WordPress 3.3 – what’s new?

WordPress 3.3 Beta 1

WordPress 3.3 Beta 1


Congratulations!
WordPress.org announced that WordPress version 3.3 Beta 1 is available.
Do not hurry to grab it and update your production blog. Beta 1 is published for testing purposes only. It still can have critical bugs, even if it looks stable enough. So beta-testers are welcome! If you have test playground for new WordPress toy – just install it there and enjoy.
You can download WordPress 3.3 Beta 1 here.
Download of WordPress 3.3 Beta 2 is available here.
Download of WordPress 3.3 Beta 3 is available here.
Download of WordPress 3.3 Beta 4 is available here.
Try the latest Beta, test it, find bugs and report WordPress community and developers team.

New features of WordPress 3.3 are:
– Fly out admin menus;
– Media uploader;
– Improved admin bar.
Let’s see on images below to be familiar with these WordPress user interface enhancements.
So-called “fly out” admin dashboard menu is really auto popup menu which appears on screen when you move you mouse pointer over menu item which has sub-menu under it:

WordPress 3.3 dashboard popup menu

WordPress 3.3 dashboard popup menu


Old style submenu is still available after click on correspondent menu item:
WordPress 3.3 dashboard menu

WordPress 3.3 dashboard menu


New Flash Media uploader has now files drop area to use drag and drop technology for uploading media files on your blog:
WordPress 3.3 media uploader

WordPress 3.3 media uploader

I found this user interface update useful and you?
Thanks to WordPress development team for making our loving WordPress better. By the way, we could look on WordPress team members, all in one place, just click small WordPress logo at the top left corner (admin bar) and select “About WordPress’ menu item.

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