On September 4, 2014, WordPress Version 4.0 “Benny,” named for jazz musician Benny Goodman, was released to the public.
Highlights
- Manage your media and embedded content with style
- Explore your uploads in a beautiful, endless grid
- A new details preview makes viewing and editing any amount of media in sequence a snap.
- The content-editing experience is better than ever
- The visual editor now expands to fit your content
- A fixed toolbar in the editor when you scroll
- Embeddable content previews right in the visual editor
- Better workflow for finding and installing plugins
- A new grid view adds some visual flair to finding and installing plugins, bringing relevant plugin info front and center
For Developers
- Customizer Panels API
- Updated external libraries
- Better flexibility for WP_Query ORDER BY
Find out more here.