The latest version of WordPress was released today. Version 4.9 named “Tipton” in honor of jazz musician and band leader Billy Tipton, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. You are encouraged to update your site to this new version as soon as practicably possible. Customers on Assisted WordPress hosting packages do not need to do anything as the upgrade will be taken care of as part of your routine site maintenance.
This is a fairly major release so as with any significant upgrade you should make sure that you have a recent back up of your website files and database so that you are able to roll back in the event of any compatability problems.
New features include improvements to the Customiser workflow, coding enhancements, syntax highlighting and error checking, a brand new gallery widget, more reliable theme switching and better menu instructions. There are also a number of "under the hood" enhancements that will appeal to developers and power users.
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
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