History Mysteries
Who is "Mike Little"
In order to prevent control in the WordPress admin over a plugin's activation status, it can be placed in this special directory.
What is "mu-plugins"
Originally known as WordPress Multi-User (WordPress MU), this feature set allows you to run numerous distinct WordPress sites from a single install.
What is "multisite"?
This person gave the keynote address at WordCamp Ann Arbor 2017.
Who is "John James Jacoby"?
In this year, the first version of WordPress was released.
What is "2003"
Before the REST API, this feature was used to remotely interact with a WordPress site.
What is "XML-RPC"
Meta information can be added to posts by using this core feature which is not visible by default.
What are "custom fields"
Including this year, the Rackham Graduate School Building has been used by WordCamp Ann Arbor this many times.
What is "three times"?
This popular blogging platform changed its licensing policy in 2004, resulting in a lot of users switching to WordPress.
What is "Movable Type"
This feature is a simple server polling API built in to WordPress, allowing near-real-time frontend updates.
What is the "heartbeat API"?
This feature prevents more than one user from editing the same post simultaneously.
What is "post locking"
In 2015, the WCA2 after party was held at this restaurant.
What is "Conor O'Neill's"?
The very first WordCamp US was held in this year.
What is "2015"
This multisite specific PHP file can optionally be created in the wp-content directory in order to run functionality prior to any plugins or the theme.
What is "sunrise.php"
This is the name of the editor which WordPress has used for most of its history prior to Gutenberg.
What is "TinyMCE"
Founder of iThemes, Cory Miller, kicked off WCA2 with a keynote in the Rackham Auditorium in which year?
What is "2016"?
WordPress was originally a fork of this open source blogging software.
What is "b2/Cafelog"
This API offers a simple and standardized way of storing cached data in the database temporarily by giving it a custom name and a timeframe after which it will expire and be deleted.
What is the "transients API"?
Core WordPress includes this many post types by default.
What is "five"
The snacks table at WordCamp Ann Arbor has twice been sponsored by this locally based company.
What is "LearnDash"?