WordPress 4.6

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 […]

Following the release of WordPress 4.5 “Coleman” last week, development on 4.6 will begin Wednesday. Domink Shilling, who will lead the release for 4.6, opened up suggestions for wish list items. Shilling asked a number of questions including what are your biggest pain points, what do you see as the most important UX to be solved, and which existing feature should get a version 2. The announcement has already garnered over 200 comments. Brian Krogsgard, editor of Post Status, made a few suggestions including custom post statuses and native multi-author support. A lot of people wanted to see changes to […]