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WordPress news roundup – November 2019

Site Admin • Dec 02, 2019

Here’s a recap of the latest developments in the WordPress ecosystem, from WordPress core updates and Gutenberg news to more plugin news bought to you from iThemes.

A new version of WordPress was released this month, WordPress 5.3 “Kirk”

  • Introducing WordPress 5.3 “Kirk”
  • Released on Tuesday, November 12
  • 645 volunteers contributed to the release (the most ever for a WordPress release).
  • Full Support for PHP 7.4
  • Meta tag for discouraging search engines in addition to the existing robots.txt file
  • New backbone.js and other developer-y things

WordPress 5.3 “Kirk” has a definite focus on expanding and refining the WordPress Gutenberg Editor, also known as the Block Editor, first introduced in WordPress 5.0. 

Most of the more noteworthy new features and improvements have to do with Gutenberg. Still, there are some other excellent additions in this release, including better image handling, updates to the WordPress admin UI that improve accessibility and more.

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