Few days back, the widely used WordPress has hit the web development industry with its much-awaited 3.4 version. The recently arrived WordPress 3.4 version named as “Green” in honor of guitarist Grant Green. The new 3.4 version of WordPress comes with lots of improvements that adding more to the usefulness of the WP. A live theme-customizer, custom backgrounds and headers, better support for internationalization and revamped XML-RPC are some major additions to the new version.
Till now, WordPress 3.4 has been downloaded 1,720, . Since, version 3.4 is out, its really hard to predict the future of PSD to WordPress conversion in context of previous WP versions. The reason is simple – the amazing WordPress 3.4 version is loaded with lots of outstanding features. It is quite tough to predict who will be the next king of WordPress web development field – WordPress 3.4 or WP existing versions. Let’s narrow down the discussion towards features of new version and familiarize ourselves with the new additions of WordPress 3.4 version –
- Better Theme Control – According to the brand new feature “Theme Customizer and Theme Previewer” of recently launched 3.4 version, you can now easily change your theme’s options as well as settings before making it live on the front-end of your sites.
- Custom Headers And Background – Uploading a header image for a theme by using built-in functions of the previous WP versions was always challenging. WordPress 3.4 version is a solution to this problem. It allows theme authors to implement headers with flexible widths and heights. In addition to that, now you get the access to choose your custom header and background images from the Media Library. Altogether, these features bring developers more scope for innovation when it comes to website customization.
- Media Improvements – The new version also supports Html in the image caption field, which means now you can add html codes in the image captions when adding an image to a post.
- XML-RPC – It is a set of tools widely used to run software on different platforms so that procedural calls can be made over the Internet. XML-RPC also acts as a communication bridge between WordPress and other software. Thankfully, WordPress version 3.4 comes with many XML-RPC bug-fixes, post thumbnails support, custom post types and taxonomies. Now, you can also read XML-RPC information under ML-RPC_WordPress_API.
- Better Internationalization and Localization – It mainly includes Comma-localization, translatable spell-checker language, translatable time-zone string, translatable default WordPress links, translatable dashboard widgets, localized single quotes, apostrophes and primes can be localized etc. In addition to that, now you can split POT files into front-end, admin, as well as network admin which results in faster translations.
Moreover, version 3.4 also brings something great for Twitter-lovers. Now, you can also display a screenshot of your latest tweet on your WordPress powered blog. To do so, simply grab the url and paste the url in a post. Truly speaking, the list of notable changes in WordPress version 3.4 is very huge. You can (http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.4) click here to explore all features. Also, version 3.4 is now available for download. To download free and open WP 3.4 “Green” simply click here andhttp://wordpress.org/latest.zip
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