WordPress 5.0 “Bebo”
– major update –
Category: Knowledge
Level: Beginner
Over time, WordPress has made multiple updates, many of them minor. All were designed to improve performance and optimize the user experience on the platform. On December 6, 2018, WordPress released the long-awaited version 5.0, also called Bebo, named after the pianist Bebo Valdés. This update introduces major changes in terms of functionality and flexibility of the platform.
Below we describe the major changes introduced in WordPress 5.0:
The New Gutenberg – block-based editor
Perhaps the most important change in Bebo, the WordPress 5.0 update, is the new Gutenberg editor, a block-based editor designed to simplify content creation. Gutenberg was actually introduced in versions of the 4.x generation, but version 5.0 brings a series of new capabilities. Previously, content could be added in large blocks or placed on the page as a single block; now it works differently. Each type of content is allocated its own block. This makes reorganizing content on the page much easier by simply moving blocks. In version 4.9, there was a single editor with buttons at the top; now each block has its own editing buttons, specific to the type of content it displays.
Another feature of Gutenberg is that, besides the default theme blocks, each user can create custom blocks to streamline page layout and focus more on the content itself.
Dynamic content – rapid changes
The WordPress 5.0 update also allows blocks to be used across multiple pages and edited from a single location, the so-called reusable blocks. Different templates with a predefined configuration of individual blocks can be set. n this case, Gutenberg ensures that any change made in a block automatically updates the content wherever that block appears, maintaining a consistent website appearance. To prevent accidental code changes and content alteration, WordPress ensures that the content structure cannot be easily modified. Individual blocks have thus become a convenient way for users to directly and easily change content.
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