WordPress 3.6 Oscar was released at the beginning of August and as with every new WordPress iteration, the most popular content management system (CMS) just keeps getting better and better. Leaving those other CMS frameworks behind. (cough, Joomla, cough, Drupal.)
Checkout this video that Automattic, the company behind WordPress, released to showcase the new features and updates with WordPress 3.6 Oscar. The video made it's debut at the 2013 State of the Word presentation at WordCamp San Francisco which is given my Matt Mullenwegg, the creator of WordPress each year.
As you can see there have been quite a lot of updates going on behind-the-scenes with WordPress. Notable new features include;
Article Locking
On WordPress sites with many users you will now see the above screen if you try to edit an article another user is working on. It's helpful for blogs and news sites that have many concurrent users. This prevents someone from correcting styling changes or typos the original author might know is there but hasn't had a chance to go in and fix yet. Saving time and hassle for everyone.
For those that are the sole writer on their blogs or website, this isn't a feature that you will find useful I assume. Of course you might in the future.
Better Revision Control
If an editor does take over a post you can always see who is editing with live updates in the list of posts. WordPress 3.6 also separates versions revisions by different authors so you know who wrote what.
WordPress 3.6 Oscar makes seeing your own revisions easy by highlighting text in snazzy colors. You can also go back in time and compare different versions of your article to see what you like and didn't like. This should allow you to be confident to explore and have writing freedom but gives you piece of mind you can still retrieve an old post if you liked it better.
Autosave
WordPress now automatically Autosaves posts so worrying about losing that great paragraph you wrote is not a concern anymore. Your content is safe whether your power goes out or you accidentally navigate away from your post.
Default Theme – Twenty Thirteen
Automattic has released a new default theme named Twenty Thirteen. The idea to to put the focus on content by having a single column. The design is inspired by modern art and has great fonts, bold colors, and a flexible layout. In addition the theme is more mobile optimized and should look great on any device whether that is your desktop, mobile phone, or tablet.
Media Embedding and Support
This is probably what most WordPress bloggers and users are most happy about with WordPress 3.6 I imagine. There is improved media support and embedding with a built in HTML5 media player now. This makes uploading files to your site and embedding them in posts a lot easier in WordPress 3.6 Oscar. All you do is paste the URL where the MP3 or video files is located, and boom, you are done. This means all those plugins you used to need to use to attach MP3 files are not really needed anymore. Also you can now embed music from SoundCloud, Spotify, and Rdio. (No, that is not a typo in case you are wondering.)
WordPress 3.6 Oscar
Well there are a lot of other great features in WordPress 3.6 that I could go on about these are the most important ones that most people will use I assume. I could go on and on about new improvements and how awesome WordPress is. It's just awesome they keep making Groovy changes and updates..
What do you think of WordPress 3.6 Oscar? Do you love the new features? If yes, what is your favorite new feature and why?
[Source – WordPress News Blog]