the support forums so we can figure those out before the final release – we never want to break things.

Be sure to read the in-depth field guide, a post with all the developer-focused changes that take place under the hood.

Do you speak a language other than English? Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages!

Happy testing!

Der Sommer ist da,
Zeit für ein neues Release.
Bald ist es soweit.

WordPress 4.6 Release Candidate was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2016/07/wordpress-4-6-release-candidate/

What Brand is Tops with Small Business Owners? WordPress, Alignable Index Says

New survey says WordPress is the most trusted brand by small businesses. #smb #smallbusiness #wordpress http://smallbiztrends.com/2016/07/most-trusted-brands-small-business.html

The companies and brands your small businesses utilizes needed to earn your trust. According to a recent survey, here are the most trusted brands.

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WordPress to Bump Minimum Recommended PHP Version From 5.6 to 7.0 By The Middle of 2017

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WordPress 4.6 Beta 4

WordPress 4.6 Beta 4 is now available!

This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.6, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip).

For more information on what’s new in 4.6, check out the Beta 1, Beta 2, and Beta 3 blog posts, along with in-depth field guides. This is the final planned beta of WordPress 4.6, with a release candidate scheduled for next week.

Some of the fixes in Beta 4 include:

• Media: alt attributes are now always added to images inserted from URLs (#36735).
• Object subtype handling has been removed from register_meta(). Details about this change are explained in a post for developers.
• Resource hints are now limited to enqueued assets (#37385).
• A regression with query alterations introduced by the new WP_Term_Query has been fixed (#37378).
• The Ajax searches for installed and new plugins have been enhanced to fix several accessibility issues and to improve compatibility with older browsers. (#37233, #37373)
• The media player MediaElement.js has been updated to 2.22.0 to fix YouTube video embeds (#37363).
• The Import screen was overhauled, improving accessibility and making it much easier to install and run an importer (#38075).
• Emoji support has been updated to include all of the latest Unicode 9 emoji characters (#37361). 🤠🥕🥓🤝
• Various bug fixes. We’ve made more than 60 changes during the last week.

Do you speak a language other than English? Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages!

If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. Or, if you’re comfortable writing a bug report, file one on the WordPress Trac. There, you can also find a list of known bugs and everything we’ve fixed.

Happy testing!

This is Beta 4,
The last before RC 1.
Please test all the things.

WordPress 4.6 Beta 4 was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2016/07/wordpress-4-6-beta-4/

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WordPress 4.6 Beta 3

WordPress 4.6 Beta 3 is now available!

This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.6, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip).

For more information on what’s new in 4.6, check out the Beta 1 and Beta 2 blog posts, along with in-depth field guides on make/core. Some of the fixes in Beta 3 include:

• Revisions: Autosaves can now be restored when revisions are disabled (#36262).
• An improved handling of PHP’s memory limit which doesn’t lower the limit anymore (#32075).
• TinyMCE has been updated to 4.4.0 (#37327).
• HTTP API: Proxy settings weren’t honored by the new HTTP library. This has been fixed (#37107).
• Improved handling of UTF-8 address headers for emails (#21659).
• Various bug fixes. We’ve made more than 65 changes during the last week.

Do you speak a language other than English? Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages!

If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. Or, if you’re comfortable writing a bug report, file one on the WordPress Trac. There, you can also find a list of known bugs and everything we’ve fixed.

Happy testing!

Beta 3 is here,
The more testing, the better.
Gotta catch ‘em all!

WordPress 4.6 Beta 3 was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2016/07/wordpress-4-6-beta-3/

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WordPress 4.6 Beta 2

WordPress 4.6 Beta 2 is now available!

This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.6, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip).

Notable changes since WordPress 4.6 Beta 1:

• Meta: The fallback authentication for the previous registration method has been restored. Also, retrieving registered metadata now works and non-core object types are no longer forcibly blocked. See #35658.
• REST API: The order of setting sanitization and validation has been reversed; validation now occurs prior to sanitization. Previously, the sanitization callback ran before the validation callback. See #37192.
• Customize: The order of setting sanitization and validation has been reversed; validation now occurs prior to sanitization. See #37247.
• HTTP API: WP_Http::request() returns an array again. See #37097.
• Various bug fixes. We’ve made just over 50 changes in the last week.

For more of what’s new in version 4.6, check out the Beta 1 blog post.

Do you speak a language other than English? Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages!

If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. Or, if you’re comfortable writing a bug report, file one on the WordPress Trac. There, you can also find a list of known bugs and everything we’ve fixed.

Happy testing!

Teenage Beta 2
Thirteen years of pressing words
Rejoice with testing!

WordPress 4.6 Beta 2 was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2016/07/wordpress-4-6-beta-2/

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WordPress 4.6 Beta 1

WordPress 4.6 Beta 1 is now available!

This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.6, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip).

