WordPress 4.5 Coleman Released!

To be honest, my contributions are really minimal, this time, I worked along Eric Lewis — Network Architecture Cartographer at The NewYork Times and core committer at WordPress to replace in the networks and sites: usage of “blog” with “site” in docs. WordPress has outgrown itself from just a blog to a complete CMS. It’s only fair we address the lingo.

P.S. I have contributed a few more patches but they might become part of the core in a future release.

WordPress 4.5#

This release was led by Mike Schroder, backed up by Adam Silverstein as Release Deputy, Mel Choyce as Release Design Lead, and the help of these fine individuals. There are 277 contributors with props in this release.

Editor Improvements#

There have been certain improvements in the post editor.

Inline Linking#

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The user experience of adding inline links has been updated and is much more streamlined. I’d say it is a much less distracting interface. Of course, you can click the gear icon to revert back to the advanced interface.

Formatting Shortcuts#

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I always enjoy using as much keyboard shortcuts as I can remember. I consider it a better workflow. One thing that I felt had been missing in the WP post editor was the code shortcut, esp. for bloggers who write code. Well, not anymore.Use the backticks and you’ll get a code wrapped word/sentence. Use the backticks and you’ll get a code wrapped word/sentence. E.g `code` and --- to create an <hr/> tag that represents a horizontal rule.

Customization Improvements#

Customizer has gone through a good deal of improvements in this release. I am a huge fan of Weston Ruter; his work related to Customizer is amazing. While not in the core yet, but he has been working (along with other contributors) over getting the post metadata in the Customizer. I am pretty excited about that stuff. Imagine Customizer in the form of a Single Page Application like Calypso.

Live Responsive Previews#

Now you can check your site on all screens via live responsive previews! Preview mobile, tablet, and desktop views directly in the customizer.

Custom Logos#

This one was a long time coming. Themes can now support logos for your business or brand. The Twenty Fifteen and Twenty Sixteen themes have been updated to support custom logos, which can be found in the Site Identity section of the customizer.