The new WordPress 5.5 is officially released and ready for update. What's new?
Lazy Loading
This is one of the best improvements and changes when it comes to this version. This feature is built into wordpress itself.
Lazy loading allows your site to load faster.
What makes this option great is that you don't have to do literally anything, since it's built into wordpress itself it works on its own without you even knowing.
This option works by loading images or videos that are not visible on the screen later and serving the content to the user immediately, allowing the site to load much faster.
This actually means that what is displayed to the site visitor is loaded much faster than before and you don't have to wait for the entire site to load, but only the part that is visible to him.
As the user moves around the site, i.e. scrolls further, images and videos are loaded and displayed to the user.
Faster sites allow for a better experience for visitors and thus more trust your site leaves with visitors.
Auto-update themes and plugins
In this version, the main thing is also the auto update of themes and plugins.
Hackers often exploit vulnerabilities in plugins or themes that have not been updated. In order for wordpress developers to prevent this in advance, they added this option and thereby protect an even greater number of users/owners of wordpress sites who do not know what dangers are hidden by not updating the site.
Of course, there is another side, which is that if wordpress itself updates plugins, incompatibility with another theme plugin or wordpress itself may occur and thus prevent your site from loading.
This option is certainly welcome to everyone, especially sites that don't change often and that serve as presentations or small blogs.
Certainly one less option to think about.
WordPress Sitemaps
Anyone who has touched SEO optimization, the first thing they come across is the sitemap.
A sitemap makes it easier for Google to know which pages are on your site, how often they change, and where they are located.
With this option, wordpress has reduced one more worry and one less plugin that you need to have on your site, thereby increasing security.
More news?
Yes, of course there are.
One of them is that wordpress no longer supports outdated browsers such as internet explorer 6, also all css that stands for the support of old browsers will be deleted.
The number of such users is certainly minimal or non-existent. For example, it does not exist on our website. Therefore, this change will not significantly change anything, but it leads to new levels where the emphasis is on being up-to-date and without support for older things.
You can find more about the version and exact details about each change on the official wordpress.org site.
