WordPress 5.6 is the last major WordPress release for 2020, scheduled for December 2020. But an important feature of WordPress 5.6 was removed because it was not ready.
The Widgets Screen was developed in WordPress 5.6, but until the Beta 1, working on its major features was not complete. Then, the WordPress team decided to remove it from 5.6. At the current stage of this project, a bulk of that work is done, but more focused testing revealed notable concerns for overall usability including customizer interactions, some confusions between block & legacy widgets, and UX disparities between the old and...
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WordPress 5.6 is the last major WordPress release for 2020, scheduled for December 2020. But an important feature of WordPress 5.6 was removed because it was not ready.
The Widgets Screen was developed in WordPress 5.6, but until the Beta 1, working on its major features was not complete. Then, the WordPress team decided to remove it from 5.6. At the current stage of this project, a bulk of that work is done, but more focused testing revealed notable concerns for overall usability including customizer interactions, some confusions between block & legacy widgets, and UX disparities between the old and...