{"id":27688,"date":"2018-11-23T18:46:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T09:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wordpress-5-0-release-candidate\/"},"modified":"2018-11-23T19:34:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T10:34:06","slug":"wordpress-5-0-release-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wordpress-5-0-release-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 5.0 Release Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 5.0 Release Candidate<\/p>\n<p>The first release candidate for WordPress 5.0 is now available!<\/p>\n<p>This is an important milestone, as we near the release of WordPress 5.0.&nbsp;<strong>The WordPress 5.0 release date has shifted from the 27th to give more time for the RC to be fully tested<\/strong>. A final release date will be announced soon, based on feedback on the RC. This is a big release and needs <em>your<\/em> help\u2014if you haven\u2019t tried 5.0 yet, now is the time!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To test WordPress 5.0, you can use the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordpress-beta-tester\/\">WordPress Beta Tester<\/a>&nbsp;plugin or you can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/wordpress-5.0-RC1.zip\">download the release candidate here<\/a>&nbsp;(zip).<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s in WordPress 5.0?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/wordpress.org\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/Gutenberg-3.png?resize=632%2C316&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot of the new block editor interface.\" class=\"wp-image-6271\" \/><figcaption>The new block-based post editor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WordPress 5.0 introduces the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/gutenberg\/\">new block-based post editor<\/a>. This is the first step toward an exciting new future with a streamlined editing experience across your site. You\u2019ll have more flexibility with how content is displayed, whether you are building your first site, revamping your blog, or write code for a living.<\/p>\n<p>The block editor is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gutenstats.blog\/\">used on over a million sites<\/a>, we think it&#8217;s ready to be used on all WordPress sites. We do understand that some sites might need some extra time, though. If that&#8217;s you, please install the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/classic-editor\/\">Classic Editor plugin<\/a>, you&#8217;ll continue to use the classic post editor when you upgrade to WordPress 5.0.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty Nineteen is WordPress&#8217; new default theme, it&nbsp;features custom styles for the blocks available by default in 5.0.&nbsp;Twenty Nineteen is designed to work for a wide variety of use cases. Whether you\u2019re running a photo blog, launching a new business, or supporting a non-profit, Twenty Nineteen is flexible enough to fit your needs.<\/p>\n<p>The block editor is a big change, but that&#8217;s not all. We&#8217;ve made some smaller changes as well,&nbsp; including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All of the previous default themes, from Twenty Ten through to Twenty Seventeen, have been updated to support the block editor.<\/li>\n<li>You can improve the accessibility of the content you write, now that <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/30421\">simple ARIA labels<\/a>&nbsp;can be saved in posts and pages.<\/li>\n<li>WordPress 5.0 officially supports the upcoming PHP 7.3 release: if you&#8217;re using an older version, we encourage you to <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/upgrade-php\/\">upgrade PHP<\/a>&nbsp;on your site.<\/li>\n<li>Developers can now add translatable strings directly to your JavaScript code, using the new <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2018\/11\/09\/new-javascript-i18n-support-in-wordpress\/\">JavaScript language packs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read more about the fixes and changes since  Beta 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2018\/11\/20\/whats-new-in-gutenberg-20th-november\/\">in the last update post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more details about what\u2019s new in version 5.0, check out the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2018\/10\/wordpress-5-0-beta-1\/\">Beta 1<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2018\/10\/wordpress-5-0-beta-2\/\">Beta 2<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2018\/11\/wordpress-5-0-beta-3\/\">Beta 3<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2018\/11\/wordpress-5-0-beta-4\/\">Beta 4<\/a> and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2018\/11\/wordpress-5-0-beta-5\/\">Beta 5<\/a>&nbsp;blog posts.<\/p>\n<h2>Plugin and Theme Developers<\/h2>\n<p>Please test your plugins and themes against WordPress 5.0 and update the&nbsp;<em>Tested up to<\/em>&nbsp;version in the readme to 5.0. If you find compatibility problems, please be sure to post to the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/forum\/alphabeta\/\">support forums<\/a> so we can figure those out before the final release. An in-depth field guide to developer-focused changes is coming soon on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/\">core development blog<\/a>. In the meantime, you can review the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/tag\/5.0+dev-notes\/\">developer notes for 5.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>How to Help<\/h2>\n<p>Do you speak a language other than English?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/translate.wordpress.org\/projects\/wp\/dev\">Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages!<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If you think you\u2019ve found a bug<\/em><\/strong><em>, you can post to the&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/forum\/alphabeta\"><em>Alpha\/Beta area<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;in the support forums. We\u2019d love to hear from you! If you\u2019re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report,&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/reports\/\"><em>file one on WordPress Trac<\/em><\/a><em>, where you can also find&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/tickets\/major\"><em>a list of known bugs<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color:#f9f4e8\" class=\"has-background has-medium-font-size\"><em>Ruedan los bloques<br \/>Contando vivos cuentos<br \/>Que se despiertan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2018\/11\/wordpress-5-0-release-candidate\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress 5.0 Release Candidate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>WordPress 5.0 Release Candidate The first release candidate for WordPress 5.0 is now available! This is an important milestone, as we near the release of WordPress 5.0.&nbsp;The WordPress 5.0 release date has shifted from the 27th to give more time for the RC to be fully tested. A final release date will be announced soon, based on feedback on the RC. This is a big release and needs your help\u2014if you haven\u2019t tried 5.0 yet, now is the time!&nbsp; To test WordPress 5.0, you can use the&nbsp;WordPress Beta Tester&nbsp;plugin or you can&nbsp;download the release candidate here&nbsp;(zip). What&#8217;s in WordPress 5.0? The new block-based post editor. WordPress 5.0 introduces the new block-based post editor. This is the first step toward an exciting new future with a streamlined editing experience across your site. You\u2019ll have more flexibility with how content is displayed, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wordpress-5-0-release-candidate\/\" title=\"WordPress 5.0 Release Candidate\">[ more&#8230; ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[395],"class_list":["post-27688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-wordpress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27689,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27688\/revisions\/27689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}