WordPress 4.4 is rolling out
Published on December 8, 2015
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Today is a good time to do a full backup of your site folks.
The latest revision of WordPress is due out today. If they are on schedule you should see this update in your sites soon.
What's changing:
- The permalink is now a real link and the shortcode will not be available.
- Images will be fully responsive - This means that it is more important than ever to optimize your images BEFORE you put them on your site.
- Comment forms are changing - Now the comment will be first and the login credentials will appear below the comment.
- Embed a post from another WordPress Blog - Most of us won't have much use for this but if both WordPress sites are at version 4.4 then a simple link will embed another's post into your blog. It opens in the same window though. To do this correctly, it should open in a new window.
- There is a major change to the REST API - This is only half of the work that needs to be done to this API so look for a useful change to the REST API in early 2016 with the update to version 4.5
The important thing is that this is a major update to WordPress so make sure you have a full backup and know how to restore it. (Some backup plugins are not easily restored)
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