Hi all, here’s you personal reporter and owner, Angelique van Campen. I would like to have your attention. Perhaps not the most shocking news, for sure not related to X-Plane or X-Plained.Com, but worth to let you know.
Last night we’ve updated X-Plained.Com which is based on the WordPress CMS from version 4.x to version 5.0 as well as all the plugins and the Elegant Themes Divi theme template. As far as I’ve checked all the pages at front- and back end, it seem to me that everything is working as it supposed to be. I haven’t seen weird things or wrongly aligned posts, pages, reviews, download pages and so on.
I’m aware that the majority of X-Plained.Com members/simmers only download packages, tutorials or liveries, but suppose you ‘re also interested in our reviews and articles and see something you think of, oops, that’s not correct, please let us know ASAP. You can use for this email address info@x-plained.com or angelique@x-plained.com.
Not that we want to switch back to the previous WordPress 4.9.8, but we always have the possibility to switch back due to the amount of backups that are made by our hosting company.
But as always, I don’t hope there’s a need to do that and that the transition to the brand new WordPress 5.x is fine. Thank you for your attention.
Angelique – I also manage a WP 4.9.8 site using Understrap and intend to wait until at least January before upgrading. I know there are numerous patches and updates in the works for 5.0 already and everything I have read says to wait. It’s like purchasing a new model of a car (or airplane): You never buy the very first year.
However, I will be interested in seeing your experience with the new version and would enjoy reading updates to your article as you work through 5.0.
Yes and no. I fully agree with you that sometimes it’s better to wait before updating, but I had received from Elegant Themes already a GO for updating. I have to admit that I’m not using the new editor, but via a plugin still using the Classis Style editor. Besides that, I had to update many plugins and this means preventing security issues, at least, that’s what is told me. Long story short, I haven’t got many plugins active, so what I see with WP5 is that all is working fine except then that I prefer to use the old style editor but this is also due to the ET Divi theme I’m using. I’ll keep you in the loop.
Greatly appreciated as is your reply. I can understand your position, particularly in light of plugin security. I don’t use many plugins either yet but can see a need to expand their usage soon due to business requirements. I be attending a 5.0 intro class this week to at least get an idea of what the future holds for me. Considering I just started using WP this past summer, the learning curve has been very steep indeed.
For X-Plained.Com I don’t use many plugins, but the idea when using plugins is always with WP, Jooma and Drupal, only use a plugin (or extension) when really needed unless you can program a plugin yourself. Some plugins are known about their stability like All-in-one SEO or Yoast, or Jetpack. These type of plugins are always kept up-to-date on a regular base and they are very usefull. Another plugin e.g. which I only use for a small amount of time is the “snow effect” plugin. It’s nice to have snow flocks during Winter time, but further on this plugin is useless. That said, somewhere in January this plugin will be disabled by me. Then I don’t need it anymore.
Regarding the Classic Editor plugin; I had seen that the Divi theme from ET has been updated to tackle this issue with their Divi builder. I haven’t updated the theme yet but it could be that after that, the Classic Editor plugin is no lnoger needed. If so, I will disable that plugin too. Out of my mind I have not more then 10 plugins active. That’s not much to be honest considering the size of the website. I always think twice if a new plugin is realy needed or not and, not to forget; I have a shadow X-Plained.Com where I do all the testing and then that feels OK, I implement changes in X-Plained.