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What’s New in WordPress 4.6 “Pepper”

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If you’re a WP Buffs customer, your website has already been upgraded to WordPress 4.6. Woohoo!

WordPress 4.6 has arrived! Here are some of the major updates you’ll see once you make the jump.

Streamlined Updates

Don’t lose your place: stay on the same page while you update, install, and delete your plugins and themes.

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Native Fonts

The WordPress dashboard now takes advantage of the fonts you already have, making it load faster and letting you feel more at home on whatever device you use.

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Inline Link Checker

Ever accidentally added a link to a non-existent page? Now WordPress automatically checks to make sure you didn’t.

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Content Recovery

As you type, WordPress saves your content to the browser. Recovering saved content is even easier with WordPress 4.6.

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There were some under-the-hood updates to WordPress as well, and while they’re not for WP beginners, feel free to check them out here or watch the video!


A big shoutout to Dominik Schilling and Garth Mortensen who led on this release. And thanks to the 272 contributors who supported 4.6 Pepper!

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