What Can You Expect More From Wordpress In Future

The development process of WordPress has come a long way, with the incorporation of a number of value added features of various dimensions as well as approach in its version 3.7. Again with time, all these value added features have broken up, making way for separate plugins. These plugins have operated individually till they were once again integrated into core.

With a constant transformation under way, WordPress in the future is likely to come up with a wide variety of features and there is enough scope of speculation regarding what types of features will be incorporated in the coming versions of WordPress. In fact, experts are of the opinion that the upcoming versions are likely to be different from the previous versions in terms of usability, along with forms.

A Revamped Dashboard

The future version is likely to come up with a plugin that will make the dashboard look sleeker as well as more robust. While one of the most significant issues that has plagued the WP dashboard till now is that they come up with a number of widget ready spaces. This forces the users to drag the widgets underneath the fold. Plugin of the new version will solve this issue as it will help the users to ditch this typical drop and drag facility and take the help of a user-friendly selection menu along with a button. This will understandably make dealing with the widgets much easier when it comes to managing them on various mobile devices, especially for those which are not custom built for the typical drag and drop option.

Redesigning the Theme Section

The THX38 plugin that the new versions are expected to come up with, is perfectly designed to revamp or rejuvenate the appearance of the theme section of the Dashboard of the WordPress. The objective of this plugin is to replace the traditional text-heavy pages of the WordPress with something that will be visually more appealing. This new plugin also puts more emphasis on the Theme Customizer. Besides, when it comes to themes that support it, the customiser plays the role of the main interface. In the further future versions, the Customizer is expected to become the unifying page for “theme options” that will be applicable for any theme.

A Universal Admin Search

The new OmniSearch plugin is designed to remove all the different search systems within the WP dashboard. As things stand now, for searching comments, the user at first will have to navigate through the comments tab. The same thing will have to be done for the posts, media as well as pages. The Omnisearch plugin collaborates all these results and offers the users the option of searching for all of them simultaneously.

New Look Structure of Dashboard

Then there is the WPDash plugin that is perfectly designed to remove the clutter and consolidate the information for creating a greetings page that is not only more streamlined, but is less bloated as well, especially when it comes to logging into the WP Dashboard. The plugin also makes the first page widgets, responsive and make the overview of the website more approachable, customer-friendly as well as cleaner.

Superior Search Functionality

As things stand now, the functionality of the standard WP search procedure asks for a considerable extent of improvement. Particularly, when we are speaking about storing an increased volume of content as well as information. At present the user needs to search in the following order – tags, followed by categories, then custom fields, and finally shortcodes. This is expected to change and there will be an advanced option by the virtue of which the user will be able to search for definite phrases, along with quotes, tags, custom fields, search comments, shortcodes. They will be designed in such a way that the user will look for information by relevance instead of date, matched partial words, and so on.

They are expected to come up with an improved search result page, with the search items highlighted and made bold to catch easy attention. The search results will return detailed information – instead of just excerpts or a paragraph or two.

WordPress is a fantastic platform, that facilitates free as well as open source blogging along with a CMS that is based on MySQL and PHP. With more value added and advanced plugins being added, it is likely to become more attractive and user friendly in the coming days.

You can hire developers from top wordpress application development companies in India who can help you build products within allocated budgets and time schedules.

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Benefits of having WordPress Apps for Mobile Devices

There are huge benefits of having WordPress apps for mobile devices. Read on to know more.

Firstly, we can assess the prevalent situation in the following manner. WordPress is practically treated as the gold standard of content management systems owing to its great popularity as an easy-to-use, flexible and of course an open-source blogging and CMS system. There is not much to say about the mobile revolution except for the fact it has drastically changed the way people use the internet. With an explosion of mobile devices in the market and specifically the smart phones, more and more people are using their smart phones not just for blogging but also for researching products and services and making decisions to buy them. So while relying on WordPress is becoming the standard for delivering content, a growing number of users are using mobile devices to consume that content. At the same time from a business perspective, the significant increase in tablet computing and mobile technologies is encouraging more and more companies to take advantage of these devices in order to differentiate themselves from their peers. And they do this by developing apps for mobile devices such as iPads and smart phones in order to give themselves an edge over the competition. 

A few years back, WordPress was one of the first significant apps available on the iPad and iPhone devices and, while initially it struggled to be useful, it has graduated into quite the handy app. The latest version 3.1 of the app is all the more better with an updated look and the inclusion of WordPress.com stats, a new simple post preview, and a brand new Friend Finder feature which helps the user find friends who are blogging on WordPress.com. The WordPress app for android version 2.1 is an Open Source app that empowers the user to write new posts, edit content, view stats, and manage comments with built-in notifications. In fact, WordPress for Android supports both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (3.0 or higher) blogs. A BlackBerry user who has a WordPress blog and fancies blogging on the go, just needs to grab the latest version of WordPress for Blackberry v1.6.3 from the BlackBerry App World. This version comes with some reliability improvements, support for stats and better error messages should they happen. The WordPress for Windows Phone version 1.5 includes apart from crash fixes and minor UI improvements and updates a brand new Stats button for bloggers, Posts Scheduling, comments management involving multiple comments for bulk moderation, infinite scrolling and media uploading. These apps are  contributed greatly by enhancing customer experience.

Mindfire Solutions has a team of more than 30 expert WordPress developers as well as a highly skilled Mobile Applications Development team who have more than 8 years of Mobile apps development expertise. We have successfully executed a number of projects which required us to develop or customize WordPress apps for Mobile devices leaving our clients extremely satisfied and enabling them to tap into the mobile devices user segment.

Why WordPress is the favorite CMS?

For most businesses WordPress is the favorite CMS. So what are those ingredients that make it the CMS of choice? We all know that choosing a CMS for a website is the most crucial first task for a webmaster. The chosen CMS will play a great role in defining how the particular website is created as well as what tools will be available for creating a desired website.

Here are a few advantages that WordPress has over the gamut of CMSes that are currently available and sets it apart from them:

• Speed of development: The speed with which WordPress comes out with its multitudes of minor and major upgrades is unmatched in the CMS market. Additionally, WordPress makes it extremely convenient to update both the core and complimentary plugins. The presence of an agile WordPress application development community ensures that upgrades are readily available.

• Greater Security: At one point of time, websites built on WordPress faced the maximum number of hacks and security issues. Today however, with the availability of many security plugins for WordPress which makes the work of managing the security even simpler, WordPress is once again the most widely used CMS.

• Higher Flexibility: The idea behind creating WordPress was to be able to utilize plugins to create just about any type of website that a webmaster might need. WordPress which no longer remains a simple blogging platform, has graduated into the most powerful CMS that can be used to create full-fledged websites, sales pages, squeeze pages, and even membership sites

• Search-Engine Friendliness: Only a few content management systems have the advantage of being search engine friendly. WordPress, with its library of plugins has been designed specifically to be search engine friendly. This allows for amazingly fast load times coupled with a lightweight core which makes adjusting the settings of particular websites to meet the needs of search engines easy.

• Smaller learning curve: Compared to other Content Management Systems, WordPress seems to have a much smaller learning curve. The back-end is designed to be very intuitive and user friendly which helps to download and install plugins from inside the dashboard. The ease of updating the core and plugins with a single click and the flexibility of having the updates notified on the dashboard whenever they are available substantially helps in making it the CMS of choice.

• Less Resource Consuming: WordPress consumes less server resources than any other available CMS and does not load the server as such.

If you finally choose WordPress as your desired CMS, then you may seek WordPress experts who would help you set up your site in time with full functionality. We would be glad to assist if you hire our expert WordPress development services.

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