21 Best Wedding WordPress Themes

Are you looking for a wedding themes for your WordPress site? For wedding websites, you need a theme that can showcase the best moments of the event. In this article, we have picked some of the best WordPress wedding themes that you can use.

Making a Wedding Website with WordPress

WordPress is a popular choice to build family blogs, events, and wedding websites. Mainly because it is so easy to use and manage.

There are two types of WordPress websites available. WordPress.com and WordPress.org which is also known as self hosted WordPress. See our article on the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org

We recommend using WordPress.org because it gives you freedom to use all WordPress features out of the box.

You will need a domain name and a WordPress hosting account to start a self-hosted WordPress website.

We recommend using Bluehost. They are one of the best WordPress hosting companies in the world and an official WordPress hosting provider.

Once you have purchased hosting, you are ready to install WordPress. Follow the step by step instructions in our guide on how to start a blog.

That being said, let’s take a look at some of the best WordPress wedding themes that you can install on your website.

1. Ultra

Ultra is an all-purpose WordPress theme including ready-made designs for all kind of websites. It includes beautiful template for Wedding websites, featuring full screen background images and elegant typography.

It includes our story section to introduce bride and groom, beautiful photo galleries, and an RSVP section. It comes with a powerful drag and drop page builder and super easy theme options panel to setup your website.

2. Just Married

Just Married is a gorgeous WordPress wedding theme. It features an elegant design with full screen background images, a single column homepage, and stunning image galleries.

It includes custom colors and comes with 4 color schemes. Inside you’ll also find sections to add groomsmen, bridesmaid, accommodation, reservations, contact form, and more.

3. Meridian Wedding

Meridian Wedding is a beautifully designed WordPress theme with stylish layout and built-in custom features. Its homepage features a full-width slider to display photos of the lucky couple on top with call to action buttons to RSVP and gift registry.

It includes beautiful photo galleries, RSVP form, location, date, and complete event scheduling system. It is easy to setup with theme customizer where you can see live preview of your website as you set up.

4. Inspiro

Inspiro is a WordPress theme designed to create a lasting impression. It is perfect for photography, video, and wedding websites. It includes beautiful video and photo galleries, full screen video backgrounds, and lightbox popup support for photos and videos.

It ships with a 1-click installer and 5 ready-made layouts including one for wedding websites. It comes with a simple drag and drop page builder to edit your pages. All theme options can be easily setup using live customizer.

5. Amore

Amore is a stylish WordPress wedding theme with a beautiful design to make your website standout. Its homepage features a fullscreen slider with animated event countdown.

It is easy to customize and allows you to create and use any color scheme you want. All theme options can be set up using theme customizer. It also comes with drag and drop page builder to create your own custom layouts.

6. Lense

Lense is a WordPress photography theme with a unique design that makes it perfect for wedding websites. Its homepage features a beautiful photo gallery with horizontal scrolling. It also allows you to add photos in columns, grid types, scrollers, and slideshows.

You can have different settings for each one of your galleries. It has unlimited colors, custom widgets, unique mobile experience, and easy customization.

7. Emma

Emma is an elegant and modest WordPress wedding theme. Featuring crisp typography, beautiful colors, and full screen images, this theme has all you’ll need for a beautiful wedding website.

It also includes an RSVP form and free plugins to add registry, social sharing, and Instagram features. It is translation ready and comes with an easy setup with demo data included.

8. Selfie

Selfie is an excellent choice for a WordPress wedding theme. Designed to showcase photographs beautifully, this theme comes with beautiful layout that looks stunning on all devices.

It has a collapsible navigation and sidebar that gets out of way on both mobile and desktop. It also has a separate blog section with touch enabled galleries. Theme setup is quite straight forward and most options work out of the box.

9. Nayma

Nayma is an all purpose WordPress theme with multiple several purpose built designs, including one for wedding websites. This wedding template features a large full screen image with your wedding announcement on top of it.

