A free weekly Newsletter with a round-up of WordPress news and articles
WordPress 6.6 Beta 2
WordPress 6.6 Beta 2 is here! Please download and test it. This beta version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites—you risk unexpected results if you do. The target release date for WordPress 6.6 is July 16, 2024. Your help testing Beta and RC versions over the next five weeks is vital to making sure the final release is everything it should be: stable, powerful, and intuitive.
What Is New in Gutenberg 18.5 (05 Jun)
Gutenberg 18.5 introduces several exciting features, enhancements, and some bug fixes. Some of the highlights of this release include better tools for section styling, providing more customization options for your sections, a new Custom Shadows feature which improves the control over our shadows, and also the ability to edit a block’s custom fields directly in the block itself, thanks to the latest additions to the Block Bindings API.
WordPress 6.5.4 Restores Auto-redirect After Plugin Activation
Originally, WordPress 6.5.3 was expected to address the Ajax Plugin Activation challenges from WordPress 6.5 but the community did not take kindly to the admin notice asking to refresh the page after installing a plugin. WooCommerce developer Adrian Duffell pointed to a 20% reduction in the number of users completing the plugin’s setup flow.
