“If you’ve been around WordPress a while, the most dramatic new change you’ll notice is a completely re-imagined flow for uploading photos and creating galleries. Media has long been a friction point and we’ve listened hard and given a lot of thought into crafting this new system. ”

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Highlights

• New Media Manager
  • Beautiful interface: A streamlined, all-new experience
  • Create galleries faster with drag-and-drop reordering, inline caption editing, and simplified controls
  • Insert multiple images at once with Shift/Ctrl+click
  • Insert multiple galleries per post and independently order images

• Admin Enhancements
  • Retina-Ready (HiDPI) Admin
  • Better accessibility for screenreaders, touch devices, and keyboard users
  • More polish on admin screens
• Dashboard

• Button styles updated throughout Dashboard to more modern, rectangular shape
• Help Text improvements throughout
• Posts

• Rename the “HTML” editor tab to “Text”
• Prevent child categories from being visually promoted to the top level after Quick Edit