


Then it made it easier but slower to load.

WP used to make everything easier and faster. Blocks SHOULD be fantastic and I was legitimately excited for them, but where I used to fly through publishing a post with hotkeys, I'm now just forced to click, wait for the options to load, select the correct one with a mouse.I am probably just going to move over to Publii if the next week doesn't acclimate me to the new changes. I appreciate the development, but each iteration that's supposed to make things easier now makes it more arduous. Editing global styles? I can't even find that, is that just meant to be whatever I do on the "edit site" page? Because that feels like I'm only editing my homepage. The baked-in site icon, at the recommended 512px square, displays at full-size and now blocks the entire page. Forget about full-site editing-I can't even get Twenty Twenty Two to invoke my custom menu from the previous build. I'm strictly end-user playing around with today's upgrade, but this is very much my experience. Until then, we're going to constantly be stuck with "two worlds of WordPress" the old guard PHP foundation, and the new Jamstack-like features that keep getting layered on top. SO.there must be a reason they are doing it this way? My theory: WP is going to abstract itself out to a Headless CMS that plays the best with React, but that could be years and years from now.
#Wordpress 5.9 roadmap how to#
New block templates? HTML comments! It just makes you shake your head as you flip between languages and gain so little end-user benefit on the other side, especially when Page Builders have provided a great roadmap on how to build out these features without incorporating these new technologies just for the sake of incorporating them. Block patterns? PHP using inline JSON-syntax for styles. Custom blocks? You need to write them almost entirely in Javascript. All that PHP you've been using works.until it doesn't. The end result feels fractured and messy. Clearly the WordPress devs are jazzed about languages like React and JSX, and they are trying to shoehorn those layers into a PHP-focused platform. It seems powerful, but (as everything has been with Gutenberg/Block Editor) overly complex and not intuitive at all. The WPLMS Project is built on the Vibe PWA Framework for WordPress. Including new blocks and block settings that, unfortunately, were not ready in time for WordPress 5.9.
#Wordpress 5.9 roadmap full#
There are no fixed period of support nor Long Term Support (LTS) version such as Ubuntus. Full compliance with WP 5.9 & Full site editing. As a dev who writes custom themes day in and day out, I was quite curious about the new Block Themes architecture. WordPress will be backported security updates when possible, but there are no guarantee and no timeframe for older releases.
