{"id":41754,"date":"2023-10-18T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhblog.dream.press\/blog\/?p=41754"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T20:36:10","slug":"wordpress-6-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wordpress-6-4\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 6.4 Set for November 7, 2023 Release Date; New Functionalities, Improvements Under Consideration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still seeing WordPress 6.4 described as an upcoming release? It isn\u2019t. <strong>WordPress 6.4 \u201cShirley\u201d was released on November 7, 2023.<\/strong> Named for jazz singer <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2023\/11\/shirley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shirley Horn<\/a>, it was the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/about\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">48th major release of WordPress<\/a> and the third and final major release of 2023. WordPress has since moved on: the current line is WordPress 7.0, with version 7.0.4 <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/releases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released on August 12, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The release\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/6-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">development cycle<\/a> kicked off on June 5, 2023, and its <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2023\/08\/22\/roadmap-to-6-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feature roadmap<\/a> followed on August 22, 2023. Not everything on that roadmap made the final cut, so here\u2019s what WordPress 6.4 actually shipped, starting with its new default theme at the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2023\/08\/24\/introducing-twenty-twenty-four\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twenty Twenty-Four<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"article-newsletter article-newsletter--gradient\">\n\n\n<h2>Get Content Delivered Straight to Your Inbox<\/h2><p>Subscribe now to receive all the latest updates, delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p><form class=\"nwsl-form\" id=\"newsletter_block_\" novalidate><div class=\"messages\"><\/div><div class=\"form-group\"><label for=\"input_newsletter_block_\"><input type=\"email\"name=\"email\"id=\"input_newsletter_block_\"placeholder=\"Enter your email address\"novalidatedisabled=\"disabled\"\/><\/label><button type=\"submit\"class=\"btn btn--brand\"disabled=\"disabled\"><span>Sign Me Up!<\/span><svg width=\"21\" height=\"14\" viewBox=\"0 0 21 14\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<path d=\"M13.8523 0.42524L12.9323 1.34521C12.7095 1.56801 12.7132 1.9304 12.9404 2.14865L16.7241 5.7823H0.5625C0.251859 5.7823 0 6.03416 0 6.3448V7.6573C0 7.96794 0.251859 8.2198 0.5625 8.2198H16.7241L12.9405 11.8535C12.7132 12.0717 12.7095 12.4341 12.9323 12.6569L13.8523 13.5769C14.072 13.7965 14.4281 13.7965 14.6478 13.5769L20.8259 7.39879C21.0456 7.17913 21.0456 6.82298 20.8259 6.60327L14.6477 0.42524C14.4281 0.205584 14.0719 0.205584 13.8523 0.42524Z\" fill=\"white\"\/>\n<\/svg>\n<\/button><\/div><\/form><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-new-release-new-theme\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Twenty Twenty-Four: a new default theme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty Twenty-Four was built to fit almost any kind of site. Instead of a single motif, the design team worked from three use cases: entrepreneurs and small businesses, photographers and artists, and writers and bloggers. Under the hood it\u2019s a collection of templates and patterns \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2023\/11\/shirley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over 35 of them<\/a> in the shipped version \u2014 including Home templates plus pages like About, project summaries, RSVPs, and landing pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty Twenty-Four pairs <a href=\"https:\/\/fonts.google.com\/specimen\/Cardo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cardo<\/a> headlines (a serif from Google Fonts) with a sans-serif system font for body copy. The default palette is light, with a dark style variation that keeps the same typography, plus two all-sans-serif variations: one light, one dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a block theme, it works with all the site editor tools, and it surfaced newer design options like the details block and vertical text. It also leans on complete page patterns and template variations, so you don\u2019t have to build pages from scratch. Twenty Twenty-Four has since passed the torch: <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/article\/twenty-twenty-five\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twenty Twenty-Five<\/a> became the default theme with WordPress 6.7 in November 2024.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"h-form-and-functions\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">What shipped in WordPress 6.4<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress 6.4 was a refinement release, not a reinvention. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2023\/11\/shirley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official release announcement<\/a>, WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy said many of 6.4\u2019s features and enhancements \u201cfall in the \u2018small but mighty\u2019 category.\u201d Here\u2019s what landed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-image-lightbox\"><b>Image lightbox<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-41765 size-full\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"891\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-image-lightbox.png.webp\" alt=\"Lightbox settings for an image in WordPress 6.4\" class=\"wp-image-41765 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-image-lightbox.png.webp 1600w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-image-lightbox-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-image-lightbox-1024x570.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-image-lightbox-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-image-lightbox-1536x855.