6.6
A new meaning to style
Create and deploy beautiful and coherent design elements across your sites with WordPress 6.6. A new rollback option for auto-updating plugins gives you control, flexibility, and peace of mind.
Color palettes
& font sets
Add more design options to any block theme.
Block theme authors can create unlimited individual color or font sets to offer more specific design options within the same theme. These sets provide more contained design possibilities, allowing for customization without changing the site’s broader styling, beyond color or typography settings.
Quick previews
for pages
Simplify your workflow with a new layout built for pages.
See all of your pages and a preview of any selected page before you edit via a new side-by-side layout in the Site Editor.
Rollbacks for
plugin auto-updates
Auto-update your plugins with peace of mind.
Enjoy the ease of plugin auto-updates with the safety of rollbacks if anything goes wrong, improving your site’s security while minimizing potential downtime.
Overrides
Add the ability to customize content in synced patterns.
Allow specific pieces of content to be customized in each instance of a synced pattern while keeping a consistent style for all instances, simplifying future updates. Currently, you can set overrides for Heading, Paragraph, Button, and Image blocks.
Performance updates
6.6 includes important updates like removing redundant WP_Theme_JSON calls, disabling autoload for large options, eliminating unnecessary polyfill dependencies, lazy loading post embeds, introducing the data-wp-on-async directive, and a 40% reduction in template loading time in the editor.
Accessibility improvements
55+ accessibility fixes and enhancements focus on foundational aspects of the WordPress experience, particularly the data views component powering the new site editing experience and areas like the Inserter that provide a key way of interacting with blocks and patterns.
Negative margins
Create overlapping designs thanks to the ability to manually input negative values into margin controls. This is automatically available for all blocks that include margin support.
Refined publish flow
A new design highlights key information when publishing, no matter where you’re writing, and a standardized inspector displays essential information for everything you edit.
Modern pattern management for Classic themes
Classic themes now have access to the patterns experience provided in the Site Editor, which offers a more feature-rich and modern way to manage and create patterns.
Set styles for groups of blocks
Theme authors can pre-package styling options for sections of blocks, adding options for users to apply them as they’d like for a beautiful, consistent design and added flexibility.
Custom shadows
Create and edit shadows to your liking directly in the Styles section of the Site Editor. This gives you the power to create the exact shadow you’d like.
New grid block
Display blocks in a grid with visual sizing controls to change the row and column span of items to your liking. Auto and manual controls provide even more flexibility.
Aspect ratio presets
Customize the available presets for aspect ratios for Image, Featured Image, and Cover blocks.
Edit custom fields from connected blocks
Create a connected block with custom fields using the block bindings API and edit the custom field later directly in the editor.
Shortcuts for editing
Save time with ⌘G for Mac or ctrl + G for Windows to group selected blocks and tab to indent list items.
Unified extensibility APIs
Integrate your extensions across editors with slots now available under the wp.editor global variable.
