{"id":108264,"date":"2022-02-01T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=108264"},"modified":"2022-01-31T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T23:26:00","slug":"feb-10-1-pm-whats-new-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/feb-10-1-pm-whats-new-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb. 10 @ 1 PM &#8211; What&#8217;s New in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So much is new in WordPress, since we upgraded last fall!<\/p>\n<p>Release 5.0 &#8220;Bebo&#8221; introduced the new block editor, known as Gutenberg until then.<\/p>\n<p>5.1 &#8220;Betty&#8221; introduced Site Health.<\/p>\n<p>5.8 &#8220;Tatum&#8221; let you manage widgets with blocks.<\/p>\n<p>And 5.9 &#8220;Josephine&#8221; (released just last month) introduced full site editing.<\/p>\n<p>This session will introduce these major new features, highlighted in three new themes. It will then be open Q&amp;A. It&#8217;s a great opportunity to consider switching to the new editor or jump right in if you&#8217;re new to WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress is open-source software for designing and building websites. Two popular local sites are<\/p>\n<p>The OWU Daily (<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643757769644000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0RS8Ub3gIYTojuMRTj1VSW\">https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/<\/a>) and<br \/>\nThe Oh-Wooo Help Desk (<a href=\"https:\/\/helpdesk.owu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/helpdesk.owu.edu\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643757769644000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1abqfFMYvfC81hg32tw5oi\">https:\/\/helpdesk.owu.edu\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This session will be at 1:00 PM on Thursday, Feb. 10, in Corns 109, and led by Instructional Technologist, David Soliday. Please see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/owu.edu\/isprofdev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/owu.edu\/isprofdev&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643757769644000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2JYwz2W7QOu5Grt_5yR_l-\">https:\/\/owu.edu\/isprofdev<\/a>\u00a0to see what other technical training sessions are being offered.<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: Information Services<br \/>\nContact: David Soliday at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:helpdesk@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helpdesk@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much is new in WordPress, since we upgraded last fall! Release 5.0 &#8220;Bebo&#8221; introduced the new block editor, known as Gutenberg until then. 5.1 &#8220;Betty&#8221; introduced Site Health. 5.8 &#8220;Tatum&#8221; let you manage widgets with blocks. And 5.9 &#8220;Josephine&#8221; (released just last month) introduced full site editing. This session will introduce these major new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facultystaff-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108265,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108264\/revisions\/108265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}