WordPress 5.1 Beta 1<\/p>\n
WordPress 5.1 Beta 1 is now available!<\/p>\n
This software is still in development,<\/strong> so we don\u2019t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with the new version.<\/p>\n There are two ways to test the WordPress 5.1 beta: try the WordPress Beta Tester<\/a> plugin (you\u2019ll want to select the \u201cbleeding edge nightlies\u201d option), or you can download the beta here<\/a> (zip).<\/p>\n WordPress 5.1 is slated for release on February 21<\/a>, and we need your help to get there. Here are some of the big items to test so we can find as many bugs as possible in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n Site Health Check is an ongoing project aimed at improving the stability and performance of the entire WordPress ecosystem. The first phase of this project is included in WordPress 5.1. For the first time, WordPress will catch and pause the problem code, so you can log in to your Dashboard and see what the problem is (#44458<\/a>). Before, you\u2019d have to FTP in to your files or get in touch with your host.<\/p>\n Additionally, in April 2019, WordPress’ will\u00a0increase\u00a0its\u00a0minimum\u00a0supported\u00a0PHP version\u00a0to\u00a05.6<\/a>. To help you check if you’re prepared for this change, WordPress 5.1 will show you a warning and help you upgrade your version of PHP, if necessary.<\/p>\n There have been over 360 tickets closed<\/a> in WordPress 5.1, with numerous small bug fixes and improvements to help smooth your WordPress experience.<\/p>\n Keep your eyes on the Make WordPress Core blog<\/a> for more developer notes (which are assigned<\/a> the Do you speak a language other than English? Help us translate WordPress into more than 100 languages!<\/a><\/p>\n If you think you\u2019ve found a bug<\/em><\/strong>, you can post to the <\/em>Alpha\/Beta area<\/em><\/a> in the support forums. We\u2019d love to hear from you! If you\u2019re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, <\/em>file one on WordPress Trac<\/em><\/a>, where you can also find <\/em>a list of known bugs<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Miss my haiku? Source: WordPress 5.1 Beta 1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WordPress 5.1 Beta 1 WordPress 5.1 Beta 1 is now available! This software is still in development, so we don\u2019t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with the new version. There are two ways to test the WordPress 5.1 beta: try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you\u2019ll want to select the \u201cbleeding edge nightlies\u201d option), or you can download the beta here (zip). WordPress 5.1 is slated for release on February 21, and we need your help to get there. Here are some of the big items to test so we can find as many bugs as possible in the coming weeks. Site Health Check Site Health Check is an ongoing project aimed at improving the stability and performance of the entire WordPress ecosystem. The first phase of this project is included in WordPress 5.1. For [ more… ]<\/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-28656","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\/28656","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=28656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28657,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28656\/revisions\/28657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Site Health Check<\/h2>\n
For Developers<\/h2>\n
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WP_DEBUG_LOG<\/code> can be set to a custom log location (#18391<\/a>).<\/li>\nwp_blogmeta<\/code> table (#37923<\/a>).<\/li>\nLIKE<\/code> support to meta_key<\/code> comparisons in WP_Meta_Query<\/code> (#42409<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\ndev-notes<\/code> tag) in the coming weeks detailing other changes in 5.1 that you should be aware of.<\/p>\nHow to Help<\/h2>\n
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