WordPress 4.4在12月8日正式发布，命名为“jazz musician Clifford Brown” ，新版本修复了许多Bug,并且新增了很多功能。

主要更新：

• 新主题2016：WordPress最新的默认主题，Twenty sixteen。新的主题更加适合做博客。
  • 现代的经典的博客
  • 灵活的头和有趣的配色方案使您的内容将闪耀
  • 移动的第一反应

• 响应式图片（Responsive Images）：WordPress将会根据不同条件，比如屏幕大小、窗口大小、屏幕分辨率等，来显示大小更匹配的图片。

• 嵌入内容（Embeds ）：WordPress现在几乎可以嵌入所有支持oEmbed标准的网站的内容，包括Twitter, Flickr, YouTube等，并且新增Cloudup, Reddit Comments, ReverbNation, Speaker Deck, and VideoPress。

WordPress 4.4面向开发者的更新包括：

• REST API (第一部分) ：原来WordPress REST API插件的底层架构，现在已经融入了WordPress核心代码。这是WordPress接口的重大更新，开发者可以使用WordPress开发更为多样的网站。
• 分类词元数据：WordPress 4.4给分类词增加了元数据（metadata）。这也是一个非常实用的更新。
• 改进<title>输出：wp_title()函数被废弃。WordPress现在自己来处理文章标题的渲染输出。
• 评论：评论队列将会被分割，以提高性能。

新增的内容

综合

• 开发人员参考对内联代码文档的改进。
• 国际化支持-改进翻译字符串在核心。
• 管理页面的标题进行了调整，从H3以H2标签来加强页面层次
• 如何列出表上显示的所有尺寸屏幕的改进

帖子

• 后/页面永久UI进行了简化，将永久删除“查看”按钮

评论

• “查看评论”的链接是从发表评论编辑屏幕元箱搬迁
• 许多评论功能现在可以接受一个完整的对象不是“comment_id ‘减少缓存/数据库查找
• 孤立的评论现在回到“edit_posts能力

外观

• 网站的图标现在将回落到“全尺寸的缩略图大小的URL时不存在”

安装过程

• 语言选择器添加到新的网站上wp-signup.php形式

 

官方的更新说明：

What’s New

General

• Developer reference – Improvements to inline code documentation.
• i18n support – Improvements to translation strings all over the core.
• Admin page headings were adjusted from H3 to H2 tags to reinforce page hierarchy
• Improvements to how list tables are displayed on all size screens

Posts

• The post/page permalink UI was simplified, linking the permalink and removing the “View” button

Media

Comments

• The “View Comment” link was relocated from the Publish meta box in the comment-editing screen
• Many comment functions can now accept a full object instead of ‘comment_ID’ to reduce cache/db lookups
• Orphaned comments now fall back to the ‘edit_posts’ capability

Appearance

• Site icons will now fall back to the ‘full’ size URL when the ‘thumbnail’ size doesn’t exist

Users

Install Process

Multisite

• The language chooser was added to the new site form on wp-signup.php
• Sites may no longer be created with the following reserved slugs: wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes, or wp-json

Accessibility

Under The Hood

General

• Unclosed HTML elements in shortcode attributes were disallowed
• HTML was removed from all translatable text strings
• Rewrite rules are now flushed on theme switch
• Most core classes were moved to their own files

Embeds

• Add oEmbed support for ReverbNation.
• Remove oEmbed support for Blip.

JavaScript

• Customizer: Ensure persistence of unchanged active state for controls, sections, and panels
• Customize: Fixed logic for determining the container element when focusing on a panel, section, or control
• Customize: Fixed clearing of a color control’s setting by using proper empty value

Bug Fixes

• Fail gracefully when checking mapped capabilities against unregistered post types
• Visibility was restored for the Tags auto-suggest tooltip in Quick Edit
• The $public_only parameter was added to count_user_posts()
• Cron: Events are now rejected when the provided $timestamp value is not a valid timestamp
• Users with no role are now redirected to the home page on login instead of their profile-editing screen

Multisite

• A network can now be retrieved by its ID through [ WP_Network::get_instance()]
• A network can now be created or completed by passing arguments to [ WP_Network]
• Network-level capabilities were clarified and some long-time bugs were fixed

Classes

 

更多wordpress 4.4 的更新内容，请访问

https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.4

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