WordPress is planning major jQuery changes in version 5.5 and future versions. Since WordPress relies on jQuery which is a popular JavaScript framework, the WordPress team wants to update jQuery to the latest possible version. In the long term, they want to minimize or completely remove the reliance on the jQuery framework as mentioned in this blog post. Following are some short notes about this topic: Currently, WordPress provides jQuery with version 1.12.4 released in 2016. The WordPress team wants to update the jQuery version gradually because many themes and plugins are using an older version of jQuery as a...
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