WordPress 3.3 “Sonny”

    The latest version of the wonderful WordPress blogging software version 3.3 “Sonny”, named, as usual, after the jazz artist, saxophonist Sonny Stitt , is already available for download and update.

    WordPress was downloaded over 65 million times with the release of version 3.0, and in this third major iteration, qualitative changes were made in the field of user experience, navigation, downloading and importing data. Innovations can be evaluated by watching this video .


    For users


    Experienced users will appreciate the new drag-and-drop downloader, which recognizes files automatically, pop-up navigation menus, a new toolbar (top horizontal menu), improvements in collaborative editing, and a new importer from Tumblr. WordPress takes care of newcomers, so version 3.3 contains significant changes to the help system, tooltips for new features that are added in each version, a greeting for newcomers. And of course, WordPress 3.3 is optimized for the touchscreen iPad and other tablets.

    For developers


    A ton of change for developers. For example, the new editor API , the new version of jQuery 1.7.1 library and the full version of jQuery UI library, improvements in the system of adding help tabs, and with it the new API WP_Screen, flexible permalinks. A complete list of changes is available on the Codex page and in Trac .

    Say thank you to them


    In the "Members" tab on the new "About WordPress" page, the developers of the engine thank all contributors and authors of the release.

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