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.

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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.

And much more

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.