Three This-Changes-Everything Features in WordPress 4.7
Fred Meyer / December 6, 2016 Three major changes in WordPress 4.7 jump out as having the power to significantly transform how I do my work every day.
Happy December 6, 2016! Christmas comes early today with the release of WordPress 4.7, “Vaughan.”
This feels like the biggest WordPress release in ages, and the absolutely mammoth Field Guide accompanying the release seems to reinforce that feeling.
We’ve tried to keep educated on the major changes in WordPress 4.7, and there are a lot of them. But as I’ve read about and played around with the new features, three major changes jumped out as having the power to significantly transform how I do my work every day. They are:
REST API content endpoints
Custom CSS changes, with live previewing, in the WordPress Customizer
WordPress PHP templates for all post types
In this article, I’ll walk you through each feature, and how I expect it to significantly impact our everyday work in WordPress. Let’s dive in!
1. REST API Content Endpoints
Let’s do the world-shattering one first: WordPress REST API content endpoints are now in core.
It can be hard to get your mind around what this means, so I’ll recommend
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