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WordPress 4.9.8 VS WordPress 5.0.2


Whenever you want to start a Website Design, you will hear about WordPress. Today, WordPress is an online and open source web development is powering a relatively high number of websites. It is popular anywhere around the world. Many entrepreneurs and businesses are using this platform to build their entire website.

Advantages of Using Wordpress

It has an edge and is the most popular Content Management System. As well as it is an application that can be extended through the use of its rich functionality and APIs.

• Open source,

• Usability

• Plugins and

• Rapid development

• Simplicity

• Easy of operation

WordPress 4.9.8

The Scheduler and Draft Saver : WordPress 4.9 is the ability to save and schedule changes. The updated customizer has replaced the save and publish button. Having this kind of functionality in the customizer helps reduce the workload.

Code Syntax Error Highlighter : This is a huge improvement for all users. It will highlight the mistake and even give a hint about the missing element, incomplete function or wrong syntax. Hence this particularly helps the notice developer when they write code.

Widget Changes : It allows users to add a gallery in their widget areas too. Also, it can embed videos from any site that supports oEmbed like embed your Facebook live stream, as well as TED, College Humor, etc. As well as also allow you to embed media in the text widget.

WordPress 5.0.2

WordPress 5.0.2 was released on Dec 19.2018. It can update automatically from the updates on the dashboard. It has come with another bunch of theme updates. So if you are self -hosting, remember to check the updates to these components — it releases that addresses 73 bugs. The primary focus of this release was performance improvement in the block editor. It also marks a change to how a platform handles releases.

Building Custom Themes Become Easier: This theme creation will become much more accessible thanks to blocking.

Page Builder Plugins Might Lose Some Relevance: There are a lot of fantastic page builder tools that can use with WordPress.

Wordpress Rest API: Helps developers create more feature rich products by making it easier to send and pull data from your website.

The main focus of this editor is to make adding rich content to WordPress simple. Text block, most basic block of all has its controls to be moved freely around the post.

For instance, check out Otter Blocks, own plugin that adds quite a handful of new blocks to Gutenberg including services, testimonials, Responsive Web Design, sharing icons, pricing, Notice and Click to Tweet, etc.

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