WordPress has recently released its latest update: WordPress 4.9 version (name: “Tipton”, in honour of jazz musician and band leader Billy Tipton). According to WordPress.org, the new version of WordPress features:
- Enhancing the Customizer Workflow: a preview link of the new site design is now available for you to send to others so that you can collect feedback.
- Coding Enhancements: improvements include syntax highlighting, a warning message to remind you when making changes on themes and plugin codes, and much more
- New Gallery Widget
- and much more
To update, log in to your WordPress dashboard and the update button is listed on top of the browser. To learn more about the update, please read this blog post from WordPress.org
Don’t forget to perform a full site backup before updating your WordPress site!!