WordPress 5.5 horrible

can you elaborate?

It breaks the site, leaves the control panel useless, impossible to work with the menus, the widgets. I had to go back to 5.42

media library missing, blank … more ???

I am experiencing so many issues !!!
Here are the things that are broken I have noticed so far:
– Can’t go to theme options, when I reach the page everything is blank and I can’t change anything.
– Can’t uploap new theme
– Product pages are a mess, + the product add-on plugin I’ve been using for years is all messed up, nothing aligns properly and all the tabs are condensed in one big broken blob.

This is just from trying to do basic work on my site for 20 min, I can’t even imagine how many more issues there are now.

Oh one more ! Just trying the “select all” function on the plugin page doesn’t work.

It has broken many things for my site as well, making it practically unusable for developers or maintenance. Here are just some of the issues that updating to 5.5 caused:

-Red boxes suddenly appearing around all my Contact Form 7 forms.
-Custom blocks using Advanced Custom Fields PRO all disappeared.
-“Previous” and “Next” events buttons no longer work in the The Events Calendar plugin.
-VamTam builder plugin no longer loads the builder in the backend of pages.
-Previewing page changes also updates the live page for some reason, not just previews them?
-Page revisions don’t seem to be accurate.

And the list goes on and on. My team and I seem to be finding a new problem every other day that are taking very long to fix. At this point, we’ll likely revert to a previous version until all this is sorted out.

This version of wordpress (5.5) is terrible, just terrible. And every comment we make will get answer it is hosting issue. Pages lag after few clicks, plugins don’t work, forced lazy load etc. etc. This update broke thousands of websites but noone writes the truth and we must lie how good it is and “elaborate”. What to “elaborate”? After update websites broke, some completely. Even if you remove all plugins, websitea work slowly. I don’t know the idea behind causing problems for thousanda of pages but luckily, there are other solutions. But so sad to see that after 10 years of successful work, someone would go and ruin such a wonderful open source solution. The truth about this “update” will be seen sooner or later. It is terrible. And I don’t write this in anger but in sadness

nothing can eternally stand in one place without further development.

Please see this article: https://make.www.ads-software.com/core/2020/06/29/updating-jquery-version-shipped-with-wordpress/

WordPress been using old jQuery for years, it is not supported by upstream already, there were security issues, which have been left unattended by upstream (and therefore been patched by WordPress developers), should WordPress team support old 3rd party product forever? No.

Yes, it is pain for some sites to take that upgrade, but this should happen, in 5.5 or later, but update cannot be postponed for indefinite time.

In fact. WordPress 5.5 update by itself is very good. It should be good for any fresh sites with actual plugins and modern theme.
I think you should blame those “legacy burdens” you use on old sites, you shall get updates or replacement for them.

dear Yui,

I find your answer logical and well said. Yes, nothing can be forever. But I honestly think we should not change the current in our electric system to the level, that renders all devices useless if you know what I mean. (English is not my primary language so analogies can look dumb, but to me it makes sense ?? )

Thank you for your suggested article. Will look into it. And again, I hope you understand I was not trying to be a negative review just because I can, it was honest opinion based on the current situation.

Hey Yui,

Just trying to clarify here what you mean about using “actual plugins” and “modern themes” and about “legacy burdens” being used on “old sites”.

I listed my plugins and issues in my earlier comment, but I wanted to add that my website is only a few months old. It is not an old website, and we are using very popular, up-to-date plugins.

I would also like some examples of these “modern themes” and “modern plugins”.

Leon, english is not my native language too.
And lets say i have about 15 or 20 sites to maintain, most of them arent mine, so i cannot take freedom and replace all old junk with supported newer stuff.
So i’m keeping them at 5.4 or even older branches, sure will update, later, when problems will be solved and/or i will find good solutions to replace/remove old stuff. Only 3 sites are currently on 5.5.

Clarifying:

* legacy burden – an old theme or plugin that has not been updated for long time, probably abandoned, or clearly abandoned by its author(s).
Old commercial themes without support subscriptions can be counted as a burden too, but some still are supported, yet you need to pay for subcription to receive updates.

* actual plugins/themes – receive updates, have active/or at least responsive within reasonable timeframe support.
Expected to receive updates for current and future WordPress releases, solve interoperability problem between current versions of major plugins and themes, if any.

* modern plugins/themes – actual plugins/themes that are aware of new features in recent WP releases and are actively using them.

@fexadmin

“Page builders”/”composers” are known to be a problem at “.0”-release,
most of them update later, when .1 or .2 maintenance WP releases follow.
If you have one of the page builders, you can wait with update for 1-2 months.

“PRO” plugins – try to contact vendor support, as a paying customer you should be able to get priority support from them.

All other plugins and problems – open your own support topic, preferably in respective plugin support forums.

This thread is a huge pile-on, i dont think you can expect a solution for your problems here.
Generic answer:

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Most compatability problems are caused by old plugins and/or theme(s) you’re using on your site.

Step 1, update plugins and themes

Step 2, read about jQuery updates in WordPress 5.5 and future versions

Updating jQuery version shipped with WordPress

Install a fix for jquery-migrate
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/enable-jquery-migrate-helper/
Please note, this plugin provides only temporary solution until your theme/plugins are fixed.

Step 3, Gather debug information via notices in your dashboard
and browser developer tools (browser error console) for frontend warnings.
Figure what plugin/theme does make such warnings, contact plugin/theme author via support forum. Notify them that compatability update is needed for their plugin/theme, include warning notices.

Step 4, Wait for theme/plugin updates

Step 5, if you have updated problematic theme/plugins and dont see any warnings anymore, you can remove jquery-migrate fixing plugin.