The latest version of WordPress has been out for a few weeks now, and while some updates get more attention than others, this happened to be a release that received a little less fanfare than usual.

Most of the improvements where, “meh,” while other improvements were boasted more on the coding side, which is more of a niche area and doesn’t effect the grand majority of WordPress.org users on a daily basis — like the faster WP_Query.

However, there is a really cool feature you’ll all want to use that kind-of got lost in the shuffle:

Embed Tweets

Before WordPress 3.4, if you wanted to embed a tweet, you would have to use a plugin like Blackbird Pie or grab the code directly from Twitter. Not anymore!

Just like YouTube and Vimeo, all you need to do is drop the link of the tweet you want to embed!

This: “https://twitter.com/DYECASTING/status/217955666193678336″

Turns into this:

Isn’t this awesome!

— Eric Dye (@DYECASTING) June 27, 2012

Awesome, right!?!

(Unless, of course, it has a problem connecting to Twitter )

Embed Videos

And yes, if you didn’t know (it’s been around a while), I just said that the same goes for Vimeo, YouTube and more:

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• DailyMotion
• blip.tv
• Flickr (both videos and images)
• Viddler
• Hulu
• Qik
• Revision3
• Scribd
• Photobucket
• PollDaddy
• Google Video
• WordPress.tv (only VideoPress-type videos for the time being)
• SmugMug (WordPress 3.0+)
• FunnyOrDie.com (WordPress 3.0+)

There’s no need for a plugin! (Unless you’re using a video embed plugin for other purposes, like Tentbloggers.)

I wonder what WordPress will auto-embed next?