Update: We have planned the Word­Press 3.3.1 upgrade for the morn­ing of Tues­day, Jan­u­ary 24, so that the stu­dents fin­ish­ing up fall semes­ter course­work on the sys­tem are not dis­tracted by the new interface.

Word­Press 3.3 saw its final release on Mon­day, Decem­ber 12. Word­Press upgrades are usu­ally some­what pain­less, but we will be delay­ing the upgrade of our mul­ti­site net­work for a few weeks. This will give us time to test com­pat­i­bil­ity with the 75+ third-party plu­g­ins on the net­work. We will also update our quick­start guide. Look for the update after the hol­i­days, the first week of January.

In the mean­time, WPCandy has a great run­down of the new fea­tures, “Every­thing we know about the newly released Word­Press 3.3.” Check out the new admin bar (now called the Tool­bar), wel­come screen, fly­out Dash­board menus, fea­ture point­ers, and the brand new drag-and-drop media uploader.

Also, if you first log into lynda.princeton.edu with your Prince­ton netID, the Word­Press 3 Essen­tial Train­ing course has added a chap­ter to the Intro­duc­tion, “Dif­fer­ences in the Word­Press 3.3 interface.”