Thoughts on WordPress version 4.0

  • WordPress 4.0 is a good round number.

    Something that really should be celebrated with some awesome new features.

    For instance:
    – Reopening and extending the Media Grid Library Core Plugin:
    https://github.com/helenhousandi/wp-media-grid-view

    – A core plugin worked on today is the Front End Editor – similar to this could also be added to the backend in the on hold CEUX Core Plugin project.

    The Core Plugin feature has limited success from what I have seen from development for 3.8 and 3.9. As there are just too few developers taking part.
    https://make.www.ads-software.com/core/features-as-plugins/

    4.0 is a big release and it would be great to see even more developers contribute to this version.

    Having surveys asking for what features people want to see in 4.0.
    Having the results on wptavern or elsewhere for all to see and to comment on.

    Starting to create a buzz around the big 4.0 mark. Having some big cannon features in place.

    Possible features as I see it:
    Front End editing seems to be one of them.
    Another could be a good overhaul/redoing the Media Library.
    Total overhaul of multisite to better incorporate it into WordPress (blurring the single and multisite networks).
    Then a few more and a bunch of minor improvements.
    Examples like: drag&drop of all posts/pages (move posts/pages similar to menus today creating subpages. Closing/opening a branch with subbranches etc). Duplicate post/page. Easily jump between any post or page with a drop down. Improving commenting. Improving featured content (core plugin was partly made for 3.8 but project was cancelled).

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  • BTW, having font color/size is a TERRIBLE idea for core, because it means that the theme is no longer in control of styles; the post is. This would get abused to hell immediately.

    I have not upgraded to WordPress 4.0 yet and wanted to know if this had been fixed. Actually, I had not blogged for one and a half years as my site was attacked too many times by hackers and bad bots. As a result I was developing an anti hacking software to protect WordPress for the last one and a half years. It is working very well now and looks like its very effective against hackers, bad bots, scrappers, scanners, … but that is another story.

    As I had not blogged for a while I did not notice the Text Copy & Paste from Microsoft Word / Excel document stopped working sometime back.

    In earlier versions of WordPress I could copy and paste an Excel table (showing item, ingredients, percentage of main ingredient, weigth (g)) into my WordPress recipe articles and it would display very well … like a real table of data – columns and rows correctly aligned. With WordPress version 3.9.1 & 3.9.2 it displayed as a mess. I got to the point where I had to make a picture of the Excel table and paste it as an image (.png) into the WordPress article to display the recipe table properly.

    Was that fixed?

    Ok I installed WordPress 4.0 in an experimental sub directory (not on my WordPress blog) and tested it.

    I found that WordPress has definitely lost its ability to convert Excel spreadsheet tables to HTML. So I checked around and found two alternatives online converters.

    1. https://tableizer.journalistopia.com/tableizer.php
    &
    2. https://pressbin.com/tools/excel_to_html_table/index.html

    Both do an amazing job of converting Excel tables into HTML which is then pasted into your WordPress article in ‘TEXT’ edit mode.

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    Peter? If you have a support question (you do) please start your own topic in the support forums.

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform

    As WordPress 4.0 has been released already and this is not a support topic I’m going to close this thread.

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