What To Expect From WordPress 5.4

WordPress is a wonderful CMS platform that can help you easily build a high performance website, chock full with features, even if you are not an expert developer. Over the years, the platform has grown and improved, introducing new features and fixing existing bugs. The newest version of WordPress is 5.4, and it has brought with it some considerable changes that affect both the UI and the functionality of the platform. Most of the major changes were made to the Block Editor, but there are also some interesting improvements to the REST API and the Site Health Tool. On top of that, WordPress is planning to release a couple of extra features, such as the Navigation block and Native Lazy Loading on images, that will be bundled into the Core of the platform with WordPress 5.5. When it comes to the Block Editor, a significant number of features from the Gutenberg plugin have been integrated into the Core. For a quick overview of the new features added to the 5.4
Block Editor, we have:
● A new Buttons Block
● A new Social Icons Block
● Welcome Guide Modal
● The Fullscreen Mode is now enabled by default
● Rich Text Blocks now support Inline Text Color
● Several blocks have new color options
● The Latest Posts Block now has Featured Images
● Improved Block Navigation due to the new Breadcrumb Bar
Developers that like to delve a bit deeper into the code of the platform also got some love with this new update. These changes include new hooks that allow you to add custom fields to menu items, improved favicon handling, and shortcodes for PHP scripts. A Site Health status widget is also now part of the dashboard, which allows developers to more easily check the performance, security and health of their site.