WordPress 5.5 has come up with some of the biggest news in recent times. The famous CMS (Content Management System) or open source content management system does not cease in its tireless development so that web pages based on it continue to improve, as well as make life easier for those who are in charge of managing them (although sometimes there are improvements that not everyone likes ...).
Now, with the release of WordPress 5.5 will arrive many great improvements. Some of them are really surprising, and they will take many by surprise. But surely you are going to like them, and some will be appreciated by the administrators, since it will make their work much faster, easier, and it will even be automated in some cases.
Between the newsLet's see the highlights of WordPress 5.5:
- Automatic plugin and theme updates. If you were tired of updating your plugins and themes installed on your website every two or three, now you will no longer need intervention and it will be done in the background. However, it is a feature that can be turned on or off.
- Block menus in Gutenberg. Not everyone liked the new editor, but it is quite practical when you get used to using it. It has its advantages and disadvantages, but now it comes with some improvements to include navigation menus as blocks.
- Block Directory. It will change the entire WordPress ecosystem, both plugins and themes. Now, if you need a block and it is not installed, you can search for it from the editor itself, install it, and activate it.
- Native XML sitemaps.
- Native lazy loading. It will come with a lazy loading function, adding the loading attribute with the lazy value in all img tags, although it will respect previous attributes you have. That will cause the image to lazy load on your site.
- Fixed bugs, and more…