A Look at WordPress 3.6

Seth Rubenstein's presentation on the new features coming for WordPress 3.6

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2. WordPress 3.6 What's new for end users & developers
3. Seth Rubenstein Senior WordPress Developer Advantage Media Group http://sethrubenstein.info @sethrubenstein
4. What's New? For Users: • Post Formats • Audio/Video Support • Autosave • Post Locking • Nav Menu • Revisions For Developers • Better/Easier Post Format Templating • Audio/Video Support in Core • Better Shortcode Support
5. New Post Formats UI Much easier to use. Much easier to develop for. No longer an afterthought.
6. Post formats in 3.5... not good
7. New Post Formats Screen
8. WordPress now has in its core MediaElement. js • [video src="video-source.mp4"] • [video width="600" height="480" mp4="source.mp4" ogv="source.ogv" webm="source.webm"] • [audio src="audio-source.mp3"] • [audio mp3="source.mp3" ogg="source.ogg" wav=" source.wav"] BUT there are also filters so you can drop any url to a media file. Audio/Video Support
9. Post Locking You'll never have to worry about erasing the work of someone else.
10. New Menus
11. Post Revisions Easier to understand post revisions. Now the author's avatar appears in the revisions box.
12. New Theme Functions The new post format media functions are very easy to use. No more creating custom fields. the_post_format_audio(); the_post_format_video(); the_post_format_image();
13. The_Remaining_Content the_content(); will now display your text content as well as the post formats media. the_remaining_content(); will display only the text content.
14. Shortcode_Atts_{$Shortcode} • Override the default shortcode attributes • Ignore certain attribute values from the user and instead use the defaults • Generally modify the behavior of a shortcode without modifying the original shortcode function. For example: You could add a copyright to all image captions from the Gallery shortcode.
15. WordPress 3.7