Nick Batik discusses upcoming changes in WordPress, and introduces Austin WordPress practitioners and endusers familiar with the concepts of the JASON REST APIs to those who unfamiliar with the topic, and help them prepare for a more technical understanding of the subject.
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Presenter
Nick Batik
Started in web development in 1994 and have been a
WordPress consultant, and web developer since
2007. A WordPress evangelist, I’ve served as Austin
WordPress Meetup co-organizer since 2010. With my
partner, co-founded Pleiades Publishing Services in
1992 and Hands-On WordPress Training in 2010.
Follow me @nick_batik / @WPATX
Contact me at: handsonwp.com
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Top Tools For Student
Programmers
JavaScript Is Eating The World - Kevin Lacker, co-
founder and chief technology officer of Parse.
• Javascript on the browser
• Javascript on the server ( Node.JS )
• Javascript on the App ( ReactJS / React Native )
Source: http://arc.applause.com/2015/11/06/javascript-is-eating-the-
world/
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WordPress becomes a
fully-featured application platform.
By providing an agreed, standardized
programmatic interface between WordPress and
the outside world, the software opens itself up to
every other application and development
environment on earth.
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Custom Dashboards
The REST API separates the dashboard from the
WordPress mechanics, allowing a custom theme to
be created for the authenticated side of WordPress
as well.
This means you can create custom dashboards for
targeted niches.
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Front-End
Editors
When any web page could potentially be a “dashboard”
then any web page could also be an editor. We are seeing
a rapid growth in this area, with examples such as:
• Frontkit
• medium.js
• Dante
• medium-editor
• grande.js
• ZenPen
• Pen