Whats New in WordPress 3.6

By James Tryon

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I’m James Tryon or Easily Amused

• Creative Director of Easily Amused, Inc.

• We specialize in Branding & Custom WordPress Design/Development.

• Personally been in the biz since 99

• Overflow work from Other Studios

• Work as Other Companies full Creative/Development Team.

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Quick Overview

• Admin UI

• Post Formats

• Audio/Video

• Autosave

• Post Lock

• Menus

• Revisions

• Twenty Thirteen

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Admin UI Updates

• Larger San-Serif Font

• More Breathing Room

• Flattened it a Little

• Darker Sidebar w/ Highlights

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Post Formats

What is Post Formats?

Post Formats are a tool for themes to visually differentiate between types of content.

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Post Formats

• Been a part of WordPress Since 3.2 (Feb 2011)

• User Interface Overhaul

• Giving your blog a more Tumbler Feel

• Can Hide the UI in the Screen Options

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Old Post Format UI

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New Post Formats

• Gallery

• Video

• Audio

• Chat

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3.6 Beta 1 UI

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3.6 Beta 2 UI

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Post Format: Standard

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Post Format: Image

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Post Format: Image

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Post Format: Gallery

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Post Format: Gallery

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Post Format: Gallery

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Post Format: Link

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Post Format: Video

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Post Format: Video

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Post Format: Audio

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Post Format: Audio

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Post Format: Chat

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Post Format: Status

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Post Format: Status

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Post Format: Quote

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Post Format: Quote

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Post Format: Aside

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Post Format: Aside

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Post Formats: New Functions

• the_post_format_video()

• the_post_format_url()

• the_remaining_content()

New functions for Post Formats allow developers to pull the meta info from the post and apply a unique design to each format.

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Post Formats: Theme Support

You will need to enable post formats in your theme. To do so add the following to your setup function

/* * This theme supports all available post formats by default. * See http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats */

add_theme_support( 'post-formats', array('aside', 'audio', 'chat', 'gallery', 'image', 'link', 'quote', 'status', 'video'

) );

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Disabling Post Formats

You can turn post formats off in the Admin Screen options, but its only for that user. If you would like to disable them across the board check out a plugin by Justin Tadlock.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-post-format-ui/

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Audio/Video

• embed audio & video into your posts without relying on a plugin or media hosting service.

• Enter a URL from a popular video hosting service, WordPress 3.6 will automatically embed that video into your post.

• Video will play in the Admin for testing purposes.

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Audio Bonus: oEmbed support for both Rdio and Spotify

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Autosave

Posts are now autosaved locally. If your browser crashes, your computer dies, or the server goes offline as you’re saving, you won’t lose the your post.

• Kinda like Google Docs.

• Auto saves locally every 15 sec

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Cookie expiration

But what about an unexpected delays and your cookies expire!?!

Don’t worry there’s a new lightbox for that.No going back to the login screen, and no lost content.

Pick up where you left off.

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Cookie expiration

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Post Locking

• How many of you run a blog with more than one Author?

• Ever have 2 people editing a post at the same time?

• Have you ever overwritten what the other person work?

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Post Locking

Before you had a little red text warning at the top, Now you get this:

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Post LockingThe other person see this:

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Post Locking

But we go one step further or should I say one step prier.

Now when you're in the admin and someone is editing, It will say [username] is currently editing next to the title in the admin list screen.

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Menus

• location moved to its own

• Added accordion/toggle menu

Nav menus have been simplified with an accordion-based UI, and a separate tab for bulk-assigning menus to locations.

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Menus: Old Look

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Menus: New Look

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Menus: New Look

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Menus: New Look

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Revisions

The all-new revisions UI features avatars, a slider that “scrubs” through history, and two-slider range comparisons.

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Revisions

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Twenty Thirteen

Shipping in the first release of the year. It’s a blog-centric theme that makes full use of Post Formats & bold Color.

I think there might be a little negativism with it comes to the yearly themes. There has also been a problem getting them out early enough in the year for the name to really matter.  

It would be best to think of Twenty Twelve as CMS driven theme and Twenty Thirteen more as a Blog drive theme. But both and do both.

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http://twentythirteendemo.wordpress.com/

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Thank You

• James Tryon

• James@EasilyAmusedInc.com

• http://EasilyAmusedInc.com

• @easilyamused

• http://profiles.wordpress.org/easilyamused/

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