WordPress version 5.0 being released soon
Wed, 28 Nov 2018
If you do not have a WordPress website, you can ignore this message.
A new version of WordPress, version 5.0 (called "Gutenberg"), is coming out soon - in a few weeks. It's a major release, including many useful improvements. But you need to be aware of one thing...
This new version currently has several incompatibles with any WordPress theme that uses a "page builder" - themes such as Avada and Divi (the two biggest-selling themes in the marketplace). Both Avada and Divi have recommended that websites that include their theme should NOT be updated to the new version - either until these issues are fixed, or unless a plugin called “Disable Gutenberg” is installed and activated.
There are various ways that your WordPress website may get updated to the new version...
A new version of WordPress, version 5.0 (called "Gutenberg"), is coming out soon - in a few weeks. It's a major release, including many useful improvements. But you need to be aware of one thing...
This new version currently has several incompatibles with any WordPress theme that uses a "page builder" - themes such as Avada and Divi (the two biggest-selling themes in the marketplace). Both Avada and Divi have recommended that websites that include their theme should NOT be updated to the new version - either until these issues are fixed, or unless a plugin called “Disable Gutenberg” is installed and activated.
There are various ways that your WordPress website may get updated to the new version...
- It may happen automatically, because your site is set to always update to new versions
- We (Virtual Creations) may do it, as part of our "WordPress Security Monitoring" service that we provide to some clients
- You may manually update WordPress yourself