Tipton WordPress 4.9 aims to improve your customisation and design workflow. The 4.9 release was lead by Mel Choyce and Weston Ruter with support from 443 contributors..
From your WordPress dashboard, go to the updates section, Dashboard -> Updates and you should see the update available..
The main highlights of WordPress 4.9 include Customizer workflow, new code highlighter, new Gallery widget and several under the hood changes..
Similar to editing posts and pages, with WordPress 4.9 changes, you can now save draft of your customisations and schedule to publish them when you want..
Similar to your posts and pages editing experience, WordPress 4.9 now saves all your customizer changes and lets you restore the autosaved versions of your design. customizer autosave changes and restore WordPress.
With the addition of CodeMirror, WordPress 4.9 adds the possibility of syntax highlighting and error checking for any code changes you make in the editor..
The best part of the enhanced code editor is the warning you will see mentioning that it's dangerous practice to edit your code in this way.
WordPress 4.9 himproves accessibility, modernizes UI, and fixes many bugs..
WordPress 4.9 is the major update for the project this year and in overall, the update introduces few new features and impressive changes..
Some of the updates alslated to release in WordPress 5.0..
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