What's new in WordPress 4.7

What’s new in
WordPress 4.7
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What’s new in WordPress 4.7

WHY UPDATE?
• Last major release of the year
• New improvements and several bug fixes
• Requires manual update unless using a managed hosting service
• Don’t forget to take a complete backup before updating

Presenting Twenty Seventeen

Focuses on business sites
Comes with starter content to help new users
Features a customisable front page with multiple sections
Widgets, navigation, social menus, a logo, custom colours, and more
Works in many languages, on any device, and for a wide range of users
Presenting Twenty Seventeen

• Theme Starter Content
• Edit Shortcuts
• Video Headers
• Smoother Menu Building
• Custom CSS
• PDF Thumbnail Previews
• Dashboard in your language
WordPress 4.7 FEATURES
• REST API Content Endpoints
• Post Type Templates
• Theme API Goodies
• Custom Bulk Actions
• WP_Hook
• Settings Registration API
• Customise Changesets

WordPress 4.7 adds new features to the customiser to help take site owners through the
initial setup of a theme, with non-destructive live previews of all changes in one interrupted
workflow
Your Site, Your Way

Theme Starter Content

Edit Shortcuts

Video Headers

Smoother Menu Building
You can now add pages while building menus within the customiser instead of leaving the
customiser and abandoning your changes.

Live Preview Custom CSS
If you just need a few visual tweaks, you can now add custom CSS and instantly see how
your changes affect your site without having to refresh the page.

PDF Thumbnail Previews
Uploading PDFs to the media library will now generate thumbnail images
so you can easily distinguish between all your documents.

Dashboard Languages
You can now add multiple languages to your dashboard
and let your users set a preference via their user profile.

REST API Content Endpoints
Content endpoints provide machine-readable external access to your WordPress site
paving the way for new methods of interacting with sites through plugins, themes, apps and
beyond.

Developer Happiness
WordPress has supported custom page templates for over 12 years, allowing developers
to create various layouts for specific pages.
By opening up the page template functionality to all post types, theme developers have
even more flexibility with the WordPress template hierarchy.
Post Type Templates

Developer Happiness
WordPress 4.7 includes new functions, hooks and behaviour for theme developers.
The get_theme_file_uri() Function, and Friends
The {$type}_template_hierarchy Filter
Simpler Template Names for Content with Non-ASCII Slugs
Theme API Goodies

Developer Happiness
Custom Bulk Actions

Developer Happiness
The code that lies beneath actions and filters has been overhauled
and modernised, fixing bugs along the way.
If your plugin directly accesses the $wp_filter global rather than using the public hooks
API, you might run into compatibility issues.
WP_Hook

Developer Happiness
Register_setting() has been enhanced to include type, description, and REST API
visibility.
This is especially useful in the REST API,
where WordPress needs to know the type of data your setting is.
Settings Registration API

Developer Happiness
Make changes in the customiser persistent, like autosave drafts.
These are what make new features like starter content possible.
Customise Changesets

WordPress automatically used file names as title and alt text for images.
Now it will leave the alt text field blank if a user does not make any changes to the title or
alt text fields when uploading an image.
Accessible Alt Text for images

What's new in WordPress 4.7

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