With a Striking 400 updates, 500 bug fixes and around 100 new features, let’s welcome the most awaited WordPress major release, WordPress 6.0 “Arturo”.
If you are a content creator or a website developer, let me tell you, lots of amazing features are waiting for your hands to use this attention-grabbing new release of WordPress 6.0.
In this release, you will discover remarkable features and tons of enhancements.
So, before diving in, a sneak peek is here to boost your appetite for WordPress 6.0 new features..!!
You will gain a better listview experience, unique templates, new blocks, exceptional theme options, upgraded block editors, standard core code stability improvements, and a slew of minor tweaks to improve the site-building experience.
Excited to know more..?
There’s a lot to discuss. So, without further ado, let’s have a look at what’s new in WordPress 6.0.
WordPress 6.0 Updates and Improvements
- Block Locking
Block Locking is a feature that protects an end-user from removing or relocating a critical block by mistake. A block settings drop-down menu is where you’ll find the new functionality.
This functionality smoothens the site maintenance for clients, particularly when blocks do not need to be updated.
With the new update in WordPress 6.0, every block has a locking option with lock characteristics for each block. So, when a block is locked, the user can’t move it or take it away.
- List View Improvements
WordPress 6.0 comes up with outstanding improvements in list view. Let’s check them out.
Keyboard Shortcuts
With new keyboard shortcuts, you can select numerous blocks at a time, and even drag and drop to move them around.
Here are the keyboard shortcuts:
Shift Key + Up/Down Arrow Shift Key + Click Shift Key + Up/Down Arrow
Furthermore, selecting a specific block inside the list view to the finish or beginning of a post is now quicker and more keyboard-friendly.
Use the following commands to select several blocks:
Home and End keys + Shift Key
By Default Collapsed List View
Now you will see a collapsed list view by default. When you choose a block, it immediately expands to the current selection. This experience is far less overpowering because block-based content relies on nested blocks.
- Block Style Preview
In WordPress 6.0 you will see a different block style preview. Now the name of the block style, which is visible when you hover your cursor on it or have a keyboard focus on it now shows above the preview.
With this, the height of the sidebar reduces and draws emphasis to the names of each block style.
- Choose Text from a Range of Blocks
WordPress 6.0 has finally received what its users have been waiting for for a long time. Text spanning many blocks may now be selected and copied. If you frequently use Gutenberg as a text editor, you’re aware that it’s not always reliable with editors.
Now, this usability sets the balance between Gutenberg’s block editor and text editor modes.
- Updated Color Panel
WordPress 6.0 introduces a new dropdown-based color picker to the design tools sidebar. It not only eliminates the clutter but also enhances the user experience. With the new color picker, it becomes easier to choose many colors in a row. It also simplifies color editing and combines the controls with other design tools. The updated color panel style saves your space even while displaying your options.
- Updated Stack Block
Now you can design responsive Groups, Rows, and Stacks using the new Layer block in WordPress 6.0. It enables you to stack your piece of information/content vertically.
The overall process is getting faster, with just a single click, blocks may now be arranged into either a stack, row, or group versions. So, whenever you select a large number of blocks at once, the stack and row versions will appear in the toolbar.
The updated stack block is so responsive that it automatically adapts to lower screen sizes and delivers genuinely responsive layouts.
- New Styles
The first thing that attracts visitors to your website is your site’s colors, fonts, and layouts. The new styles in WordPress 6.0 enable you to alter your website’s color, font layout and much more. With styles, you can completely redesign your website with options ranging from a new color palette for your buttons to selecting a new typeface.
The theme writers now give their clients a simple option to modify the appearance and feel of the website without having to rewrite CSS or HTML, which reduces time to a great extent.
You just need to click on the circle symbol in the Editor to access the styles. The style setting includes:
Colors: You can control palettes and the website’s default color together with the labels.
Typography: Control the typography for various components, such as text and links.
Each block-based theme may now have many theme styles, allowing you to modify the appearance and feel of your website with a few clicks. This enhances the new Style system in the Site Editor.
Besides, you can change the font-weight, default color palette, and style options.
- Updated Page Templates
Unlock the power of website templates with WordPress 6.0. Block-based themes provide full editing options that enable users to alter their site templates.
Here is the updated template list:
- Author: Shows the most recent entries by a specific author.
- Categories: Shows the most recent posts in a certain category.
- Tag: Shows the most recent posts with a single tag.
- Date: Shows postings from a given time.
- Taxonomy: This shows the most recent post from a single taxonomy.
Here are the default theme templates added in 2022
- 404: This is the “page” that appears when there is no content available.
- Single Post: This is how a single post looks.
- Page: The appearance of a single page.
- Home: This is referred to your home page
- Index: The “page” that displays all of your posts.
- New Block Transformation
If you are a content creator or website developer this is the best addition you will get in WordPress 6.0. It enables you to make rapid adjustments to your blocks.
New block transformation provides handy options such as Tag Cloud to Categories, Calendar to Archives, Paragraph to Code, Group to Row variation, etc.
- Accessibility Improvements
Several accessibility options have been improved in WordPress 6.0. These are as follows:
- Alt text for featured photos was improved in several ways, resulting in a greater level of accessibility.
- Multiple enhancements to screen readers.
- WordPress List View improvement.
- Navigation Block improvement.
- Media Handling Enhancements.
- Upgradation in Tabbing into a block placeholder.
Wrap Up
WordPress 6.0 will prove to be an amazing update that will permanently change the way you use it. Besides, it will enhance the complete site experience of website developers and users due to the considerable improvements in blocks and design tools.
Along with this, I would like to add that there are tons of improvements I wish to talk about, but I won’t be able to cover all the updates and new features in a single blog. Instead, I have covered only those updates that will have a direct impact on your website daily.
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