Ready for WordPress 6.7? The most important features

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With WordPress 6.7, a new version is in the starting blocks – and with it some features that will make developers and website operators sit up and take notice.

Twenty Twenty-Five will be a new standard theme, which is especially designed for blogs and news sites and brings a breath of fresh air to the design. The new "Zoom Out" mode in the editor is also interesting for those who often create extensive pages and posts. But that's not all: This version offers numerous other improvements that can optimize your work with WordPress. In this article, we'll look at the most exciting new features - WordPress 6.7 will be released on November 12th.

New default theme “Twenty Twenty-Five”
It has become a long-running tradition that WordPress introduces a new linkedin database default theme with the New Year. It is intended to highlight the latest features and improvements in WordPress, among other things. It is also a showcase of how the WordPress team envisions a modern theme.

In a way, Twenty Twenty-Five goes back to the roots, because it is clearly intended as a theme for a blog. The predecessors were more universal and showed that WordPress can be used for many types of websites. But WordPress originated as a blog system. And that is what you can see here.

Twenty Twenty-Five has three basic variants:

Classic blog with the focus on the text.
Photoblog that, among other things, particularly highlights the featured images.
A version for “complex content” that is reminiscent of a news website.
But that's not all: The team provides numerous patterns as design elements for various purposes. These include building blocks for landing pages, "About us" pages, call to actions, events and more. Anyone who installs this theme will therefore receive many useful templates straight away.

Last but not least, it offers you a wide selection of color combinations and fonts that you can select with one click. The team has chosen the fonts with particular care: they should also elegantly represent languages ​​that do not use the Latin alphabet. This fits in with the topic of internationalization: WordPress should be better prepared for global use in the future than before. According to the official roadmap, "Multilingual" is the fourth and final phase of the Gutenberg project - right after the current topic of "Collaboration". The preparatory work for this is already underway, as we will see below. But more on that later.

As beautiful as Twenty Twenty-Five is, the comments on the official post question why WordPress continues to introduce a new theme every year. The basic idea behind Full Site Editing (FSE) is that all parts of the website can now be freely customized, provided you use a block theme. An alternative would therefore be to provide a universal FSE theme that can be customized for the latest features and updates as needed. The design team did not respond to this.