WordPress 7.1
Welcome to WordPress 7.1
WordPress 7.1 makes styling and collaborating easier. Style how all blocks look across screen sizes and how the Button block responds to hover, focus, and active states, all without writing custom CSS. A streamlined media editor brings cropping, rotation, and metadata editing together in one workflow. Notes now support rich text and @mentions, and the admin bar travels with you into every editor, so the tools you rely on stay with you wherever you’re working.
Apply responsive styles
Style content your way, on every screen.
WordPress 7.1 takes a major step toward built-in responsive design. Set how a block looks at different screen sizes directly in the editor, for both Global Styles and individual blocks, all without writing custom CSS.
Admin bar, now in every editor
Consistent navigation, from dashboard to editor.
The admin bar now stays with you across all editors, so you always know where you are. The admin bar also gets a small visual refresh.
A new way to crop
One dedicated workflow for editing your images.
A new media editor modal replaces the old inline cropping tool, bringing freeform and aspect-ratio cropping, flip, precise rotation, and metadata editing together in a single streamlined workflow. The familiar Crop button still gets you there, now opening a dedicated space to crop, rotate, and adjust images before publishing.
Inline notes with mentions and rich text
More ways to leave feedback.
Notes now support rich text and @mentions. Add bold, italic, code, and links so feedback reads clearly. Type “@” to pull up a list of collaborators to tag the right person directly, with built-in email notifications. Leave a note on a specific text selection instead of an entire block. Start more than one conversation on the same block. Collapse long notes to keep the margin tidy.
Improved media handling
Image compression, resizing, and thumbnail generation now happen in the browser, via a WebAssembly build of libvips, so large uploads won’t hit PHP memory limits or time out on shared hosts. This also frees up server CPU and memory, while producing smaller files for visitors. Media handling includes built-in support for AVIF, HEIC and HDR gain maps.
Accessibility
WordPress 7.1 continues to polish accessibility across WordPress Core and Gutenberg, advancing the goals to meet accessibility standards. In this release, high impact changes include the new accessible tooltips API, improved predictability for screen readers, and improved labeling in many places in the admin. The editor adds extensive improvements to navigation and interaction.
And much more
For a comprehensive overview of all the new features and enhancements in WordPress 7.1, please visit the feature-showcase website.
Learn more about WordPress 7.1
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WordPress 7.1 Release Notes
Read the WordPress 7.1 Release Notes for information on installation, enhancements, fixed issues, release contributors, learning resources, and the list of file changes.
WordPress 7.1 Field Guide
Explore the WordPress 7.1 Field Guide. Learn about the changes in this release with detailed developer notes to help you build with WordPress.