Easy WP Guide for WordPress 5.9 is now available

Easy WP Guide for WordPress 5.9 is now available

WordPress 5.9, named “Josephine” in honour of acclaimed international jazz singer Joséphine Baker, was released back in late January. It’s available for download from WordPress.org or you can update in your WordPress dashboard.

This latest update sees the introduction of the new Full Site Editor, a new default theme called Twenty Twenty-Two, and improvements and updates to existing blocks. There's also the WordPress Pattern Directory and some updated features for developers.

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Easy WP Guide for WordPress 5.8 is now available

Easy WP Guide for WordPress 5.8 is now available

WordPress 5.8, named “Tatum” in honour of musical prodigy Art Tatum, was released back in late July. It’s available for download from WordPress.org or you can update in your WordPress dashboard.

This latest update sees the introduction of the Block Editor on the Widgets screen and in the Customizer, along with the introduction of new blocks as the first step of what will become known as Full Site Editing (FSE). Whilst technically you are able to edit theme templates with this latest version of WordPress, you do require a theme that has opted in to this functionality, of which, there's currently only a few that are available, none of which are included with the default WordPress themes.

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Easy WP Guide for WordPress 5.6 is now available

Easy WP Guide for WordPress 5.6 is now available

WordPress 5.6, named “Simone” in honour of legendary performer Nina Simone, was just released recently (December 8). It’s available for download from WordPress.org or you can update in your WordPress dashboard.

This latest update provides more improvements to the Block Editor, more block patterns, a brand new default theme called Twenty Twenty-One, auto-updates for major WordPress versions, and a bunch of improvements for developers.

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Easy WP Guide for WordPress 5.5 is now available

Easy WP Guide for WordPress 5.5 is now available

WordPress 5.5, named “Eckstine” in honour of American jazz and pop singer Billy Eckstine, was released last month (August 11). It’s available for download from WordPress.org or you can update in your WordPress dashboard.

This latest update sees the addition of lazy-loading images, a new built-in sitemap, auto-updates for themes and plugins, more improvements to the Block Editor, and a bunch of improvements for developers.

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