WordPress.org have this week launched WordPress 4.0, with a range of new features that give what they call a “smoother writing and management experience”. This new version includes:
- Manage your media 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.
- Working with embeds has never been easier: Paste in a YouTube URL or a Twitter link on a new line, and watch it magically become an embedded video or a tweet. The editor shows a true preview of your embedded content, saving you time and giving you confidence. You can now also embed videos from CollegeHumor, playlists from YouTube, and talks from TED.
- Focus on your content: Writing and editing is smoother and more immersive with an editor that expands to fit your content as you write, and keeps the formatting tools available at all times.
- Finding the right plugin: There are more than 30,000 free and open source plugins in the WordPress plugin directory. WordPress 4.0 makes it easier to find the right one for your needs, with new metrics, improved search, and a more visual browsing experience.
Named “Benny” as a tribute to American jazz clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman, the team behind the latest version are saying that’s it’s not a major release: “4.0 is just another number for us after 3.9 and before 4.1”.
Enbecom customers with our Software Maintenance service can sit back and relax. We’ll update WordPress on your site to the latest version and check that it’s all working.