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The much awaited update for the WordPress, is now out. The update has got some promising features like responsive layouts, enhanced user experience, updated jQuery and much more.
The WordPress runs on over 50 million blogs across the internet and the company behind WordPress proudly announced this in a blog post today. The blogs will now support HTML 5 drag-drop upload by default and would support responsive layouts by default. The update was supposed to roll out by the end of November, but for some reason, it got delayed!
Here’s the changelog of the new update [From WordPress]
Highlights
- Easier Uploading
- File Type Detection – A single upload button.
- Drag-and-Drop Media Uploader
- Dashboard Design
- New Toolbar in the dashboard, combining the Admin Bar and admin header
- Responsive design for some screens, including iPad/tablet support
- Flyout menus, providing single-click access to any screen
- New User Experience
- New feature pointers, helping users navigate new features
- Post-update About screen
- Dashboard welcome area for new installs
- Content Tools
- Better co-editing that releases post locks immediately
- Tumblr Importer
- Don’t lose widgets when switching themes
- Under the Hood improvements
- Use the postname permalink structure without a performance penalty
- Improved Editor API
- is_main_query() function and WP_Query method
- Remove a number of funky characters from post slugs
- jQuery 1.7.1 and jQuery UI 1.8.16
- A new Screen API for adding help documentation and adapting to screen contexts
- Improved metadata API
- Performance improvements and hundreds of bug fixes