The Middlebury and MIIS blogging communities are now running on WordPress 3.4. This introduces three new features.

• A theme customizer that lets you change your site’s settings and styles in one interface.
• Automatic Twitter embeds. Paste the URL of a Tweet into one of your posts and it will automatically show up in the post, like the example below.
• HTML Image Captions. When writing an image caption you can include some HTML tags like <b>, <i>, and <a> to add information to your caption.

WordPress 3.4 is here! Update your site now to try the new theme customizer, better headers, HTML captions & more: http://t.co/tHpz0Mau

— WordPress (@WordPress) June 13, 2012

Here’s a video that highlights these features.

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There is more information available about WordPress 3.4 in their official blog and developer documentation.