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
- A new grid view adds some visual flair to finding and installing plugins, bringing relevant plugin info front and center
- For Developers
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