Wordpress 4 Released

Highlights

  • Manage your media and embedded content with style
    • Explore your uploads in a beautiful, endless grid
    • A new details preview makes viewing and editing any amount of media in sequence a snap.
  • The content-editing experience is better than ever
    • The visual editor now expands to fit your content
    • A fixed toolbar in the editor when you scroll
    • Embeddable content previews right in the visual editor
  • Better workflow for finding and installing plugins
  • For Developers
    • Customizer Panels API
    • Updated external libraries
    • Better flexibility for WP_Query ORDER BY

What's New

General

  • Featured image previews now support .bmp files
  • Featured Image meta box is now hidden for contributors lacking upload capabilities
  • New supported oEmbed providers: CollegeHumor, Issuu, Mixcloud, YouTube playlists, TED talks
  • Install WordPress in your language
  • Streamlined Language management right from the dashboard

Posts

  • Display embed previews for audio/visual URLs in Visual editor content box.
  • Page scrolling now scrolls post content box.
  • Edit Post/Page menu bar sticks to top of content box when scrolling (Visual and Text editor).
  • Color picker was re-added to the Visual editor

Media

  • Add Media Grid view option (default) for Media Library
  • Add "Bulk Select" button to Media Grid view to delete multiple items
  • Add oEmbed support for TED talks, Mixcloud, CollegeHumor.com, Issuu
  • Expand oEmbed support to include YouTube playlist URLs and Polldaddy’s short URL format
  • Remove Viddler oEmbed support
  • Update SlideShare oEmbed regex
  • Improved media experience on small screen sizes (embedded videos now responsive)
  • Native video and audio shortcodes now support Flash playback looping

Comments

  • Comments in trash can now be marked as spam.

Plugins

  • Display plugins list as grid, with thumbnails, on Add New screen.
  • Add popup window with plugin details (displays info from plugin's directory page).
  • Add "Beta Testing" tab to Plugins screen for new features-as-plugins
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