WordPress 6.0 – Features and Improvements Till May 2022

WordPress 6.0 "Arturo" derives its name from Arturo O'Farrill, the Grammy award-winning Jazz Musician. This version has been created with a series of new features and advancements for aiding content creation and site-building experience. The overall aim is to simplify the user experience.

 

WordPress 6.0 has been established with the goal to consolidate and expand the customization tools which are existing in WordPress 5.9. From WordPress 5.9, users could access the Full Site Editing functionality for editing as required on the site by making use of Gutenberg Blocks. But this functionality in WordPress 6.0 has been better extended and made easy to use. So, in solid terms, WordPress 6.0 is available with a new intuitive user interface for WordPress developers to easily design web pages and edit texts.

WordPress 6.0 is meant for changing WordPress development, and every WordPress agency is to update it. This is the second major WordPress core release in the year 2022, and this new release is offering remarkable improvements in different CMS areas as –

Here in, we shall highlight the ideal improvements as having been fostered by WordPress 6.0. An existing website should be completely backed up before updating to WordPress 6.0. The backup includes the WordPress database, media library, themes, WordPress files, plugins and more. So, now let us delve deep into the new features of WordPress 6.0.

WordPress 6.0 has enabled text selection between multiple WordPress blocks and moved the selection cursor across the blocks for editing the text-filled pages. Internal links and suitable titles can be inserted sooner and in a shortcut. Here is an example to understand better –

Typing "[[" and then the post title or else the title's one word displays the available matching posts. Clicking on one of these posts immediately inserts the complete title and links to the internal links.

 

Next, the user gets a "push publish panel" category reminder. Just as you see a new suggestion of "Assign A Category" appears in the post publish panel when the post has no category added. Through this feature, the site admins and authors can assign relevant categories to their posts.

WordPress 6.0 can create a whole new look and feel for the site with only a few clicks. Now the Block themes have the option of containing multiple style variations. Now the theme authors can combine multiple sets of global styles with the themes. It indicates the block themes are supporting the feature for the users to change the colour, layouts and typography of the site. This is the much-needed feature that allows the users to switch between the necessary style variations.

WordPress 6.0 has introduced powerful and intuitive features of the new design tools. The latest version has brought up a unique colour panel design that is space-saving but shows the options at a peak. Several tasks can be done at once in the Group block, which includes the control gaps, typography,  margins and more. There is even layout flexibility for switching between rows, stacks and group variations. Additionally, colour transparency levels present creative colour customization options, as well as new border controls for border adjustment as preferred. Added to it, the templates can be edited, as well as the date, author, tag, category, and custom taxonomies within the theme editor.

The list is easily handled, hence the blocks are presented in a better overview. WordPress developers can manipulate multiple blocks at the same time. There is no need of moving or deleting individual blocks. By using the new shortcuts like Shift + Click, multiple blocks can be selected in bulk, re-positioned, deleted or modified with ease.

The collapsed list view is by default in WordPress 6.0 and it gets expanded to the current selection on the block being selected. This change has initiated a lesser overwhelming experience of the initial list view since the nested blocks determine the block-based contents.  Additionally, the block behaviour can be set on different screens, as in displaying the group blocks inside a stack or a row.

 

With WordPress 6.0 being introduced, WordPress developers now have to be acquainted with a few notable changes. Their significance of them comprises of –

 

WordPress 6.0 has been introduced with a lot of updates and enhancements fostering significant improvements to the CMS performance and usability. The new release's exciting features are indeed useful and offer something new to WordPress developers, designers and writers. WordPress development companies can capitalize on the features to meet new users' needs.