Last week, Knowledge Commons upgraded our WordPress instance to version 6.8.1. This update brings a range of exciting new features and enhancements that offer a smoother, more powerful experience to user sites. Below, you’ll find a selection of the latest tools and options you can start using on your site. For more details, be sure to check out our guides.
We’ve also added two fresh themes to the Commons — Twenty Twenty-Four and Twenty Twenty-Five are now available for you to explore and customize. Happy designing!
WP 6.3 https://wordpress.org/download/releases/6-3/
- First release to consolidate the theme, template and page editor into the modern interface
- Command palette
- Synced Patterns
- Details block (accordions)
- Footnotes block
- Image aspect ratios
WP 6.4 https://wordpress.org/download/releases/6-4/
- Twenty Twenty-Four theme
- Built in Lightbox for image embiggening
- Pattern importer/exporter
WP 6.5 https://wordpress.org/download/releases/6-5/
- Font Library (easily upload and add custom fonts to any block theme)
- Lots of block editor design improvements, edit complex CSS using simple visual tools
- Many WCAG compliance improvements (continues through 6.7)
- Block Binding API
WP 6.6 https://wordpress.org/download/releases/6-6/
- First release with the new Pages List data view (will eventually replace the “All Pages” view in the dashboard but not until at least 2026)
- Synced Pattern Overrides
- Negative margin support in editor controls
- Grid block
WP 6.7 https://wordpress.org/download/releases/6-7/
- Twenty Twenty-Five theme
- Zoom out view in the editor (see the whole template, not just your content, when editing)
- UI for using Block Binding controls
- Query Loop block improvements
- Global site background image support
WP 6.8 https://wordpress.org/download/releases/6-8/
- Improved Style Book
- Many backend performance improvements