Create and deploy beautiful and coherent design elements across your sites with WordPress 6.6.
Colour palettes and font sets
Add more design options to any block theme.
Block theme authors can create unlimited individual colour or font sets to offer more specific design options within the same theme.
These sets provide more contained design possibilities, allowing for customisation without changing the site’s broader styling, beyond colour 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.
Overrides
Add the ability to customise content in synced patterns. Allow specific pieces of content to be customised 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 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
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.