It has beautiful parallax background effects for different sections, gorgeous photo galleries, and an area to display event details like time, venue, schedule, and more. It is super easy to use and comes with modules that you can just drag and drop to adjust your design.

10. Wedding Band

Wedding Band is a free WordPress wedding theme with simple features and easier setup. It features a gorgeous full width slider on top followed by different sections.

All theme options are easy to setup using the live theme customizer. It also includes styling for adding contact form and a full-width page template that you can use with any WordPress page builder plugin.

11. Zoro

Zoro is another excellent choice for a WordPress wedding website. It features super sized photo galleries to showcase the best moments of the wedding day. You can change photo gallery layouts into different types of grids with two or three columns.

It includes 4 homepage samples, 4 header styles, unlimited colors, Google Fonts, and a visual page builder. Theme setup is easier with demo content importer and a custom theme options panel.

12. Truelove

Truelove is a simple and free WordPress theme to instantly create a beautiful wedding website. It includes a simple slider on top followed by different sections. Theme setup is done via customizer and allows you to add custom header, background, widgets, and navigation menus.

13. Shutter

Shutter is a powerful WordPress photography theme with stunning templates including a wedding website design. It puts your photographs in front and center and offers an elegant and highly engaging user experience.

It ships with multiple demos, layout choices, different layout combinations that you can mix and match, unlimited colors, and built-in social media integration. It ships with a beginner friendly landing page builder and easy theme installer.

14. Newlyweds

If you are looking for a classic elegance design, then take a look at Newlyweds. This free WordPress theme uses an old timey classic layout with subtle colors and beautiful typography. It uses Cormorant Garamond and Great Vibes fonts for the elegant crisp typography.

It includes an event countdown timer, beautiful photo galleries, bride and groom photos, and custom logo support. All theme options are super simple and can be easily setup using live theme customizer.

15. Modules

Modules is a well crafted all-purpose WordPress theme. It takes a modular approach to design which allows you to use built-in blocks to just drag and drop on a canvas to build beautiful pages.

It ships with 16 turnkey designs for different industries including photography, personal, and event websites. Apart from that it includes ready-made design elements that you can instantly add. It is very easy to use and customize and perfect for wedding websites.

16. Selkie

Selkie is a WordPress blogging theme built for photographs and it is perfect for wedding websites. It’s homepage features a large header image with a call to action button that you can use for RSVP for registry pages.

Selkie is full of options, it has two layout choices, multiple navigation menu styles, 10 different blog layouts, and more.

17. Memories

Memories is a stylish WordPress theme suitable for photographers, fashion, and lifestyle sites. Its design features a unique layout, which makes it a great choice for wedding websites. It comes with a beautiful gallery display to showcase the best of your photographs.

It works with all popular WordPress plugins so you will be able to add new features as you go. Theme setup is quite easy with tons of options.

18. Focussity

Focussity is a beautiful WordPress theme for wedding photographers. It includes a custom portfolio section with beautiful image galleries. It supports fullscreen header images and backgrounds.

It also comes with a drag and drop page builder to create your own layouts. Focussity is multilingual ready and comes with beautiful parallax effects and background video support.

19. Gallery Pro

Gallery Pro is an elegant and minimalist WordPress photography and lifestyle theme. It is built on top of Genesis theme framework, which is highly optimized for faster WordPress speed.

It offers a clean minimalist layout to showcase your wedding day with style. Theme features allow you to easily add customizable header, drag and drop layout, and use page templates to add blog section as well. It is super simple to use and most features work right out of the box.

20. Jen+Ben

Jen+Ben is a simple and beautifully designed WordPress theme for wedding websites. It features a large featured image on top, which can also be replaced with a slider. It comes with a set of companion plugins that you can enable to add features as you set up the theme.

It includes custom header styles, beautiful navigation, Google maps, contact form, and social media features. Inside you will find custom theme options panel that will guide you through setup.

21. Hitched

Hitched comes as part of an all-purpose WordPress mega theme. You will get not just a wedding theme, but also themes to build various other websites. It has a 1-click demo installer, which allows you to import content and then just replace items with your own wedding photographs and information.

