What's new in WordPress 3.8

What’s new in WP 3.8?Well, let’s find out

Little bit about version names

• Each version has been named after a jazz musician.

• This concept was chosen by Matt Mullenweg because he have been playing saxophone himself starting from the 2-nd grade.

Let’s roll back and pay tribute

3.0 - Thelonious Monk 3.1 - Django Reinhart 3.2 - George Gershwin 3.3 - Sonny Stitt

3.4 - Grant Green 3.5 - Elvin Jones 3.6 - Oscar Peterson 3.7 - Count Basie

And the 3.8 - Charlie Parker

Some statistics

4 months of hard working of 188 contributors led by Matt himself with the plugin-first development approach applied for the first time.

Little bit about plugin-first development

• First brain storm session on August 8th

• 20 ideas suggested for contributor to pick up

• 4 plugins got implemented and proposed

• 3 of 4 got included in the core

New features were developed as plugins first, then included in the core.

What happened in 3.8:

Ok, so what’s new in WP 3.8?

• All-new admin theme with improved not only the design, but the whole UX as well.

• All-new front-end theme with premium quality.

• New development approach leading to shorter release cycle.

All-new admin theme

Initially developed as free plugin called MP6 Improved both design and UX

All-new admin theme Design improvements

A modern flat design is used throughout

3.7 3.8

3.7 3.8

All-new admin theme Design improvements

Clearer Open Sans font and webfont icons

Webfont iconsOpen Sans font

All-new admin theme Design improvements

Eight administration color themes

All-new admin theme Design improvements

A new less bloated Dashboard with only 4 areas

All-new admin theme UX improvements

Refined theme manager with more logical layout

All-new admin theme UX improvements

New theme details window with tags support

All-new admin theme UX improvements

Improved widget manager with more focus on sidebar

All-new admin theme UX improvements

3.8 - Select and DnD3.7 - Only DnD

All-new admin theme UX improvements

Better UX when adding widget to sidebars

All-new front-end theme

Initially developed as commercial theme called Further Designed specifically for online magazine

All-new front-end theme

• Responsive Layout

• Featured Content Area

• Post Format Feed

• Social “Connect” Area

• 2 Menu locations, 7 Widget areas

Main features:

All-new front-end theme

It’s too good to be presented here, so please go to: http://twentyfourteendemo.wordpress.com/

What’s ahead?

What’s ahead?

• 3.9 - April 15, 2014

• 4.0 - August 12, 2014

• 4.1 - December 9, 2014

According to official roadmap:

So there are 3 major releases planned for this year.

What’s ahead?

• More frequent minor updates due to plugin-first development approach

• More focus on UX

• More attention and care from Matt himself

Most likely, there is going to be:

I know you are tired Let’s travel back in time and relax

Introducing WordPress 1.0…

I know you are tired Let’s travel back in time and relax

…then 1.5

I know you are tired Let’s travel back in time and relax

…then 2.0

I know you are tired Let’s travel back in time and relax

…then 2.5

I know you are tired Let’s travel back in time and relax

…then 2.7

I know you are tired Let’s travel back in time and relax

…then 3.2

I know you are tired Let’s travel back in time and relax

…and finally 3.8

Kinda credits :)

This slide was hearty crafted by Thang from innogears.com with ripped some information from following sources:

• http://www.sitepoint.com/whats-new-wordpress-3-8/

• http://wordpress.org/news/2013/12/parker/

• http://torquemag.io/wordpress-3-8-whats-new-and-why-it-matters/

• http://www.poststat.us/meet-wordpress-3-8/

• http://bigseadesign.com/blog/wordpress-blog/whats-new-in-wordpress-3-8

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X1iYm68VdI

• http://themeshaper.com/2013/03/05/behind-the-design-of-the-further-theme/

• http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Versions

Thank you!

See you again when 3.9 comes out :v