WordPress 3.5がリリースされたのは、つい数ヶ月前のことでした（正確には2012年12月11日）。さて、次のメジャーリリースであるWordPress 3.6はすでに進行中です。WordPress 3.6のリリースは2013年4月下旬を予定しています。私たちはWordPress 3.6の開発者を追い続け、どのような機能が期待されるかを皆さんと共有することにしました。この投稿では、WordPress 3.6でどのような機能が追加されるのかについて説明します。
より良い編集コントロール
WordPress 3.6は、特にブロガーやコンテンツ公開者にとって素晴らしい更新となるだろう。投稿編集エリアに焦点を当て、WordPressでコンテンツを作成する編集プロセスを改善するためのより良いツールとサポートを提供します。
投稿ロック
WordPress 3.6には、投稿ロックと呼ばれる編集コントロール機能が搭載されます。これにより、サイト管理者や投稿者は投稿をロックする権限がありません。ロックが解除されるまで、他のユーザーは同じ投稿で作業することができません。もし他のユーザーが投稿を編集する権利を持っている場合、そのユーザーには戻るか引き継ぐかのプロンプトが表示されます。これは、複数の投稿者がいるブログにとってはとても便利な機能です。
自動保存機能の改善
WordPress 3.6はコンテンツ編集に重点を置くため、自動保存機能が大幅に改善される。未保存の変更をブラウザーのローカルストレージに保存するという話もある。これは、期限切れのCookie、インターネット接続の喪失、不注意なナビゲーション、保存時のプラグインやコアのエラー、ブラウザークラッシュ、OSクラッシュ、キーボードの上を歩く猫などによって投稿日が失われるのを防ぐことができるので、非常に便利です。これらのいずれかが発生した場合、編集を中断したところから再開することができます。
目標は、投稿をWordPressに任せてもらうことだ。自動保存機能が導入されたのは、このようなさまざまな理由からだ。これが、多くの人がWindows Live Writerのようなサードパーティのアプリケーションを使ってWordPressの投稿をする理由です。自動保存機能を強化することで、多くのユーザーがWordPressの自動保存機能を信頼し始めることを期待している。
投稿リビジョンの取り扱いの改善
投稿リビジョンは、異なるバージョン間の変更を反映するようになりました。変更点は色や視覚的な要素で強調されるため、その違いにすぐに気づくことができます。
編集ワークフロー
最高のエディトリアルワークフロープラグインのひとつをコアに統合するという話があった。しかし、時間的な制約から、WordPress 3.6ではこの機能は追加されないことになった。このプロセスに関わる多くの課題が表面化したため、この努力は無駄ではなかった。これにより、コアチームは次のリリースに向けて事前に準備することができるだろう。(Mark Jaquithの説明を参照）。まあ、心配することはない。Edit Flowプラグインはまだ使えます（私たちも使っています）。
投稿フォーマットのUIが新規に改善されました。
WordPressが投稿フォーマットとカスタム投稿フォーマットをサポートしていることはご存知の通りです。しかし、以前のインターフェースはあまり目立ちませんでした。WordPress 3.6では、投稿フォーマットのユーザーインターフェースが新しくなります。ユーザーは投稿フォーマットを選択して切り替えることができるようになり、編集エリアは投稿フォーマットに応じて変わります。これらの変更のインスピレーションは、Alex Kingの投稿フォーマットUIプラグインから来ています。以前、WordPress 3.5に投稿フォーマットUIプラグインをインストールする方法を紹介しました。投稿フォーマットUIがどのようなものであるべきか、多くの人がアイデアやワイヤーフレームを送信しています。以下はMel Choyceが送信したモックアップです：
トゥエンティ・サーティーン
WordPress 3.6には、WordPressの新しい初期設定テーマであるTwenty Thirteenが搭載される。Twenty Thirteenは、投稿フォーマットを大幅にサポートします。これまでのWordPress初期設定テーマとは異なり、Twenty Thirteenは大胆な色を多用する。投稿ごとに異なる背景色を使用し、ユーザーがページをスクロールダウンしたときに見栄えが良くなります。Twenty Thirteenは完全レスポンシブで、異なる画面サイズ、解像度、端末でも同じように美しく表示されます。ライブデモをご覧ください。
WordPressメニューのための新規GUI
WordPressメニューエディターも新しく、より直感的なユーザーインターフェースになります。WPBeginnerでは、WordPress初心者の多くがメニューシステムを理解していないことに気づきました。タブやメニューのドロップダウン、複数のメニューの選択や切り替えは、ほとんどの新規ユーザーにとっては些細なことです。WordPress 3.6でこれが変わり、WordPressでのメニューの作成と管理がより簡単になることを願っています。
ログイン通知の改善
重要な作業中にユーザーセッションが切れてしまうことがあります。新しいログイン通知システムは、ユーザーが作業していたページを離れることなくログインを要求します。
WordPress 3.6のリリースにはまだ時間があります。これはメジャーリリースですので、これらの新機能の他にも、コアコードの改善、バグ修正、セキュリティ更新などが行われる予定です。WordPressに関するアイデアはいつでも送信することができます。WordPressに欲しい新機能は何ですか？WordPress 3.6リリースのお気に入りの機能は何ですか？下のコメントでお知らせください。
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Shailan says
I think WordPress Staff is doing a great job. I hope they can make it more user friendly in the next release. Not all wordpress users are programmers, you know.
