Is WordPress 3.3 Worth the Upgrade?
Every few months WordPress users around the world log into their WordPress dashboard to find a new update available, but is it really worth the hassle of upgrading? In a word ... yes.
The new 3.3 update has some pretty impressive features and appears to be mostly aimed at making WordPress easier to use for novice users. For example, the tool tips (displayed to the right of this) adds easy to understand visual tips to some of the improvements, ensuring users are not overwhelmed by the changes.
The new media uploader that I wrote about a few weeks ago is now also implemented and makes the upload process a simple matter of dragging and dropping, rather than selecting files through a traditional form interface.
WPCandy's article on the 3.3 upgrade makes an interesting point that 180 developers contributed 1,200 unique changes to WordPress 3.3 for a combined total of 138 days of coding. As of noon today, it had already been downloaded over 300,000 times but that number keeps climbing, here's the WordPress download counter.
As I mentioned in my WordCamp Toronto and WordCamp Detroit speeches, the vast majority of websites are out of date and I suspect that most of those are because users either don't have the time or the technical expertise to update WordPress. If you need a hand updating your WordPress install to the latest version, contact me and I'll make sure your website is updated properly for a reasonable price.
