It’s Episode 279 and we’ve got plugins for Calendar Registrations, Zodiac and Moon Forecasts, Sequential Post Editing, Dummy Payment Gateways and a great new plugin for Writing a Novel. . It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts:
A tale of WordPress, Wix and Open Source Licensing
On October 28th the Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg published a blog post accusing that Wix, a provider of competing services, has stolen code from the WordPress codebase. To be specific, it was about the use of a rich text editing component in the Wix mobile app:
There were some claims that Wix had not respected the GPL licensing in place for the component. They may or may not be valid, but what Matt is claiming about it being a copy is just what is going on with Open Source. It is supposed to be the exact same code, warts and all… Read original article here…. janit.wordpress.com
WordPress 4.7 Brings Custom Page Template Functionality to All Post Types
WordPress 4.7 will introduce support for post type templates, an exciting new feature for theme and plugin developers. Page templates, which allow developers to specify a different layout or design for a page, are nearly as old as WordPress itself. For years developers have coveted that same functionality for other post types. In fact, a plugin that attempted to create this functionality (Custom Post Template), has more than 50,000 active installs, despite not having been updated for four years.
Post type templates follow a format similar to that of the existing custom page templates. The author can specify a template name as well as the post types where the template will be available as a dropdown in the page attributes metabox. Read original article here…. wptavern.com
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**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
Registrations for The Events Calendar
- Version: 1.0
- Author: Roundup WP
- Last Updated: 1 week ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.6.1
- Active Installs: 20+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
ZodiacPress
- Version: 1.4.1
- Author: Isabel Castillo, Cosmic Plugins
- Last Updated: 7 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.7 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.7
- Active Installs: 10+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
Daily Moon Forecast
- Version: 2.1
- Author: Isabel Castillo
- Last Updated: 1 month ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.7 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.6.1
- Active Installs: 400+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
Edit Next Post
Dummy Gateway for WooCommerce
Plan My Novel
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