WordPress 5.0 Beta 1 – Now Available!

This week saw the release of WordPress 5.0 Beta with Gutenberg as standard. And what a week to drop the beta with Red Dead Redemption 2 being released today! All other major games developers have clearly avoided any releases this week due to this massive long-awaited title hitting the shelves. If you haven’t heard of this new game from Rockstar, come out from the rock you’ve been hiding under and check out the hype! It’s slated as being the “game of a generation” and has received top ratings from all of the big games reviewers. I for one am excited to don-poncho and hunker down this weekend with my copy. Read more

I’m sure by now you’ve heard of Gutenberg. No, not the project to digitise the written word. This is a new editing tool for WordPress. It’s had a lot of hype and there’s mixed opinions out there as to whether it’s going to deliver on expectations and provide the level of functionality that the WordPress community desires. In this post I’m going to provide an overview of what Gutenberg is, what it will do, how to install it and have a play and what the overall verdict is from the critics. Read more