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What’s New in WordPress 5.5 (Features and Screenshots)
WordPress 5.5 was released earlier today, and it is the second major release of 2020.This[…]
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WordPress 5.5: Top 20 New Features & Improvements
WordPress 5.5 is a major version release of WordPress focusing on “speed, search & security,”[…]
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WordPress 5.5 Core Editor Accessibility Improvements
In an effort to better communicate the specifics of what’s coming to the editor in[…]
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New Plugin for WordPress 5.5 and Beyond: Disable WP Sitemaps
WordPress 5.5 and beyond features built-in sitemaps that are enabled by default. For new users[…]
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Upcoming in WordPress 5.5: Features and Changes Theme Authors Should Know About
August 11, the target release date for WordPress 5.5, is just shy of two weeks[…]
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Controlling Plugin and Theme auto-update email notifications and Site Health infos in WP 5.5
This is the second part of the plugins and themes auto-updates dev notes for WordPress[…]
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Block API Updates in 5.5
Coauthored by @aduth and @gziolo. Block Categories The block category is no longer mandatory or[…]
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Filtering archive page headings in WordPress 5.5
With WordPress 5.5, theme authors will now be able to easily filter archive pages headings,[…]
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Miscellaneous Developer Focused Changes in WordPress 5.5
Edit 7/29/2020: a call out specific to Twenty Ten was added for the comment_type change.[…]
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WordPress 5.5 New Features: What's Coming In Next Release (With Screenshots)
Check out what’s coming with the release of WordPress 5.5. Tons of cool new features,[…]
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REST API changes in WordPress 5.5
The REST API will see a lot of changes in WordPress 5.5. In an effort[…]
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New XML Sitemaps Functionality in WordPress 5.5
In WordPress 5.5, a new feature is being introduced that adds basic, extensible XML sitemaps[…]
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New wp_get_environment_type() function in WordPress 5.5
WordPress 5.5 introduces a new wp_get_environment_type() function that retrieves a site’s current environment type. This[…]
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Theme Authors Can Pass Data to Template Files in WordPress 5.5
Theme developers can finally rejoice. For the first time, it is now possible to pass[…]
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Editing Images in the Block Editor
As most people that follow core development already know, a new feature in WordPress 5.5[…]
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What’s Coming in WordPress 5.5 (Features and Screenshots)
WordPress 5.5 beta is out, and it is scheduled to be released on August 11,[…]
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New and modified REST API endpoints in WordPress 5.5
In WordPress 5.5, a handful of entirely new REST API endpoints have been introduced and[…]
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Controlling Plugin and Theme auto-updates UI in WordPress 5.5
Site security is an integral part of modern websites. Keeping sites up to date by[…]
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REST API Parameter & JSON Schema changes in WordPress 5.5
WordPress 5.5 introduces a number of new features and changes to how request and response[…]
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Register theme feature API
Themes use the add_theme_support API to declare support for a particular theme feature. For instance,[…]
