It has been a few weeks since WordPress released its last major edition of 2016, WordPress 4.7, and it already stands out with many cool features and benefits. The latest version introduces several new themes, editing improvements, templates, video headers, shortcuts, and more, all of which can greatly enhance the website experience for visitors and make website management easier and more convenient for you as a business.

In this post, we look at some of these features in more detail and analyze how you can gain from WordPress 4.7.

Twenty Seventeen

Twenty Seventeen is the default theme in the latest WordPress edition, which offers many exciting features and benefits. Compared to previous default themes, Twenty Seventeen is mainly focused on businesses instead of bloggers. This is evident by its starter content that allows users to create and setup their WordPress websites. That being said, Twenty Seventeen theme can also be utilized as a theme for bloggers. Owing to its mobile-friendly viewing experience and crisp images and typography, the theme can enable bloggers to share thoughts on the go and provide visitors with excellent readability.

Theme Setup Flow

WordPress has always listed themes through an easy viewable format. With the latest release, it provides a much more polished and cleaner way of navigating installed and new themes from its theme customizer that can save time and improve user experience. You can even change the layout of how you wish to see themes and can also browse in terms of feature and subject, as well as add it your favorites list.

Admin Language Control Panel

In the past, users saw content in the same language used in the admin interface upon installing WordPress. This is no longer a feature; WordPress 4.7 now enables users to switch the language in their admin interface from that in their user profile so that each user can browse the website in a language that they prefer. For this, you will need to install the languages that each user wishes to use before they can switch.

Editing Improvements

Editing makes up for a big portion of time spent on making corrections and formatting changes to a content piece to engage visitors. The new WordPress edition brings crucial editing changes to make editing less cumbersome and irritating. Instead of the heading selector and paragraph menu appearing at the bottom, it now appears in the top bar. Furthermore, the horizontal and strikethrough line buttons have been moved and put into the kitchen sink bar. More importantly, users have access to various keyboard shortcuts available in the drop down menus and tooltips.

Theme Options

WordPress 4.7 now enables users to set their own page layout, which was not a feature that was available in previous versions. For instance, you can choose on column and cause the content and title to be displayed vertically. More importantly, you can add more pages and also edit existing ones to your choosing for greater flexibility.

In conclusion, the new WordPress 4.7 version introduces users with various interesting and exciting features and benefits that are suited to both business and blogger use. These are crucial for improving website performance and providing content that is convenient and seamless to visitors. Your latest updated WordPress site deserves the best hosting environment – check out our plans here.