Inside you’ll find all the usual features you’d expect from premium WordPress theme. Noteable features include sliders, photo galleries, contact form, translation and multilingual support, event management, and more.

We hope this article helped you find the best WordPress wedding themes for your website. You may also want to see our list of must have WordPress plugins for all websites.

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9 Years of Blogging – Evolution of The Biggest Blogging Community [ 🎉 Anniversary Post]

Wait, so that is what you do for a living? You blog?

How do you make money? Blogging? You’ve got to be kidding me!

Those are the most common questions, combined with an expression of disbelief, us bloggers have to face when we talk about our work in social circles.

Today (1st December 2017) marks the 9th year of blogging for me. When I started, I knew I wanted to do this. But I would be lying if I say I had seen it all coming and that I would get this far, and successfully at that.

And believe me when I say this today, I have never been more proud of myself. Yes! I AM a blogger.

It may have been 9 years today, but it feels like yesterday when I borrowed my friend’s credit card to buy a hosting and domain name. That is exactly how ShoutMeLoud came into existence. It is hard to believe, but that, my friends, is the actual truth.

Statistically, today is the three thousand two hundred and eighty-fifth day of ShoutMeLoud. What this journey has taught me is more than what I have learned in my entire life.

From running a one-man blog to a community that has become a stepping stone for thousands into the world of blogging, this journey has been nothing but satisfying. That rewarding, satiating feeling I get in helping people become their own boss is hard to explain. And all this would never have been possible had I not had the awesomest people around me, like family and friends.

Read:

• Harsh Agrawal – My Blogging journey so far
• After 2191 days of blogging I could say ‘Blogging is incredible’!

It’s not just the people who are part of the ShoutDreams team, but our readers (Shouters) like you who believed in the idea that people can live their lives on their own terms. That belief is what has guided ShoutMeLoud this far!

Unveiling the new brand identity: ShoutMeLoud

I would like to take this opportunity (our 9th anniversary) to proudly unveil the new brand identity of ShoutMeLoud. But before that let me quickly share the backstory of the ShoutMeLoud logo:

ShoutMeLoud Logo story:

Until today, we used two different logos – both created by my friends.

•  Our rectangle logo 

This one was created by my architect friend who goes by the name Amit Arya. This has been our logo for the past 9 years and many of you have seen it on our social media profiles. This logo was created on the same day when ShoutMeLoud was born. Heartfelt thanks, Amit.

•  Our main logo (Horizontal)

This logo was created by Honey Singh, a friend and a veteran blogger (not old though) and is now a partner at Arm Worldwide. This logo has gone through a lot of evolution and many of you are accustomed to the existing logo. Singh also designed the first ShoutMeLoud theme back in 2010 that laid the foundation of ShoutMeLoud’s design.

Even though ShoutMeLoud was started by me, it was never a one-man job. Others have contributed selflessly and that is what has made us one of the biggest bloggers’ community.

Over the last few months, we (Nimish, Sharat and I) worked tirelessly on the new design identity as we felt it is certainly important to have a coherent identity on all platform.

Today, on December 1, 2017, I’m unveiling a revamped brand identity for ShoutMeLoud that you are going to see from now onwards.

We loved our existing logos but with the evolving technology, we realized it is the time to have singularity in our brand identity. We brainstormed for months and probably roughed up over 40 designs before deciding on this:

Nimish took weeks, if not months, to come up with the new ShoutMeLoud Logo concept. This logo depicts what we are and also the initial of our brand “ShoutMeLoud”. Here is something in the words of the creator of this simple yet meaningful logo:

“For the new Identity we went back to the drawing board, the aim was to refresh the look with modern design trends, something that represents our growth in past 9 years. The quote marks have become a way to express yourself strongly and thus we used the quote marks to outline the letter “S”, making it minimalist & modern, and our ShoutMeLoud red color adds to the character.  The typography is kept simple and clean so readers can spend more and more time reading and loving our blog. After all, it’s user first.”

