The time has finally arrived. WordPress 3.3. was released early this morning to the masses. Codenamed ‘Sonny’ which at a glance looks like sorry, 3.3 has a couple of great user oriented features with a ton of polish. While my WordPress upgrade experience went smoothly, I was immediately impressed with the welcome screen which in my opinion, is better at explaining new features in WordPress than most of the official release posts on the WordPress.org blog, minus the ones with published videos. Kudos goes out to all involved for the welcome screen as well as every other improvement that made it into WordPress 3.3. Let me know in the comments what you think of the new user experience polish that made it into this version.
Category: WordPress
All looks good apart from that awful Toolbar (Admin Bar/Header) thing, and the lack of any facility to hide it. Pre 3.3 we had a “hide” option, now we don’t. WordPress used to be about user-options but it seems that they’re in recession now too.
“The toolbar has been the direction of WP’s design since 3.0, and has only become more ingrained. I know Matt likes it (heard him say it) so I imagine that it’s where WP’s going from now out.” (source: Ipstenu, http://wordpress.org/support/topic/hiding-admin-bar-in-wordpress-33).
Well, whoopie-doo… rumour has it that Matt likes Ramen Noodles too, will we be force-fed those as well?