Why? You might ask. Well, there’s a good reason behind it. Despite being a major upgrade – we’re going from v.5.7.2 to v5.8 – there is always some stuff never discovered while beta testing. But as soon as the upgrade is rolling out, these things pop up, reported and taken care of. Then a patch – 5.8.1 – will be released and by that time it’s pretty safe to upgrade the WordPress core on a live site like this one.

However, I do also have a staging site up and running where I can test out new stuff before applying them to a live site. So today I upgraded the WordPress core to v. 5.8 on that staging site of mine and started to play around.

So far everything seems to work fine, and I will be doing some more tweaking to that staging site in the days to come to see if it will continue to behave! And hopefully, the real AERIALIS Kites website is soon to be running on the latest version of WordPress too!

I’ll keep you posted.