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 UI
- Ticket 31467 Images should default to not linking
- RICG Responsive Images
- Posts 2 Posts
Most of the items suggested are at various stages of development and there’s no guarantee any of them will make it into WordPress 4.4. However, the comments provide insight into what a lot of developers want in WordPress.
If there’s a ticket, feature, or plugin you’d like to see in WordPress 4.4, please leave a comment on the post.
While I love a lot of the awesome ideas, I hope that we’ll see term meta at some point. This is a feature that’s been holding back a ton of developers for years. I get feature requests several times a week for things that would easily be solved with a term meta table.
For client sites, it’s easy enough to install one of the available term meta plugins. But, for publicly-distributed plugins, there’s not going to be a good answer until it’s in core.