WordPress v5.8 Beta1

Wordpress is currently the most popular blogging program. Generally, WordPress is the first choice for everyone to build a blog. WordPress has strong scalability. Due to the large number of users, WordPress plug-ins and themes developed by users themselves are constantly enhancing the functions of WordPress. Even some websites that already use CMS have begun to use wordpress.

Basic introduction

WordPress is a blogging platform developed using PHP language. Users can set up their own website on a server that supports PHP and MySQL databases, or use WordPress as a content management system (CMS). Recently, the WordPress development team released WordPress 4.9 as promised. WordPress 4.9 was named Tipton in memory of jazz musician and band leader Billy Tipton.

Function introduction

1. Publish, classify, archive, and collect articles, and count reading times.

2. Provide RSS aggregation in various forms such as articles, comments, categories, etc.

3. Provide link addition and classification functions.

4. Supports comment management and spam filtering functions.

5. Support direct editing and modification of multi-style CSS and PHP programs.

6. Conveniently add required pages outside the Blog system.

7. Make the blog more personalized by setting various parameters.

8. Realize static html page generation with the support of certain plug-ins (such as WP-SUPER-CACHE).

9. Conveniently change the display effect of the page by selecting different themes.

10. By adding plug-ins, a variety of special functions can be provided.

11.Support Trackback and pingback.

12. Support the import function for some other blog software and platforms.

13. Support member registration and login, and backend management functions.

Chinese settings

If you are installing WordPress for the first time, the following steps will guide you to switch your existing English WordPress site to Chinese.

1 Open and edit the wp-config.php file in the root directory of the site through FTP, SSH, etc.

2. Find the line define('WPLANG', '');, fill in zh_CN in the second parameter, change it to define('WPLANG', 'zh_CN'); and save the file.

3. Enter the site dashboard (dashboard) and upgrade after seeing the update prompt. WordPress will automatically download the Chinese language pack from the official website and install it.

If you are currently using an unofficial Chinese language pack, please note: Unofficial language packs usually replace the upgrade part of the WordPress program itself, causing WordPress to be upgraded through a third-party server, which may be risky. If you do not want to use this language pack, please be sure to choose a language pack you trust. As for which Chinese support to use, it is entirely up to you. WordPress does not prohibit you from using unofficial language packs.

Software features

Custom workflow improvements

Website design custom drafts and regular releases

Yes, you read that right. Just like you draft and revise articles and schedule them to be published on a date and time of your choice, you can now save drafts to your website's custom settings and choose a time to publish them on a regular basis.

Collaborate with design preview links

After completing the scheduled modifications to the website, do you need to preview and provide feedback? WordPress 4.9 gives you a preview link that you can send to your colleagues or clients. They can preview without logging in, and then you collect their feedback and complete all modifications. Then set the online time for the modifications. Can we call this Collaboration++?

Design Lock protects your changes

Has there ever been a situation where two designers A and B modified a website at the same time? Designer A completed a beautiful design, but was accidentally overwritten by designer B when he made modifications? The design lock function of WordPress 4.9 ( Similar to Article Edit Lock), protect your design draft so no one can modify it or erase the results of your hard work.

Tips to protect your job

Have you ever encountered this situation and left your desk to do other things before you could save it? Don’t be afraid, when you come back, WordPress 4.9 will politely ask you if you want to save the unsaved changes.

Coding enhancement

Syntax highlighting and error checking

There is something wrong with the website display, but you can't completely figure out where the error in your CSS code is. This is a situation that often happens. WordPress 4.9 adds HTML widgets to the CSS style editor and WordPress 4.8.1, adding syntax highlighting and error checking functions, so you can quickly find the problem. This feature is guaranteed to help you review your code more easily and quickly troubleshoot and fix errors in your code.

security sandbox

The common white screen of death in WordPress, I believe many people have encountered it. Now, you can get around it, in WordPress 4.9 it will warn you when you save when there is an error in your code. Now, you can have a good sleep at night.

Warning: Potential danger!

When you edit themes and plugins directly, WordPress 4.9 will politely warn you that this is a dangerous practice and recommend that you save a draft and test it before updating the file. Play it safe: you'll thank you. Your team and customers will thank you, too.

More gadget updates

New photo album widget

Progressive improvements have been made to the media widgets in WordPress 4.8. Select photo albums you can add via this new widget. That’s right!

Click the button to publish media

Want to add media files to your text widget? Insert images, videos, audio and other files around your text with a simple but useful media button. Wow!

Website construction improvements

More reliable theme switching

When you change themes, widgets sometimes feel like they've just moved around. WordPress 4.9 provides more durable menu and widget placement when you decide to change to a new theme.

Find and preview the perfect theme

Looking for a new theme? Now, in the customization panel, you can search, browse, and preview over 2,600 themes before deploying a new theme. In addition, you can also filter themes using criteria such as theme, function, layout, etc.

Better menu instructions = less confusion

Are you confused about the step-by-step process of creating a new menu? Maybe not anymore! We designed a smoother menu creation process that matches the user experience. A copy of the latest updates will guide you.

Work with Gutenberg

The WordPress team is working on a new way to create and manage your website content that requires the cooperation of all users. Interested users can test this Gutenberg project and help developers improve it together!

Developer benefitsCustomizer JS API improvements

The development team has made many improvements to the Customizer JS API in WordPress 4.9, eliminating many headaches. There are also basic space templates written, date and time plug-ins, and block/panel/global notifications, etc.

CodeMirror library available for themes and plugins

The development team has entered CodeMirror, a new code editing library for use with the kernel. CodeMirror supports syntax highlighting, error checking and validation when creating and editing code, and can be used in plug-ins, such as CSS or JavaScript include.

MediaElement.js updated to 4.2.6

WordPress 4.9 includes updated MediaElement.js, eliminating dependence on jQuery, improving accessibility, modernizing the UI, and fixing many bugs.

Roles and permissions improvements

New permissions have been introduced to enable more precise management of plugins and translation files. Additionally, the site switching process in multisite has been adjusted to update available roles and permissions in a more reliable and consistent manner.