Profitable Attributes of the Brand New WordPress 3.3

The need for a human to constantly change – to expand and grow, holds true for open source content management systems as well; or at least for WordPress CMS. What started off as a humble platform for publishing blogs, has now undergone a complete transformation. The release of the new version of WordPress was perhaps one of the most awaited event and the features provided by the new version is worth all this waiting. It is laced with amazing features, which are developed keeping in mind the present day needs.

Some of these highly developed and up-to-date features of WordPress 3.3 are discussed below:

1. Redesigned Admin Bar
   The fervent WordPress users will rejoice after going through the latest design of the admin bar. It looks more user-friendly and in a sheer prominent way, quite chic as well. The new version exhibits a shade darker and bolder admin bar along with a few strategic additions. The bar is not flooded with the links or the elements and the ones which remain are now carefully placed to solve certain specific purpose. The old users may miss the search and appearance menu, and also the user menu has been moved to the right side, giving it a feel of the Google’s user bar.
   
2. New WordPress Menu Displayed on the Left
   From their previous location in the folder, where they were hardly visible, the new WordPress presents the menu via new “W” icon and contains various handy links to the “About WordPress” screen along with license information, credits, documentation and support forums etc.
   
3. The new WordPress is more “Help”-full.
   Quite literally the help section in the new WordPress is presented right next to the center of the admin bar, instead of being put in one distant corner.The help section of the remodeled WordPress provides the users with revised help section, accompanied with tabbed navigation and convenient readability. Besides WordPress developers can share their own support documents in the admin bar itself which will provide their clients a brief and personalized help.
4. Tooltip pop-ups
   Perhaps this may be an unsolicited feature for the more accustomed and seasoned WordPress developers, but the new WordPress offers great helps to the new or the not so regular users in the form of Tooltip pop-ups which guide them through all the new features of WordPress. The moment you upgrade the new WordPress, you will be greeted by Tooltip pop-ups. It is of particular interest to those WordPress developers concentrating on developing Plugins and themes and wish to acclimatize their clients to the new features.
   
5. Use New Tooltips to Yoast!
   The best development tool for developing Plugins, Yoast has included these tooltips in its updated version of WordPress SEO plugin.
   
6. Revised Media Up-loader with Advanced functionalities
   Uploading media files just cannot get more easy and convenient. Thanks to the latest version of WordPress you can just drag and drop the media files including Images or PDF’s straight away from your desktop to your WordPress. The uploader doesn’t need the support of Flash any more now and employs HTML5 elements and Silverlight technology to facilitate uploading files.
7. Save all your clicks with the new Flyout Menus.
   The brand new Flyout Menus is your true savior against the menu screen becoming messy and crowded with all the opened menus. The latest Flyout menus gives you a show-down the moment the cursor is hovered on them and saves you hell lot of clicks.Though it may appear a “not so important features”, but if you have to work on WordPress Development and Designing for hours altogether, this particular feature will prove to be the ultimate time saver!

And there is more to the profitable part. Though the above mentioned features were aimed at people in general and of course for WordPress developers, the following Four Features are specifically being designed to give WordPress developers extra scope and options for adding functionalities and optimizing the results. These features are:

1.  A very responsive layout: this is the foundation version, and better revisions are expected in the next version, but presently, the left side menu is very responsive and adjusts itself by collapsing in small screens.
2. Improved Postname Permalinks: in the previous edition, developers were required to set the /%postname%/ for permalink settings but now they have a choice. And after fixing up the performance issues, the settings for permalinks can be easily used for extensive websites having enormous number of posts and pages.
3. Activated options for jQuery 1.7 and iQuery UI 1.8.16: these advanced feature are now ready and fully functional and can be included in your WordPress design.
4. New WordPress Editor API: with this plugin, WordPress developers can personalize the post editor, even the TinyMCE buttons and include other editors.

Tools for shopping cart integration

And if the above stated features, were not enough, the newly revised WordPress CMS offers some amazing tools for shopping cart integration. Gone are the days where WordPress would be limited for developing simple websites and publishing Blogs, with the advent of latest features, WordPress is all powered to take up on fellow CMS like Drupal etc. The latest WordPress features fully supports the requirement of a website to be feature rich and large scale and with shopping cart integration, WordPress Development would be the one stop solution for all your high end needs for website design and development. Some of the amazing tools offered by WordPress for eCommerce are stated below:

1. WooCommerce
   
   This is perhaps one of the best eCommerce solution you can ever come across for your website. This tool is seen as and advancement to the renowned Jigoshop plugin and offers its users some of the impeccable and highly resourceful features like easy inventory management, simplified shipping and tax options, effective promotion and marketing tools, multiple product types – simple, configurable, downloadable etc.Though packed with such amazing features, it is really easy to use.
2. Cart66
   
   This WordPress plugin offers you all the features which you can possibly expect in an effective eCommerce solution like configurations for products, options for taxing and shipping, keeping a track of the inventory etc.Its distinguishing feature is that it concentrates on premium membership features and can be used for both physical and digital products. Perhaps the best option if you are trading your content or mailing magazine subscriptions.
3. Shopp

   Shopp comes with an experience, so to say. This has been stayed around for a comparatively long time and thus you can be rest assured that it has been tried and tested and improved over the period of time. What makes Shopp a good eCommerce solution, is its hassle free ease of use. By spending just a little, you get high end services like Payment Gateways, shipping services and etc.Another interesting feature of Shopp is that it supports priority calls. These paid add-ons provides the store owners swift response time, whenever they are in desperate need.

4. WP E-Commerce
   
   This has been one of the longest running eCommerce solutions for WordPress and is popularly known as GetShopped.org. It has a superior in built SEO advantage and provides you with almost all of the common eCommerce functionalities, in addition to its quality of easily working with multiple WordPress sites.All of these WordPress eCommerce plugins are available for free, besides their scope and functionalities can be increased after buying the premium versions. With all the latest features and functionalities, WordPress, which was previously a plain Jane solution for developing websites, has now metamorphosed to become The One and Only Solution for your need of high profile, feature rich and exclusive website development.

Jennifer Hill is a highly ambitious and self motivated professional, working as a senior marketing executive with WPCanvas, a specialized WordPress development and WordPress customization firm.