WordPress 4.8.1 Update

The latest WordPress update version 4.8.1 contains 29 fixes and enhancements. One important fix is for the rich text widget and there is also a new custom HTML widget.

List of all changes

• Permalink Settings: custom structure field keyboard trap
• Bump Akismet External – 4.9 Edition
•  ‹Empty Spam› and ‹Empty Trash› comment buttons not displayed on mobile
• Customizer Panel Footer border missing
• Customizer: Menus: it is far too easy to mistakenly delete a menu because the «Delete Menu» link and the «Add Items» button are too close together
• Increase tinymce panel z-index
• Set `’filter› => ‹content’` on starter content «business info» widget
• oEmbed: Update VideoPress oEmbed URL
• `WP_oEmbed_Controller::get_proxy_item()` should remove `_wpnonce` from cached `$args`
• oEmbed proxy fails to forward maxwidth and maxheight params
• WP-API JS Client: Settings is incorrectly registered as a collection
• media-views.js: Cannot read .length of undefined (this.controller.$uploaderToggler.length)
• Add filter to allow modifying response *after* embedded data is added
• REST API: PUT requests fail on Nginx servers when fancy permalinks aren’t enabled
• wp_get_object_terms() returns duplicate terms if more than one taxonomy is given in args
• TinyMCE: Images with link and caption look «broken» when selected
• Introduce widget dedicated for HTML code
• Facebook Video Works On Preview But Not On Theme
• New Text Widget – Switching Between Visual/Text Editor Strips Out Code
• Widgets: The Text widget should respect the “Disable the visual editor when writing” setting
• TinyMCE editor in Text widget does not have RTL contents
• Updated text widget do not save text (when using paste)
• Widgets: Query param for `loop` added for non-hosted external videos
• Widgets: text widget and media widgets cannot be edited in accessibility mode
• Text widget does not show Title field or TinyMCE editor
• Text widget can raise JS error if customize-base is enqueued on widgets admin screen
• Text Widget – Wording – Legacy Mode 4.8.1 beta
• Theme styles for Text widget do not apply to Custom HTML widget
• Text widget: Rename legacy mode to visual mode and improve back-compat for widget_text filters

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