Here is the new homepage of ShoutMeLoud:

To share the joy, the team of ShoutMeLoud is running the biggest giveaways in the history of blogging. We talked to some of our friends in the industry and brought some of the best tools that will help you succeed in the world of blogging & digital marketing.

The BIGGEST giveaway in the history of Blogging:

This is the time of year where I want to extend my gratitude by offering you the best I can. We are giving away the best tools that will enable you to grow your blogging career. The total price of the giveaway is a whopping $10000. Read carefully to know more and participatea in the giveaways.

Here is what you can win:

• 5 annual subscriptions of ShoutUniversity

• 5 users will get access to the ShoutMeLoud Store

• 5 users can win an annual subscription to Bluehost Hosting

• 5 users can win an annual subscription to HostGator Hosting

• 5 users can win one year’s license of OptinMonster

• 5 users can win one year’s license of WPForms WordPress plugins

• 5 users can win one year’s license of SocialPilot Social Media tool

• 5 users can win one year’s license of WPAdvanced Ads Pro plugin

• 5 users can win one year’s subscription of Elegant Themes

• 5 users can win one year’s star license of TubeBuddy

• 5 users can win one year’s license of ShoutPixels WordPress plugin

• 5 users can win one year’s license of PushEngage
• 5 users can win 2-month subscription of SEMRUSH

 

Most importantly: How to participate in the biggest giveaway in the history of blogging

We are giving away some of these awesome tools on our social media platform, ShoutMeLoud forum and on the blog. You can join in at any platform to get a chance to win.

For participating in the social media contest, join us on:

• Twitter: @ShoutMeLoud
• Facebook: @ShoutMeLoud
• Instagram: @ShoutMeLoudcom
• Telegram: http://ift.tt/2j6Yg8v

For participating on the forum: Join here

For Blog participation and rule: Join here  ( Will be updated in a moment)

And there is one more thing:

Thank you! This won’t have been possible without your contribution! 🙏🏻

Ta Da!

Harsh Agrawal

I would love to hear your feelings on this auspicious day in the comment section below. Do take a moment to share about ShoutMeLoud’s 9th anniversary on Social media.

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How to Appear in Google Answer Boxes with Your WordPress Site

Do you want your articles to appear in Google answer boxes? Answer boxes are Google’s push to answer questions directly on the search results page. In this article, we will explain how to appear in Google Answer Boxes for WordPress users.

What is a Google Answer Box?

Google Answer box is part of Google’s Knowledge graph. It is an algorithm that tries to answer user’s questions right on the search page.

It uses carousels, side boxes, lists, tables, and answer boxes to display the most relevant information at the top. This information is gathered from various sources and the algorithm decides which results should be displayed inside an answer box.

According to research conducted by Advanced Web Ranking, Answer boxes secure almost 32.3% CTR. This makes them immensely important for your WordPress SEO strategy.

How Google Displays Information in The Answer Box?

The purpose of Answer Boxes is to offer instant gratification to the users. This works particularly well when users are looking for factual information like public figures, distances, conversion rates, scores, and similar information.

In such cases, if users got the exact information they needed, then they can move on and search for something else. For many queries it can just display a sidebox from the web’s most reliable knowledge sources like Wikipedia.

In a way, it might sound like Google is trying to keep all the traffic for itself. However, not all users are looking for information that Google’s knowledge graph can answer with accuracy.

If user’s keywords require an opinionated, well thought, or research based answer, then Google relies on other web sources.

If you are among the top 10 results for a keyword, then you are already closer to appear in Google Answer Box.

How to Make Your Pages Appear in Google Answer Box?

Google Answer Box results change quite often, and you can easily appear as the best answer by simply improving your content.

Let’s explore a number of content optimization steps that you can take to appear in the answer box.

Add Short and Helpful Answers in Your Content

The purpose of Answer Boxes is to provide quick answers. Make sure that your article answers the question as early in the article as possible.

