Yesterday, much anticipated WordPress 6.6 “Dorsey”, named after a popular American Big Band leader, Tommy Dorsey. This released was focused on “creating 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”.
WordPress 6.6 delivers on the promise of a better web by bringing style, finesse, and a suite of creative possibilities to your site-building experience. This version helps you do more with ease, putting enhanced tools at your fingertips and giving you unprecedented power behind the scenes. You will find more ways to create beautiful, coherent design elements across your site, a new layout for quick page previews in the Site Editor, and the safety of automatic rollbacks for failed plugin auto-updates—among many other highlights.
A few of the features that I am most excited about include color and typography changes, section styles (an extension to the block style variation), synced patterns overrides, and other features including using patterns in classic themes, experimental layouts, and more.
I will be exploring and incorporating some of these new features into my block themes and making learning notes posts in the coming days and weeks.