Along with WordPress 5.0, came the Twenty Nineteen theme, and it seemed like something I should grab with both hands too, so, if you’re wondering what the Twenty Nineteen theme looks like… then wonder no more, you’re looking at it!
Pretty cool.
WordPress 5.0
WordPress 5.0 (at the time of posting) is expected to be released in Q4 2018. Its a big release, as it will see the editor change for the first time in several years, AKA the “Gutenberg” release.
Gutenberg is a move away from the Visual Editor (WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get) which is to be retained for those on WP 5.0 through installing a plugin called Classic Editor – to a block based editor.
Think drag and drop / page builder and you’ll be somewhere close.
In any case, if I specifically mention WordPress 5.0 in a post, its listed below… assuming, of course, I remembered to tag it correctly :)
WordPress 5.0 is Here! (I’m running it, and it works!)
WordPress 5.0 is live and kicking, and brings with it a new editor experience, in the form of Gutenberg.
WordPress Governance Project to Launch 15 Jan 2019
Another one of those quick announcement posts, but this one is really important and an interesting step in the right direction for the Open Source WordPress community.
WordPress 5.0.3 is Live
The latest version of WordPress – WP 5.0.3 – went live on Wednesday 9 January 2019, and it’s working fine and as expected on my site here, and several clients who have minor version updates turned on.
Backward Compatibility Vs Technical Debt
Here’s an interesting explanation of the “Eternal Struggle” between Technical Debt and Backward Compatibility (in a WordPress context) from WP CLI maintainer, Alain Schlesser.
WooCommerce 3.5.3 Released – Fixes WP 5.0.2 Order Table Missing Issue
The WooCommerce core team just shipped WooCommerce 3.5.3, which is really a 1 issue patch release, which resolves the not-so-insignificant issue of the Orders list table (in wp admin) going missing on upgrade to last night’s WordPress 5.0.2 release.
WooCommerce 3.5.1 Released
Since I missed and didn’t mention when 3.5.0 hit the streets, last night WooCommerce did a spooky halloween release (31 October, no ghouls in the code 🙂 ) of version 3.5.1.