WordPress is a world-best popular blogging platform used by 20.3% of the top 10 millions websites as of Jan, 2015. But in future it empowers more than 60 million websites.
It seems to be a long-awaited for release of WordPress version 4.1, which is available for download or update. This version has proven to be apparent milestone for developers due to its plethora of improvements, advanced functionalities, general updates and new stunning features. Whatever it may be, this version shows something excitement for developers to get into it.
Here we show you what’s new in WordPress 4.1 has brought to us and have a deep look about its prominent features.
1. Inline Image Editing Tool Bar
It’s often being trouble faced by many WordPress newbie’s in aligning and editing image inside the WordPress post editor. Now, it has been solved with help of new inline image editing tool, which enables the user to align images instantly & easily by seeing alignment options in media editor. Further, it allows users to edit an image by utilizing pencil button, which opens the image into a popup.
2. Customization API
Theme developers can make use of this customizer controller API to render your own controls in customizer sections for creating better theme option management based on “Open Source Customization Services”. This API customizer builds entire JavaScript API to ensure lots of improvements in contextual panels and ensures new media experience for end-users.
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3. Plug-in Recommendations
Developers can easily access a list of recommended plugins for WordPress 4.1 due to recent update in the API. You can also create a new tab for recommended plugins instead of replacing the popular tab. It shows you which plugins are performing well across the directory and offers you a strong foundation to initiate good start for plugins.
4. Social Icon Menu
The social icon is one of most significant features in-built with latest default theme “Twenty Fifteen” and it includes familiar social buttons including Facebook, Google, Twittter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Instagram. The default theme will convert them to actual-size icons automatically.
5. Responsiveness
It is the most flexible and fully responsive design that perfectly suits exactly into current web trends for mobile devices. It has multiple navigation menus, which enable you to build the exciting themes in just a few minutes. You won’t find any better tool to develop exceptional sites and it allows to maintain images, galleries, and post meta sections consistently on every page. Twenty Fifteen makes your website being run on a mobile phone in a genuine way.
6. Better Session Management
This feature ensures you a new session management function, which ensures complete control over all sessions acquired on different mobile devices. It is integrated with user-interface management system along with the users section of the dashboard which is helpful in case of your mobile is lost and forgets to log out a system.
Conclusion
However might be, creating websites and applications are extensively utilized by organizations around the world. So by following above mentioned prominent factors, developers will love it and think about the WordPress 4.1 features are perfect match for them in getting greater chances of creating lively websites as well as applications.