A Quick Tour Of WordPress 4.0

A Quick Tour Of WordPress 4.0

• By Daniel Pataki


• August 27th, 2014


• OptimizationPluginsTechniques (WP)


• 11 Comments

Today, WordPress has expelled a initial recover candidate¹ (RC) for a arriving 4.0 version. According to a official version numbering², WordPress 4.0 is no some-more or reduction poignant than 3.9 was or 4.1 will be. That being said, a new vital recover is always a means for excitement! Let’s take a demeanour during a new facilities a group during WordPress has been operative on for us.

Installation Language

Since I’ve always used WordPress in English, it took me a while to comprehend how critical internationalization is. 29% of all WordPress.com installations³ use a non-English denunciation that is huge and not that distant from some-more than a entertain of all installations. Version 4.0 creates it most easier to get WordPress to pronounce your language. In fact, a initial designation shade asks we to select your local tongue. Nice!

This is a large step adult from possibly carrying to download in your possess language, or grabbing denunciation files manually and modifying a config.

Embed Previews For URLs

Embedding calm into posts has also turn a most nicer process. One of my irks with a visible editor used to be that it wasn’t visible enough. Not that prolonged ago, we only got a grey box in place of a gallery or other media/embed items. The “Smith” recover took caring of galleries and 4.0 is holding caring of a horde of other items. If we pulp a YouTube URL in content mode, it will describe as a video in visible mode. How accessible is that?

I find this a lot some-more appreciative to work with — we see accurately what I’m going to get. The media modal’s insert from a URL underline is removing a same upgrade. As shortly as you’ve entered a URL, a video will bucket — playable and all! The good news is that it works with all a services you’d expect, from Vimeo to Twitter, Hulu and Flickr. Scott Taylor (who is a core writer operative on this) has pleasantly collected some exam URLs. we suggest checking out Trac ticket⁴ to find out some-more in this regard.

Media Section Grid

The media territory now has a grid perspective by default. This isn’t a groundbreaking coding attainment by any measure, though it does deliver a sleeker UI that is maybe a glance of what is entrance adult in a future.

While this is a teenager change, it does give we a approach improved overview of your media files than a default perspective of 20 images in a list.

Plugin Discovery And Installation

In my opinion, a plugin “Add New” page got a most indispensable makeover. The tip navigation looks a lot like a new navigation in a media territory — another denote of a somewhat some-more complicated interface creeping into a system. Plugins in a list perspective are displayed in a most some-more visible fashion, and it looks like it’s time for developers to start creation thumbnails! While a plugin sum shade could use a makeover as well, I’m certain this is a work in swell and will be explored further.

Better Post Editing

One underline I’m quite happy with is how a editor tallness has been altered to use shade genuine estate better. Mark Jaquith embellished a good picture⁵ of a problem:

“The post editor feels like it has been relegated to a box of middle significance on a edit/compose screen.”

This one is a bit formidable to constraint in a screenshot, so here’s a discerning video of it in action:

UI Improvements For Widget Customization

It’s good that widgets have been enclosed in a thesis customizer. Usually, if we had some-more than 5 to 6 widgets, things became a bit too crowded. Fortunately, a new WP chronicle has now put all widgets into a sub-section of a customization screen. This radically minimizes them when not indispensable — a acquire UI alleviation for sure!

Join The Fun

As always, a latest growth versions can be attempted out flattering easily. By installing a WordPress Beta Tester⁶ plugin we can refurbish to a latest beta builds or nightlies and play around with a code new features.

If we occur to find any bugs, we can supplement them to a WordPress Trac⁷ and we can even repair them and minister to a core! WordPress is a village project, and each small bit helps!

Conclusion

While we determine that WordPress 4.0 isn’t a same jump as 3.0 was, we remonstrate with this being a problem. Instead of adding some-more and some-more features, a group is consolidating existent facilities and operative tough to move us a improved user experience.

The facilities above will indeed impact how we use a day-to-day facilities of WordPress in a certain way. While we might not be means to post from my Google Glass (partly since we don’t have one), a ability to use WordPress improved is distant some-more important.

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Footnotes

1. 1 http://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-4-0-release-candidate/


2. 2 http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/how-the-release-cycle-works/version-numbering/


3. 3 http://en.wordpress.com/stats/


4. 4 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28195#trac-change-15-1401220623215447


5. 5 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28328


6. 6 https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/


7. 7 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/

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A Quick Tour Of WordPress 4.0