WordPress.org made it known on Thursday, August 1st that it has released the brand new WordPress 3.6. The latest version of WordPress features an improved revision browser and novel blog-centric theme. However, the most significant thing about the new WordPress 3.6 is that it is named “Jazz” after legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. Aside from a new theme and revamped revisions the latest edition of WordPress includes several other new features such as post locking, improved integrations for Rdio, SoundCloud and Spotify, enhanced autosave and native support for both video and audio embeds through an HTML5 media player. Users can download the latest WordPress 3.6 from WordPress.Org.
On this occasion WordPress.Org has released a press release, which describes about the latest version of the WordPress in brief. Below are few excerpts from that release:
“The latest and greatest WordPress, version 3.6, is now live to the world and includes a beautiful new blog-centric theme, bullet-proof autosave and post locking, a revamped revision browser, native support for audio and video embeds, and improved integrations with Spotify, Rdio, and SoundCloud.
We’re calling this release “Oscar” in honour of the great jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. Here’s a bit more about some of the new features, which you can also find on the about page in your dashboard after you upgrade.
User Features
– The new Twenty Thirteen theme inspired by modern art puts focus on your content with a colorful, single-column design made for media-rich blogging.
– Revamped Revisions save every change and the new interface allows you to scroll easily through changes to see line-by-line who changed what and when.
– Post Locking and Augmented Autosave will especially be a boon to sites where more than a single author is working on a post. Each author now has their own autosave stream, which stores things locally as well as on the server (so much harder to lose something) and there’s an interface for taking over editing of a post, as demonstrated beautifully by our bearded buddies in the video above.
– Built-in HTML5 media player for native audio and video embeds with no reliance on external services.
– The Menu Editor is now much easier to understand and use.
– Developer features
– A new audio/video API gives you access to metadata like ID3 tags.
– You can now choose HTML5 markup for things like comment and search forms, and comment lists.
– Better filters for how revisions work, so you can store a different amount of history for different post types.
– Tons more listed on the Codex, and of course you can always browse the over 700 closed tickets.”
Source: TNW, WordPres.Org
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