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 2.7 is Released

Easy WP Guide 2.7 is Released

It's a little later than I would have liked, but it's finally updated! Easy WP Guide version 2.7. Yay! This updated version covers all the new features and changes that came with the latest version of WordPress, version 3.9. As well as the updated content, there's also a couple of new chapters, bringing the total page count to 132 pages. That's an extra 9 pages of awesome and over 1100 more words from the previous version! …Continue reading

WordPress 3.6 released

WordPress 3.6 has just been released to the world. Nicknamed “Oscar” in honor of the great jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, it includes a beautiful new blog-centric theme, bullet-proof autosave and post locking, a revamped revision browser, native support for audio and video embeds, and improved integrations with Spotify and Rdio. …Continue reading