We preview WordPress 3.4 for our SoCal WordPress meetup group at IndieDesk coworking in Downtown LA

1. SoCal WordPress
What’s coming up in
WordPress 3.4?
May 23rd, 2012
Presenter: Noel Saw

2. Tonight’s Venue Sponsor
WiFi SSID: indiedesk | Password: indiedesk816
(both all lowercase)
DTLA’s best Coworking Space!

3. Tonight’s Food Sponsors
QuickLaunch.
me
WordPress Intensive
Workshop
June 16th - $150 early bird
http://bit.ly/socalwp

6. Elegant Themes Contest
Please fill out workshop
survey to enter:
http://bit.ly/socalworkshop
Winner to be announced
Monday, May 28th

7. Easy Beta Installation
 Install only a test / dev sites – do not install on
important live sites
 If you do want to use on a live site, backup and backup
again first
 Use the WP beta plugin to install latest beta:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/
 Another recommended plugin – WP System Health
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-system-health/

8. What’s in 3.4 (beta)
 Live site customization preview
 Add HTML formatting to image captions
 Add your comments directly in backend WP admin post editor
 Lower memory usage (supposedly)
 Bug fixes, improved speed and lower memory usage
 Use pre-existing images for header in media library
 Theme finder results “infinite scrolling” – no more pagination
 Responsive WP admin UI – adapts better to narrow windows
 Get shortlink in posts (but not pages)
 Better integration with external applications

9. What’s in 3.4 (beta) page 2
 One neat little trick:
 Click on WP admin top toolbar to jump to top
 New Twenty Eleven and Twenty Ten themes due later this year
 Twenty Eleven dev: https://github.com/thethemefoundry/twentytwelve/

10. What’s still missing
 Overwrite images in media library
 Built-in caching
 Shortened links for pages

11. Contact Us
 Noel Saw
noel@wpverse.com
NoelSaw.com/+
@WPverse
 Natalie MacLees
@nataliemac
 Belsien Thomas
belsien@iconunlimited.com

12. Tonight’s Sponsors
QuickLaunch.
me
WordPress Intensive
Workshop
June 16th - early bird tba