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It was created to be a prime example.</p>\n<p>The WooCommerce team built Storefront with data portability in mind, so that users will be able to easily switch themes without losing their content. That&#8217;s why they opted not to include any extra functionality in the theme, as explained in the release announcement:</p>\n<blockquote><p>By not including these features you’re free to add them via whichever plugin you prefer, and if/when you switch themes later on down the road all of those features will remain. We firmly believe that building Storefront this way means you will be less likely to need or want to switch, but at the same time wholeheartedly encourage the entrepreneurial opportunity that WooCommerce offers for theme developers far and wide.</p></blockquote>\n<p>With WooCommerce leading the WordPress e-commerce market, this theme should help to provide a standard reference for developers integrating the plugin&#8217;s features and its extensions with themes. 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These screens will be <a href=\"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/30459\" target=\"_blank\">replaced with deep-links to the customizer</a>. To be clear, header and background menus will still appear in the admin, but they will be deep-linked to the customizer.</p>\n<p>This is good news for WordPress theme developers, because they will no longer have to style the custom header and background screens.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\"><p>Hey WordPress theme makers, no more wasting time on styling the Appearance → Header page!&#10;&#10;<a href=\"https://t.co/cHxyvZW7sU\">https://t.co/cHxyvZW7sU</a>&#10;&#10;<a href=\"https://t.co/Jb9y3y0q9r\">https://t.co/Jb9y3y0q9r</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Philip Arthur Moore (@philip_arthur) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/philip_arthur/status/535588990267576320\">November 21, 2014</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/devinsays\">@devinsays</a> Finally. I hated styling the Custom Header screen. Good riddance!</p>\n<p>&mdash; Justin Tadlock (@justintadlock) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/justintadlock/status/535490971052826624\">November 20, 2014</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<p>When exploring different solutions in discussion on the <a href=\"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/25571\" target=\"_blank\">ticket</a>, Nick Halsey <a href=\"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/timeline?from=2014-04-17T18%3A57%3A14Z&precision=second\" target=\"_blank\">noted</a> that new users expect to find that functionality in the customizer with the other options:</p>\n<blockquote><p>The key issue to consider is whether hiding these pages will cause issues for updating users. 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Eastern</p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: </strong><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wordpress-weekly/id694849738\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to subscribe</a></p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe To WPWeekly Via RSS: </strong><a href=\"http://www.wptavern.com/feed/podcast\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to subscribe</a></p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Stitcher Radio: </strong><a href=\"http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wordpress-weekly-podcast?refid=stpr\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to subscribe</a></p>\n<p><strong>Listen To Episode #171:</strong><br />\n</p>\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:7:\"pubDate\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:31:\"Fri, 21 Nov 2014 02:33:18 +0000\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:32:\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:13:\"Jeff Chandler\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}}}i:11;a:6:{s:4:\"data\";s:13:\"\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";s:5:\"child\";a:2:{s:0:\"\";a:5:{s:5:\"title\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:91:\"WPTavern: WP Engine Partners with 10up to Launch Enterprise HHVM WordPress Hosting Platform\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"guid\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:28:\"http://wptavern.com/?p=34036\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"link\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:101:\"http://wptavern.com/wp-engine-partners-with-10up-to-launch-enterprise-hhvm-wordpress-hosting-platform\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:11:\"description\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:6537:\"<p><a href=\"http://wpengine.com/\" target=\"_blank\">WP Engine</a> is launching its high availability enterprise hosting platform today. 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The conference is aimed at developers and organizers are planning for 700 &#8211; 1,000 attendees in Las Vegas on the weekend of May 7-8, 2015.</p>\n<p>A bit of controversy has surfaced regarding the ticket pricing, as LoopConf emerges as one of the most expensive WordPress-oriented conferences to date. With early bird tickets priced at $600 and regular tickets at $800, the combined sponsorship donations and estimated ticket sales have the potential to bring the total event budget just shy of a million dollars.</p>\n<p>Although events in this price range are not unheard of in the web industry, with many charging ticket prices in the thousands, WordPress-oriented conferences have traditionally been inexpensive. Because LoopConf is not endorsed by or affiliated with the WordPress Foundation, it doesn&#8217;t have to follow the <a href=\"http://plan.wordcamp.org/\" target=\"_blank\">guidelines</a> set for WordCamps. 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You just priced out 90% of the WP community.</p>\n<p>&mdash; Brad Williams (@williamsba) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/williamsba/status/531210414055759873\">November 8, 2014</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<p>Supporters of LoopConf ticket prices count it as a step forward in legitimizing WordPress as a mainstream career opportunity. Eric Mann, in a response piece titled  <a href=\"https://eamann.com/biz/wordpress-comes-age/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress Comes of Age</a>, highlights the fact that some employers have been reluctant to pay for flights and accommodation for a conference with a $25-40 ticket price.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/norcross\">@norcross</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/williamsba\">@williamsba</a> That might actually be a big step forward in legitimizing WP as a mainstream career opportunity.</p>\n<p>&mdash; TJ List (@TJList) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/TJList/status/531213651579912192\">November 8, 2014</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/williamsba\">@williamsba</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/loopconf\">@loopconf</a> that’s what a tech conference costs in any other field. 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Gibbs notes how the WordPress editor differs from Ghost, &#8220;In contrast to WordPress the &#8216;Visual&#8217; view in the editor is a simple interpretation of the HTML so you have to save and preview content to see how it’s really rendered by the currently selected theme.&#8221; While true, there is a simple way around this pitfall.</p>\n<p>WordPress supports the ability for theme developers to link a custom stylesheet to the TinyMCE visual editor. It&#8217;s called <a title=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_editor_style\" href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_editor_style\">editor-style.css</a> and unfortunately, not many theme developers take advantage of this nifty feature. The stylesheet enables the visual editor to take on the look and feel of the frontend of the site, delivering a <em>what you see is what you get</em> experience. <a title=\"http://themehybrid.com/themes/stargazer\" href=\"http://themehybrid.com/themes/stargazer\">Stargazer</a> by Justin Tadlock is an excellent example of how to use editor-style.css.</p>\n<a href=\"http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/StarGazerVisualEditorStyle.png\" rel=\"prettyphoto[33282]\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-33284\" src=\"http://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/StarGazerVisualEditorStyle.png?resize=964%2C652\" alt=\"The Visual Editor in Stargazer by Justin Tadlock\" /></a>The Visual Editor in Stargazer by Justin Tadlock\n<p>Though the addition of editor-style.css doesn&#8217;t make the editor perfect, it vastly improves the writing experience. Having the content in the editor look the same as the final result is a huge convenience. Thanks to improved oEmbed previews <a title=\"http://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-0-benny-now-available-for-download\" href=\"http://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-0-benny-now-available-for-download\">in WordPress 4.0</a>, the Visual editor is the default view when I write content.</p>\n<p>The Text editor still has its use, especially when a snafu occurs in the Visual editor but I think in the future, the Visual editor will improve to the point that the choice between Text and Visual will disappear. In the decisions not options approach, there will be one editor to rule them all. Between the custom stylesheet and improvements to the visual editor, I believe the writing experience in WordPress is superior to Ghost.</p>\n<h2>The Ghost Dashboard</h2>\n<p>One of the other highly touted features of Ghost is its beautiful, <strong>non-existent</strong> dashboard. Gibbs notes that themes and the backend of Ghost are fully responsive. 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