{"id":3738,"date":"2015-07-02T01:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T01:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:01:00","slug":"wordpress-4-3-beta-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2015\/07\/wordpress-4-3-beta-1\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 4.3 Beta 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 4.3 Beta 1 is now available!<\/p>\n<p><strong>This software is still in development,<\/strong> so we don\u2019t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.3, try the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordpress-beta-tester\/\">WordPress Beta Tester<\/a> plugin (you\u2019ll want \u201cbleeding edge nightlies\u201d). Or you can <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/wordpress-4.3-beta1.zip\">download the beta here<\/a> (zip).<\/p>\n<p>4.3 is due out next month, but to get there, we need your help testing what we&#8217;ve been working on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Menus<\/strong> can now be managed with the <strong>Customizer<\/strong>, which allows you to live preview changes you\u2019re making without changing your site for visitors until you\u2019re ready.\u00a0We&#8217;re especially interested to know if this helps streamline the process of setting up your site (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/32576\">#32576<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Take control of another piece of your site with the <strong>Site Icon<\/strong> feature. You can now manage your site\u2019s favicon and app icon from the admin area\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/16434\">#16434<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>We put a lot of work into <strong>Better Passwords<\/strong> throughout WordPress. Now, WordPress will limit the life time of password resets, no longer send passwords via email, and generate and suggest secure passwords for you. Try it out and let us know what you think! (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/32589\">#32589<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019ve also added <strong>Editor Improvements<\/strong>. Certain text patterns are automatically transformed as you type, including <code>*<\/code> and <code>-<\/code> transforming into unordered lists, <code>1.<\/code> and <code>1)<\/code> for ordered lists, <code>><\/code> for blockquotes and two\u00a0to six number signs (<code>#<\/code>) for headings (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/31441\">#31441<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019ve improved the <strong>list view<\/strong> across the admin dashboard. Now, when you view your posts and pages <strong>on small screen devices<\/strong>, columns are not truncated and can be toggled into view (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/32395\">#32395<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Developers<\/strong>: There have been a few\u00a0of changes for you to test as well, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Taxonomy Roadmap:<\/strong> Terms shared across multiple taxonomies will <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2015\/06\/09\/eliminating-shared-taxonomy-terms-in-wordpress-4-3\/\">now be split<\/a> into separate terms on update to 4.3. Please let us know if you hit any snags (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/30261\">#30261<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Added <code>singular.php<\/code> to the template hierarchy as a fallback for <code>single.php<\/code> and <code>page.php<\/code>. (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/22314\">#22314<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>The old Distraction Free Writing code was removed (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/30949\">#30949<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>List tables now\u00a0can (and often should) have a primary column defined. We\u2019re working on a fallback for existing custom list tables but right now they likely have some breakage in the aforementioned\u00a0responsive view (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/25408\">#25408<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want a more in-depth view of what changes have made it into 4.3, <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/tag\/4-3\/\">check out all 4.3-tagged posts<\/a> on the main development blog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you think you\u2019ve found a bug<\/strong>, you can post to the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/forum\/alphabeta\">Alpha\/Beta area<\/a> in the support forums. We\u2019d love to hear from you! 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