WordPress 4.6, nicknamed “Pepper” after baritone saxophonist Park Frederick “Pepper” Adams III, was yesterday released and is now available for download. You can download 4.6 directly or update from within your dashboard.
This highly anticipated release comes with a slew of new features that improve your workflow in WordPress, including streamlined updates, improvements to the editor, and more.
Shiny Updates
The new “Shiny Updates” in 4.6 completely streamlines your theme and plugin updates. Instead of taking you to a different page every time you enable, disable, or update your plugin, Shiny Updates changes the status right in front of your eyes.
Native Fonts
Users no longer have to wait for Open Sans to load from Google Fonts. Instead, Pepper will use the fonts you already have, which will make them load faster than ever before.
Inline Link Checker
Broken links in a published post can be incredibly frustrating. WordPress 4.6, however, automatically checks all your links before you publish.
Content Recovery
This is my favorite feature in WordPress 4.6. Sometimes your computer or browser crash, and while WordPress is supposed to be set up to back up all your writing, it doesn’t always work. Content Recovery completely streamlines this process, saving your work to the browser.
For Developers
WordPress 4.6 also features several under the hood updates, including
- Updates to the JavaScript Library
- Speed improvements to WordPress multisite
- HTTP API now leverages the Requests library
- Resource hints
- and more.
You can read the full list of new features and improvements here.
Community Reaction
With all these updates, the community is understandably excited.
#WordPress 4.6 do what you need & want easier and faster. https://t.co/KoqM15a5QT
— Mark Smallman (@macgraphic) August 16, 2016
What’s that smell? That is the smell of a hot and fresh WordPress 4.6. Upgrade! https://t.co/N5Ml84gSu9pic.twitter.com/ijXzlcQnyX
— David Bisset (@dimensionmedia) August 16, 2016
Pepper was translated into 52 languages with the release video being captioned into 43. People from around the world rejoiced.
Eccoci, WordPress 4.6 “Pepper” è pronto, anche in italiano! https://t.co/wKftmFtSog via @WordPress
— Wolly (@wolly) August 16, 2016
WordPress 4.6 steht ab sofort zum Download bereit: https://t.co/GUpyAhxovA#wordpresspic.twitter.com/3DN1yc09eP
— Tibor Martini (@tibor) August 16, 2016
Thanks to all of the 227 contributors who made WordPress 4.6 possible and to the release lead Dominik Schilling. Download the update today unless you have automatic updates enabled.
What is your favorite new feature? Have you downloaded the update? Let us know in the comments below.
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