The new WordPress 3.3 version called “Sunny” has been released with exciting new features to make blogging more handy and life easier! The features include the new dashboard design with admin bar/header and flyout menues, a little easier uploading henceforth, more content tools and more options for the developers.
What’s New in WordPress 3.3?
(via WordPress Dashboard!)
Easier Uploading
File Type Detection
Instead of needing to click on a specific upload icon based on your file type, now there's just one. Once your file is uploaded, the appropriate fields will be displayed for entering information based on the file type.
Drag-and-Drop Media Uploader
Adding photos or other files to posts and pages just got easier. Drag files from your desktop and drop them into the uploader. Add one file at a time, or many at once.
More File Formats
The rar and 7z file formats have been added to the list of allowed file types in the uploader.
Dashboard Design
Flyout Menus
Speed up navigating the dashboard and reduce repetitive clicking with our new flyout submenus. As you hover over each main menu item in your dashboard navigation, the submenus will magically appear, providing single-click access to any dashboard screen.
Header + Admin Bar = Toolbar
To save space and increase efficiency, the admin bar and the old Dashboard header haven been combined into one persistent toolbar. Hovering over the toolbar items will reveal submenus when available for quick access.
Feels Like the First Time
New Feature Pointers
When the WordPress team add new features, move navigation, or do anything else with the dashboard that might throw you for a loop when you update your WordPress site, this new design will let you know about it with new feature pointers explaining the change.
Post-update Changelog
From now on when you update WordPress, you'll be brought to this screen — also accessible any time from the WordPress logo in the corner of the toolbar — to get an overview of what's changed.
Dashboard Welcome
The dashboard home screen will have a Welcome area that displays when a new WordPress installation is accessed for the first time, prompting the site owner to complete various setup tasks. Once dismissed, this welcome can be accessed via the dashboard home screen options tab.
Content Tools
Better Co-Editing
Have you ever gone to edit a post after someone else has finished with it, only to get an alert that tells you the other person is still editing the post? From now on, you'll only get that alert if another person is still on the editing screen — no more time lag.
Tumblr Importer
Want to import content from Tumblr to WordPress? No problem! Go to Tools → Import to get the new Tumblr Importer, which maps your Tumblog posts to the matching WordPress post formats. Tip: Choose a theme designed to display post formats to get the greatest benefit from the importer.
Widget Improvements
Changing themes often requires widget re-configuration based on the number and position of sidebars. Now if you change back to a previous theme, the widgets will automatically go back to how you had them arranged in that theme. Note: if you've added new widgets since the switch, you'll need to rescue them from the Inactive Widgets area.
Under the Hood
Flexible Permalinks
You have more freedom when choosing a post permalink structure. Skip the date information or add a category slug without a performance penalty.
Post Slugs: Less Funky
Funky characters in post titles (e.g. curly quotes from a word processor) will no longer result in garbled post slugs.
jQuery and jQuery UI
WordPress now includes the entire jQuery UI stack and the latest version of jQuery: 1.7.1.
is_main_query()
This handy method will tell you if a WP_Query object is the main WordPress query or a secondary query.
WP_Screen API
WordPress has a nice new API for working with admin screens. Create rich screens, add help documentation, adapt to screen contexts, and more.
Editor API Overhaul
The new editor API automatically pulls in all the JS and CSS goodness for the editor. It even supports multiple editors on the same page.
WordPress 3.3 Official Video
Enjoy the New WordPress 3.3 “Sunny”!
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