Add Media to Text Widget<\/strong>
\nYou no longer have to have even basic coding knowledge to add media in the Text Widget. WordPress 4.9 now allows you to use the \u201cAdd Media\u201d to insert videos, images, or audio directly into the Text Widget.<\/p>\nDevelopers Will Love It<\/h2>\n
Developers will love working on this new version of WordPress because several frustrating inconveniences have been eliminated.<\/p>\n
Customizer JS API Improvements<\/strong>
\nA significant effort has been made to address and eliminate consistent developer pain points. Coders and developers are going to love the addition of default parameters and elimination of repeated ID for constructs. It will be much faster and easier for them to do their work.<\/p>\nCodeMirror Available for Use in your Themes and Plugins.<\/strong>
\nContinuing with the job of making the experience better for developers, WordPress has introduced new editing library called CodeMirror. It enables validation, syntax highlighting, and error checking when writing within your plugins. Developers will see a better code editor while using the Customizer, editing the theme from the dashboard, or adding custom HTML. Developers might also see a decrease in syntax errors, because this enhancement will help automatically fix mistakes.<\/p>\nPlus, you can easily disable the new features and go back to the old style.<\/p>\n
Sandbox for Safety<\/strong>
\nYou may employ, or be among, the best developers in the world, but sometimes accidents happen and you lose all your hard work. Knowing this, the WP team introduced a sandbox for live-editing. This will make it more difficult for developers to accidentally break something when editing code.<\/p>\nAdvance Warnings<\/strong>
\nWordPress 4.9 will give a warning before you accidentally save an error while editing themes and plugins directly, thus saving everyone a ton of headaches.<\/p>\nText Widgets Automatically Parse Shortcodes<\/strong>
\nPreviously, you would have to add a filter to your theme\u2019s code in order run shortcodes in widgets. Now, you don\u2019t have to, because text widgets automatically parse shortcodes for you.<\/p>\nVideo Thumbnail and oEmbed support in Video Widgets<\/strong>
\nIn the last version of WordPress, you could only display videos from Youtube and Vimeo. This led to some frustration because videos from any other source wouldn\u2019t display properly when the website went life. This is fixed now, and you can include videos from many different providers.<\/p>\nAdditional Features<\/h2>\n
These are some more features that make WordPress 4.9 a standout.<\/p>\n
\n- Use max-width for default captions<\/li>\n
- Added support for MySQL servers that connect IPv6 hosts<\/li>\n
- Core and the unit test suite is fully compatible with the PHP 7.2<\/li>\n
- Upgraded MediaElement.js<\/li>\n
- Store video creation date in meta<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In Conclusion<\/h2>\n
It should be obvious by now that WordPress 4.9, \u201cTipton\u201d can drastically increase the ease with which you customize your WordPress experiences. It takes care of several headaches for developers, and also offers a better team experiences and more customization options<\/p>\n
Not only will it help you and your team, but your clients will also love how you can now keep them in the loop with new collaboration features.<\/p>\n
This is definitely an update worth exploring if you use WordPress a lot, or find that you have some consistent problems with your WordPress sites. If you already have it, and love it, let us know your favorite feature in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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