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-image-lightbox-600x334.png.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-image-lightbox-1200x668.png.webp 1200w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-image-lightbox-730x407.png.webp 730w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-image-lightbox-1460x813.png.webp 1460w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-image-lightbox-784x437.png.webp 784w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-image-lightbox-1568x873.png.webp 1568w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-image-lightbox-877x488.png.webp 877w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1600\/891;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image source: WordPress.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress 6.4 added a native lightbox: click an image and it opens full-screen, no gallery plugin required. You can switch it on globally or enable it only for specific images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-auto-insert-blocks\"><b>Block Hooks<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The roadmap\u2019s \u201cauto-insert blocks\u201d exploration shipped under the name Block Hooks. It lets plugin developers automatically insert dynamic blocks at specific content locations \u2014 install a membership plugin, for example, and it can offer a login\/logout link in your navigation. While Block Hooks is considered a developer tool, you keep complete control to add, dismiss, and customize auto-inserted blocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-patterns\"><b>Pattern categories, filtering, and sharing<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Building on WordPress 6.3\u2019s ability to create patterns directly in the editor, 6.4 added custom pattern categories and filtering in the inserter\u2019s Patterns section. Patterns also became portable: export them as JSON files from the Site Editor\u2019s patterns view and import them anywhere. If you build client sites, that turns a one-off pattern into a reusable library you can carry between projects.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-41771\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"765\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-adding-pattern-categories.png.webp\" alt=\"design concept adding pattern categories in WordPress 6.4\" class=\"wp-image-41771 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-adding-pattern-categories.png.webp 1600w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-adding-pattern-categories-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-adding-pattern-categories-1024x490.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-adding-pattern-categories-768x367.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-adding-pattern-categories-1536x734.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-adding-pattern-categories-600x287.png.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-adding-pattern-categories-1200x574.png.webp 1200w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-adding-pattern-categories-730x349.png.webp 730w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-adding-pattern-categories-1460x698.png.webp 1460w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-adding-pattern-categories-784x375.png.webp 784w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-adding-pattern-categories-1568x750.png.webp 1568w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/wordpress-6-4-adding-pattern-categories-877x419.png.webp 877w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1600\/765;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image source: WordPress.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-command-palette\"><b>A redesigned Command Palette<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-41766\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"908\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/Command-palette-new-design-wordpress-6-4.png.webp\" alt=\"WordPress 6.4 Command Palette new design\" class=\"wp-image-41766 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/Command-palette-new-design-wordpress-6-4.png.webp 1200w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Command-palette-new-design-wordpress-6-4-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Command-palette-new-design-wordpress-6-4-1024x775.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Command-palette-new-design-wordpress-6-4-768x581.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/Command-palette-new-design-wordpress-6-4-600x454.png.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/Command-palette-new-design-wordpress-6-4-730x552.png.webp 730w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/Command-palette-new-design-wordpress-6-4-784x593.png.webp 784w, https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2023\/09\/Command-palette-new-design-wordpress-6-4-877x664.png.webp 877w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1200\/908;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image source: WordPress.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First introduced in WordPress 6.3, the Command Palette (\u2318+K on Mac, Ctrl+K on Windows) got a refreshed design in 6.4, plus new commands for block-specific actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-writing-and-list-view\"><b>Writing and List View improvements<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">List View got the most day-to-day useful upgrades: custom names for Group blocks (no more scanning a sidebar of identical \u201cGroup\u201d entries), image previews for Gallery and Image blocks, and new keyboard shortcuts. The release also brought smarter list merging, better control over link settings, and a consistent toolbar for the Navigation, List, and Quote blocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-design-tools\"><b>More design tools<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Design tooling grew as well. Group blocks now accept background images, so a simple textured section no longer calls for a Cover block workaround; image dimensions stay consistent with placeholder aspect ratios; and you can add buttons to the Navigation block without writing code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-didnt-make-it\"><b>What didn\u2019t make it into 6.4<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three new blocks were considered during the 6.4 cycle (Table of Contents, Time to Read, and Scrolling Marquee), but none of them shipped in the release. <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/article\/time-to-read-block\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time to Read<\/a> eventually arrived in core with WordPress 6.9 on December 2, 2025; Table of Contents and Scrolling Marquee still aren\u2019t core blocks. Font customization missed the cut as well: the Font Library shipped with <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2024\/04\/regina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WordPress 6.5 \u201cRegina\u201d<\/a> on April 2, 2024, a release that also completed revisions for templates and template parts.