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Find out about what's new in WordPress 3.8.
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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