WordPress.org today launched WordPress 5.0, which brings "big upgrades to the editor" in the blog management tool. You can download the new release, available in 37 languages, now from WordPress.org/Download.
WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that powers over 30 percent of the web. The latest version is dubbed "Bebo," in honor of Cuban jazz musician Bebo Valdés.
WordPress 5.0 introduces a block-based editor that offers a streamlined editing experience. The new editor is supposed to be better at inserting media content and rearranging any type of content. Each piece of content is in its own block, which is meant to help site owners decide how content is displayed. Blocks include everything from paragraphs, headings, and quotes to images, galleries, and videos.
For those who prefer the Classic Editor, WordPress.org has a new Classic Editor plugin that it promises to support through 2021. The plugin restores the previous WordPress editor, the Edit Post screen, and lets you keep using plugins that extend it. WordPress.org also notes that users of assistive technology should try the Classic Editor if the new block editor causes trouble.
Twenty Nineteen is WordPress' new default theme designed to show off the power of the new editor. The theme uses editor styles so that what you create in your content editor is what you see on the frontend. It also features ample whitespace, modern sans-serif headlines paired with classic serif body text, and system fonts to increase loading speed.
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WordPress 5.0 also keeps developers in mind: