WordPress 6.7

WordPress 6.7 has officially landed, bringing a host of new features, user-friendly improvements, and performance boosts to make publishing with WordPress better than ever.

Here’s my take on the key updates in this release.

Introducing Twenty Twenty-Five

The release of WordPress 6.7 brings a brand-new default theme: Twenty Twenty-Five. Designed to be modern, clean, and adaptable, this theme offers a range of styles and patterns, making it quite a versatile theme.

Zoom Out for the Big Picture

A broader perspective of your pages lets you add, edit, shuffle, or remove patterns to your liking. Zoom to new levels.

Custom Fields + Blocks

You can now map custom fields to block attributes, making it simple to create dynamic, data-driven content within your WordPress pages and posts.

Curate Font Size Presets

With WordPress 6.7, you can create and edit font size presets with support with fluid typography for responsive font scaling.

Templates Made Simple

The new Template Registration API lets plugins bundle templates for block themes seamlessly—functioning like any theme template.

Screenshot showing PHP code to register a block template in WordPress. The code uses the add_action function with the init hook, and an anonymous function that calls register_block_template. The template is identified by 'gutenberg/plugin-template' and includes an array with title, description, and content keys. The code snippet is styled with syntax highlighting on a dark background, bordered by a pink background.

Add Preview Options

Developers now have the ability to extend the editor’s Preview control to offer more ways to preview content.

Menu interface on an orange background with a white pop-up card displaying options. The top section lists ‘Desktop,’ ‘Tablet,’ and ‘Mobile,’ with a checkmark next to ‘Desktop,’ indicating the selected view. Below are options labeled ‘View site’ with an external link icon and ‘View newsletter’ with an envelope icon, suggesting quick access links.

65+ Accessibility Improvements

Enhanced UI, smoother keyboard navigation, accessible login headings, and clearer labels—all to make WordPress more intuitive and inclusive.

Graphic with a yellow background featuring a black accessibility icon (a stylized human figure within a circle) followed by the text ‘65+’ in black. The design suggests 65+ accessibility improvements relative to WordPress 6.7.

And much more…

WordPress 6.7 reflects the efforts of more than 780 contributors from all over the world, including 230 first-time contributors. HUGE props!

Image displaying a densely packed list of names of people who have contributed to WordPress 6.7, arranged in alphabetical order on a pink background. Each name is separated by a comma, creating a visual texture of tightly grouped text.

As I reflect on this release, I’m genuinely impressed by how WordPress 6.7 has shaped up. Thanks to everyone who put in the time to make it happen.

Responses

  1. Ahmet Avatar
    Ahmet

    Hi Rich,

    Do you have any optimization or caching plugins on your blog site? The pages load really fast. Also, which hosting company and plan are you using? The speed is truly impressive.

    Reply
  2. Alberto Prado Avatar
    Alberto Prado

    I’m using the 2025 Theme, and it’s incredible! However, I don’t understand why it has to be completely different from the 2024 Theme.

    Reply
    1. Rich Tabor Avatar
      Rich Tabor

      It doesn’t have to be, but I do think there is value in having a package of templates, patterns, and styles. Themes are becoming more like systems of components, rather than fixed entities—and that’s a good thing.

      Reply

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