At the end of May 2022, WordPress launched the second major release of the year: WordPress 6.0. Consistent with their pattern of naming important updates to the platform after influential Jazz musicians, WordPress 6.0 has been dubbed Arturo after legendary, Grammy-winning artist Arturo O’Farrill. This release should come as exciting news to digital agencies as it brings with it nearly 1000 changes, improvements and bug fixes. These updates for the platform are all geared at enhancing the flexibility and highly customisable model for content creation WordPress is known for.
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The Entire Look And Feel Of A Page Can Be Changed Within Seconds
Arturo will completely change the way digital agencies are able to make changes to their customer’s websites. It’s possible to switch between styles effortlessly, which will allow digital agencies to quickly present their clients with several options for their websites without too much more effort. With several design tool additions, integrated patterns and more, digital agencies can create, alter and update their clients’ websites faster and more efficiently than ever. Some of these new additions include:
- Integrated patterns in more places
- A new colour panel design
- Transparency adjustments for colours
- Easier and more flexible switching through rows, stacks and group variations
- More options to customise templates and new options for block themes
Digital Agencies Should Expect An Improved Writing Experience
WordPress 6.0 brings many enhancements to the writing process. These improvements stretch over all types of content, from new pages for your clients’ websites to adding posts to their blogs to adding new elements to existing pages. Digital agencies can expect a more streamlined content creation experience with improvements such as:
- Easier copying and pasting by selecting text over multiple blocks
- Accessing a list of recent posts by typing two brackets [ [
- The ability to create customised buttons and retain that button’s style for any new buttons added
Digital Agencies Can Expect Enhanced Performance From WordPress 6.0
Overall, digital agencies will benefit from several performance updates that will change the way they experience the platform. Many of the optimisations Arturo brings will result in improved performance for digital agencies and developers as well as visitors to the websites they create. Many of the updates Arturo brings have been focused on improving important technical aspects, including:
- Improved page loading speed
- Better caching
- Reduced query execution time
- Optimised navigation menus
- Better post-load page speeds
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