Meetup group resources: Talking points for WordPress 5.8
WordPress 5.8 is shipping soon! Beta 1 and Beta 2 are available for testing. 5.8 is a major release with some exciting new features coming with it! As we approach the release, we ask that all our community members and meetup organizers contribute: Meetup Organizers can plan release-focused meetups to share the latest features in 5.8 with their community.Meetups can organize 5.8 testing sprints to test the release features.Organizers can email their local groups to inform members about the upcoming release.Contributors can individually test 5.8 release features, share their feedback, blog about release features, and amplify them on social media. This post highlights some of the most exciting features of WordPress 5.8 that local meetup organizers might want to highlight to their local communities. Updates for Publishers and Users New Theme Blocks and The Query Block With WordPress 5.8, you’ll now have the ability to edit even more aspects of your site with the following new blocks: Site Logo/tagline/title, Query Loop, Next/Previous post, Post title, content, author, date, excerpt, featured image, categories, and tags – along with login/out blocks and the page list block. When combined with creating custom templates, these blocks will unlock several possibilities for content creation that was…
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