WordPress 5.5 Update Breaks Plugins, Sites & Admin. Here’s the Fix (and the why).
Fix your WordPress website after Updating to 5.5 WordPress recently released WordPress 5.5, which was an upgrade that was supposed to improve the overall performance and did just the opposite for some. Did you update and find that your site was broken, plugins weren’t working as they should? Or were your buttons in your WordPress Admin not working for you? “Select All” not selecting all, hover not working, pages not loading after click, and more? Unfortunately, WordPress update 5.5 breaks sites. There were two known plugin issues with this update: Yoast and Classic WordPress Editor. The solution: A simple one, and frankly, one that I wish WordPress might have advertised with the update. Install the WordPress plugin called: Enable jQuery Migrate Helper. That is all you need to do, and voila, you’ll get your site working well again. The why: (Directly from GitHub) “With the update to WordPress 5.5, a migration tool known as `jquery-migrate` will no longer be enabled by default. This may lead to unexpected behaviors in some themes or plugins who run older code. This plugin serves as a temporary solution, enabling the migration script for your site to give your plugin and theme authors some more …
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