WordPress 7.0
Welcome to WordPress 7.0
WordPress 7.0 introduces the foundation for AI across the platform, letting you connect your preferred provider and put it to work across your site. Edit more simply by dropping in layouts and swapping content without diving into blocks. The navigation overlay now taps into the full potential of blocks, and reviewing historical changes is easier with a visual comparison.
Design your navigation overlay
A dedicated canvas for your menu.
Build the menu overlay you want visitors to see. Go beyond a simple list of links: add columns, increase the font size, and align everything to your liking. Start from a pre-built template, or design your own from scratch.
AI foundations
A centralized hub for your connections.
The Connectors screen introduces a single hub for managing a range of external service integrations, including AI providers. Opt in by connecting your preferred AI provider, then put it to work across your site. The optional AI plugin adds a growing set of tools directly into the editor: create titles and excerpts, generate and edit images, and suggest alt text. Any plugin that needs to connect to an outside service can tap into this standardized connection management system, making it easy for users and developers alike.
Visual revisions
Scrub through every version of your page.
Review your post’s revision history with a timeline slider and see exactly what changed in the document with visual markers, block by block. Find the version you want and restore it in one click.
A simpler way to build with patterns
Patterns as single blocks.
Drop a pattern onto your page and it behaves like one block, so you don’t have to hunt through nested blocks for the element you want to change. Swap the text and images, adjust styles from the inspector, and keep moving. For any advanced edits, a single click to "edit pattern" gives you access to all available tools.
Performance
WordPress 7.0 improves the accuracy of image loading prioritization, preventing hidden images in navigation overlays or interactive blocks from degrading the loading of critical resources. On-demand block stylesheet loading in classic themes is more reliable, and the ability is added for scripts to depend on script modules to reduce render-blocking.
Accessibility
WordPress continues to polish accessibility across WordPress Core and Gutenberg, advancing the goals to meet accessibility standards. WordPress 7.0 includes fixes across the platform, improving media management, usability for voice control, and improvements to color contrast with the new admin color scheme. The editor ships with new blocks and improvements to editor navigation and interaction.
And much more
For a comprehensive overview of all the new features and enhancements in WordPress 7.0, please visit the feature-showcase website.
Learn more about WordPress 7.0
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WordPress 7.0 Release Notes
Read the WordPress 7.0 Release Notes for information on installation, enhancements, fixed issues, release contributors, learning resources, and the list of file changes.
WordPress 7.0 Field Guide
Explore the WordPress 7.0 Field Guide. Learn about the changes in this release with detailed developer notes to help you build with WordPress.