WordPress has released version 6.7, codenamed Rollins. This update introduces better font controls, a new default theme, enhanced design tools for easier page creation, 65 accessibility improvements, and performance optimizations. Version 6.7 focuses on making it easy to build attractive, high-performance websites.
Twenty Twenty-Five Theme
Twenty Twenty-Five is the new default theme that ships with WordPress. Twenty Twenty-Five was purpose intentionally built to offer users an easier and more intuitive experience for creating websites.
The official WordPress Twenty Twenty-Five documentation explains:
“While ideating Twenty Twenty-Five, one recurring idea was that simple things should be intuitive while complex things should be possible. This concept of simplicity and complexity leads to a reliable foundation for extending a default WordPress experience to make it yours.
Twenty Twenty-Five embodies ultimate flexibility and adaptability, showcasing the many ways WordPress enables people to tell their stories with many patterns and styles to choose from.”
The key improvements are:
Better Patterns
WordPress patterns are pre-designed ready to use blocks for different parts of a page. This allows users to choose from pre-made sections of a web page like the header, call-to-actions, pricing tables and on. Twenty Twenty-Five ships with a wide range of patterns that are appropriate for different kinds of sites.
Improved Styles
Better support for fonts in multiple languages plus bundled color variations.
New Templates
There are three base templates that can serve as a starting point for creating a website.
The new template versions are:
Personal Blog (Default)
The Personal Blog template is focused on simplicity and ease of use.
Photo Blog (Alternative)
This template has multiple layouts that are suitable for image heavy sites.
Complex Blog (Alternative)
This template is intended for complex websites, offering more design flexibility.
Typography
As part of the emphasis on a better design experience, WordPress 6.7 features better font management that allows users to more control over fonts.
The WordPress announcement explains:
“Create, edit, remove, and apply font size presets with the next addition to the Styles interface. Override theme defaults or create your own custom font size, complete with fluid typography for responsive font scaling.”
New Zoom Out Feature
WordPress 6.7 has a new design feature that lets users zoom out from the details and see what the site looks like as a whole so that users can swap out block patterns and see what it looks like in macro view. This is in keeping with the focus on making it easy to design attractive websites.
Accessibility Improvements
The documentation for WordPress 6.7 was not as organized as it usually is, making it difficult to navigate to the documentation for the 65 improvements to accessibility are. WordPress documentation is usually better but it seems less organized this time.
This is what the announcement said about the accessibility improvements: