<dd>The WordPress Planet is a news aggregator that brings together posts from WordPress blogs around the web.</dd>
<dt><ahref="https://wordpress.org/support/forums/">WordPress Support Forums</a></dt>
<dd>If you’ve looked everywhere and still can’t find an answer, the support forums are very active and have a large community ready to help. To help them help you be sure to use a descriptive thread title and describe your question in as much detail as possible.</dd>
<dd>There is an online chat channel that is used for discussion among people who use WordPress and occasionally support topics. The above wiki page should point you in the right direction. (<ahref="irc://irc.freenode.net/wordpress">irc.freenode.net #wordpress</a>)</dd>
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</ul>
<h2>Share the Love</h2>
<p>WordPress has no multi-million dollar marketing campaign or celebrity sponsors, but we do have something even better—you. If you enjoy WordPress please consider telling a friend, setting it up for someone less knowledgable than yourself, or writing the author of a media article that overlooks us.</p>
<p>WordPress has no multi-million dollar marketing campaign or celebrity sponsors, but we do have something even better—you. If you enjoy WordPress please consider telling a friend, setting it up for someone less knowledgeable than yourself, or writing the author of a media article that overlooks us.</p>
<p>WordPress is the official continuation of <ahref="http://cafelog.com/">b2/cafélog</a>, which came from Michel V. The work has been continued by the <ahref="https://wordpress.org/about/">WordPress developers</a>. If you would like to support WordPress, please consider <ahref="https://wordpress.org/donate/">donating</a>.</p>
/* translators: %s: The current WordPress version number. */
__('Welcome to WordPress %s.'),
$display_version
);
?>
</h1>
<p>
<?php
printf(
/* translators: %s: The current WordPress version number. */
__('WordPress %s brings you countless ways to set your ideas free and bring them to life. With a brand-new default theme as your canvas, it supports an ever-growing collection of blocks as your brushes. Paint with words. Pictures. Sound. Or rich embedded media.'),
_e('With this new version, WordPress brings you fresh colors. The editor helps you work in a few places you couldn’t before—at least, not without getting into code or hiring a pro. The controls you use most, like changing font sizes, are in more places—right where you need them. And layout changes that should be simple, like full-height images, are even simpler to make.');
?>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<hrclass="is-large"/>
<divclass="about__section has-2-columns">
<h2class="is-section-header is-smaller-heading">
<?php_e('Now the editor is easier to use');?>
</h2>
<divclass="column">
<p>
<?php
printf(
/* translators: 1: WordPress version number, 2: Plural number of bugs. */
_e('<strong>Font-size adjustment in more places:</strong> now, font-size controls are right where you need them in the List and Code blocks. No more trekking to another screen to make that single change!');
?>
</p>
<p>
<?php
printf(
/* translators: %s: HelpHub URL. */
__('For more information, see <a href="%s">the release notes</a>.'),
_e('<strong>Reusable blocks:</strong> several enhancements make reusable blocks more stable and easier to use. And now they save automatically with the post when you click the Update button.');
?>
</p>
<p>
<?php
_e('<strong>Inserter drag-and-drop:</strong> drag blocks and block patterns from the inserter right into your post.');
<p><?php_e('Bring your stories to life with more tools that let you edit your layout with or without code. Single column blocks, designs using mixed widths and columns, full-width headers, and videos in your cover block—make small changes or big statements with equal ease!');?></p>
<divclass="column"><!-- space for alignment. --></div>
<divclass="column">
<h2><?php_e('More block patterns');?></h2>
<p><?php_e('In select themes, preconfigured block patterns make setting up standard pages on your site a breeze. Find the power of patterns to streamline your workflow, or share some of that power with your clients and save yourself a few clicks.');?></p>
<h2><?php_e('Upload video captions directly in the block editor');?></h2>
<p><?php_e('To help you add subtitles or captions to your videos, you can now upload them within your post or page. This makes it easier than ever to make your videos accessible for anyone who needs or prefers to use subtitles.');?></p>
_e('Twenty Twenty-One is a blank canvas for your ideas, and the block editor is the best brush. It is built for the block editor and packed with brand-new block patterns you can only get in the default themes. Try different layouts in a matter of seconds, and let the theme’s eye-catching, yet timeless design make your work shine.');
__('What’s more, this default theme puts accessibility at the heart of your website. It conforms to the <a href="%1$s">WordPress accessibility-ready guidelines</a> and addresses several more specialized standards from the <a href="%2$s">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AAA</a>. It will help you meet the highest level of international accessibility standards when you create accessible content and choose plugins which are accessible too!'),
_e('<strong>Full-height alignment:</strong> have you ever wanted to make a block, like the Cover block, fill the whole window? Now you can.');
