WordPress Version 4.3 came out today, and the YIKES crew is proud to have made contributions to this release.
Language Translation
Carlos is a member of the WordPress Polyglots team and an active contributor and editor of Spanish (Mexico). He translated and approved hundreds of strings for WordPress 4.3.
Dashicons
I designed a couple new Dashicons for the WordPress admin – “Rotate” and “Unlock” to go along with the Lock icon.
![dashicons-4.3](https://www.yikesinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dashicons-4.3.png?resize=342%2C171)
Admin UX
At WordCamp Philly we were lucky to have lead developer, Helen Hou-Sandí, in attendance at our contributor day. I was interested in the work she was doing regarding cleaning up the WordPress Admin and was able to learn about tasks with which I could help. I got some handy SVN tips from Helen as well.
Admin forms on mobile
The contribution I am most proud of is improving the error messaging on forms.
Before
![](https://www.yikesinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Add-New-User-before.png?resize=840%2C766)
After
![](https://www.yikesinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Add-New-User-after.png?resize=741%2C620)
In addition to looking nicer, the use of the alert icon doesn’t just rely on color to convey an error, making it better for accessibility.
I have really enjoyed participating in the WordPress #Design Slack channel. I love seeing how much thought people put into every design decision that is made.
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