1.
WordPress 4.9
What’s new?
Mariusz Szatkowski

2.
WP dev HQ https://make.wordpress.org/

3.
Release date
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4.
Code editing
improvements:

5.
Code editing
improvements:
Linting code changes: prevent
saving, or add confirm message
Add better warnings when you’re
editing themes and plugins (even if
they’re not active)
Add nested folder structure
deeper than 2 levels / style.css
issue

6.
Customization
improvements
Customize snapshots plugin
integrated
Drafting changesets in the
Customizer
Scheduling changesets in the
Customizer

7.
Customization
improvements
Homepage settings (“Page on
Front”)
Gallery widget
Add media button to Text widget

8.
Better theme
switching
Better widget & menu mapping
when switching themes

9.
Updating a
plugin or theme
via a ZIP file
Drag and drop uploading of themes
and plugins

10.
Media
Customizer image dropzones
Responsive/Retina images in the
Customizer sidebar
Stop forcing people to crop images
that don’t need to be cropped

11.
REACT not yet
abandoned
WordPress Abandons React due to
FB Patents Clause,
Facebook re-licenses React under
MIT license
Calypso / Gutenberg to be
Rewritten with a Different Library (?)

12.
REST API Getting in API endpoints that
Gutenberg needs.

13.
Gutenberg
editor
Live session

14.
Thank you