Tip(ton) Your Cap to WordPress 4.9

We just released WordPress 4.9 "Tipton," named after jazz musician and band leader Billy Tipton.

https://wordpress.org/news/2017/11/tipton/

This release features Customizer improvements, including the ability to save customization changes as drafts, schedule them to go live at a certain time, and letting other people preview the changes easier. To improve code editing in the admin we've introduced syntax highlighting and error checking to make things more robust and harder to break.

What else is cookin'? We're doing a census of the WordPress world and I need your help! This survey takes just five minutes:

https://wordpressdotorg.polldaddy.com/s/wordpress-2017-survey

WordCamp US: Nashville Dec 1-3. Tickets Still Available!

https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/tickets/

The State of the Word address takes place Saturday afternoon during WCUS, and I will include some information from that survey, that I hope you're going to take. :)

Finally, have you heard of Gutenberg? Apart from sharing a name with the inventor of the printing press, this project's focus is on creating a new editing and customization experience for WordPress. The first iteration of Gutenberg introduces a new editor design featuring content blocks that can be directly manipulated. Even though the initial version aims to replace only the writing screen, future iterations planned for next year go into page templates and, ultimately, full site customization. Learn more about Gutenberg:

https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/

Gutenberg allows theme and plugin developers to create better experiences for their users via simpler, yet richer and more unified controls, using a library of components. It's a big change, and various paths will support existing WordPress functionality (such as shortcodes or meta-boxes) to help their transition.

How can you contribute? Test the plugin! There are several tests and you can find out about all of them here: https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/call-for-testing/gutenberg-testing/

When will Gutenberg be in core? The plan is to release Gutenberg in WordPress 5.0 early next year, so now is a great time to test and get ready for it.

Gutenberg is being made on GitHub, and contributions are welcome:

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg

With warmest regards,
Matt Mullenweg
https://ma.tt | https://wordpress.org | https://automattic.com


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