You also need to make your answer short, concise, and easy to understand.

It also helps to include your keywords in the form of a question followed by the short answer.

After that, feel free to add as much detail to your answer as you want. Adding more information will allow you to use the keyword throughout the article, and you can even use the same article to answer other questions your users may have about the same topic.

Optimize Your Page’s Meta Description

Meta description is a brief description explaining what your page is about. It is added in the <head> section of your site’s HTML.

You can add meta description for your articles by using a WordPress SEO plugin like Yoast SEO or All in One SEO plugin.

Make sure that your meta description includes your target keyword. It also needs to explain what questions or topics this particular page will be answering.

For example, our article about WordPress SEO tools and plugins uses this meta description:

“Are you looking for best WordPress SEO plugin and tools to boost your SEO? Check out our list of 9 best WordPress SEO Plugins and Tools.”

Here is how it appears in the answer box.

Utilize Lists, Tables, Table of Contents

Users love properly formatted content because it helps them quickly get the information they need. That’s why websites like list25 are so popular. They publish informative content in a viral listicle format that is easier to consume and share.

Google understands that and tends to highlight the websites that use formatting to make content consumption easier for users.

This includes:

• Pages that use tables to list items.
• How to articles that use step by step instructions.
• Top lists that simply just list items.
• Lenghty articles that utilize table of contents
• and more.

This does not mean that you must always use one of these formats to write your articles. However, if using formatting can help your users get to the information quickly, then use it.

Optimize Content with Data Driven Decisions

Data is the most important thing you need for an effective content strategy. This is where Google Analytics comes in. It helps you understand your audience and plan accordingly.

You will need MonsterInsights to properly track user engagement in WordPress. It is the best Google Analytics plugin in the market, and it will help you learn where your users are coming from, and what they do while they are on your site.

These stats provide you a clear picture of what’s already working on your website. You can then expand on it and make informed decisions for better SEO.

Follow SEO Best Practices

Apart from answering the user questions, you also need to make sure that Google can find your page and understand it just as easily.

This means you still need to optimize your posts for SEO just like you would normally do.

• Include your keywords in SEO title, description, and keywords.
• Add your focus keyword in content and sub-headings in your article.
• Properly utilize categories and tags.
• Make sure there is enough content to cover the topic.
• Make internal linking a habit and link to your other posts and pages
• Add title and alt tags to your images.

Are Google Answer Boxes Worth The Effort?

Yes, absolutely. As we mentioned earlier the click-through rate for results in the answer box is way higher. Depending on the topic and your content, it could go as high as 51.2%.

However, we do not recommend you overthink it. The purpose of Answer boxes is to help users find information quickly. If you focus on answering questions through helpful and informative content, then search results will start picking it up.

Google’s search features are always changing. There are no shortcuts that will help you win forever. Building your website as an authority / reliable source of useful information will help you win in the long run.

We hope this article helped you learn how to appear in Google Answer Boxes. You may also want to see our list of the must-have WordPress plugins that will help you take your website to the next level.

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Evolution of WordPress User Interface (2003 – 2017)

WordPress user interface has evolved steadily since its first release in 2003. WordPress started out as a simple blogging platform and has now matured into a full-fledged CMS platform. In this article, we will take you to back in time to show the different stages in the evolution of WordPress user interface since 2003 until now.

The Beginnings of WordPress

WordPress started out in 2003. Mainly because the development on an already popular blogging software b2/cafelog was discontinued by their main developers.

Two passionate users of b2/cafelog, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, decided to build a new platform on top of b2/cafelog. This is how WordPress was first released on 27th May, 2003. Learn more about the origin story of WordPress in our article on the history of WordPress.

Since then, there has been a total of 276 WordPress releases so far (November 2017). In this article, we will highlight the ones that introduced a big change in admin panel user interface.

WordPress 0.71 – (June 2003)

The landing page of WordPress 0.71 admin panel was directly the write post page. As you can see there was no dashboard.

