{"id":1403,"date":"2017-10-25T09:29:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2018-07-02T14:33:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T18:33:44","slug":"wordpress-upgrade-from-4-6-to-4-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/25\/wordpress-upgrade-from-4-6-to-4-8\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Upgrade &#8212; From 4.6 to 4.8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we upgraded the college&#8217;s public WordPress instance from 4.6 to 4.8.\u00a0 We&#8217;re now running the most recent version of WordPress, which introduces a few new helpful features.<\/p>\n<h4>New Features of 4.8<\/h4>\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li1\">New widgets include Image, Video, Audio, and Rich Text. Embedding images\/video\/audio files in the sidebar no longer requires knowledge of HTML. Similarly, the Rich Text widget allows custom styling and formatting of text through the visual editor.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Easier editing of menus through Appearance &gt; Customize, including site navigation menus and custom sidebar menus. Pages and posts can now be created through the Customize &gt; Menu screen.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">oEmbed support added for Facebook posts\/activities\/photos\/videos\/media\/questions\/notes, and \u00a0for Twitter profiles, lists, and likes. Ex. Paste the link of a Facebook post directly into a WordPress page, post, or widget and the Facebook post will automatically embed.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">The Media Library now allows searches by filename.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">&#8220;Link boundaries&#8221; have been added to links in the Page\/Post editor. Now adding text to the beginning and\/or end of links is easier than ever.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Version_4.7\">Version 4.7<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Version_4.8.1\">Version 4.8<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we upgraded the college&#8217;s public WordPress instance from 4.6 to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}