Yesterday WordPress 4.4 was released, with this version they improved this product even more.

The most notable new features are, support for oEmbed and an integrated REST API.

What is oEmbed and why is this a new amazing feature? oEmbed is a specification for embedding content from an other website right inside the consuming website. This enables (for instance) Twitter to display the excerpt of a post instead of just a link to your wordpress website. This specification is originally design by (members of) Flicr, but with the wordpress implementation the adoption will get even bigger.

Someone at WordPress decided that if you want to create a plugin for WordPress, you’ll have to host it at their SVN server. Personally I’m not a big fan of SVN, I’m more a GIT person.

Lucky for me, it appears I’m not the only one. So for my latest WordPress plugin (REST API – Filter Fields) I used Github. Then I came to a few problems that had to be solved.

WordPress is a great platform for running a website with a content management system behind it. Around a year ago the released a plugin called WordPress REST API. And this is a really nice addition to WordPress. This plugin enables you to retrieve all the posts/comments/terms in a really easy JSON format.

Op advies van mijn moeder heb ik mijzelf laatst aangemeld voor een proefabonnement voor de Volkskrant. Bij het aanmelden stond al een opmerkelijk Ik accepteer vinkje, namelijk:

Ik ga akkoord met de voorwaarden en ontvang per e-mail, sms en telefoon exclusieve abonnee- en kortingsaanbiedingen.

Maar ik wil toch wel eens proberen of deze krant iets voor mij is, dus ik heb het gewoon aangevinkt (zonder overigens de rest van de voorwaarden te lezen).