{"id":2464,"date":"2019-12-16T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T15:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/projectblog\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2019-12-16T09:31:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T15:31:04","slug":"wordpress-updating-to-5-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/projectblog\/2019\/12\/16\/wordpress-updating-to-5-3-1\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Updating to 5.3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress updated to version 5.0 a while back. We will be updating to this version on Monday or Tuesday, December 16 or 17th. Usually I don&#8217;t announce general updates, but version 5.0 will bring quite a few changes to the look and feel of the dashboard. Here are the major changes you can expect:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pages &amp; Posts:\u00a0<\/strong>We are now using Gutenberg, a block-based editor. This means your pages and posts will be made using different blocks for text, images, etc. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GlXlmwoZSEw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out this tutorial<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Themes: <\/strong>Some themes may not work as well if the developer didn&#8217;t update to the new editor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>More Control: <\/strong>I added the Elementor plugin. This will give you more control on designing and updating page layouts and content. See it in action in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mRbNQ8Xl14A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elementor tutorial<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you would like to schedule an over-the-phone session to get used to WordPress 5.0, email me at <a href=\"http:\/\/nlc.nebraska.gov\/scripts\/mail\/mail2staff.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amanda.sweet@nebraska.gov<\/a>, or call at (402) 471-3106.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress updated to version 5.0 a while back. We will be updating to this version on Monday or Tuesday, December 16 or 17th. Usually I don&#8217;t announce general updates, but version 5.0 will bring quite a few changes to the look and feel of the dashboard. Here are the major\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/projectblog\/2019\/12\/16\/wordpress-updating-to-5-3-1\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8],"tags":[42,41,17],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-training","category-wordpress","tag-training","tag-update","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/projectblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/projectblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/projectblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/projectblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/projectblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/projectblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/projectblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/2465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/projectblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/projectblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/projectblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}