ASWP – WordPress 6.7: A New Wave of Power and Flexibility

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The Basics

WordPress 6.7 introduces a range of new features, design tools, and bug fixes to enhance your website creation experience. WordPress.com sites are automatically updated, so you can enjoy these benefits without any action on your part. If you encounter any issues, AltShift WP’s Happiness Engineers are available to assist at ‘wordpress.com/help’.

Twenty Twenty-Five Theme Release

WordPress 6.7 brings a new default block theme, Twenty Twenty-Five, designed for bloggers of all levels. This theme prioritizes simplicity and versatility, allowing you to create a personalized website while offering the flexibility for complex designs. It includes a diverse array of patterns and templates, a curated selection of color palettes and font pairings, and natural, universal imagery. The theme’s templates and design tools empower you to build a site that is uniquely yours.

Expanded Block Customization Options

WordPress 6.7 enhances styling flexibility by adding options for borders, backgrounds, shadows, and spacing across numerous blocks. These updates allow you to create custom designs without extra code. Notable changes include shadow effects support for the Group block and background image support for the Content block, while blocks like Paragraph, Heading, and Buttons offer additional options for borders, color, and padding.

Streamlined Creation with Zoom Out

The new Zoom Out feature allows you to view and design your content at a high level. You can easily style entire sections or adjust the arrangement of blocks across a page, all without getting caught up in the details of individual blocks. Zoom Out provides control over top-level containers and block groups, enabling efficient layout creation. To return to the standard editor view, simply double-click the content area or click the Zoom Out icon.

Simplified Query Loop Block

The Query Loop block has been refined to make it more user-friendly. A new toggle allows you to choose between ‘Default’ and ‘Custom’ modes, simplifying the creation of content-rich sections on your site. In Default mode, the block automatically inherits settings from your template, so posts display instantly without extra configuration. For more specific use cases, switch to Custom mode for precise control over what content is displayed.

Improved Font Management Tools

The latest updates bring powerful new options to font management for block themes. In the Global Styles section, you can now create, edit, and delete custom font size presets. These presets let you define reusable font sizes site-wide, with options to customize names, base sizes, and fluid scaling. Additionally, fonts are now grouped by source (theme or Google Fonts), giving you a clear view of where each font originates.

Customizable Data Views

Data Views, a tool for managing pages, patterns, and templates in the Site Editor, now features several enhancements to simplify navigation: Grid Layout Preview Size, Customizable Columns, and Bulk Actions on Grid Layout. These refinements make it easier to organize your site.

Developer Features

WordPress 6.7 introduces several enhancements for developers, making it easier to create unique site experiences. The Template Registration API allows developers to register custom block templates directly within plugins, simplifying the process of creating and managing front-end template outputs. The Data Views API enables developers to register and unregister Data Views actions, offering more flexibility in managing project-specific actions. Building on Block Bindings introduced in previous releases, this update adds a user interface for admins and editors to connect block attributes with custom field data directly in a block.

And More

There are several other valuable enhancements in WordPress 6.7, including: a block inserter that stays open while you interact with the editor canvas, reordered action icons in the top right corner of the editor topbar for improved accessibility, and a repositioned Publish (or Save) button within the pre-publish panel. WordPress 6.7 brings hundreds of improvements, developer features, and bug fixes. If you’d like to dive deeper, the official WordPress 6.7 Field Guide has all the technical details.

This is a summary of the original article: ‘https://wordpress.com/blog/2024/11/12/wordpress-6-7/’.

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