WordPress 5.6 release

WordPress 5.6 brings you countless ways to let your ideas be free and give them to life. Use a new default theme as the canvas, which supports the growing collection of blocks as brushes. Draw with words. Picture. Sound. Or rich embedded media.

Greater layout flexibility

Use more tools to let you edit the layout with or without code and make your story more consistent with your story. Single column blocks, designs that use mixed widths and columns, full width titles, and gradients in cover blocks - make small changes or big statements easy!

More block modes

In some themes, the preconfigured block mode makes it easy to set up standard pages on your website. Let the power of patterns simplify your workflow and save your clicks. In addition, these functions are shared with clients, editors, etc.

Better video captions

To help you add subtitles or subtitles to your video, you can now upload subtitles or subtitles in posts or pages. This makes it easier for anyone who needs or likes to use subtitles to access your videos than ever before.

It's twenty-two!

Twenty one is a blank canvas, your idea, and the block editor is the best brush. It is built for the Block Editor and contains a new block pattern that you can only get in the default theme. Try different layouts in a few seconds to make the theme stand out, but the timeless design makes your work shine.

In addition, this default theme places accessibility at the heart of the site. It conforms to WordPress Accessibility Readiness Guide, And for AAA level web content Several more professional standards in WCAG 2.1 。 When you create accessible content and select accessible plug-ins, it will help you meet the highest level of international accessibility standards!

Soft Crayon Rainbow

The year 201 is the perfect choice for the New Year. It provides you with a series of soft preselected palettes, all of which meet the AAA contrast standard. You can also select your own background color for the theme, and the theme will automatically select the text color with auxiliary functions!

Need more flexibility? You can also select your own color palette from the color picker.

Improvements for everyone

Extended Automatic Update

For many years, only developers were able to automatically update WordPress. But now you have this option in the dashboard. If this is your first website, you have automatic update ready to go now! Upgrading existing site? No problem! Everything is the same as before.

Accessibility Statement

Even if you are not an expert, you can start letting others know about your website's commitment to accessibility! new function Plug ins include A copy of the template is available for you to edit and publish, and it supports different contexts and jurisdictions when written.

Built in mode

If you have not yet had the opportunity to use block mode, all default themes now have a series of block modes, allowing you to master complex layouts with minimal effort. Customize the pattern to your liking with copies, images, and colors that suit your story or brand.

Suitable for developers

REST API authentication using application password

With API's new application password authorization function, third-party applications can seamlessly and securely connect to your website. With this new REST API function, you can view which applications are connecting to your website and control their functions.

More PHP 8 support

5.6 marks the first step of WordPress core support for PHP 8. Now is a good time to start planning how WordPress products, services and websites will support the latest PHP version. For what happens next, read PHP 8 Developer Description 。

Jquery

In WordPress, jQuery was updated in 5.5, 5.6 and 5.7. When we reach the midpoint of this process, Please run the update test plug-in to check your Whether the website has errors.

If you find that there is something wrong with the appearance of your website (for example, the slider does not work, and a button is stuck - such things), install JQuery migration plug-in 。

Problems found at present: With the classic editor, when inserting a picture from the URL, the following "Align" and "Link to" options are displayed incorrectly and cannot be used normally, terms of settlement 。