Marian Pena says
As a new user to WordPress, I’m actually impressed already with the speed in which it loads. I have been a solid Joomla user for the last 8 years or so and until I had a problem in my own site yesterday, I had never tried WordPress, but decided while I wait for host to fix problem that I’d give it a go. Within an hour, I notified host not to bother, because I was switching CMS. However, as a 1 person admin site, I can honestly say that Lock Post does me no good, since I’m the only person who’s going to write my site, but for sites such as this one where there are probably several authors I can see it’s value.
The auto save feature from what I saw of it works just fine, so I’m not understanding the reasons for it’s improvement, but at the same time, being new, I wouldn’t know that either.
As a new user, I did find the menu/navigation a bit confusing, between understandind the difference between Pages and Categories, but as an experienced Joomla user and html user, I caught on quickly. I can see where newbies would get confused by it however.
The biggest improvement tho that I’d like to see is like the “newspaper” guy who noted about the media library area. The fact that we can’t add our own folders or subfolders and need to rely on WP to do this for us based on a monthly folder system is disconcerning. Let’s say your a recipe site where you have tons of images, if your just starting to build your site, you could end up with 30k in images for your first week or month of work and they are all in that one folder. I’d rather be able to folderize my images in my own manner and in a way that I recognize when I’m looking at the backups on my hard drive or if I have to find something down the road.
Now, I’m off to find a replacement for feedburner and hopefully I will find one. I don’t really want a newsleeter, I just want something that will automatically allow my visitors to get updates much in the same feedburner works. Hearing that it might be closing was sad news, since I’d just figured it out a few days ago.
John says
Some extra post-types “out of the box” would be a nice addition. Just having the option of posts & pages can sometimes be a bit limiting, and creating custom post types, custom taxonomies and metaboxes can be a pain.
StephenB says
How many sites will need/use the ‘multi-user’ features is debatable. A significant proportion are never going to need them.
Post-formats looks interesting. I assume the loop will be able to display them easily.
But stop adding bits and start sorting the core. Taxonomy meta data is an essential. No use implementing all the cms goodies of custom post-types & taxonomies if they can’t be used properly. Post meta and user meta is there… why they didn’t add the tax_meta table is frustrating. There’s a Trac for this with plenty of recognised power-users pleading for it!
Chris Howard says
What WP desperately needs is better image management. Categories and tags, to begin with. I’m working for a newspaper site at the moment and the Media Library quickly fills with images. When you want the user to re-use one – e.g. a stock image of a politician or corporate logo – it’s pain for them to locate.
Editorial Staff says
Have you checked out this:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-tag-images-in-wordpress-with-wordpress-media-tagger/
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Chris Howard says
Thanks. I looked at some of those, not sure if that one. Will check it out tomorrow.
Phil Simon says
Looks great. WP freaking rocks.
Keith Davis says
Thanks for the review guys
I love the WordPress custom menus interface.
Watched a video and then it was easy to use.
Obviuosly because of security, we have to upgrade but the one click upgrade is pretty painless.
Am I tempting fate saying that?
Robert Wilkins says
Thanks for the post! Auto lock looks promising but I agree with some of the other posters here, I don’t believe they really improved some of the items that needed improving. The visual editor, tinyMCE is horrible still. I have so many complaints from customers with this. On the tinyMCE site, the editor works flawlessly, it’s buggy in WP and broken with new version of Chrome.
Autosave is no big deal. I usually deactivate this on all my sites. WordPress is an awesome publishing platform but it’s getting bloated. It would be nice if automatic feeds aren’t optional or turned off. All that does is add size to the database.
I look forward to each release, but as Ryan Hellyer said, I keep hoping they make it better by reducing and optimizing rather than adding.
