News & Notes from PennyWise Consulting

• 5 WordPress updates of interest
• 3 Fascinating Links
• 3 Recent Blog Posts

5 WordPress updates of interest

As always, there are updates! Is it important that you read the change logs? No. However, it is important to keep your WordPress system up-to-date. There are often new features that slip-in which can improve how you work. If you have questions or are worried about updating, please contact me!

• Wordpress is at 4.6.1. The 4.7 release is now in beta and expected early next month. I'm most looking forward to PDF preview thumbnails.
• WooCommerce is at 2.6.8 and was updated on November 10, 2016. One of the biggest features of the 2.6 version is shipping zones.
• Yoast SEO is at 3.8 and was updated on November 8th, 2016. They've been busy updating the experience to make it easier to deal with SEO.
• Jetpack is at 4.3.2. This most recent update improves the new stats (returning them to the submenu) and includes many bug fixes.
• Genesis theme framework is at 2.4.2. The 2.4 version has many enhancements including to their Markup API.

3 Recent Blog Posts

How I work: Why a notebook?

This autumn when I’ve arrived at the local Starbucks to enjoy a cup of coffee and work for an hour or two, I’ve often found myself needing to share table space. More often than not my unintentional workspace colleague will strike up a conversation when they see me pull out a notebook. Here's my attempt to answer that very first question: Why?

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Autumn Checklist

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