WordPress 4.1 Field Notes

The release of WordPress 4.1 is imminent. By now, you should have already been testing and preparing your plugins and themes. I wanted to highlight a couple of posts here over the last few months on changes in WordPress 4.1.  This is by no means a complete summary of everything that has changed, but will give you a sense of what you have coming to you in the next few days.

This version of WordPress features some new template tags in a continued attempt to improve coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.’s Theme APIs.

Taxonomy, Date, Meta and Comment queries all have been updated and improved.

As a part of the taxonomy roadmap, When a term is created with a matching slug as an existing term, we now create a new entry in wp_terms.

Distraction-free writing has received a full revamp.

Themes now can have better support for the <title> tag

There have been several improvements to the Customizer API, including contextual panels and sections, and JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. templates for controls.

Please continue testing your sites, plugins and themes. WordPress wouldn’t be where it is without you.

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