De final release van WordPress versie 4.2 is uitgekomen. Met dit programma, dat onder een gpl-licentie beschikbaar wordt gesteld, is het mogelijk om een weblog op te zetten en bij te houden. WordPress is eenvoudig in te stellen en kan binnen vijf minuten draaien als er al een server met php en MySQL beschikbaar is. Er zijn mogelijkheden om de functionaliteit van WordPress, naast bloggen, verder uit te breiden en het uiterlijk met plug-ins en themes aan te passen. In versie 4.2 is onder meer Press This flink verbeterd. Het is nu mogelijk om een knop aan de bookmark-balk van de browser of home screen op een mobiel apparaat toe te voegen, waarmee allerlei internetcontent eenvoudig kan worden gedeeld. De complete release notes kunnen hieronder worden gevonden.
An easier way to share content
Clip it, edit it, publish it. Get familiar with the new and improved Press This. From the Tools menu, add Press This to your browser bookmark bar or your mobile device home screen. Once installed you can share your content with lightning speed. Sharing your favorite videos, images, and content has never been this fast or this easy.
Extended character support
Character support for emoji, special charactersWriting in WordPress, whatever your language, just got better. WordPress 4.2 supports a host of new characters out-of-the-box, including native Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters, musical and mathematical symbols, and hieroglyphs. Don’t use any of those characters? You can still have fun — emoji are now available in WordPress! Get creative and decorate your content with the many emoji.
Switch themes in the Customizer
Browse and preview your installed themes from the Customizer. Make sure the theme looks great with your content, before it debuts on your site.
Even more embeds
Paste links from Tumblr.com and Kickstarter and watch them magically appear right in the editor. With every release, your publishing and editing experience get closer together.
Streamlined plugin updates
Goodbye boring loading screen, hello smooth and simple plugin updates. Click Update Now and watch the magic happen.
Under the Hood
- utf8mb4 support
Database character encoding has changed from utf8 to utf8mb4, which adds support for a whole range of new 4-byte characters.- JavaScript accessibility
You can now send audible notifications to screen readers in JavaScript withwp.a11y.speak()
. Pass it a string, and an update will be sent to a dedicated ARIA live notifications area.- Shared term splitting
Terms shared across multiple taxonomies will be split when one of them is updated. Find out more in the Plugin Developer Handbook.- Complex query ordering
WP_Query
,WP_Comment_Query
, andWP_User_Query
now support complex ordering with named meta query clauses.