WordPress 5.0 – Why on that date?

Target release date as of right now is November 27th, on a Tuesday. This would end up after the holidays as far as I know.

Let’s hope because it not a great moment for shops to update in this period. If the site brakes we have a lot of trouble.

You can always install Gutenberg early to see if the site breaks. From my understanding, WordPress 5.0 is 4.9.8 with some minor updates plus Gutenberg which is the big milestone. So in theory, if the site works on 4.9.8 it should work on 5.0. There’s also the Classic Editor plugin you can install early if you are not yet prepared.

Finally, you can install the nightly build plugin on a local version of the website and test the beta versions on their scheduled release to make sure the beta version do not break your website.

@howdy_mcgee Last I checked, Christmas is still Dec 25th, and that is celebrated by roughly 55% of the planet. (Hanukkah is Dec 2, tough it’s much less a merch driven holiday, it’s still time we spend with family). So when people say ‘holidays’ they tend to mean the expanded season from US Thanksgiving through New Years, where in companies do a significantly larger than normal amount of sales, and legal year end processing.

All that said, this is NOT an alpha/beta bug report, so I’m closing this post.