Sticky Posts – The first new feature is Sticky Posts, a feature you can use to make one post stay at the top of a page. You could use this feature any number of ways, including keeping a short “Welcome” sign at the beginning of a blog for new readers, or to put up a bulletin about some hot topic. As you’ll see on this blog, I’m using the Sticky Post feature to list titles of several recent blog posts, so visitors can see what I’ve written in the past few days without having to scroll down the page.

Screencasts – Automattic, the company behind WordPress, works with a bunch of newspapers that use the company’s software for the blogs they run. To that end, Automattic and the New York Times have created a series of short videos explaining how to use WordPress, and they’re making them available to WordPress users. Automattic calls these tutorials “Screencasts” and you can read more about them here.

Picture Gallery - WordPress also made it easier to add multiple photographs to a single post, a feature called “Picture Gallery.” Here’s one of those screencasts that explains how.