WordPress 4.0 Beta 1

WordPress 4.0 Beta 1 - The White Label Agency

After two months of complete silence in WP blog, Helen Hou-Sandí, a contributing developer to WordPress core, has just announced that WordPress 4.0 Beta 1 is now available!

Helen informed us: “this software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.0, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip).”

If you want to contribute to WordPress, help testing what they’ve already been working on:

  • Previews of embedding via URLs in the visual editor and the “Insert from URL” tab in the media modal. Try pasting a URL (such as a WordPress.tv or YouTube video) onto its own line in the visual editor.
  • The Media Library now has a “grid” view in addition to the existing list view. Clicking on an item takes you into a modal where you can see a larger preview and edit information about that attachment, and you can navigate between items right from the modal without closing it.
  • We’re freshening up the plugin install experience. You’ll see some early visual changes as well as more information when searching for plugins and viewing details.
  • Selecting a language when you run the installation process.
  • The editor intelligently resizes and its top and bottom bars pin when needed. Browsers don’t like to agree on where to put things like cursors, so if you find a bug here, please also let us know your browser and operating system.
  • We’ve made some improvements to how your keyboard and cursor interact with TinyMCE views such as the gallery preview. Much like the editor resizing and scrolling improvements, knowing about your setup is particularly important for bug reports here.
  • Widgets in the Customizer are now loaded in a separate panel.
  • We’ve also made some changes to some formatting functions, so if you see quotes curling in the wrong direction, please file a bug report.

And as usual if you find a bug, you can always post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. You can also find there a list of known bugs and everything they’ve fixed so far.

WordPress 4.0 is planned to be released in August. Our TWLA team is waiting for start building websites on WordPress 4.0.

Happy testing!