WordPress 4.4

Feature Notes

Twenty Sixteen Theme

Admin Cleanup

Comments Overhaul

Customizer Performance

HTTP 2.0

Image Flow/Flow Patrol

Media Widget

Multisite, the Next Generation

oEmbed, Feature Plugin

OO WordPress

Responsive Images

REST API

Shortcode Roadmap

Taxonomy Roadmap

WP HTTP Overhaul

Twenty Sixteen Theme

This will be the new default theme for WordPress

Admin Cleanup

Identify portions of the admin that could use a reboot

Comments Overhaul

Comment moderation might be able to take advantage of Heartbeat

Customizer Performance

Customizer progress has been constant, there is even more room for big gains

HTTP 2.0

The next version of the HTTP protocol requires HTTPS but offers some awesome speed advantages.

Image Flow/Flow Patrol

There’s a lot to comb through here, we could pick some small pieces

Media Widget

There is no default widget to add an Image/Audio/Video etc in the sidebar.

Multisite, the Next Generation

Believe it or not, Multisite isn’t perfect and there are some improvements we can make for the future

oEmbed, Feature Plugin

Make your own website an oEmbed providor

OO WordPress

Rewrite some internals as classes and cleanup some project quirks

Responsive Images

Remember when we wanted Retina Images in 3.5? This would have helped.

REST API

A lot of people want to see this in Core… is it ready?

Shortcode Roadmap

miqrogroove has written up a roadmap for continued improvements

Taxonomy Roadmap

boone has been tearing up the roadmap, will continue work this cycle

WP HTTP Overhaul

Let’s replace the internals of the existing WP HTTP API with Requests.