the wordpress update: officially powering a third of all websites

the best thing to do is to sign up for the newsletter..   Beyond that, we got security and maintenance release, and there's plenty of interesting stuff going on with the editor and Gutenberg..   W3Techs is popular site that monitors the technology used by all the websites on Internet ..   with whopping 32.4% of WordPress sites still using PHP 5.6 alone, moving all the way to PHP 7+ would leave more than half of all WordPress sites using non- WordPress supported PHP versions..   developers have released number of plugins that add extra blocks to the editor.   This feature is out in the version of Gutenberg, and you wo not see it in WordPress until the major release WordPress 5.2..   To learn more about the problems with the implementation, check out Felix Arntz's post at WordPress.org..   The percentage of infected sites using WordPress rose from 2017 to 2018, moving from 83% to 90% 36.7% of hacked WordPress websites were running version of their software when they were infected.   it makes juicy target for hackers, up in such huge percentage of hacked websites Sucuri's report..   the team is looking into menu block that will let you insert menu via block..   Read more