A new version of the most popular blogging software has been released. It's called Elvin, in honor to drummer Elvin Jones. The new version of WordPress 3.5 brings streamlined UI which adapts itself to the retina's high resolution MAC displays. The icons that hasn't been very sharp and clear on those displays looks now really sharp.
The media management has been simplified, by introducing new media button, which can mass upload medias from your computer. You can also use the drag and drop (you'll see it in the video) to upload and manage the photos in the galleries. The new Media Uploader brings new layout with quicker management of the medias and it's also user friendly.
A quote from the release:
If you’ve been around WordPress a while, the most dramatic new change you’ll notice is a completely re-imagined flow for uploading photos and creating galleries. Media has long been a friction point and we’ve listened hard and given a lot of thought into crafting this new system. 3.5 includes a new default theme, Twenty Twelve, which has a very clean mobile-first responsive design and works fantastic as a base for a CMS site. Finally we’ve spent a lot of time refreshing the styles of the dashboard, updating everything to be Retina-ready with beautiful high resolution graphics, a new color picker, and streamlining a couple of fewer-used sections of the admin.
The WordPress 3.5 updates also the lightweight Twenty Twelve Theme to be easy to read on any device (table, iPhone etc…), with a it's new and lightweight responsive layout.
And finally, the WordPress 3.5 release makes the life easier for the developpers, here is a quick quote from the WordPress website:
You can now put your (or anyone’s) WordPress.org username on the plugins page and see your favorite tagged ones, to make it easy to install them again when setting up a new site. There’s a new Tumblr importer. New installs no longer show the links manager. Finally for multisite developers switch_to_blog() is way faster and you can now install MS in a sub-directory.
It seems that the links menu did not made it to the 3.5 release. As an explanation? To make the core as lightweight as possible. Well, for those of you who using links for your peers and other blogs, good to know that a link manager plugin can help you if you still want to use this functionality.
You can get the new release from the WordPress.org website. Thin of backup and compatibility with all your plugins first…. -:)
Here is a short introduction video, which shows the principal features:
Source: WordPress
