WordPress 6.8 introduces a comprehensive set of accessibility improvements across WordPress Core and the Gutenberg Block Editor, making the platform more inclusive and user-friendly. These updates span administration, customization, themes, editing workflows, and the block editor, ensuring a smoother experience… Continue Reading →
WordPress 6.8 delivers a broad set of developer-focused enhancements that improve extensibility, consistency, and modern standards across the platform. These updates include changes to shortcodes and media handling, expanded theme and block support, improved admin validation and hooks, and fine-tuned… Continue Reading →
WordPress 6.8 brings a range of smaller yet meaningful updates to the block editor that enhance consistency, improve developer experience, and refine default behaviors. These changes include refinements to the Navigation block’s class and markup handling, a new filter for… Continue Reading →
This post lists notable changes to the @wordpress/components package for the WordPress 6.8 release. Table of Contents RadioGroup: Log deprecation warning Navigation: Prepare for hard deprecation SearchControl: Deprecated onClose prop Soft deprecate the ButtonGroup component Default 32px sizes are now… Continue Reading →
WordPress 6.8 comes with a few new best practices and requirements in the Interactivity API that are part of a longer-term continuous-improvement effort. Some of the relevant changes in 6.8 are an intermediary step: They do not include these enhancements… Continue Reading →
WordPress 6.8 introduces a new filter should_load_block_assets_on_demand, which runs as part of a new function wp_should_load_block_assets_on_demand(). The filter complements the existing should_load_separate_core_block_assets filter by more clearly separating concerns of both filters. Until now the should_load_separate_core_block_assets filter had two different purposes:… Continue Reading →
The screen-reader-text CSS class is a small bit of CSS used in WordPress to hide text visually but still make it available to assistive technologies, screen readers, and any other software reading a page. Given poor browser support for the… Continue Reading →
WordPress 6.8 introduces a new function wp_register_block_types_from_metadata_collection(), which allows plugins to register multiple block types with a single function call. This function expands on the foundational capabilities of the wp_register_block_metadata_collection() function, which was introduced in WordPress 6.7 to improve performance…. Continue Reading →
