little hack to update your Jquery on Wordpress

[ddm]

It seems jquery is baked into WP these days, and self hosted. Doesn't seem to update, despite known vulnerabilities.
chuck this code in your theme /child theme functions.php and it will enqueue a nice up to date CDN version

function modify_jquery()
{
	wp_deregister_script('jquery');
	wp_register_script('jquery', ("https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.min.js"), false);
	wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
}


add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'modify_jquery');

[some tools whinge about this..issue, eg lighthouse, fwiw]

[MMM]

Been on my todo list the past few days to figure out how to do that.

Will try. Thanks a lot!

[MMM]

Somehow doesn't work for me though. Getting "TypeError: Cannot set property 'onStart' of undefined at..."