Hey WordPress users do you wanna know everything you need to know about the
latest big update in WordPress 5.4 then you've come to the right place
hey guys what's up this is Ruben at 10Web, a managed wordpress hosting platform
powered by google cloud in this video I'm gonna walk you through all the
important improvements in this WordPress update first we talked about the general
section improvements then about block editor improvements and finally about
new features for WordPress developers also I'm gonna be mentioning some of the
features that were supposed to be included in this update both were
delayed for the next release WordPress 5.5 and if you're interested in a
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now let's go over the general section improvements you should be expecting
there are a lot of features improvements and bug fixes especially coming to the
block editor but we'll talk about Gutenberg a little bit later in terms of
general updates there are two main things firstly the Gutenberg plug-in or
rather a bunch of its versions up until seven point five is now merged into core
so if you have been using it before you will notice a big change and the second
one is a tool that's been added to the dashboard and that's website health tool
added to the WordPress 5.2 for measuring site health which is a combination of
security and performance those are the general things but the main improvements
have been made to the blog editor of course and despite all the hate that
WP got for moving towards a blog editor it has actually made things more
efficient for one now takes less time to load and type
long blog post but let me show it to you in more detail okay guys let's quickly
take a look at what's new here in this editor and the first thing that should
come to your side is that it automatically opens in the full-screen
mode which is ok but I realize a lot of you might be accustomed to the good old
dashboard that usually appears on the left side so if you want to have it back
you can simply go to the upper right corner here and disable the full-screen
mode by just clicking eyes here we go now if you want to know what's new
generally in this edition you can go to the Welcome guide which can be found in
this menu also you can go down a little bit and find welcome guide here now this
is going to give you some intro information about what this blog editor
is but if you want to have some more detailed info you can go to the last
slide and follow the link that says here's a detailed card
now the first cool thing I want to talk about is the new buttons block that
gives you more cool functionality as you can play around with now to do that I'm
going to add a button which you can do by either clicking on this add block
plus sign and find the buttons here or you can simply enter slash and from the
drop-down menu find the buttons option let's write something like
now and let's see what we can do with it here on the right side you can see you
can change the text color let's go with pink and for the background let's choose
this quirky combination but the cool thing is that you can go to the styles
and turn your button to Radian color variation here you can choose from
existing templates or create a gradient of your own I'll go with this one here
you can play around with the colors which is very cool okay now another
thing I want to talk about is the new social icons block which can be
activated just like the buttons either from here
or by typing slash and choosing it from here in social icons here you can see
gives you some prints on options to choose from but of course you don't have
to choose all of them the cool thing about this option is that you can just
enter the exact URL to the social media you're choosing let's go with Facebook
and here you can see if you click out of the box it's gonna save the icons those
icons that you provided URLs for the next thing is that it's much easier
to play around with text color which wasn't the case with the previous
edition now what you can do is change colors to exact words or lines you
choose from the text previously you could change the background color and
the text color only for the whole text block now it's much better let's let's
enter a dummy text area here we go and let's say I want to change the color for
this exact part of the text I can just choose it and go to the arrow here click
on it go to the text color option and choose the color I want let's go with
green here we go this is very awesome and
finally I've got some good news for tick tock lovers because now there is an
option to embed videos from tick tock just like it used to be with YouTube
what you can do for that is just like what with the other options you can go
to this menu the plus sign here I already have it here but if you don't
for some reason if it doesn't show you here and go down go to embeds section
and find tick tock here what you need to do is to provide the exact URL to the
video you want to embed and that's it guys these are the six main changes that
were inserted to this edition of this editor and I'm sure a lot of people can
appreciate that okay now let's move on to some of the features and improvements
that were made specifically for WordPress developers and the main ones
include the ability to use a short code in PHP files the ability to handle
favicon requests better which is especially useful for theme developers
the addition of two new action hooks for adding custom fields to menu items the
next one is the ability to get more info about logging errors also very important
and a few changes that were made to REST API such as the addition of selective
link embeddings and while this was a major update a
bunch of changes for delayed and will only come with WordPress 5.5 and the
main two of these delayed updates are the addition of a navigation block and
the addition of image lazy load but we'll be keeping an eye out for this
delayed updates and will keep you posted for sure to sum it up there are quite a
few changes coming for WordPress users especially regarding the Gutenberg
editor blocks and it's safe to say that a couple of plugins were made redundant
by this major release you know what else would be a huge game-changer for your
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