Our net­work is once again run­ning the lat­est ver­sion of Word­Press. The upgrade (knock on wood) was unevent­ful and pain­less as is per usual with Word­Press. The revised Admin Tool­bar and the new blue and white Pointer Tips are the first thing that will jump out at blog admins and editors.

Pointer Tips could prove to be use­ful, even for vet­eran users; the evo­lu­tion of the Word­Press inter­face and the addi­tion of new fea­tures has sped up con­sid­er­ably over the past year. When a user dis­misses Pointer Tips, they stay hid­den (their sta­tus changes in the data­base for that user).

The new JavaScript-based, drag-and-drop Media Uploader is a wel­come change over the past Flash-based version.

If you are logged in, check out the rest of the new fea­tures on the “About Word­Press” page under the Word­Press icon on the left side of the Admin Toolbar. Feel free to leave a com­ment after this post if you like any of the new fea­tures, or if some­thing really annoys you about the interface.