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"h-making-the-best-even-better\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Performance, accessibility, and other changes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress was already the most widely used CMS in the world when 6.4 shipped, and it still is: WordPress runs 40.8% of all websites as of August 2026, per <a href=\"https:\/\/w3techs.com\/technologies\/details\/cm-wordpress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">W3Techs<\/a>. Some of the release\u2019s most valuable work was the least flashy kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-performance-wins\"><b>Performance wins<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress 6.4 included more than 100 performance-related updates, on the heels of <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2023\/08\/lionel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WordPress 6.3\u2019s 170+ performance updates<\/a>. The 6.4 batch focused on faster template loading for themes (including Twenty Twenty-Four), the \u201cdefer\u201d and \u201casync\u201d script-loading strategies in core, blocks, and themes, and trimming autoloaded options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-accessibility-highlights\"><b>Accessibility highlights<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress 6.3 logged <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2023\/08\/lionel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 50 accessibility improvements<\/a>, and 6.4 kept the streak going: List View refinements, aria-label support for the Navigation block, and admin interface touch-ups like better button placement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-other-notable-changes\"><b>Other notable changes<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two practical notes for anyone who ran the update. WordPress <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2023\/10\/wordpress-6-4s-php-compatibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommended PHP 8.1 or 8.2<\/a> for the 6.4 release. And <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2023\/10\/16\/changes-to-attachment-pages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attachment pages were fully disabled for new installations<\/a>: instead of generating a thin page for every uploaded file (pages search engines sometimes indexed, to nobody\u2019s benefit), new sites redirect those URLs to the file itself. Existing sites kept attachment pages on upgrade, controllable via the <code>wp_attachment_pages_enabled<\/code> option.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"h-forward-thinking-leadership\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Forward-thinking leadership<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harkening back to WordPress 5.6, \u201cSimone\u201d \u2014 released December 8, 2020, and built by an <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2020\/12\/simone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all-women and non-binary identifying release squad<\/a> \u2014 WordPress 6.4 was <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2023\/04\/07\/preparing-for-the-next-women-nonbinary-release-squad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">led by an underrepresented-gender release squad<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-happy-anniversary\"><b>A 20th-anniversary release<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress 6.4 was the final major release of 2023, a year that marked the 20th anniversary of the first version of WordPress, which debuted on May 27, 2003. (The jazz nicknames came slightly later: WordPress 1.0 \u201cDavis,\u201d honoring Miles Davis, arrived on January 3, 2004.) Version 6.4 was the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/about\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">48th major release of WordPress<\/a>, and its open-source structure and collaborative spirit have kept it evolving ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-where-does-wordpress-6-4-stand-today\"><b>Where does WordPress 6.4 stand today?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six major releases have shipped since \u201cShirley\u201d: 6.5 through 6.9, then WordPress 7.0 \u201cArmstrong\u201d on May 20, 2026. As of August 2026, the current version is 7.0.4, released on August 12, 2026. The <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/releases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official release archive<\/a> is blunt about older branches: only the most recent release in the 7.0 series is \u201csafe to use and actively maintained.\u201d Recent older branches do still see point releases (6.9.7 landed the same day as 7.0.4), but if a site you manage is still running 6.4, treat the upgrade as overdue \u2014 back up, update from Dashboard \u2192 Updates, and test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/wordpress\/\">DreamHost WordPress hosting<\/a> plans provide access to current WordPress versions in the control panel and include daily automated backups. You\u2019ll still want to check plugin and theme compatibility and test major updates before pushing them to a live site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still seeing WordPress 6.4 described as an upcoming release? It isn\u2019t. 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