{"id":252,"date":"2011-11-28T11:44:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T11:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/?p=252"},"modified":"2011-11-28T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T11:44:53","slug":"wordpress-3-3-and-blogs-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/2011\/11\/28\/wordpress-3-3-and-blogs-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 3.3 and blogs.kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2011\/11\/wordpress-3-3-beta-4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 10px;\" title=\"Wordpress logo\" src=\"http:\/\/s.wordpress.org\/style\/images\/wp3-logo.png\" alt=\"Wordpress logo\" width=\"301\" height=\"52\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WordPress 3.3 is almost here! <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2011\/11\/wordpress-3-3-beta-4\/\">Currently at Beta 4<\/a>, a release candidate is apparently very close. We&#8217;ll hopefully be upgrading blogs.kent from 3.2.1 to 3.3 sometime in December, if the normal WordPress release timeline is anything to go by.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress 3.3 brings with it several new features and tweaks for blogs.kent users. One of the nicest in my opinion is the much improved drag-and-drop media tool, to let you add images and video to your blog post really easily. Another death-knell for Flash, the new media uploader uses HTML5 (and Silverlight, which seems a strange choice, but I guess they wanted to cater for the maximum number of people?)<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve also refined\/changed the admin bar (again), so expect things to be a little differently laid-out.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, WordPress is shaping up to be a really great tool not just to blog about stuff, but to build up a nice little website for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Until we get 3.3 up on blogs.kent, you can read a list of some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/a-look-inside-wordpress-3-3\/\">key new features in a bit more detail at wpmu.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 3.3 is almost here! Currently at Beta 4, a release candidate is apparently very close. We&#8217;ll hopefully be upgrading blogs.kent from 3.2.1 to 3.3 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/2011\/11\/28\/wordpress-3-3-and-blogs-kent\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8979],"tags":[8996,8947,1031],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}