WordPress 5.5: Top 20 New Features & Improvements

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WordPress 5.5 is a major version release of WordPress focusing on “speed, search & security,” including 1500+ changes to the block editor interface, 150+ enhancements and feature requests, 300+ bug fixes, and more. In this post, we cover the top 20 new things in this version of WordPress.

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