What\u2019s new in WordPress 6.1<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"WordPress](\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\")
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nHere are the changes site owners and developers actually received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WordPress 6.1 new features for end users<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- Twenty Twenty-Three, a new default theme powered by 10 unique style variations and tagged \u201cAccessibility Ready\u201d (learn more<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- More design tools across more blocks, including new spacing presets for faster, more consistent margins and padding (learn more<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- An expanded and refined template experience<\/a> and template options<\/a>, including a custom template for posts and pages in the Site Editor<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- A new search-and-replace tool for template parts, making headers and footers quicker to create and edit<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- A better-organized document settings panel for posts and pages, improving features like the template picker and scheduler<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Inner block support in the Quote and List blocks, so you can add a heading inside a quote, for example<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Improved block placeholders: the Image block placeholder now previews custom borders and duotone filters before you select an image<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Refined modal interfaces and preferences improvements<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Automatic navigation block selection with fallbacks: you can edit the menu that\u2019s open without hunting for it, and the mobile menu adds new icon options<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- A one-click toggle that applies locking settings to every block inside a containing block, like Group, Cover, and Column blocks<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Faster block theme discovery, with a block theme filter and pattern previews in the Themes Directory<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Persistent Site Editor settings, saved per user, so your preferences stay consistent across browsers and devices<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Accessibility updates<\/a>, with more than 60 resolved tickets, including Twenty Twenty-Two and Twenty Twenty-Three becoming the first default block themes marked accessibility ready<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Performance updates<\/a>, with more than 25 resolved tickets, headlined by database query caching in WP_Query and faster REST API responses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
WordPress 6.1 new features for developers<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- The ability to opt into appearance tools to make any theme more powerful<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- A streamlined style system: the CSS rules for margin, padding, typography, colors, and borders now live in one place in the styles engine<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Starter patterns for any post type: the starter patterns modal now appears when you create a new instance of any post type, not just pages as in 6.0 (learn more<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Evolution of layout options including a new constrained option and the ability to disable layout options<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Content lock patterns for more curation options, giving you control over which parts of a pattern stay editable<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Expanded support for query loop blocks<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Block-based template parts in classic themes, a gradual-adoption bridge for themes that aren\u2019t ready for full site editing<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Filter theme.json data (learn more<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Fluid typography: define font sizes that adapt for comfortable reading on any screen size<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The ability to style elements inside blocks, like buttons, headings, or captions, in theme.json<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
How WordPress 6.1 came together<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s what\u2019s inside the time capsule. In early June 2022, Mat\u00edas Ventura from the WordPress core development team published an early WordPress 6.1 roadmap<\/a> covering the main areas of work anticipated for the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe tune of the release will be to refine the experiences introduced in 5.9 and 6.0, weave the various flows into more coherent and fulfilling experiences for users, maintainers, and extenders, and close some gaps in functionality as we start to look towards Phase 3 of the Gutenberg roadmap,\u201d Ventura said at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The roadmap highlighted five focus areas: the template editor (browsing and editing your site\u2019s structure, with the aim of unifying the template editor and post editor experiences), building with patterns (tailoring patterns for custom post types and block types), global styles, blocks and design tools (webfont management, responsive typography, and an expanded block toolset), and themes and wider adoption (letting existing themes gradually adopt features like template parts, plus broader access to theme.json editing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first Beta, a version of the WordPress 6.1 software under development, was released on September 21, and the last one was released on October 4. During the Beta phase, core contributors\u2019 focus was on testing and fixing bugs. Some features from Beta weren\u2019t guaranteed to be included in the final release, however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then WordPress 6.1 headed into the home stretch with five release candidates, released on October 11<\/a>, October 18<\/a>, October 25<\/a>, October 27, and October 28. Release candidates are the final stages in the version release cycle, signaling the potential to be a final release to the public. By Release Candidate 1, approximately 100 items had been addressed since Beta 3, bringing the total number of updates and bug fixes since the release of WordPress 6.0 in May 2022 to more than 2,000.