Prepping for WordPress 5.5
Wordpress 5.5 is moving forward to it's planned release on August 11, 2020. Our team at Outcome Labs is evaluating to plan for deployment next month.
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Join the Tallahassee WordPress Meetup!
The next Tallahassee Wordpress Meetup is scheduled for Tuesday July 28, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP through meetup to get the link. Hope you can join us!
Full Site Editing and Block-based WordPress Themes Discussion
Interesting discussion moderated by Bir git Pauli-Haack of Gutenberg Times from last Friday on full site editing and block-based themes. Great way to learn more about this major feature of the Block Editor that is under active development.
Gutenberg 8.3 Quick Update
We deployed Gutenberg 8.3 to our verification sites when it was released last week. Generally seems pretty stable, but we did find some issues.
WordPress Bumps PHP Minimum to 7.2—Checked Your Site Lately?
Have you checked the Site Health databoard on your Wordpress site. We strongly recommend checking and and addressing issues like this. It will improve the security and performance of your site. If you need assistance, be sure to contact us.
Recommended Tools: Duplicate Post
This is a new series of posts about themes, plugins, and blocks we use and recommend. First up is the duplicate Post plugin which was just acquired by Yoast.
Remember to Check the Gutenberg Experiments!
We hit a big issue with the Gutenberg 8.3 update. The support team at Yoast helped us to identify the cause as a Gutenberg experiments setting, but we should have caught it first.
Update to WordPress 5.4.2 as soon as you can
The WordPress 5.4.2 Security and Maintenance Release is now available. It corrects a bug that allows spammers to index in search engines results pages comments that are still awaiting moderation.
The Block Editor Continues to Accelerate
The Gutenberg team continues to push the Block Editor forward. Here at Outcome Labs, we have moved all of our company sites and almost all new client projects over to the Block Editor as the primary tool for both content creation and for layouts.