Hello there,

I want to give you a more thorough update on what's coming up for your Wordpress site. It's a bit technical, but I'll do my best to keep it from becoming crazy robot speak.

The first thing to note is that Wordpress is on the cusp of a massive technology change that impacts your site. Version 5.x of Wordpress is expected to get a new editor called Gutenberg. Most sites are at version 4.9.8, so we know the change is imminent.

Gutenberg is ultra-modern.

It features tools that permit on-page structural editing. Very powerful. In fact, so powerful that we expect it to break previous sites. The reason for this is that the editor is not completely compatible with many of the tools developers use to create side-bars and the other layout components found in most sites.

Page-builders, and formatting tools such as Advanced Custom Fields, are most adversely affected. These tools can be found in almost all WordPress websites, which is why your site - and pretty well every other WordPress site - is so greatly impacted.

When a User updates (which is standard practice for security and stability reasons) to the new editor, nothing happens until they make an edit. Then things break.

Instant crisis.

We'd like to avoid that. So, we'd like to get ahead of the crisis by rebuilding your site, either from the ground up to utilize Gutenberg properly, or by switching to one of the other great platforms out there, like HubSpot or SquareSpace. That way, you will have the most modern website possible, thwarting the risk of a down site and lost business.

The catch around Gutenberg is that it is not well documented. Thus, if you opt to update to Gutenberg, deployment might feel a bit slow compared to the other options. While the majority of development techniques and strategies remain in effect, there's a lot of new learning as well, for developers and for users.

Let's work to make your next website the most powerful ever. Please feel free to ask me about the options. I'll do my best to address them.

Sincerely,

- Randy

Randy Milanovic CEO
Kayak Online Marketing