<\/p>\n\nBuilding upon WordPress 5.9 and 6.0<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Because the WordPress core team is continually discussing and developing new features and bug fixes, and testing them in beta releases, it is able to put out new major versions of WordPress quite quickly. WordPress 5.9<\/a>, which introduced the hotly anticipated Full Site Editing, was released on January 25, 2022. And WordPress 6.0<\/a>, dubbed \u201cArturo,\u201d went live on May 24, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nHere are the changes site owners and developers actually received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WordPress 6.1 new features for end users<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- Twenty Twenty-Three, a new default theme powered by 10 unique style variations and tagged \u201cAccessibility Ready\u201d (learn more<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- More design tools across more blocks, including new spacing presets for faster, more consistent margins and padding (learn more<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- An expanded and refined template experience<\/a> and template options<\/a>, including a custom template for posts and pages in the Site Editor<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- A new search-and-replace tool for template parts, making headers and footers quicker to create and edit<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- A better-organized document settings panel for posts and pages, improving features like the template picker and scheduler<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Inner block support in the Quote and List blocks, so you can add a heading inside a quote, for example<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Improved block placeholders: the Image block placeholder now previews custom borders and duotone filters before you select an image<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Refined modal interfaces and preferences improvements<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Automatic navigation block selection with fallbacks: you can edit the menu that\u2019s open without hunting for it, and the mobile menu adds new icon options<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- A one-click toggle that applies locking settings to every block inside a containing block, like Group, Cover, and Column blocks<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Faster block theme discovery, with a block theme filter and pattern previews in the Themes Directory<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Persistent Site Editor settings, saved per user, so your preferences stay consistent across browsers and devices<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Accessibility updates<\/a>, with more than 60 resolved tickets, including Twenty Twenty-Two and Twenty Twenty-Three becoming the first default block themes marked accessibility ready<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Performance updates<\/a>, with more than 25 resolved tickets, headlined by database query caching in WP_Query and faster REST API responses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
WordPress 6.1 new features for developers<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- The ability to opt into appearance tools to make any theme more powerful<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- A streamlined style system: the CSS rules for margin, padding, typography, colors, and borders now live in one place in the styles engine<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Starter patterns for any post type: the starter patterns modal now appears when you create a new instance of any post type, not just pages as in 6.0 (learn more<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Evolution of layout options including a new constrained option and the ability to disable layout options<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Content lock patterns for more curation options, giving you control over which parts of a pattern stay editable<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Expanded support for query loop blocks<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Block-based template parts in classic themes, a gradual-adoption bridge for themes that aren\u2019t ready for full site editing<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Filter theme.json data (learn more<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Fluid typography: define font sizes that adapt for comfortable reading on any screen size<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The ability to style elements inside blocks, like buttons, headings, or captions, in theme.json<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
How WordPress 6.1 came together<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s what\u2019s inside the time capsule. In early June 2022, Mat\u00edas Ventura from the WordPress core development team published an early WordPress 6.1 roadmap<\/a> covering the main areas of work anticipated for the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe tune of the release will be to refine the experiences introduced in 5.9 and 6.0, weave the various flows into more coherent and fulfilling experiences for users, maintainers, and extenders, and close some gaps in functionality as we start to look towards Phase 3 of the Gutenberg roadmap,\u201d Ventura said at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The roadmap highlighted five focus areas: the template editor (browsing and editing your site\u2019s structure, with the aim of unifying the template editor and post editor experiences), building with patterns (tailoring patterns for custom post types and block types), global styles, blocks and design tools (webfont management, responsive typography, and an expanded block toolset), and themes and wider adoption (letting existing themes gradually adopt features like template parts, plus broader access to theme.json editing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first Beta, a version of the WordPress 6.1 software under development, was released on September 21, and the last one was released on October 4. During the Beta phase, core contributors\u2019 focus was on testing and fixing bugs. Some features from Beta weren\u2019t guaranteed to be included in the final release, however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then WordPress 6.1 headed into the home stretch with five release candidates, released on October 11<\/a>, October 18<\/a>, October 25<\/a>, October 27, and October 28. Release candidates are the final stages in the version release cycle, signaling the potential to be a final release to the public. By Release Candidate 1, approximately 100 items had been addressed since Beta 3, bringing the total number of updates and bug fixes since the release of WordPress 6.0 in May 2022 to more than 2,000.<\/p>\n\nBuilding upon WordPress 5.9 and 6.0<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Because the WordPress core team is continually discussing and developing new features and bug fixes, and testing them in beta releases, it is able to put out new major versions of WordPress quite quickly. WordPress 5.9<\/a>, which introduced the hotly anticipated Full Site Editing, was released on January 25, 2022. And WordPress 6.0<\/a>, dubbed \u201cArturo,\u201d went live on May 24, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n
