WordPress 4.8 update is finally released on 8 June 2017. WordPress geeks are so curious to know what is in it and so excited to experience the changes. As a part of its efforts to upgrade user experience and flexibility, WordPress introduces new stuff to each of its updates. WordPress 4.8 has brought a bunch of changes that will improve the user experience as a whole.
Improvements in WordPress 4.8
The core WordPress development team has released it’s WordPress 4.8 update with three different enhancements in it. Let’s know more about all those features.
Improved visual editor experience
WordPress 4.8 has improved visual editor experience with new TinyMCE features. You’ll be able to navigate more intuitively in and out of inline elements like links. You can write in the linked content which was quite impossible in the previous versions. If you click a hyperlinked text, the hyperlink area extends to an extra blank space forward, so that you can write more texts on that blank space and that automatically gets hyperlinked. The visual editor has been more functional and hassles free with this improvement.
Meetup and WordCamps with news
Alongside having WordPress news on your dashboard, now can get updates on WordPress meetups and WordCamps happening in different cities around the World. You can get meet up information of any specific city by submitting the city name on it. It has paved a way for the users to be a part of larger WordPress community. This is definitely a great opportunity for WordPress developers who seek such WordPress meetups.
New media widgets and visual text editor widget
WordPress 4.8 has introduced three media widgets: Image, Audio, and Video. With these media widgets, users will be able to place images, audios and videos on any sidebar or footer. The text widget gets a whole new visual editing system. Editing text in this improved version of the widget will no longer require HTML codes to place some styled or hyperlinked texts/contents via the native text widget.
WordPress is officially ending support for Internet Explorer versions 8, 9, and 10, starting with WordPress 4.8. Since Microsoft stopped supporting these browsers since January 2016, attempting to continue supporting them on WordPress’ own was holding back development.
WordPress terms this update as a smaller WP release. There’re not many changes in this update. But every WordPress user will love the improved visual experience while working with it. Since the previous update has done a lot about fixing security issues, so WordPress 4.8 has not many issues to fix. Maybe a lot more changes will come to some other updates in future. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for that day.
