As you might already know, we are huge fans of WordPress and are excited to announce the launch of WordPress 4.6. It’s named “Pepper” in honour of jazz saxophone legend Park Frederick “Pepper” Adams III.
There are some exciting new features in WordPress 4.6 to help you to focus on the more important parts of running your website along with enhancements to simplify some of the day-to-day administrative tasks you perform on your website.
Main WordPress feature enhancements
Streamlined plugin and theme installation – stay on the same page while you update, install, and delete your plugins and themes.
Native fonts – The dashboard now takes advantage of the fonts you already have, making it load quicker and letting you feel more at home on any device.
WordPress Editor Improvements
Inline Link Checker – Ever accidentally made a link to https://wordpress.org/example.org? Now WordPress automatically checks to make sure you didn’t.
Content Recovery – As you type, WordPress saves your content to the browser. Recovering saved content is even easier with WordPress 4.6.
Updates to improve WordPress site performance and stability
JavaScript Library Updates
WordPress now runs up-to-date versions of Masonry (3.3.2), imagesLoaded (3.2.0), MediaElement.js (2.22.0), TinyMCE (4.4.1), and Backbone.js (1.3.3) giving you improved performance and security.
Robust Requests
The HTTP API now leverages the Requests library, improving HTTP standard support and adding case-insensitive headers, parallel HTTP requests, and support for Internationalised Domain Names.
Resource Hints
Resource hints help browsers decide which resources to fetch and preprocess. WordPress 4.6 adds them automatically for your styles and scripts making your site even faster.
Translations On Demand
WordPress will install and use the newest language packs for your plugins and themes as soon as they’re available from WordPress.org’s community of translators.
WordPress upgrade service
We can upgrade your WordPress website for you with our cost-effective upgrade service. Contact us for more details.
