{"id":3764,"date":"2017-12-12T15:18:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2019-04-12T16:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T20:01:18","slug":"lend-hand-gutenberg-wordpress-4-9-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/lend-hand-gutenberg-wordpress-4-9-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lend a Hand with Gutenberg\u00a0– WordPress 4.9.1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Major Customizer Improvements, Code Error Checking, and More! 🎉<\/h2>\n

Welcome to an improved Customizer workflow with design drafts, locking, scheduling, and preview links. What\u2019s more, code syntax highlighting and error checking will make for a clean and smooth site building experience. Finally, if all that wasn\u2019t pretty great, we\u2019ve got a great new Gallery widget and improvements to theme browsing and switching.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Customizer Workflow Improved<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Draft and Schedule Site Design Customizations<\/h3>\n

Yes, you read that right. Just like you can draft and revise posts and schedule them to go live on the date and time you choose, you can now tinker with your site\u2019s design and schedule those design changes to go live as you please.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Collaborate with Design Preview Links<\/h3>\n

Need to get some feedback on proposed site design changes? WordPress 4.9 gives you a preview link you can send to your team and customers so that you can collect and integrate feedback before you schedule the changes to go live. Can we say collaboration++?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Design Locking To Guard Your Changes<\/h3>\n

Ever encounter a scenario where two designers walk into a project and designer A overrides designer B\u2019s beautiful changes? WordPress 4.9\u2019s design lock feature (similar to post locking) secures your draft design so that no one can make changes to it or erase all your hard work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A Prompt to Protect Your Work<\/h3>\n

Were you lured away from your desk before you saved your new draft design? Fear not, when you return, WordPress 4.9 will politely ask whether or not you\u2019d like to save your unsaved changes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Coding Enhancements<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Syntax Highlighting and Error Checking? Yes, Please!<\/h3>\n

You\u2019ve got a display problem but can\u2019t quite figure out exactly what went wrong in the CSS you lovingly wrote. With syntax highlighting and error checking for CSS editing and the Custom HTML widget introduced in WordPress 4.8.1, you\u2019ll pinpoint coding errors quickly. Practically guaranteed to help you scan code more easily and suss out and fix code errors quickly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sandbox for Safety<\/h3>\n

The dreaded white screen. You\u2019ll avoid it when working on themes and plugin code because WordPress 4.9 will warn you about saving an error. You\u2019ll sleep better at night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Warning: Potential Danger Ahead!<\/h3>\n

When you edit themes and plugins directly, WordPress 4.9 will politely warn you that this is a dangerous practice. It will recommend that you backup your files before saving, so they don\u2019t get overwritten by the next update. Take the safe route: your future self will thank you. Your team and customers will thank you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Even More Widget Updates<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The New Gallery Widget<\/h3>\n

An incremental improvement to the media changes hatched in WordPress 4.8, you can now add a gallery via widget. Yes!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Press a Button, Add Media<\/h3>\n

Want to add media to your text widget? Embed images, video, and audio directly into the widget along with your text, with our simple but useful Add Media button. Woo!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Site Building Improvements<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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More Reliable Theme Switching<\/h3>\n

When you switch themes, widgets sometimes think they can just up and move location. Improvements in WordPress 4.9 offer more persistent menu and widget placement when you decide it\u2019s time for a new theme. Additionally, you can preview installed themes or download, install, and preview new themes right. Nothing says handy like being able to preview before you deploy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Better Menu Instructions = Less Confusion<\/h3>\n

Were you confused by the steps to create a new menu? Perhaps no longer! We\u2019ve ironed out the UX for a smoother menu creation process. Newly updated copy will guide you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lend a Hand with Gutenberg 🤝<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Major Customizer Improvements, Code Error Checking, and More! 🎉 Welcome to an improved Customizer workflow with design drafts, locking, scheduling, and preview links. What\u2019s more, code syntax highlighting and error checking will make for a clean and smooth site building experience. Finally, if all that wasn\u2019t pretty great, we\u2019ve got a great new Gallery widget and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,47,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-software","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3872,"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions\/3872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}