Slides from WordPress Meetup Tokyo #24 (November 24, 2015)

1. WordPress 4.4
Toru Miki & Naoko Takano
@ WordPress Meetup Tokyo #24 (Nov 24, 2015)

2. Toru Miki
Toru / @waviaei
• WordPress Community
• Translations - Japanese package, Codex, WordCamp
• Core (2 commits!)
• WordCamp Tokyo 2011 - Leading Organizer
• WordPress Meetup Tokyo - Co-organizer
• Work
• Assistant Webmaster @ Temple University, Japan Campus
- maintain & develop the university website, and more

3. When is WordPress 4.4
coming out?

4. Time Schedule
✓ 21 October - Beta 1
...
✓ 11 November - Beta 4
• 18 November - Release Candidate (RC)
• 8 December - Target date!

5. What's in
WordPress 4.4?

6. It's going to be a big update!
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticketgraph

7. For Users (& Developers)
• Twenty Sixteen
- new default Theme
• Responsive Images
- native support for Responsive Images using
HTML 5.1's srcset and sizes
• Embeds
- oEmbed WordPress sites

8. For Developers
• WP REST API (Phase 1)
• Term metadata
• wp_title() is now deprecated
- use add_theme_support( 'title-tag' ) introduced
in 4.1
• WP_Comment class improvement
• and more ...

9. Further Readings
• WordPress › WordPress 4.4 Beta 1
https://wordpress.org/news/2015/10/
wordpress-4-4-beta-1/
• WP Tavern's WordPress 4.4 coverage
http://wptavern.com/tag/wordpress-4-4