WordPress 4.3 is Here: What All You Need to Know?

If you are a WordPress user, then you will be happy to know that the new WordPress version 4.3 has been released. The version is named after an admired Jazz singer, “Billie Holiday”.

WordPress “Billie” introduces some exciting changes that will make the process of formatting the content of a WordPress site and customizing the site a lot easier. Let us now have a quick glimpse of the major features that the new version brings about:

Menus Have Been Added to the Customizer

With each new WordPress release, small improvements are introduced to the Customizer. And with version 4.3, you will be able to create, update and assign menus and can preview them in real time. However, you can still use the traditional way of creating navigational menus. But, thanks to the new improvement, creating and managing menus has become easier and faster. So, if you have been taking up WordPress Theme Development, and want to streamline the navigational structure of the theme, the new menu addition in the Customizer will help you achieve such need in the best possible manner.

Help Create Better Passwords

When it comes to hardening the security of a WordPress site, creating strong passwords is one of the recommendations that you'll probably hear every now and then. However, WordPress wasn't much concerned about user passwords. But, the new version introduces a new approach towards maintaining users’ password security. It gives suggestions to users about creating strong passwords, at the time of setting up a WP install and changing the password.

Rather than receiving the password through email, from the new version onwards, you will be getting a password reset link. Whether you are adding some new users, or editing any existing user profile, WordPress will auto-generate a secure password for you.

Favicon (or Website Icon)

 

Users often forgot to add website icons (also referred to as favicon) from the admin dashboard screen in the previous WordPress versions. However, the new version of WordPress “Billie” resolves such an issue, as it comes with a built-in option that will allow you to add an icon (or favicon) directly from the customizer. This is a huge benefit for users involved with WordPress site development projects, as they cannot only customizer their theme layout from the customizer, but will be able to apply a favicon as well.

Formatting Shortcuts

 Have Been Introduced in The Editor

Now writing in WordPress will become even better and faster, thanks to the introduction of new formatting shortcuts in version 4.3 of WordPress. Some of these shortcuts are:

• You can choose to use asterisks (*) for creating a bulleted list.
• Use numbers such as 1. or 1) for the numbered list. 
• Create a heading using the number sign (#). For example, use ## for H2, ### for H3 and so on.
• Transform your text into blackquote using the greater sign '>'. 
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A Few Other Improvements:

• In WordPress version 4.3 editor section, at the time of linking the text to an URL, you will be able to view a “link preview wizard” under the linked text.
• Improvement has been made to the word count style in the newest version of WordPress, which will now get updated when the user stops writing. You no longer will have to click on the “Enter” button to make the updates to the word count style.
• In the latest version of WordPress, comments on the page will be “turned off” by default.
  

Wrapping Up!

Whether you are just a WordPress developer or a user , you should not ignore getting to know about the latest WordPress version 4.3, and the features it offers such as the ones discussed above.