Overview about new features in Wordpress 3.6

1. WordPress 3.6 “Oscar”

2. What’s New
1. New default theme
2. Admin Enhancements
3. New APIs for developers

3. 1. New default theme

4. 2. Admin Enhancements
• UI improvements on Navigation Menus Screen
• Revisions revised to be more dynamic and
scalable
• Autosave and Post Locking
• Preview Audio and Video on Media Edit
Screen
• In-line login following expired sessions

5. 3. New APIs for developers
• New audio/video APIs.
• Filters for revisions.
• Semantic Markup allows themes to choose
improved HTML5 markup for search forms,
comment forms, and comment lists.
• Search content for shortcodes with
has_shortcode() and adjust shortcode
attributes with a new filter.

6. 3.1. New audio/video APIs
• Add oEmbed support for Rdio and Spotify
• .webm (video/webm) was added to the MIME
types list
• Added wp_audio_shortcode() and
wp_video_shortcode()
• Introduce wp_add_id3_tag_data()
• Introduce wp_read_video_metadata()
• Introduce wp_read_audio_metadata()
• ...

7. 3.2. Filters for revisions
• Introduce filter wp_revisions_to_keep: allows
developers to easily alter how many revisions
are kept for a given post
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_
Reference/wp_revisions_to_keep

8. 3.3. Semantic Markup
• Semantic Markup is a theme feature. This feature
allows themes to explicitly choose to apply HTML5
markup for search forms, comment forms, and
comment lists.
$args = array(
'search-form',
'comment-form',
'comment-list',
);
add_theme_support( 'html5', $args );

9. 3.4. Shortcodes
• Introduce has_shortcode(): Checks whether
the content passed contains a specific short
code.
• Shortcode attributes can now be filtered via
shortcode_atts_$shortcode hook
• Added wp_audio_shortcode() and
wp_video_shortcode()