WordPress 5 5 Big Update, Lots of Features & Broken Plugins - Episode 116

The big issues with the update stem from the removal of the code for jQuery Migrate (jump to the 12-minute mark in the video for more details).

There were other great things added to the update such as the Lazy Loading, and even the redesigned Block Editor (I give a quick 5-minute walkthrough of this starting at 19-minute mark)

For everything else that stood out to us, check out these chapter jump points:

00:00 WordPress 5.5 was released with lots of changes
01:15 WordPress removed code for Older Browsers (IE 6-9)
03:50 New User Interface, New Icons, Updated Block Design (Gutenberg)
04:50 Inline Image Editing
06:35 Lazy Loading Images (AWESOME!)
08:45 Lots of themes and plugin issues
09:15 RANT - The terms "whitelist", "blacklist" and "webmaster" are removed
11:05 Items that break (Themes) - Avada, Enfold & OnePress
11:45 Plugins we saw with issues; WPBakery, Updraft, WooCommerce, NetGen Gallery, TI Wishlist
12:30 All issues stem from jQuery Migrate (and the fix!)
16:00 WooCommerce, Avada, Enfold, TI Wishlist have all released new patches
17:05 If you have further issues, rollback the version, or install "jQuery Migrate Helper"
19:00 A visual guide of the new Block Editor features
22:35 Block Patterns - Why didn't they just call them templates?
25:00 Overall The Update Is Good
25:45 Automatic Plugin & Theme Update ability
27:45 New Code in WordPress to allow hows to declare staging environments
29:15 Plugin Updates can now update via Zip File

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salutations, Big Red SEO, LLC. pretty solid video. thank. :)

[TheSK]

Very good video, interesting things about wordpress update 5.5, I would like to add I updated wordpress to 5.5 and it messed up my WPBakery Page Builder 6, 2 (with license) and I'm stuck now 3 days, no more editing my pages, when I try to edit (backend or frontend) a page to make some changes I get blocks of HTML and nothing works, (any solutions?, jQuery Migrate helper?) thank's