Tipton is the latest version of WordPress. The leading content management system and website builder has always been quite simple to use and master. The newest release comes with many new features that, as per web designers and WordPress experts, are going to make life and design a lot easier for everyone. It is an experience upgrade for not just the designers, but also the users. The users will find an ease of navigation along with the new features on the updated websites. WordPress has always been a very streamlined platform. Keeping the platform updated is an excellent practice as it offers smooth workflow. It also provides additional security updates that keep WordPress based websites safe from external threats!
A quick look at the changes that Tipton is bringing forth
It is a delight for most designers. The incremental improvements that Tipton has brought can only make faster WordPress website design a reality.
- Designers can now add new galleries via a new widget
- Adding media to text widget is as simple as pressing a button
- Designers can switch themes without extensive widget rearrangement
- Tipton offers better menu creation process for an enhanced UX
- It removes excessive dependency on jQuery
Tipton provides another way to create an improved user experience (UX). As you must already know, UX is a substantial factor when it comes to judging a site’s quality and user-friendliness. Excellent UX is also necessary for a site’s SEO. This update has brought forth a ticket to the front row seat of Google’s SERPs for most WordPress websites.
Draft and preview site design customizations
The previous version of WordPress allows designers to draft posts and preview the pages before they publish it. The new version lets the designers update the changes to the site, save it as drafts, and review the changes before the site goes live for viewers to access. Tipton provides shareable preview links. That is somewhat of a novel feature. Clients will be able to preview the changes, access the website’s new features and revise the changes before the designer makes it permanent. It bridges the gap between the designing team and the website owner.
Feedback and collaboration get a new breath of life with the shareable preview links. It effectively means that users who are offline can also view the changes by merely visiting the shared link(s). That is especially great for bigger teams that need to weigh in on the changes before the WordPress design goes live.
Never lose another design version during design collaboration
One of the most exciting features of this update is “Version Locking.” As the name suggests, the designer can lock several versions of the same website with subsequent changes for final viewing. It is in contrary to previous versions, where new changes obliterated previous ones. Tipton’s powerful design interface allows designers to save several versions of the same website without any overriding. Earlier it meant making another set of changes to go back to the previous version. The new update makes hopping back and forth between design stages as easy as clicking a button. It further facilitates a collaborative work process. When several people are working on the same project, they can save their contributions without overwriting the other’s changes. It is an enhanced process for the website owner as well.
In fact, the newest addition is a saving prompt. It can save you from hours of undoing or redoing changes just because you forgot to hit “save” before you left your desk. Forgetting is a universal human habit, and the new update makes room for these errors. Saving prompts on WordPress takes extra care to save all your ongoing projects. Tipton makes the design process on WordPress a lot faster and smoother. It just makes it a lot easier for designers to sleep well at night!
Secure code editing process for site, plug-ins, and widgets
You can think of CodeMirror like the code watchman on your WordPress platform that looks out for any errors in codes that might come from the designer’s end. It is a text editor in JS that adds a definitive charm to your coding. Aside from making your code look fancier and more sophisticated, it has the structure to verify any changes that you may want to make to the website’s core code.
The new features of the WordPress 4.9.1 Code Mirror include:
- Live error checking
- Syntax highlighting
- Adding plug-in code or theme edit from dashboard editor
- Editing the custom HTML widgets
- Including custom CSS code
The primary task of CodeMirror is to prevent fatal flaws from taking down the website. It will not allow the designer or the website owner to save a bunch of codes that can hinder the smooth functioning of the site.
WordPress 4.9.1 brings new security features
Security has been a longstanding topic of discussion between designers and clients using WordPress. It has become especially critical after the malware attacks and ransomware attacks of last year where thousands of WordPress sites felt the direct threat. WordPress 4.9.1 implements a plethora of new security fixes.
- Users without the unfiltered_html capacity cannot upload JavaScript files to the site.
- A determinate substring is no longer enough, and users will need a hash for the “newbloguser” key.
- Tipton provides complete security to the sites from multi-vector attacks.
- If anyone tries to change the site admin email address, a notification goes to admin via email.
Tipton update has empowered the existing security features and helped tighten the security at the backend efficiently.
A few final words on what is new
The news of Gutenberg launching WordPress 5.0 is surfacing across the web. Nonetheless, the Tipton update has been one of the most groundbreaking steps towards the improvement of designer interface and workflow in WordPress. You can say that the WordPress 4.9.1 update is an improvement of the 4.8.0 Evans update. The new version/update keeps the experience user-centric, and it introduces new safety mechanisms for a faster design process. However, you should remember that unless you enjoy a managed WP hosting service, you need to initiate the update manually.
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