The latest release of WordPress allows you to create and deploy beautiful and coherent design elements across your sites with ease. A new rollback option for auto-updating plugins gives you control, flexibility, and peace of mind.
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.
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.
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.
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
WordPress 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 33% 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
For a comprehensive overview of all the new features and enhancements in WordPress 6.6, please visit the feature-showcase website.
Learn more about WordPress 6.6.2
Learn WordPress is a free resource for new and experienced WordPress users. Learn is stocked with how-to videos on using various features in WordPress, interactive workshops for exploring topics in-depth, and lesson plans for diving deep into specific areas of WordPress.
Explore the WordPress 6.6 Field Guide. Learn about the changes in this release with detailed developer notes to help you build with WordPress.
Read the WordPress 6.6 Release Notes for information on installation, enhancements, fixed issues, release contributors, learning resources, and the list of file changes.