?>
</p>
<p>
<?php
_e('<strong>Buttons block:</strong> now you can choose a vertical or a horizontal layout. And you can set the width of a button to a preset percentage.');
?>
</p>
<p>
<?php
_e('<strong>Social Icons block:</strong> now you can change the size of the icons.');
<p><?php_e('Perfect for a new year, Twenty Twenty-One gives you a range of pre-selected color palettes in pastel, all of which meet AAA standards for contrast. You can also choose your own background color for the theme, and the theme chooses accessibility-conscious text colors for you — automatically!');?></p>
<p><?php_e('Need more flexibility than that? You can also choose your own color palette from the color picker.');?></p>
<h2class="is-smaller-heading"><?php_e('A Simpler Default Color Palette');?></h2>
<p><?php_e('For years, only developers have been able to update WordPress automatically. But now, you have that option, right in your dashboard. If this is your first site, you have auto-updates ready to go, right now! Upgrading an existing site? No problem! Everything is the same as it was before.');?></p>
__('Even if you’re not an expert, you can start letting folks know about your site’s commitment to accessibility at the click of a button! The new <a href="%s">feature plugin</a> includes template copy for you to update and publish, and it’s written to support different contexts and jurisdictions.'),
__('This new streamlined color palette collapses all the colors that used to be in the WordPress source code down to seven core colors and a range of 56 shades that meet the <a href="%s">WCAG 2.0 AA recommended contrast ratio</a> against white or black.'),
<p><?php_e('If you’ve not had the chance to play with block patterns yet, all default themes now feature a range of block patterns that let you master complex layouts with minimal effort. Customize the patterns to your liking with the copy, images and colors that fit your story or brand.');?></p>
<h3><?php_e('REST API authentication with Application Passwords');?></h3>
<p><?php_e('Thanks to the API’s new Application Passwords authorization feature, third-party apps can connect to your site seamlessly and securely. This new REST API feature lets you see what apps are connecting to your site and control what they do.');?></p>
</div>
<divclass="column">
<h3><?php_e('More PHP 8 support');?></h3>
<p>
<?php
printf(
/* translators: %s: WordPress and PHP 8 dev note link. */
__('5.6 marks the first steps toward WordPress Core support for PHP 8. Now is a great time to start planning how your WordPress products, services and sites can support the latest PHP version. For more information about what to expect next, <a href="%s">read the PHP 8 developer note</a>.'),
_e('The colors are perceptually uniform from light to dark in each range, which means they start at white and get darker by the same amount with each step.');
?>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<divclass="about__section">
<divclass="column">
<h3><?php_e('jQuery');?></h3>
<p>
<?php
printf(
/* translators: %s: jQuery update test plugin link. */
__('Updates to jQuery in WordPress take place across three releases: 5.5, 5.6, and 5.7. As we reach the mid-point of this process, run the <a href="%s">update test plugin</a> to check your sites for errors ahead of time.'),
__('If you find issues with the way your site looks (e.g. a slider doesn’t work, a button is stuck — that sort of thing), install the <a href="%s">jQuery Migrate plugin</a>.'),
/* translators: %s: Color palette dev note link. */
__('Find the new palette in the default WordPress Dashboard color scheme, and use it when you’re building themes, plugins, or any other components. For all the details, <a href="%s">check out the Color Palette dev note</a>.'),
<h3><?php_e('From HTTP to HTTPS in a single click');?></h3>
<p><?php_e('Starting now, switching a site from HTTP to HTTPS is a one-click move. WordPress will automatically update database URLs when you make the switch. No more hunting and guessing!');?></p>
<h3><?php_e('New Robots API');?></h3>
<p>
<?php
_e('The new Robots API lets you include the filter directives in the robots meta tag, and the API includes the <code>max-image-preview: large</code> directive by default. That means search engines can show bigger image previews, which can boost your traffic (unless the site is marked <em>not-public</em>).');
?>
</p>
</div>
<divclass="column">
<h3><?php_e('Ongoing cleanup after update to jQuery 3.5.1');?></h3>
<p><?php_e('For years jQuery helped make things move on the screen in ways the basic tools couldn’t—but that keeps changing, and so does jQuery.');?></p>
<p><?php_e('In 5.7, jQuery gets more focused and less intrusive, with fewer messages in the console.');?></p>
<h3><?php_e('Lazy-load your iframes');?></h3>
<p><?php_e('Now it’s simple to let iframes lazy-load. By default, WordPress will add a <code>loading="lazy"</code> attribute to iframe tags when both width and height are specified.');?></p>
/* translators: %s: WordPress 5.6 Field Guide link. */
__('Check out the latest version of the WordPress Field Guide. It highlights developer notes for each change you may want to be aware of. <a href="%s">WordPress 5.6 Field Guide.</a>'),
/* translators: %s: WordPress 5.7 Field Guide link. */
__('Check out the latest version of the WordPress Field Guide. It highlights developer notes for each change you may want to be aware of. <a href="%s">WordPress 5.7 Field Guide.</a>'),
