What's new in WordPress 4.7
- 1. What’s new in WordPress 4.7 @newtlabsuk facebook.com/groups/wpquestions Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7
- 2. WHY UPDATE? • Last major release of the year • New improvements and several bug fixes • Requires manual update unless using a managed hosting service • Don’t forget to take a complete backup before updating Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7
- 3. Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7 Presenting Twenty Seventeen
- 4. Focuses on business sites Comes with starter content to help new users Features a customisable front page with multiple sections Widgets, navigation, social menus, a logo, custom colours, and more Works in many languages, on any device, and for a wide range of users Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7 Presenting Twenty Seventeen
- 5. • Theme Starter Content • Edit Shortcuts • Video Headers • Smoother Menu Building • Custom CSS • PDF Thumbnail Previews • Dashboard in your language WordPress 4.7 FEATURES • REST API Content Endpoints • Post Type Templates • Theme API Goodies • Custom Bulk Actions • WP_Hook • Settings Registration API • Customise Changesets Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7
- 6. WordPress 4.7 adds new features to the customiser to help take site owners through the initial setup of a theme, with non-destructive live previews of all changes in one interrupted workflow Your Site, Your Way Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7
- 7. Theme Starter Content Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7
- 8. Edit Shortcuts Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7
- 9. Video Headers Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7
- 10. Smoother Menu Building Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7 You can now add pages while building menus within the customiser instead of leaving the customiser and abandoning your changes.
- 11. Live Preview Custom CSS Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7 If you just need a few visual tweaks, you can now add custom CSS and instantly see how your changes affect your site without having to refresh the page.
- 12. PDF Thumbnail Previews Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7 Uploading PDFs to the media library will now generate thumbnail images so you can easily distinguish between all your documents.
- 13. Dashboard Languages Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7 You can now add multiple languages to your dashboard and let your users set a preference via their user profile.
- 14. Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7 REST API Content Endpoints Content endpoints provide machine-readable external access to your WordPress site paving the way for new methods of interacting with sites through plugins, themes, apps and beyond.
- 15. Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7 Developer Happiness WordPress has supported custom page templates for over 12 years, allowing developers to create various layouts for specific pages. By opening up the page template functionality to all post types, theme developers have even more flexibility with the WordPress template hierarchy. Post Type Templates
- 16. Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7 Developer Happiness WordPress 4.7 includes new functions, hooks and behaviour for theme developers. The get_theme_file_uri() Function, and Friends The {$type}_template_hierarchy Filter Simpler Template Names for Content with Non-ASCII Slugs Theme API Goodies
- 17. Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7 Developer Happiness Custom Bulk Actions
- 18. Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7 Developer Happiness The code that lies beneath actions and filters has been overhauled and modernised, fixing bugs along the way. If your plugin directly accesses the $wp_filter global rather than using the public hooks API, you might run into compatibility issues. WP_Hook
- 19. Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7 Developer Happiness Register_setting() has been enhanced to include type, description, and REST API visibility. This is especially useful in the REST API, where WordPress needs to know the type of data your setting is. Settings Registration API
- 20. Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7 Developer Happiness Make changes in the customiser persistent, like autosave drafts. These are what make new features like starter content possible. Customise Changesets
- 21. Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7 WordPress automatically used file names as title and alt text for images. Now it will leave the alt text field blank if a user does not make any changes to the title or alt text fields when uploading an image. Accessible Alt Text for images
- 22. What’s new in WordPress 4.7 @newtlabsuk facebook.com/groups/wpquestions Steven Watts | @bboywattsy @newtlabsuk | newtlabs.co.uk What’s new in WordPress 4.7