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posted by CoolHand on Friday December 07 2018, @03:51PM   Printer-friendly

WordPress—the leading blogging and content management system across the web—is releasing version 5.0 on Thursday [6 Dec]. This marks the first major update in a year, and the most substantive update to the platform in several years, bringing with it a variety of speed optimizations and new features intended to make it more flexible to fit an increasing number of use cases.

The largest change coming to WordPress 5.0 is the Gutenberg editor, which completely reimagines the way writers and other content creators interact with their website. In contrast to increasingly popular markup editors used in other blogging software, the Gutenberg editor is fundamentally WYSIWYG, though with a design flexibility that allows content to be easily reformatted across screen sizes and devices.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/wordpress-5-0-release-brings-brand-new-editor-for-easier-page-design/


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  • (Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Saturday December 08 2018, @12:58AM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Saturday December 08 2018, @12:58AM (#771365) Journal

    The first rule of the Internet: any time someone offers you a big IMPROVEMENT on a tool that you use daily you should immediately plan for how to avoid the upgrade.

    Admittedly Wordpress has improved significantly from the early days, but this still looks like a massive headache.

    And, for the whiners, Wordpress still remains the fastest, easiest, cheapest way to get a good looking, functional, small web site up fast. It still remains insanely customizable and has a deep. deep support community. And has an impressive level of functionality built in out of the box. Plus, if you're using any reasonably modern web host the install and the updates will be automatic.

    There's a reason why there are so many Wordpress sites out there, and it isn't that people are cheap or lazy.

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