Faster, easier and more..
Exciting news today as Wordpress have released the latest (and possibly the greatest) version of wordpress. Known as “Baker” after the Jazz musician Chet Baker, the new version of wordpress includes a bunch of new features that will enhance both wordpress developers and end users experience with the Content Management System.
For those who don’t know what Wordpress is, its a state of the art Content Management System (or CMS) that allows people to update their website with ease. Gone are the days of having to hard code youe updates, with a system like WordPress, you get fantastically rich editing capabilities, enabling site management to be done easily. What’s more, Wordpress is an Open Source platform so it benefits from being license free, and tens of thousands of wordpress developers all around the world improving it.
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So back to ‘Baker’, and most importantly, what’s new in it.
Well this release is focused on the User Interface (UI) and from a Users point of view, the key improvements that our Clients will benefit include:
Better Theme management and integration
New and improved ‘widget’ management allowing you to update and alter what appears where on your website – with drag and drop capabilities making it effortless to use
Customisable Dashboard that allows you to tailor what information and content you see from your administration page
Customisable editor screens that allow the user to select single or multi-column layouts, making it easier to edit content
The ability to change the number of pages and posts that appear in your CMS screens reducing scrolling and hunting for pages and posts
Improvements to the speed of the CMS platform (by further JAVA optimisation)
It of course includes a host of ‘backend’ improvements ranging from improvements to Accessibility features, Admin features, Database messaging and much more, so all in all it seems that the Baker release will indeed deliver a smoother, cooler and mellower way of managing your website or blog. I guess that’s why it’s called Chet Baker!
More about Wordpress
WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
Everything you see here, from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything from your cat’s home page to a Fortune 5 web site without paying anyone a license fee.
(source Wordpress.org).