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New features in WordPress 3.8

16/1/2014

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wordpress 3.8 Admin color scheme
Admin color scheme in wordpress 3.8
wordpress 3.8 dashboardDashboard of wordpress 3.8
WordPress 3.8, “Parker”, the latest addition in WordPress field is the outcome of toils of 188 core contributors. The term “Parker”, has been given commemorating Charlie Parker, a jazz saxophonist and bepob innovator. Some awesome features have been introduced in this version of wordpress, which are going to be discussed below:

Modern admin interface

New version of wordpress provides a modern and improved admin interface. This improvement is mainly done by the MP6 plugin, which has been made a part of wordpress 3.8 core. It facilitates the wordpress admin by breaking up and simplifying admin UI.

Admin color scheme

Wordpress 3.8 provides colorful and refreshing interface for admin. If you don’t like the default color, don’t worry. Just go to your dashboard, select Users->Profile.

Just look at the color schemes available for you. You are surely going to like these color schemes and customization

Responsive design

This version offers a responsive design by achieving significant improvement in content display.

It introduces vector based icons called dash icons. By using vector based graphics instead of pixels, it offers significantly fast page load facilities.

It introduces the Open Sans font throughout the admin area. It is a simple and friendly font with good spacing between characters. So it increases readability as well as it simplifies editing.  Along with these, it is optimized for both desktop and mobile display.

Sophisticated dashboard

Till the release of wordpress 3.8, dashboard of wordpress was sort of ignored in case of improvement in the previous versions. In this version, it has got some attention and the outcome is the new look.

New dashboard is simplified, attractive and sophisticated. Previous eight widgets are replaced by four. So, organization of the dashboard has got a smarter look.


The ‘Activity’ widget is the replacement of previous ‘Recent comment’ widget, which displayed most recent five (5) comments. It is a closer mimic than the previous one.

Two draft related widget ‘Recent draft’ and ‘Quick press’ are condensed into a new widget named ‘Quick draft’.

Three news related widget ‘Wordpress blog’, ‘Other wordpress news’ and ‘Plugins’ are condensed into a new widget ‘Wordpress news’.

Attractive widget management

One of the satisfactory features is new attractive widget interface. The organization of widgets and widget areas is simple and easy to handle. Addition, removal and transfer of widget also have been simplified.

Default 2014 theme

Twenty fourteen is a new wordpress theme designed with magazine layout. It was released before the release of wordpress 3.8. From the initial design, this theme has been improved significantly and achieved good user experience. As a result, in wordpress 3.8, it has been made the default theme.

WordPress 3.8 has emerged with its unique features being more user friendly and advantageous to use. Here we have discussed some new amazing features of WordPress 3.8. Hopefully you have enjoyed it and will make a try for hands on experience.

Default 2014 theme in wordpress 3.8
Default 2014 theme in wordpress 3.8
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    Vaibhav O Yadav - Top IT professional. Worked with Fortune 100 company. I like to spread the knowledge. Analyse situation and environment with long term vision and solution. Firm believer of sustainable development for earth. Apart from from being geeky also like to play multitude variety of video games on greater stretch of time with favorite being economic simulation

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