Users and profiles
Registration dates, last logins, social profile fields, longer sessions and stricter passwords.
- Authors see only their own posts and media In the admin area, users who can’t edit other people’s posts (authors, contributors) only see their own posts and their own uploads in the lists and the media library.
- Keep subscribers and customers out of the admin area Users who can’t write posts are sent to the home page when they open the admin area. Their profile page and background requests still work.
- Registration date column for users Adds a sortable “Registered” column to the users list.
- Last login column for users Remembers when each user last logged in and shows it in the users list. Useful for finding accounts nobody uses any more.
- Social profile fields for users Adds X, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook fields to user profiles. Themes and author boxes can show them with get_the_author_meta( 'linkedin' ).
- Log in with the email address only Users log in with their email address; user names are no longer accepted. Attackers usually guess user names, not email addresses.
- Passwords of at least 12 characters Users can’t set a password shorter than 12 characters when they reset it, register or edit their profile.
- Stay logged in for 30 days With “Remember me” ticked, users stay logged in for 30 days instead of 14.
- No email to the admin for each new user WordPress stops emailing the site administrator every time someone registers. The new user still gets their welcome email.
Move your snippets over this afternoon.
Importing changes nothing until you switch over, and your old shortcodes keep working.