WordPress 3 8 – what’s new and why it matters

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• New User Interface Design

• Improved Theme and Widget Management

• Twenty Fourteen: A ‘’magazine style’’ Default Theme

• Other Noteworthy Updates

• The New is Now

Agenda

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Introduction

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Do you use WordPress?

If so, your world is about to CHANGE and you’re not alone.

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Recent statistics show WordPress now

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So when big changes are rolling out, there’s a LOT at stake.

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The most recent version of WordPress, version

3.8, shows that the platform (and its developers) take this responsibility seriously and aim to

further simplify web publishing for everyone.

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Let’s dive in and take a closer look

at the WordPress 3.8 release!

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New User Interface Design

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New versions of WordPress follow a general pattern:

• Odd numbered releases are mostly back-end upgrades

• Even numbered releases carry with them feature additions, front-end upgrades, and changes

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So it should come as no surprise, that 3.8 has some new features

But unless you’ve been paying close attention, the extent of these new features may SURPRISE you.

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Version 3.8 is not just a feature upgrade

It is a long awaited facelift

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Farewell to the skeuomorphic, low contrast rounded corner user interface of old

Hello to a responsive, modern, touch-friendly, typographically-rich user interface.

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Responsive UI:

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A team of developers headed by WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg, have been working

on a new user interface, codenamed “MP6”

Over the past year:

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The MP6 UI aimed to solve a series of issues:

From responsiveness to high-resolution graphics

Originally developed as stand-alone plugins, MP6 and its cohorts DASH (simplified dashboard), THX38 (new theme experience), and the Widget Area Chooser are now

baked into the WordPress core code.

This provides a whole new administrative experience that

is simpler, more accessible, and works beautifully across all screen sizes.

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The only real way to get the full story on the new UI, is to try it for YOURSELF!

As you dig in, let me direct your attention to

some of the finer and less obvious points

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1 MP6 admin UI is fully responsive–meaning as screen

sizes change the layout resizes and reformats to provide the best possible user experience

This provides tablet and smartphone users––and also Windows 8 users utilizing Snap––a much improved user experience.

Plus it makes WordPress administration truly mobile out of the box

As part of this move to responsiveness, the WordPress Toolbar has been subtly changed to be touch friendly by making the bar and its buttons bigger as screen sizes get smaller

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2 On the font side, the new admin UI swaps out Arial

for the Google font: Open Sans.

Open Sans has looser kerning (more space between the letters) for increased readability

Just as important but less obvious, the new UI also replaces its image-based icons for the custom Dashicon icon font to ensure crisp, sharp icons–regardless of screen resolution

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And if you don’t like the default charcoal-and-blue color scheme

You now have four versions

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In tandem with the new admin user interface

The Theme and Widget managers have also been updated to provide better user experiences

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The Theme Manager has been reworked with the same minimalist approach as the overall

UI, and now provides a more intuitive and less cluttered interface

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Now Gone

theme and the themes available to you.

a quicker overview of available themes and a more in-depth inspection of theme info.

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Theme Manager

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Widget management has been improved

to alleviate an enduring frustration for

anyone with a widget heavy site: simpler

widget selection.

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Hidden below the traditional drag-and-drop behavior

The new Widgets UI allows users

to click on an available widget, and select what widgetized (sidebar)

area, that widget should appear in

This is a very elegant solution that will save users time and frustration

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The Customizer has been updated with the new design, making it less obtrusive and easier to use

Also, your theme’s info can be more easily read with a larger area of the screen now devoted to it.

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Since 2010, WordPress has shipped with

a new default theme every year

Unfortunately these themes, named after their release year, have usually been

released towards the end of their year

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With Twenty Fourteen, the new default theme ships with version 3.8, following a release schedule more like those of

automotive manufacturers

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Twenty Fourteen is a magazine-style theme with a heavy focus on featured content sliders and tiles, as well as large images

These types of themes have proven exceedingly popular, and Twenty Fourteen aims to answer the need for visual options, aside from plain old blog themes

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Twenty Twelve and Twenty Thirteen were all about simplicity, Twenty Fourteen

focuses on massive-content-overload, with plenty of options

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• The header allows for a large banner image or logo

• There is an optional featured content area that displays sticky or tab-based posts in a carousel or tiled view

• The main content is boxed between two widgetized areas on the left and right that disappear

on smaller screens

Some of these options:

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Concerns have been raised that this theme may

be too content heavy and prone to clutter, but

I recommend holding any reservations until we see how the WordPress community as a whole puts it to use.

My two cents: always keep the widgets in your

theme to a minimum

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For an in-depth walkthrough of Twenty Fourteen and all it has to offer, stay tuned for

my upcoming lynda.com video course:

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Other Noteworthy

Updates

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WordPress 3.8 also introduces some other, less

talked about updates, including:

• Updated Profile page with choices reflecting more modern sensibilities

• AIM, Yahoo! IM, Jabber/Google Talk are GONE, replaced by the more popular options of Google+, Facebook, and Twitter.

• Auto-updating for point releases (which was actually introduced in 3.7.1)

• A smarter password strength indicator for more robust security

• Many other core code updates to give developers new power and

capabilities

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The New is Now

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Now that you have a clear understanding of what WordPress 3.8 is all about, go forth and update your own site.

After making a backup of course!

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WordPress has always been on the cutting edge

of current web trends, and 3.8 will put you and your site firmly at the forefront of modern

web development best practices

So what are you waiting for? Upgrade to 3.8

today!

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