WordPress Versions Interview Questions & Answers
Questions about the changes in different WordPress versions. Use this list to see what is new in a release and what changed from the old versions.
What are the new features added in WordPress 5.5?
WordPress 5.5 (released in August 2020) brought these main changes:
- XML sitemaps built in at
/wp-sitemap.xml. - Lazy loading of images by default with the
loading="lazy"attribute. - Auto updates for plugins and themes, which you can turn on one by one.
- Block patterns and the block directory to find and install blocks from the editor.
- Better block editor: inline image editing, a new block design and the drag and drop upload.
- Install or update a plugin or theme by uploading a zip file.
You can still see two of them on a current site:
Terminal output
$ curl -s http://example.com/wp-sitemap.xml | grep -o "<loc>" | wc -l
4
$ wp eval 'echo wp_filter_content_tags( "<img src=\"a.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\">" );'
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="a.jpg" width="300" height="200" alt="">
More on versions: What is new in WordPress 7.0?