When WordPress 4.4 “Clifford” was released in December of 2015, it turned WordPress into an oEmbed provider. This made it easy for sites running on WordPress 4.4 or later to have its content embedded on other sites. Here’s an example of what content from a WordPress site looks like when embedded in a post. Feature Plugin Merge Proposal:…
If you notice images don’t load after upgrading to WordPress 4.4 and you use SSL on the frontend, you’re not alone. In a thread on the WordPress.org support forum, Brokkr explains the crux of the problem: I recently switched my WordPress site to https after getting certificates from Let’s Encrypt. Using 4.3.1 all content was…
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I are joined by Michele Butcher, Nikhil Vimil, Kiko Doran, and Chris Wiegman as we recap the first annual WordCamp US. We discuss the venue and share our favorite sessions of the event. We also discuss a number of items from Matt Mullenweg’s State of The…
After four months of intense development led by Scott Taylor, WordPress 4.4 “Clifford” named after jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, is available for download. This release features responsive images, WordPress embeds, the Twenty Sixteen default theme, the first half of the REST API, and a host of small improvements. Responsive Images When users upload images to…
The WordPress 4.4 field guide is available and covers all of the major features in WordPress 4.4. The guide explains what the features are and more specifically, links to posts that explain how they work. WordPress 4.4: Field Guide While it doesn’t cover every single change, it gives developers and site maintainers an opportunity to…
For the last six years, WordPress has been an oEmbed consumer, adding support for services with nearly every major release since 2.9. In WordPress 4.4, it switches roles and is an oEmbed provider. Proposed by Pascal Birchler earlier this year, oEmbeds for posts streamlines how they’re shared across the web. Here’s an example of what…
In this episode, Marcus Couch and I are joined by Kyle Maurer, Co-founder of Real Big Marketing. Maurer grew up in rural Michigan working on farms without much knowledge of the IT industry. He registered an account on meetup.com after discovering a WordPress meetup in his local area. During the meetup, Maurer discovered how powerful…
One of the key features in WordPress 4.4 is responsive images. Joe McGill, who is helping to merge the feature to core, joined me for a thirty minute interview to explain how it works. When users upload images in WordPress, it automatically crops new images to smaller sizes. For example, if you upload an image…
After more than eight weeks in development, WordPress 4.4. beta 1 is available for testing. With over 1,600 commits since WordPress 4.3’s release, it’s important that 4.4 be tested by as many people as possible. Commits are bug fixes, additional functions or filters, new features, corrected typos, and anything inbetween. As a rule of thumb,…
A year after WordPress 4.1 introduced a new way to display titles in themes, WordPress 4.4 will deprecate wp_title(). With the change, plugin authors will be able to check for theme support and use a few new filters to manipulate the title. The new filters are as follows: ‘pre_get_document_title’ short-circuits wp_get_document_title() if it returns anything…
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I discuss the death of Alex King who was a pillar of the WordPress project. King passed away a few days ago from colon cancer. We share stories of meeting and discussing WordPress topics with King and describe his many contributions to WordPress. King will be…
In WordPress 4.4, the View Post button in the post editor is disappearing in favor of a clickable permalink. Four years ago, Scribu, who is a former WordPress contributor, created ticket #18306. In the ticket, Scribu explains that the View Post button is redundant functionality and suggests that it be removed in favor of a…
WordPress plugin and theme developers need to take note of an important change in WordPress 4.4 that rearranges the comment form. In WordPress 4.4, the comment form is arranged so that the text area is displayed first followed by the name, email, and website fields. According to Aaron Jorbin, WordPress core developer, the change improves…
WordPress 4.4 is the last scheduled major release of the year and with it will come a new default theme to replace Twenty Fifteen. On the Make WordPress Core site, Tammie Lister published an image gallery that shows off the design of Twenty Sixteen. According to Lister, the process of determining the new default theme…
Scott Taylor, who is leading the development cycle for WordPress 4.4, published a post on the Make WordPress Core site asking people what they’d like to see in WordPress 4.4. The post has generated a number of comments from the community. Some of the most popular suggestions include: REST API Fields API Term Meta Shortcake…