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Meet the latest and greatest version of WordPress Simone. WordPress 5.6 was officially released on December 8, local time.
WordPress 5.6 is named after the legendary performer Nina Simone. Nina Simone's music is due to its "good feeling", "young, talented and black" and "four "A woman". Make a playlist with her best work, and then continue reading to learn what we have prepared for you.
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Sharing stories has never been easier.
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Check out the WordPress 5.6 domain guide
Welcome to WordPress 5.6
Sharing stories has never been easier.
WordPress 5.6 brings you countless ways to freely release ideas and put them into practice. Use a brand new default theme as the canvas, and it supports a growing collection of tiles as brushes. Use words to paint, pictures, sounds, or rich embedded media.
Greater layout flexibility
Use more tools to make your story come to life, and you can edit the layout with or without code. Single-column blocks, use mixed width and column designs, full-width headers and gradients in the cover-make small changes or big announcements easily!
More block modes
In some themes, the pre-configured block mode makes it easy to set up standard pages on the site. Let the power of patterns simplify your workflow and save clicks. In addition, share these functions with customers, editors, etc.
Better video subtitles
To help you add subtitles to your videos, you can now upload subtitles in posts or pages. This way, it’s easier than ever to make your video accessible to anyone who needs or likes using subtitles.
The 2021 theme is here!
Also, this default theme puts accessibility at the center of your website. It complies with the WordPress accessibility guidelines and meets some of the more professional standards in the AAA Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 . When you create accessible content and select plugins that are also accessible, it will help you reach the highest level of international accessibility standards!
Pastel rainbow
Need more flexibility? You can also choose your own color palette from the color picker.
Everyone's progress
Extension automatic update
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Built-in mode
For developers
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More PHP 8 support
5.6 marks the first step for WordPress to support PHP 8. Now is a good time to start planning how WordPress products, services, and sites will support the latest PHP version. For more information about the next step, please read the PHP 8 developer instructions .
jQuery
The update of jQuery in WordPress is carried out in three versions 5.5, 5.6 and 5.7. When we reach the midpoint of this process, please run the update test plugin to check your website in advance for errors.
If you find a problem with the appearance of the website (for example, the slider does not work, the button is stuck-something like that), please install the jQuery Migrate plugin .
Check out the WordPress 5.6 domain guide
Learn about the latest version of WordPress in this guide . It highlights the developer notes for every change in the release.
"This is a new day, a new life for me... I feel good." – Nina Simone
team
WordPress version 5.6 is provided by a publishing team composed of all women.
As always, this edition reflects the hard work of 605 generous volunteer contributors. They collaborated on nearly 350 tickets on Trac and more than 1,000 pull requests on GitHub.
In addition, thanks to all community volunteers who contributed in the support forum . They answer questions from people all over the world, whether they are using WordPress for the first time or they have been using WordPress since its first release in 2003. Thanks to their efforts, these versions were a success!
Thanks to all the community translations who helped make WordPress 5.6. Available in 38 languages at the time of release. Community translators work hard to ensure that more languages are used (70 languages have reached 90%). If you are willing to contribute to WordPress, it is easy to learn more. Check out Make WordPress or the core development blog .
For the majority of WordPress users, because WordPress 5.6 is a major release, it also supports the newly released PHP 8.0. It means to upgrade WordPress 5.6, not only the PHP 8 version of the host, but also the WordPress version of the website, and even the operating system of the host, so please be careful!
If you need to invite technical experts to maintain and upgrade WordPress , please visit WordPress Upgrade Service | WordPress Backup Core System .