Monday, December 12, 2011

What is new in the upcoming wordpress 3.3

Highlights:
    * New media uploader (Plupload)
    * Welcome Screen on 1st time install and 1st time post-update
    * Admin dynamically display on devices of various screen sizes
    * Improved Toolbar (formerly admin bar)
    * Improved Metadata API
    * Improved Settings API
    * Improved Editor API
    * Implement language packs for core, plugins, and themes
    * Performance improvements
    * Merge most admin css files
    * Improved Help/Screen/Options

User Features:
    * Admin doctype changed to HTML5 (#18202)
    * Show admin bar in backend by default (#17899)
    * Drag and drop multi-file uploading (except older IE)
    * Fix Press This editors
    * Switch admin menus to flyouts from dropdowns
    * WebMatrix support
    * Improve cron locking; avoid multiple cron processes looping over the same events
    * Add pointers feature, and pointer to admin bar
    * Introduce help tabs and WP_Screen
    * Style tweaks to the update nag

Dashboard:
 * Ensure text in the dashboard recent comments widget wraps up properly

Posts:
    * When inserting a Gallery to be ordered by Date/Time use the post_date field for ordering rather than ID
    * Rename 'Post Tags' to 'Tags'
    * Make DFW content width match exactly the reported width from the theme
    * Improve the image drag-resize detection in the visual editor (supported in FF and IE only), remove the size
    * class if the image is soft-resized
    * Add TinyMCE command to handle opening of the upload/insert popup, fix the shortcut "Alt+Shift+M", fix the "image" button in DFW
    * Allow Apostrophes in Post Passwords
    * Add post formats to quick edit and bulk edit
    * Hide post title field in DFW if title is not supported by the current post type or missing
    * Clean up remnants from having negative Post_ID


Media:

   * Merge media buttons into one
   * Add the styling for "drop area" to Media->Add New
   * Add support for rar and 7z file uploading

Links,Comments:
   * Use WP_Editor when editing or replying to comments
   * Use 'View Post' instead of '#' for view post links in comment rows

Appearance:
  * Use the Settings fields/sections API in Twenty Eleven
   * Load all Parent theme stylesheets before Child theme stylesheets in the TinyMCE Editor
   * Clean up Plugin/Theme uploads after successfully installing them
   * Improved Theme upload and validation
   * Avoid losing widgets when switching themes
   * Make Distraction Free Writing content width match exactly the reported width from the theme
   * Allow current_theme_supports() to be used to check for specific post formats
   * Improved Menus
   * Contextual help for Twenty Eleven theme options page

Plugins:
   * Improved Plugin upload and validation
   * Stop remembering the last viewed plugins screen; always show all plugins when returning to plugins.php

Tools:
   * Add the Tumblr importer to the Importers List
   * Add wxr_export_skip_postmeta filter for skipping postmeta in exports


Users:
  * Removed user option to disable Toolbar (admin-bar in 3.2) in the Dashboard

Settings:
   * Add postname to Settings > Permalinks and remove the help text talking about permalink performance; make the slugs (and /archives/ rewrite base) translatable
    * Clarify Settings > Privacy
    * Use title case in Settings > General
    * Disallow indexing wp-admin and wp-includes in robots.txt


Install Process Multisite:
    * Allow creating sites with IDN domains
    * Move network/settings.php POST handling out of network/edit.php
    * Dissolve wp-admin/network/edit.php
    * Add 'Network Enable' link after installing a theme in the network admin
    * Use update_blog_details() in wpmu_update_blogs_date()
    * Change Network Settings to just Settings
    * Implement bulk update for network/themes.php
    * Fix inviting existing users to a site with email confirmation
    * Check for plugin/theme updates every hour when hitting update-core.php, not just themes.php/plugins.php


And many more....

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