Awesome WordPress 3.5 – What’s New? 2013

In December 2012, WordPress 3.5 will be officially released, though the beta version is available to enable website owners to try it out to know how good it is. The new version is expected to have a lot of features that will give more experience to both site owner and internet users. In addition, thousands of theme and plugin developers will be motivated to be creative and look for new ways of getting more from WordPress and making money selling products and services online.

Improvement in Media Experience

There is an improvement in the media uploader. HTML5 Silverlight was released in WordPress 3.5 for media uploads, and the 3.5 is going to give more enhancements to users. For instance, when you click the upload media button, the usual drag/drop box will appear, in addition to the display of a gallery of uploaded images. An insert button will now appear when you click an image.

Link Manager Will No Longer be Available

Another feature is that Link manager will be gone. In addition, if you did not have any links before upgrading to 3.5, the manager will not be available to update them. However, if you had those links before upgrading, the links will still continue to appear on your web pages. If you still want to use Link Manager in WordPress 3.5, there is a plugin that you would need to download to re-enable the feature.

New Default Theme

A new defeault theme, Twenty Twelve, will be available with WordPress 3.5. This is a fully responsive theme that makes your site to be viewable through various mobile devices. In addition to the presence of Open Sans Fonts, it has full support for Retina Displays.

User-Friendly and Simple Welcome Admin Screen

The new “Welcome to WordPress!” heading now has links which can be easily referenced if you are still new to the use of the blogging software.

Improvement in Keyboard Navigation

A new keyboard navigation feature is now available for those who use keyboard in navigating pages. When you click the <tab> button in the admin panel, different sub-menus will be showing automatically.

More Features for Developers

WordPress 3.5 also will also have many new features for developers. These are some of them:

• Underscore 1.3.3 and Backbone 0.9.2 added to make it possible to use protocol-relative links when en-queuing styles and scripts.
• External libraries have been updated for TinyMCE  3.5.6. SimplePie 1.3. jQuery 1.8.2. jQuery UI 1.9
• Through WP Query, “post__in” can now be used in receiving posts in the order specified.
• There is a new user management for XML-RPC, in addition to post revision and profile editing methods.
•  The multisite feature can now be used in a subdirectory.

Before your new WordPress download, you should create a sub-domain or folder for testing how the beta version works. Do not run it on a money site, as you could run into problems. You should set up a test site to know how the different features work.