WordPress 5.3.1 was released on the 12^th of December 2019 and comes with bug fixes, ‘enhancements’, and security fixes.

“Version 5.3.1 is mainly focused on security and maintenance features: around 46 bug fixes and enhancements are addressed in this release.”

For most folks this update will have come automatically, if this was the case you can contact a freelance WordPress developer or check the following yourself:

• Has the update run, check Dashboard > Updates to confirm it actually ran
• Always check your core SEO files, the XML site map and robots.txt
  • Sitemap should be either domain.com/sitemap.xml or domain.com/sitemap_index.xml
  • Robots is always domain.com/robots.txt
• Do a quick spot check of your title, general meta tags and any Schema markup you have
• If you run a site health monitor, test your site, various exist
  • ScreamingFrog
  • SEMRush
• Crawl as Google using GSC
• Check your error logs and generally confirm any issues in the WP site health tool

Further Reading

• The state of Gutenberg as per its review – https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/#reviews – Currently 2 stars 🙁
• SEMRush – www.semrush.com
• ScreamingFrog Spider – www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/