What's New in WordPress 4.6

WordPress 4.6 was released in mid August. Beau Moffatt and Robin Cornett presented on some of the new and noteworthy features.

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1. What’s New in WordPress 4.6 Robin Cornett & Beau Moffatt | www.wpchattanooga.com
3. Shiny Things
4. Shiny: Hiding the The Bleak Screen of Sadness “The shiny updates team is working on bringing a smoother experience for managing plugins and themes to WordPress [through] improving perceived performance and limiting confusing notifications.” make.wordpress.org/core
5. Streamlined Updates
6. Streamlined Updates Stay on the same page while you update, install, and delete your plugins and themes. These actions are now accomplished within their respective pages using AJAX for a better user experience. This has been available for updating Plugins since 4.5 but now applies to themes, translations and more of the WordPress environment.
7. Streamlined Updates Before Update: After Update:
8. Native Fonts
9. Native Fonts Your operating system’s native font is now used on the WordPress Dashboard instead of Open Sans, providing a better user experience, a slight performance improvement and better data security.
10. Native Fonts: Mac
11. Native Fonts: Windows
12. Inline Link Checker
13. Inline Link Checker Broken links hurt both your website’s SEO and user experience. WordPress now checks for broken links in both Posts and Pages in real-time while you create content in the editor.
14. Content Recovery
15. Content Recovery While WordPress has had auto-save in the Post and Page editor for a while, it now leverages your browser, saving the post title, content and excerpt every 15 seconds. As you type, WordPress saves your content to the browser.
16. Content Recovery
17. Under the Hood
18. Under the Hood Changes • Resource Hints • Robust Requests • WP_Term_Query • WP_Post_Type • Meta Registration API • Translations on Demand • Javascript Library Updates • Customizer Improvements • Multisite Improvements
19. Friendly Reminders • BEFORE updating to WordPress 4.6 be sure to have a full website backup (database and files). • Check the themes and plugins in use on your site for compatibility with WordPress 4.6 (or any other major WP core update). • Where possible, apply updates to a test/staging environment so you can test the changes before applying them to your live site.
20. Shout Out!
21. Resources • https://wordpress.org/news/2016/08/pepper/ • https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/07/26/wordpre ss-4-6-field-guide/ • https://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-6-pepper-released- streamlines-plugin-and-theme-management • https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/01/27/shiny-up dates-v2/ Robin Cornett & Beau Moffatt | www.wpchattanooga.com