WordPress 4.6 is slated for release on August 16, but to get there, we need your help testing what we have been working on, including:

• Shiny Updates v2 ([37714]) – Shiny Updates replaces progress updates with a simpler and more straight forward experience when installing, updating, and deleting plugins and themes.
• Native Fonts in the Admin (#31195) – Experience faster load times, especially when working offline, a removal of a third-party dependency, and a more native-feeling experience as the lines between the mobile web and native applications continue to blur.
• Editor Improvements – A more reliable recovery mode (#37025) and detection of broken URLs while you type them (#36638).

There have been changes for developers to explore as well:

• Resource Hints (#34292) – Allow browsers to prefetch specific pages, render them in the background, perform DNS lookups, or to begin the connection handshake (DNS, TCP, TLS) in the background.
• New WP_Site_Query (#35791) and WP_Network_Query (#32504) classes to query sites and networks with lazy loading for details.
• Requests (#33055) – A new PHP library for HTTP requests that supports parallel requests and more.
• WP_Term_Query (#35381) is modeled on existing query classes and provides a more consistent structure for generating term queries.
• Language Packs (#34114, #34213) – Translations managed through translate.wordpress.org now have a higher priority and are loaded just-in-time.
• WP_Post_Type (#36217) provides easier access to post type objects and their underlying properties.
• The Widgets API (#28216) was enhanced to support registering pre-instantiated widgets.
• Index definitions are now normalized by dbDelta() ([37583]).
• Comments can now be stored in a persistent object cache (#36906).
• External Libraries were updated to the latest versions – Masonry to 3.3.2 and imagesLoaded to 3.2.0 (#32802), MediaElement.js to 2.21.2 (#36759), and TinyMCE to 4.3.13 (#37225).
• REST API responses now include an auto-discovery header (#35580) and a refreshed nonce when responding to an authenticated response (#35662).
• Expanded Meta Registration API via register_meta() (#35658).

If you want a more in-depth view of what major changes have made it into 4.6, check out posts tagged with 4.6 on the main development blog, or look at a list of everything that’s changed.

If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. We’d love to hear from you! If you’re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, file one on the WordPress Trac. There, you can also find a list of known bugs.

Happy testing!

More Shiny Updates
In 4.6 Beta 1.
And Font Natively.

WordPress 4.6 Beta 1 was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2016/06/wordpress-4-6-beta-1/

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Google uses RankBrain for every search, impacts rankings of "lots" of them

Google is now using Rank brain for all searches. So what does that mean for you and your website? Keep focused on writing great, relevant content. http://searchengineland.com/google-loves-rankbrain-uses-for-every-search-252526

Last year, RankBrain was used for less than 15% of queries. Now Google's confidence has increased enough that it's used all the time.

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The WP Guy: WordPress 4.5.3 Maintenance and Security Release

WordPress 4.5.3 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and you are encouraged to update your sites immediately. WordPress versions 4.5.2 and earlier are affected by several security issues: redirect bypass in the customizer; two different XSS problems via attachment names; revision history information disclosure; oEmbed denial of service; unauthorized category removal from a post; password change via stolen cookie; and some less secure sanitize_file_name edge cases. http://thewordpressguy.blogspot.com/2016/06/wordpress-453-maintenance-and-security.html

WordPress 4.5.3 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.

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PayPal is warming up to bitcoin

An encouraging development in the online payments space for all you e-commercers out there. Keep an eye on this. http://qz.com/713528/paypal-is-warming-up-to-bitcoin/

The digital payments giant is exploring digital currencies.

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WordPress 4.5.3 Maintenance and Security Release

WordPress 4.5.3 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.

WordPress versions 4.5.2 and earlier are affected by several security issues: redirect bypass in the customizer, reported by Yassine Aboukir; two different XSS problems via attachment names, reported by Jouko Pynnönen and Divyesh Prajapati; revision history information disclosure, reported independently by John Blackbourn from the WordPress security team and by Dan Moen; oEmbed denial of service reported by Jennifer Dodd from Automattic; unauthorized category removal from a post, reported by David Herrera from Alley Interactive; password change via stolen cookie, reported by Michael Adams from the WordPress security team; and some less secure sanitize_file_name edge cases reported by Peter Westwood of  the WordPress security team.

Thank you to the reporters for practicing responsible disclosure.

In addition to the security issues above, WordPress 4.5.3 fixes 17 bugs from 4.5, 4.5.1 and 4.5.2. For more information, see the release notes or consult the list of changes.

Download WordPress 4.5.3 or venture over to Dashboard → Updates and simply click “Update Now.” Sites that support automatic background updates are already beginning to update to WordPress 4.5.3.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to 4.5.3:

Boone Gorges, Silvan Hagen, vortfu, Eric Andrew Lewis, Nikolay Bachiyski,  Michael Adams, Jeremy Felt, Dominik Schilling, Weston Ruter, Dion Hulse, Rachel Baker, Alex Concha, Jennifer M. Dodd, Brandon Kraft, Gary Pendergast, Ella Iseulde Van Dorpe, Joe McGill, Pascal Birchler, Sergey Biryukov, David Herrera and Adam Silverstein.

WordPress 4.5.3 Maintenance and Security Release was originally posted at https://wordpress.org/news/2016/06/wordpress-4-5-3/