WordPress 5.3 Major Release is Now Available!Posted by Sharmin Islam on November 13th, 2019 The final major WordPress release of 2019 is now available! WordPress 5.3 aims to polish current interactions and make the UIs more user-friendly. If you haven’t tried 5.3 yet, now is the time! This release comes with a huge number of features and enhancements for both users and developers, as well as an important boost in performance. WordPress 5.3 expands and refines the Block Editor introduced in WordPress 5.0 with new blocks, more intuitive interactions, and improved accessibility. New features in the editor increase design freedoms, provide additional layout options and style variations to allow designers to complete control over the look of a site. This release also introduces the Twenty Twenty theme giving the user more design flexibility and integration with the Block Editor. In addition, WordPress 5.3 allows developers to work with dates and timezones in a more reliable way and prepares the software to work with PHP 7.4, improved accessibility and much more. Let’s discuss the improvements the release has come with, you expect: Site HealthWordPress introduced the Site Health feature With the 5.2 version. This feature examines different aspects of your WordPress install and server setup encouraging admins to upgrade PHP from the outdated PHP versions. WordPress 5.3 expands on the Site Health feature and adds additional components. Email VerificationThe 5.3 release introduces admin email verifications to ensure the main admin contact email address is valid, which affects the earlier version 5.2. WordPress 5.2 introduced recovery mode which is available through an email the admin will receive during an error in the WordPress website. PHP 7.4 CompatibilityWordPress 5.3 brings compatibility for PHP 7.4. We would suggest confirming that your plugins can run PHP 7.4 before upgrading your install. Twenty Twenty Theme
The big focus of version 5.3 is Twenty Twenty Theme which is designed with flexibility at its core.
Source: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/09/06/introducing-twenty-twenty/ WordPress 5.3 adds even more robust tools for creating amazing designs:
You can download WordPress 5.2.4 or visit Dashboard → Updates and click Update Now. Sites that support automatic background updates have already started to update automatically. Log in to cPanel ⇒ go to the SOFTACULOUS APPS INSTALLER section of the cPanel home screen ⇒ click any of the options under Categories. In the icon list at the top right, ⇒ click the icon (All Installations icon) ⇒ Locate the application that you want to update ⇒ and click the icon (Upgrade icon).
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