Hugh Sands says
I agree with you. It’s curious why so many software that become succesful follows the same path: ignoring bugs, avoiding optimizations, … getting into the bells and whistles run
When we’ll see many-to-many relationship integrated in the core or Ajax support improvements, specially performance?
Autosave/Revisions are overestimated IMHO
Yasir Jilani says
WoW…. just awesome, Thanks for the update, i am waiting for the 3.6 release!
Sandra says
These sound great, but I keep hoping they’ll do something to better organize the area in the dashboard that lists pages and posts.
A folder system instead of just indented subpages, for example, would be really helpful with large sites. That’s used in a number of commercial CMS platforms and it keeps things much better organized.
Andor Nagy says
WoW, Just wow. It’s unbelievable what these guys can come up with. I’m so exited about the new Post formats and stuff. The new theme looks amazing, but where did the sidebar go?
Also they’d really need to change how comments.php for themes works. It’s a nightmare to work with it D:
Gautam Doddamani says
oooh twenty thirteen looks awesome..i had heard about post lock a while back, a very interesting feature indeed! i have already controlled my post revisions to be maximum at 2 for every post…really thought editorial flow would come in wp 3.6 as well, hmm i guess they will introduce it later…i am really excited, mostly because a more new and nice gui has been given for the post editor
Cheers,
Gautam
Matt Rittman says
How about fixing the issue of not being able to link images to “file”? I always have to manually edit this in code view, otherwise it links to the post.
conualfy says
I guess you are talking about inserting galleries. You can change the box from File to Attachment and back to File. This is the way I make it work until they fix the javascript.
Rajesh Magar says
Thanks Syed,
This is really great news that WordPress most popular theme is going to come with “Responsive Design” functionality.
Chris says
Instead of Automatic Inc, investing 1.2 Million Dollars in wpengine.com and the EverCache system (Which really isn’t that great), they should have used the money to fix WordPress..
Editorial Staff says
Ummm why? Automattic is a separate entity created for profit. WordPress is a non-profit open source project. Anyone can contribute and make it better. Perhaps you should stop making money and contributing full-time to make WordPress better or in your own words “fix it”???
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M Asif Rahman says
Thanks for the update. Nice timely post. I understand the cause of dropping Edit Flow from 3.6 core. But with Post lock and Improved Auto save maybe future version like 3.7 will come up with advance Editorial Flow control.
Editorial Staff says
Most definitely Asif.
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Davide De Maestri says
95% of these features are unuseful XD
Editorial Staff says
Dang sorry you think that way
We really thought that auto-save and post locking was a great step forward in those areas.
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Aaron says
I am very excited to see the additions! I can’t wait to see what the new post formats ui looks like!
rasarab says
Great features …..
Arif Rahman says
Looks exciting, waiting for the new release!
Harley says
I hated 3.5. Still do and regrets upgrading to it and despises the new media uploader. I always TURN off post revisions and hopes in 3.6 one still can.
What you NEED to fix is the way WP always messes with any custom HTML if switched back to VISUAL mode.
WordPress is really beginning to become bloated and intrusive, If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
Editorial Staff says
If the formatting troubles you, then you can always disable them.
remove_filter('the_content', 'wptexturize'); remove_filter('the_excerpt', 'wptexturize'); remove_filter('comment_text', 'wptexturize'); remove_filter('the_title', 'wptexturize');1-click Use in WordPress
Yes, you can always turn off revisions, but we find them to be very useful.
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Mohan Babu says
Wow ! just nice version …..
Ahmad Raza says
Great features..can’t wait to see these all features working on my site…
Ajay says
I switched from WLW to WordPress’ editting interface because of its media manager back in 3.4 which just got better with 3.5.
WLW just didn’t give me the flexibility for managing images. And, worst of all it doesn’t work on a Mac
Editorial Staff says
Agreed. But with this new auto-save, it’s getting even better.
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Elliott Richmond says
Post locking looks sweet! And it’s about time Post Formats had a little overhaul
Editorial Staff says
Yes, we are very excited for the future of themes. Because now more themes will have an incentive to be compatible with these post formats.
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Ryan Ray says
Yup, very excited about post formats! Should be a big help in pushing themes to adopt them as well!
anwar hussain says
Just want to say WOW! for new WordPress 3.6… Specially Twentythirteen theme……
Pritesh Desai says
Looks exciting, waiting for the new release!
Ata Ur Rehman says
Very interesting and looking forward to it..
Ryan Hellyer says
My favourite feature is the lack of features. This release seems to be concentrating more on improving what is there rather than adding more junk to the trunk.