1.
WordPress News
and
#SaigonWordPress 2015
(January 17, 2015)

2.
Me and Company
Dat Hoang
● Community & Support
at OnTheGoSystems
● Marketing Online
OnTheGoSystems
● WPML
● Toolset plugins
● ICanLocalize

3.
Main Content
● WordPress news
● #SaigonWordPress in 2015

4.
WordPress 4.1 (Released on Dec 18, 2014)
● Switch languages in General Settings screen
● Log out everywhere in Your Profile
● Plugin recommendations in Add New Plugin

5.
WordPress 4.2 – What’s Next?
● Automatically enable pretty permalinks for
new sites on installation
/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
OR
/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
● (Possible) Menu customizer

6.
WordPress in 2015 - How Will It Look?
Some thoughts by Noel Tock (at Human Made)
● WP-API and custom dashboards
● Front-end editor
● Internationalization: 139 languages
● Decentralising community

7.
Switch to WordPress from Drupal
Common things shared by Drupal and WordPress:
● Nodes - Posts
● Fields – Custom Fields
● Blocks - Widgets
● Menus – Menus
● Taxonomies – Taxonomies

8.
Switch to WordPress from Drupal (2)
● Drupal modules are WordPress plugins
● Comparing Drupal modules and Toolset
WordPress plugins in functionality.

9.
Technical Debt
What is it?
Technical debt (also known as design debt or
code debt) is a recent metaphor referring to the
eventual consequences of poor system design,
software architecture or software development
within a codebase.
Source: Wikipedia

10.
Technical Debt (2)
Report by SensioLabsInsight – Nov 04, 2014

11.
Technical Debt (3)
Reasons:
● Over-10-year project
● Support backward compatibility
● Large codebase

12.
Technical Debt (4)
How do contributors deal with this?
“We rewrite or refactor about 10 to 15% of WordPress in
most releases, so that we can keep users getting updates
and new features quickly, while doing the “ground up
rebuild” incrementally in the background, fixing bugs and
getting feedback as we go.”
(source: Matt’s answer in an interview with
Smashing Magazine in Feb 2014)

13.
Interesting Plugins
● VersionPress
● WP Pusher
● HTTPS Mixed Content Detector Plugin
● No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA

14.
#SaigonWordPress in 2015
● A WordCamp named WordCamp Saigon
● “Flagship Saigon WordPress Meetup” - A big
meetup like May 2014 Meetup
● Invite the remote speakers - present and
discuss over Skype, Google Hangouts and etc

15.
#SaigonWordPress in 2015 (2)
● More practical workshops like WPML
workshop in Sep 2014
● Other types of meetups: one-topic-meetup,
case-study-meetup, QA-meetup and etc
● Still FREE for everyone but “possible” paid
meetups towards to charity, volunteering,
NGOs and communities

16.
Discussion
Image credit: http://sweetclipart.com/diverse-people-raising-hands-968

17.
Useful Links
1. http://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-1-to-introduce-plugin-
recommendations
2. https://wordpress.org/news/2014/12/dinah/
3. https://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/12/19/menu-
customizer-call-for-contributors/
4. http://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-2-will-automatically-
enable-pretty-permalinks-for-new-sites-on-installation/
5. https://medium.com/@noeltock/wordpress-in-2015-
ed6a4674a608
6. http://wp-types.com/documentation/technical-guides/guide-
drupal-developers-switching-wordpress/
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt

18.
Useful Links (2)
8. http://blog.insight.sensiolabs.com/2014/11/04/technical-
debt-relevant-projects.html
9. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/02/21/interview-
matt-mullenweg-mike-little-wordpress/
10. http://versionpress.net
11. https://wppusher.com
12. https://www.tollmanz.com/wordpress-https-mixed-content-
detector/
13. http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-you-
robot-introducing-no-captcha.html

19.
Big Thanks!
Dat Hoang
Community & Support
E: dat.h@icanlocalize.com
W: wpml.org | wp-types.com | icanlocalize.com
Saigon, January 17, 2015