WordPress 5.5 | Coming on August 11, 2020 With Brand New Features

WordPress the most popular free and open-source content management system(CMS), which is written in PHP and combined with MySQL or MariaDB database. Plugins and Templates features are two of the best features of WordPress. According to the data, 40% of Google’s websites are created or generated using WordPress. Recently the latest version of WordPress which is WordPress 5.5 was announced and set to release on August 11, 2020, and the Next Version WordPress 5.6 is planned to release on December 2020.

So WordPress will make major changes in 2020, but prior to the release there are many features release for the beta users for analysis and reporting the bugs. For market testing and analysis, a beta version of WordPress 5.5 is available. WordPress 5.5 Beta 1 is now available for download from the official site.

You can now taste the essence of the WordPress 5.5 in the beta release and report if there is any bug because it is still under development.

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Major Changes in WordPress 5.5

Inline Image Editing

You can now crop, rotate, and zoom photos inline right from image blocks.

Block Patterns

Developing complex pages can be a snap with new patterns of blocks. Many of them are included by default.

Device Preview

You will now be able to see a different form of view of the content right from WordPress.

Smoother Editing Experience

Refined Drag and Drop Function
Parent Block Selection
Contextual Focus Highlights
Ability to Copy and Readjust Blocks More Easily

Backgrounds and Gradients

Now you will be able to add backgrounds and gradients to more kinds of blocks.

More Types of Measurements

And support for more types of measurements like ems, rems, percentages, vh, vw, and more.

XML Sitemaps

It’s a great News. Now you don’t have to install another plugin for Sitemaps. It is provided by default in WordPress 5.5. Search engines to locate the content of your site are expected to carry out sitemaps.