{"id":6222,"date":"2018-10-30T05:04:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=6222"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:01:36","slug":"wordpress-5-0-beta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2018\/10\/wordpress-5-0-beta-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 5.0 Beta 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WordPress 5.0 Beta 2 is now available!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This software is still in development,<\/strong>&nbsp;so we don\u2019t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with the new version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two ways to test the WordPress 5.0 Beta: try the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordpress-beta-tester\/\">WordPress Beta Tester<\/a>&nbsp;plugin (you\u2019ll want \u201cbleeding edge nightlies\u201d), or you can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/wordpress-5.0-beta2.zip\">download the beta here<\/a>&nbsp;(zip).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress 5.0 is slated for release on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/5-0\/\">November 19<\/a>, and we need your help to get there. Here are some of the big issues that we fixed since Beta 1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Block Editor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve updated to the latest version of the block editor from the Gutenberg plugin, which includes the new <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WordPress\/gutenberg\/pull\/10209\">Format API<\/a>, embedding improvements, and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WordPress\/gutenberg\/milestone\/71\">a variety of bug fixes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meta boxes had a few bugs, and they weren&#8217;t showing at all in the block editor, so we&#8217;ve fixed and polished there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Internationalisation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve added support for <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/45103\">registering and loading JavaScript translation files<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Twenty Nineteen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WordPress\/twentynineteen\">Twenty Nineteen repository<\/a>\u00a0is a hive of activity, there have been a stack of minor bugs clean up, and some notable additions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>There&#8217;s now a widget area in the page footer.<\/li><li>Navigation submenus have been implemented for mobile devices.<\/li><li>Customiser options have been added for changing the theme colours and feature image filters.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Everything Else<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The REST API has a couple of bug fixes and performance improvements. 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