WordPress 5.4 all you need to know

WordPress.org recently released WordPress 5.4, that focuses on “more ways to make your pages come alive,” along with “speed boosts you can feel.” Version 5.4, created by 552 volunteer contributors, features new blocks, easier navigation, a quicker editing, privacy improvements, and developer adds. The new edition can now be downloaded from WordPress.org.

The block editor adds more to every major release. From your very best photos, more ways to make posts and pages come alive. Better ways to engage the visitors with the richness of embedded media from top providers on the site, and keep them engaged.

More ways to make your vision real, and put blocks in the perfect place—even if a particular kind of block is new to you. More efficient processes.

And more speed everywhere, so as you build sections or galleries, or just type in a line of prose, you can feel how much faster your work flows.

Two new blocks. And better blocks overall.

• Two brand-new blocks: Social Icons and Buttons make adding interactive features fast and easy.
• New ways with color: Gradients in the Buttons and Cover block, toolbar access to color options in Rich Text blocks, and for the first time, color options in the Group and Columns blocks.
• Guess a whole lot less! Version 5.4 streamlines the whole process for placing and replacing multimedia in every block. Now it works the same way in almost every block!
• And if you’ve ever thought your image in the Media+Text block should link to something else—perhaps a picture of a brochure should download that brochure as a document? Well, now it can.

Cleaner UI, clearer navigation—and easier tabbing!

• Clearer block navigation with block breadcrumbs. And easier selection once you get there.
• For when you need to navigate with the keyboard, better tabbing and focus. Plus, you can tab over to the sidebar of nearly any block.
• Speed! 14% faster loading of the editor, 51% faster time-to-type!
• Tips are gone. In their place, a Welcome Guide window you can bring up when you need it—and only when you need it—again and again.
• Know at a glance whether you’re in a block’s Edit or Navigation mode. Or, if you have restricted vision, your screen reader will tell you which mode you’re in.

Of course, if you want to work with the very latest tools and features, install the Gutenberg plugin. You’ll get to be the first to use new and exciting features in the block editor, before anyone else has seen them!

Your fundamental right: privacy

5.4 helps with a variety of privacy issues around the world. So when users and stakeholders ask about regulatory compliance, or how your team handles user data, the answers should be a lot easier to get right.

Take a look:

• Now personal data exports include users session information and users location data from the community events widget. Plus, a table of contents!
• See progress as you process export and erasure requests through the privacy tools.
• Plus, little enhancements throughout give the privacy tools a little cleaner look. Your eyes will thank you!

From: WordPress