{"id":3886,"date":"2012-06-21T09:28:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T09:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosemis.com\/blog\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2014-02-26T04:04:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T04:04:21","slug":"updating-site-wordpress-3-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosemis.com\/updating-site-wordpress-3-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating Your Site To WordPress 3.4"},"content":{"rendered":"

WordPress 3.4 was released on June 13, 2012 <\/a>and I advised all of my readers and clients to wait<\/strong> a week to 10 days BEFORE making the decision to update their WordPress installations. Good news!! I just finished updating over 2 dozen client sites and it has been flawless!! It appears that all of the plugins I recommend have been updated in record time and there are no glitches and hangups!!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Watch the video to get an overview of all the really cool new features!!
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The biggest change in 3.4 is the<\/strong> theme customizer<\/strong> which allows you to play around with various looks and settings for your current theme or one you\u2019re thinking about switching to without publishing those changes to the whole world. For themes that support it, you can change colors, backgrounds, and of course custom image headers. WordPress has more planned for the customizer down the road.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the rest of the admin you\u2019ll notice tweaks to make your everyday life easier.<\/strong> For example, if you have lots of themes we\u2019ve made it quicker to browse them all at once without paging. WordPress has made it possible to use images from your media library to populate custom headers, and for you to choose the height and width of your header images.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

WordPress has expanded the embed support to include tweets: just put a Twitter permalink on its own line in the post editor and it will be turned into a beautiful embedded Tweet. And finally, image captions have been improved to allow HTML, like links, in them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Here is the step-by-step procedure I personally use to update a site and it is the one I recommend that others use too! <\/span><\/span><\/strong>Be forewarned – this is not a quick update if you have alot of plugins. So give yourself enough time to do this correctly and it will save you alot of time and headaches in the long run!
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