Tag: release

WordPress 5.0 has been released.

What’s New

• Gutenberg – New Block-based Editor
• Twenty Nineteen – New Default Theme

Download: WordPress 5.0

WordPress 4.9 has been released.

What’s New

• Customizer Workflow Improved
• Coding Enhancements
• Even More Widget Updates
• Site Building Improvements
• Customizer JS API Improvements
• CodeMirror available for use in your themes and plugins
• MediaElement.js upgraded to 4.2.6
• Roles and Capabilities Improvements

Download: WordPress 4.9

WordPress 4.8 has been released.

What’s New

• Widget Updates: Image, Video, Audio, Rich Text
• Link Boundaries
• Nearby WordPress Events
• More Accessible Admin Panel Headings
• Removal of Core Support for WMV and WMA Files
• Multisite Updates
• Text-Editor JavaScript API
• Media Widgets API
• Customizer Width Variable

Download: WordPress 4.8

WordPress 4.7 has been released.

What’s New

• Twenty Seventeen – A brand new default theme brings your site to life with immersive featured images and video headers.
• New Features to Customizer – Theme Starter Content, Edit Shortcuts, Video Headers, Smoother Menu Building, Custom CSS
• PDF Thumbnail Previews – Managing your document collection is easier with WordPress 4.7. Uploading PDFs will generate thumbnail images so you can more easily distinguish between all your documents.
• Dashboard in your language – Just because your site is in one language doesn’t mean that everybody helping manage it prefers that language for their admin. Add more languages to your site and a user language option will show up in your user’s profiles.
• REST API Content Endpoints – WordPress 4.7 comes with REST API endpoints for posts, comments, terms, users, meta, and settings.
• Post Type Templates
• More Theme API Goodies
• Custom Bulk Actions
• WP_Hook
• Settings Registration API
• Customize Changesets

Download: WordPress 4.7

WordPress 4.6 has been released.

What’s New

• Streamlined Updates – Don’t lose your place: stay on the same page while you update, install, and delete your plugins and themes.
• Native Fonts – The WordPress dashboard now takes advantage of the fonts you already have, making it load faster and letting you feel more at home on whatever device you use.
• Inline Link Checker – Ever accidentally made a link to https://wordpress.org/example.org? Now WordPress automatically checks to make sure you didn’t.
• Content Recovery – As you type, WordPress saves your content to the browser. Recovering saved content is even easier with WordPress 4.6.
• Resource Hints- Resource hints help browsers decide which resources to fetch and preprocess. WordPress 4.6 adds them automatically for your styles and scripts making your site even faster
• Robust Requests – The HTTP API now leverages the Requests library, improving HTTP standard support and adding case-insensitive headers, parallel HTTP requests, and support for Internationalized Domain Names.
• WP_Term_Query and WP_Post_Type – A new WP_Term_Query class adds flexibility to query term information while a new WP_Post_Type object makes interacting with post types more predictable.
• Meta Registration API – The Meta Registration API has been expanded to support types, descriptions, and REST API visibility.
• Translations On Demand – WordPress will install and use the newest language packs for your plugins and themes as soon as they’re available from WordPress.org’s community of translators.
• JavaScript Library Updates – Masonry 3.3.2, imagesLoaded 3.2.0, MediaElement.js 2.22.0, TinyMCE 4.4.1, and Backbone.js 1.3.3 are bundled.
• Customizer APIs for Setting Validation and Notifications – Settings now have an API for enforcing validation constraints. Likewise, customizer controls now support notifications, which are used to display validation errors instead of failing silently.
• Multisite, now faster than ever – Cached and comprehensive site queries improve your network admin experience. The addition of WP_Site_Query and WP_Network_Query help craft advanced queries with less effort.

Download: WordPress 4.6