WordPress 3.9 “Smith” is released and it is available for download now. WordPress 3.9 is named after popular African-American jazz organist Jimmy Smith.

WordPress 3.9 is focused towards providing users a much better experience while editing content, lot of improvements has been done on the editing front of the core.

Better Editing

The new visual editor has improved speed, accessibility, and mobile support. You can paste into it from your word processor without wasting time to clean up messy styling.

WordPress 3.9 uses the power of TinyMCE 4.0 which was updated with many changes like

  • New UI and UI API.
  • New theme.
  • Revamped events system/API.
  • Better code quality, readability and build process.
  • Lots of (inline) documentation.

WordPress 3.9

Better Image Editing

Editing images on your WordPress blog post is much easier and fun now, you have more options to play around with the images within the visual editor.

Just click on the image and select edit and get started, you can even crop the images with the visual editor by selecting edit original option.

The drag and drop image option makes it real easy for you to just drag any image from your computer to the editor without any hassle

Image Edititing

Gallery previews

Galleries display a beautiful grid of images right in the editor, just like they do in your published post.

gallery

Better Widget Management

This is another nice improvement on WordPress 3.9, now you can add, edit, and rearrange your site’s widgets right in the theme customizer. preview your changes live and only save them when you’re ready

Widget Management

Create Audio/Video Playlists

WordPress 3.9 has simple audio and video playlists, so that you can showcase your music and clips effectively

Audio Playlist

Better new theme browser

Some really amazing enhancements done on the WordPress 3.8 theme browsing experience and it is much better in WordPress 3.9. You get the search results real quick.

Just type the theme niche and you will be presented with options instantly.

Theme Search

Overall the WordPress 3.9 is an amazing update, there are number of small and visible changes, hope this will be a great experience for all WordPress users.

Article Via WordPress.org

 

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