WordPress 4.9 introduces an improved Customizer workflow with design drafts, locking,
scheduling, and preview links. What’s more, code syntax highlighting and
error checking will make for a clean and smooth site building
experience. It also boasts a great
new Gallery widget and improvements to theme browsing and switching.
Draft and Schedule Site Design Customizations
Yes, you read that right. Just like you can draft and revise
posts and schedule them to go live on the date and time you choose, you
can now tinker with your site’s design and schedule those design changes
to go live as you please.
Collaborate with Design Preview Links
Need to get some feedback on proposed site design changes?
WordPress 4.9 gives you a preview link you can send to your team and
customers so that you can collect and integrate feedback before you
schedule the changes to go live. Can we say collaboration++?
Design Locking To Guard Your Changes
Ever encounter a scenario where two designers walk into a
project and designer A overrides designer B’s beautiful changes?
WordPress 4.9’s design lock feature (similar to post locking) secures
your draft design so that no one can make changes to it or erase all
your hard work.
A Prompt to Protect Your Work
Were you lured away from your desk before you saved your new
draft design? Fear not, when you return, WordPress 4.9 will politely ask
whether or not you’d like to save your unsaved changes.
Syntax Highlighting and Error Checking? Yes, Please!
You’ve got a display problem but can’t quite figure out exactly
what went wrong in the CSS you lovingly wrote. With syntax highlighting
and error checking for CSS editing and the Custom HTML widget introduced
in WordPress 4.8.1, you’ll pinpoint coding errors quickly. Practically
guaranteed to help you scan code more easily and suss out and fix code
errors quickly.
Sandbox for Safety
The dreaded white screen. You’ll avoid it when working on themes
and plugin code because WordPress 4.9 will warn you about saving an
error. You’ll sleep better at night.
Warning: Potential Danger Ahead!
When you edit themes and plugins directly, WordPress 4.9 will
politely warn you that this is a dangerous practice. It will recommend
that you backup your files before saving, so they don’t get overwritten
by the next update. Take the safe route: your future self will thank
you. Your team and customers will thank you.
The New Gallery Widget
An incremental improvement to the media changes hatched in WordPress 4.8, you can now add a gallery via widget. Yes!
Press a Button, Add Media
Want to add media to your text widget? Embed images, video, and
audio directly into the widget along with your text, with our simple but
useful Add Media button. Woo!
More Reliable Theme Switching
When you switch themes, widgets sometimes think they can just up
and move location. Improvements in WordPress 4.9 offer more persistent
menu and widget placement when you decide it’s time for a new theme.
Additionally, you can preview installed themes or download, install, and
preview new themes right. Nothing says handy like being able to preview
before you deploy.
Better Menu Instructions = Less Confusion
Were you confused by the steps to create a new menu? Perhaps no
longer! We’ve ironed out the UX for a smoother menu creation process.
Newly updated copy will guide you.
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