The Month in WordPress: December 2020
The Month in WordPress: December 2020 We bid goodbye to 2020 in style with the release of WordPress 5.6 and the launch of Learn WordPress. But these weren’t the only exciting updates from WordPress in December. Read on to learn more! WordPress 5.6 is here The latest major WordPress release, version 5.6 “Simone”, came out on December 8. The release ships with a new default theme called Twenty Twenty One. It offers a host of features, including: Greater layout flexibility More block patterns Video captioning support Auto-updates Beta-compatibility for PHP 8.0 Application password support for the REST API Updates to jQuery In addition, WordPress 5.6 is now available in 55 languages. You can find more information about the release in the field guide, and you can update to the latest version directly from your WordPress dashboard or by downloading it [ more… ]