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
   

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3. Seth Rubenstein
   Senior WordPress Developer
   Advantage Media Group
   http://sethrubenstein.info
   @sethrubenstein
   

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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
   

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5. New Post Formats UI
   Much easier to use.
   Much easier to develop for.
   No longer an afterthought.
   

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6. Post formats in 3.5... not good
   

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7. New Post Formats Screen
   

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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
   

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9. Post Locking
   You'll never have to worry about erasing the
   work of someone else.
   

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10. New Menus
    

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11. Post Revisions
    Easier to understand post revisions.
    Now the author's avatar appears in the
    revisions box.
    

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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();
    

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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.
    

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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.
    

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15. WordPress 3.7
    

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