WordPress 5.0. What’s new?

Robert | January 7, 2019 | Wordpress

WordPress 5.0 dropped December 6, 2018. The release is being touted as the most dramatic update to WordPress in 15 years. So what’s new? Techarim hits the highlights.

  1. Gutenburg Editor
  2. Twenty Nineteen Theme
  3. Easier development, updated APIs

For users, the greatest addition in 5.0 is the Gutenburg editor, which is WordPress’s own page builder. Gutenburg uses drag-and-drop “blocks” that allow users to create their own page layouts. For a full analysis check out Smashing Magazine’s The Complete Anatomy Of The Gutenberg WordPress Editor. There’s also a Gutenburg video and tutorials from WordPress.

Just a month old, Gutenburg has yet to get the development community fully behind it. But give it time. Gutenburg is powerful, and it will redefine how designers approach WordPress theme building. For a good preview, checkout Colorlib’s list of 30+ Gutenburg-compatible themes.

Twenty Nineteen Theme

WordPress releases a new default theme every year. Twenty Nineteen is Gutenburg-ready.