Features were very limited, and it was kept simple. You could only assign one category to each post. This version of WordPress had a tedious installation method where you would have to change a lot of information manually.

WordPress 1.0.1 (Miles – 2004)

Starting this version, WordPress started naming its major releases after Jazz musicians. As you can see this release was named after a famous musician, Miles Davis.

In this version, WordPress stopped using the b2 file structure and moved toward its own style of filing structure. New features included multiple category selection, SEO friendly URL structure, comment moderation, new installer, and several other improvements.

WordPress 1.2 – Mingus (May 2004)

Named after Charles Mingus, WordPress 1.2 was a monumental release. One of the most important upgrades in this version was the introduction of “Plugins”.

Other notable changes were Sub categories, custom fields, thumbnail creation, post preview, encrypted passwords, and the ability to ping more than one service at a time.

WordPress 1.5 – Strayhorn (Feb 2005)

This version of WordPress was named after Billy Strayhorn. It showed the first glimpse of a new dashboard style. It didn’t use Ajax and was way slower than the WordPress we use today.

Another significant feature was the introduction of pages along side posts, allowing users to create static pages that were not part of their blog. This release also added support for installing multiple themes in a single WordPress installation.

WordPress 2.0 – Duke (Dec 2005)

WordPress 2.0 brought a major uphaul to the WordPress admin interface. It had a large blue header on top a complete overhaul of the admin area. It was way faster than previous releases as it utilized Ajax to perform certain tasks.

This release also included a full WYSIWIG editor. Akismet was introduced as a plugin to combat with the growing comment spam problem. Some other notable features were image/file uploading, theme preview via thumbnail (screenshot.png), improved posting speed, new hooks for developers, and more.

WordPress 2.1 – Ella (Jan 2007)

WordPress 2.1 Ella was the first release to introduce a new admin screen to manage comments. The comment management process was significantly improved as users were able to delete or approve comments without reloading admin screens.

WordPress 2.3 – Dexter (Sep 2007)

This release didn’t drastically change WordPress user interface but added several significant improvements. For the first time WordPress improved native support to add tags to your posts.

It also introduced update notifications allowing WordPress core and plugins to show notifications when there is a new version available. This release also started auto-redirecting users to correct WordPress URL as defined in the settings.

WordPress 2.5 – Brecker (Mar 2008)

For WordPress 2.5, the WordPress team collaborated with Happy Cog, a leading web design consultancy firm, to overhaul WordPress user interface. It was a major re-design or rather reimagining of WordPress how we use it today.

The dashboard got much better as they added more useful information there. This was the first version where we saw one click upgrade for plugins which were in WordPress plugin directory. Much better visual editor and a built-in gallery was also included in this release.

Many of the core components of this redesign are still a major part of the software. However, its appearance quickly changed just 10 months later.

WordPress 2.7 – Coltrane (Dec 2008)

WordPress 2.7 brought another major upgrade to the WordPress admin user interface. Users were now able to readjust WordPress dashboard elements. Screen options were introduced so that users can show and hide elements to meet their requirements.

Other notable features included automated installation for plugins through the WordPress admin panel. Reply to comments from the admin panel, threaded comments, sticky posts, keyboard shortcuts, comment paging, and more.

WordPress 2.9 – Carmen (Dec 2009)

WordPress 2.9 didn’t change user interface but added several new features that integrated beautifully in the WordPress interface. One of these changes was a plugin update system, that allowed users to update their plugins to the newer version with a single click.

Another major change in the release was image editing features, which allowed users to crop, resize, rotate, scale, and flip images in WordPress.

WordPress 3.0 – Thelonious (2010)

WordPress 3.0 Thelonious was a major WordPress upgrade which truly transformed WordPress from a blogging platform to a full fledged CMS. It introduced post types, taxonomies, custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, and navigation menus. It also started the tradition of introducing a new default theme each year, this new default theme was called Twenty Ten.

This release merged a WordPress sister project called WordPress MU into core WordPress itself. This feature is now known as WordPress multisite. The basic style of the admin interface was capable of adapting all these major changes without a significant overhaul of the admin area.

WordPress 3.1 – Django Reinhardt (2011)

WordPress 3.1 continued adding feature to the robust WordPress user interface. With this new release, WordPress introduced the admin bar, post formats, and a better internal linking feature.

WordPress 3.3 – Sonny (2011)

Released in December of 2011, WordPress 3.3 came packed with features and improvements to existing WordPress UI. It added fly out menus for better navigation in the admin area, a revamped admin bar, drag and drop to upload media, and tool tips. See more features and screenshots of WordPress 3.3.

WordPress 3.5 – Elvin (2012)

Mobile and high resolution devices were already becoming accessible to all users. WordPress 3.5 streamlined the user interface for modern retina display devices. This included upgraded icons and adaptive styles that looked great on any screen resolution. See more features and screenshots of WordPress 3.5.

WordPress 3.8 – Parker (2013)

The appearance and basic style of WordPress UI wasn’t changed since 2008 and was way overdue for a major upgrade. The goal for this upgrade was to handle mobile devices more elegantly and make WordPress more accessible. After a ton of work, the new WordPress user interface was released with WordPress 3.8.

The new user interface which is still used (with minor enhancements) was mobile responsive, had more color schemes, used icon fonts, and Open Sans for typography.

WordPress 3.9 – Smith (2014)

WordPress kept improving the UI to handle new features. WordPress 3.9 made several enhancements it started using flat buttons in the post editor, drag and drop image uploads, gallery previews, and more. It also added live previews when adding widgets in theme customizer. See more features and screenshots of WordPress 3.9.

WordPress 4.0 – Benny (2014)

The same year WordPress 4.0 was released. There was no major change in the UI. However, there were some cool changes that fit right into the existing WordPress admin look.

A new grid view for Media gallery was introduced with infinite scroll and smooth editing. See screenshots and features of WordPress 4.0.

WordPress 4.2 – Powell (2015)

WordPress 4.2 came with a tiny but significant improvement in the admin area color scheme. The grays were given a slight blue hue and the blues were changed to pure blue with no red channel. See more features and screenshots of WordPress 4.2.

WordPress 4.5 – Coleman (2016)

WordPress 4.5 brough some improvements in the default WordPress visual post editor. A new inline link editing feature was introduced along with some new inline text shortcuts.

Responsive previews were added in theme customizer which allowed users to preview their theme desktop, tablet, and mobile without changing devices. For more features see our article on the release of WordPress 4.5 with screenshots.

WordPress 4.6 – Pepper (2016)

In WordPress 4.6, the core team decided to start using native fonts instead of loading Open Sans from Google servers. This release also streamlined updates, which allowed users to install, update, and delete plugins/themes without leaving a page.

WordPress 4.8 – Vaughan (2017)

WordPress 4.8 introduced a new set of widgets to add media like images, audio, video, and rich text. It also added a new dashboard widget that displayed WordPress news and events. For more features and screenshots, see our overview of WordPress 4.8.

WordPress 4.9 – Tipton (2017)

The last major release of WordPress for 2017 added more features to Theme Customizer. It added a new theme browsing and preview experience in customizer.

It also made code editing in custom CSS and theme/plugin editors much easier by adding syntax highlighting and auto-completion features.

The Future of WordPress User Interface

As you may have noticed that WordPress user interface hasn’t changed much since 2013. However WordPress itself has improved a lot since then with tons of new features, better performance, and improved security.

Today, the user interface feels a bit out-dated compared to the many other top website builders in the market.

But this is about to change.

Core WordPress developers are working on a project codenamed Gutenberg. This project will add drag and drop functionality to WordPress post and page editor. It will allow new users to drag and drop blocks into their website like they do in a page builder plugin.

We are very excited about this new upcoming release, and will keep you updated through out the process.

We hope this article helped you see the evolution of WordPress user interface since its first release in 2003. You may also want to see our list of the top WordPress companies and businesses.

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