WordPress 6.1 new features for developers<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- The ability to opt into appearance tools to make any theme more powerful<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- A streamlined style system: the CSS rules for margin, padding, typography, colors, and borders now live in one place in the styles engine<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Starter patterns for any post type: the starter patterns modal now appears when you create a new instance of any post type, not just pages as in 6.0 (learn more<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Evolution of layout options including a new constrained option and the ability to disable layout options<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Content lock patterns for more curation options, giving you control over which parts of a pattern stay editable<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Expanded support for query loop blocks<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Block-based template parts in classic themes, a gradual-adoption bridge for themes that aren\u2019t ready for full site editing<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Filter theme.json data (learn more<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Fluid typography: define font sizes that adapt for comfortable reading on any screen size<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The ability to style elements inside blocks, like buttons, headings, or captions, in theme.json<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
How WordPress 6.1 came together<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s what\u2019s inside the time capsule. In early June 2022, Mat\u00edas Ventura from the WordPress core development team published an early WordPress 6.1 roadmap<\/a> covering the main areas of work anticipated for the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe tune of the release will be to refine the experiences introduced in 5.9 and 6.0, weave the various flows into more coherent and fulfilling experiences for users, maintainers, and extenders, and close some gaps in functionality as we start to look towards Phase 3 of the Gutenberg roadmap,\u201d Ventura said at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The roadmap highlighted five focus areas: the template editor (browsing and editing your site\u2019s structure, with the aim of unifying the template editor and post editor experiences), building with patterns (tailoring patterns for custom post types and block types), global styles, blocks and design tools (webfont management, responsive typography, and an expanded block toolset), and themes and wider adoption (letting existing themes gradually adopt features like template parts, plus broader access to theme.json editing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first Beta, a version of the WordPress 6.1 software under development, was released on September 21, and the last one was released on October 4. During the Beta phase, core contributors\u2019 focus was on testing and fixing bugs. Some features from Beta weren\u2019t guaranteed to be included in the final release, however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then WordPress 6.1 headed into the home stretch with five release candidates, released on October 11<\/a>, October 18<\/a>, October 25<\/a>, October 27, and October 28. Release candidates are the final stages in the version release cycle, signaling the potential to be a final release to the public. By Release Candidate 1, approximately 100 items had been addressed since Beta 3, bringing the total number of updates and bug fixes since the release of WordPress 6.0 in May 2022 to more than 2,000.<\/p>\n\nBuilding upon WordPress 5.9 and 6.0<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Because the WordPress core team is continually discussing and developing new features and bug fixes, and testing them in beta releases, it is able to put out new major versions of WordPress quite quickly. WordPress 5.9<\/a>, which introduced the hotly anticipated Full Site Editing, was released on January 25, 2022. And WordPress 6.0<\/a>, dubbed \u201cArturo,\u201d went live on May 24, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n
How WordPress 6.1 came together<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s what\u2019s inside the time capsule. In early June 2022, Mat\u00edas Ventura from the WordPress core development team published an early WordPress 6.1 roadmap<\/a> covering the main areas of work anticipated for the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe tune of the release will be to refine the experiences introduced in 5.9 and 6.0, weave the various flows into more coherent and fulfilling experiences for users, maintainers, and extenders, and close some gaps in functionality as we start to look towards Phase 3 of the Gutenberg roadmap,\u201d Ventura said at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The roadmap highlighted five focus areas: the template editor (browsing and editing your site\u2019s structure, with the aim of unifying the template editor and post editor experiences), building with patterns (tailoring patterns for custom post types and block types), global styles, blocks and design tools (webfont management, responsive typography, and an expanded block toolset), and themes and wider adoption (letting existing themes gradually adopt features like template parts, plus broader access to theme.json editing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first Beta, a version of the WordPress 6.1 software under development, was released on September 21, and the last one was released on October 4. During the Beta phase, core contributors\u2019 focus was on testing and fixing bugs. Some features from Beta weren\u2019t guaranteed to be included in the final release, however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then WordPress 6.1 headed into the home stretch with five release candidates, released on October 11<\/a>, October 18<\/a>, October 25<\/a>, October 27, and October 28. Release candidates are the final stages in the version release cycle, signaling the potential to be a final release to the public. By Release Candidate 1, approximately 100 items had been addressed since Beta 3, bringing the total number of updates and bug fixes since the release of WordPress 6.0 in May 2022 to more than 2,000.<\/p>\n\n Because the WordPress core team is continually discussing and developing new features and bug fixes, and testing them in beta releases, it is able to put out new major versions of WordPress quite quickly. WordPress 5.9<\/a>, which introduced the hotly anticipated Full Site Editing, was released on January 25, 2022. And WordPress 6.0<\/a>, dubbed \u201cArturo,\u201d went live on May 24, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\nBuilding upon WordPress 5.9 and 6.0<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n