What's New in WordPress 5.8 (Full Site Editing, WebP Images, Global Styles and Settings, and More)

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WordPress 5.8 “Tatum” is here and it’s a momentous release. Aside from the incredible number of features, improvements, and bug fixes, WP 5.8 introduces a new way of building websites by bringing the first features that fall under the broader project known as Full Site Editing (FSE).

Aside from the full site editing, WordPress 5.8 brings with it tons of changes and improvements across several areas of the CMS .

WordPress users who don't use the Gutenberg plugin will find features and improvements from nine Gutenberg versions in total (for a deeper dive into each, see Gutenberg 9.9 , 10.0 , 10.1 , 10.2 , 10.3 , 10.4 , 10.5 , 10.6 , 10.7 ).

An important new feature for users who are serious about the performance of their sites is support for the WebP format.

Developers will surely love the removal of IE11 from the list of supported browsers, the new theme.json -based block styling and configuration mechanism, the improved block.json -based block turkey whatsapp number data registration system , and the numerous API improvements coming with WordPress Release 2 of 2021.

So stay tuned for our review, because it's going to be an extensive rundown of the features and improvements that pave the way for the powerful new site building tools expected to be released in the coming months .

Important
There are a lot of changes in WordPress 5.8. To avoid any risk of running into unexpected conflicts with your themes and plugins, we strongly recommend that you backup your website and test the new version in a staging environment before updating your live site.