The new version WordPress 6 of the popular CMS, has just been released and includes more than 1000 total changes and additions.

Overall and with each update Automattic, the company that created WordPress, slowly and steadily adds new features to the popular platform. The new block editor is the one that receives the most upgrades and in the new version, it has already reached a satisfactory level.

Gutebenrg, as it is called, is the company's solution for easy design through ready-made blocks, in the style of popular page builders, such as Elementor and WP Visual Bakery.

With the new blocks added in version 6, users have the ability to write more complex articles while each page can become a blank canvas with unlimited possibilities.

In general, the overall experience that a user can write a text has been greatly improved, through small additions related to changing the style, fonts and easy text selection.

Finally, the developers have largely optimized the overall performance of Wordpress 6, mainly in the loading speed of the editor and the performance in the frontend, greatly reducing the execution of various queries.

Analytically

– Quickly toggle text style with just a click of a button

– Ability to save and export saved templates (either on the same website or on a new one)

– The “More” button is now a separate block where it is fully editable in terms of colors to make it stand out

– Possibility of adding the biography of the author of an article at any point of the text you wish

– Display avatar image of the author, also at any point you want

– Add feature image as background image to cover block

– What easy selection of text in any block, until now there was a difficulty in making an exact selection of any point of the text that the user wanted

– Option to lock any changes to an already saved block

– Very important addition, the choice of how a block will look depending on each device separately, is fully responsive in version 6

Added general improvements like adding a border to a block, adding space between images in a gallery

• – Accessibility optimizations such as using alt descriptions, reading titles and descriptions

Technical changes

– Webfonts API will provide theme authors a more efficient way to manage local fonts via PHP or theme.json

– An API to prevent blocks from appearing on Widgets screen

– Make get_the_author_link pluggable

– Improved sticky post query

As with every release, we recommend that you check that all your plugins are compatible with the new version and then upgrade, after you have first saved a full backup of your website.

You can see various projects in WordPress 6 that we have implemented here