WordPress 3.3 Sonny: a box of goodies

A few days ago I started upgrading my various blogs to WordPress 3.3. I like the new, slick looking style – it’s minimalist but very intuitive. It features Flyout Menus and a simplified, persistent admin toolbar at the top.  I also like the backend upgrades.

• Support for co-editing: It’s now easier to work with a few team editors without over writing each other’s edits.
• Improved Widget/Theme support: Widget configuration is supported as you go back to previous installed themes.
• Permalinks & slugs: You can do more cool things with permalinks without performance penalty
• is_main_query(): a boolean function that returns if you are inside the primary or secondary WordPress query. Handy for PHP developers.

Below is a nice video breakdown of the new features of WordPress “Sonny”: