How WordPress 6.7 Enhances Block Editor Customisation

January 17, 2025 / WordPress

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WordPress 6.7 sees the platform build on previous efforts to add new features and improvements that extend the block editor’s customisation capabilities. In this post, we look at how the latest update makes designing, managing and customising your website easier and more flexible.

A new theme – Twenty Twenty-Five

While the block editor enables you to customise a theme, customisation options are greater with the newer block themes. WordPress 6.7 sees the introduction of the latest block theme, Twenty Twenty-Five. Combining versatility with simplicity, this theme comes with a broad choice of patterns and templates that let you create a wide range of unique websites with less effort.

Expanded block customisation options

The new block styling options in WordPress 6.7 give you greater choice over a block’s borders, backgrounds and shadows, as well as the spacing across blocks – all without having to write additional code or use a plugin.

For instance, you can now use shadow effects on the group block and add a background image to a content block. There are also border and padding options when customising paragraph, heading and button blocks. These updates simplify the process of creating a unique visual style without needing to write custom code.

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Zoom Out for clearer editing

The new Zoom Out feature makes it much easier to manage and edit layouts by letting you view the page from a high level. This at-a-distance view lets you adjust sections and block arrangements quickly, simply using drag and drop. There’s also a shuffle feature that will automatically move elements around for you to experiment with.

Query Loop Block improvements

A useful tool for displaying content automatically, the Query Loop Block has seen a number of enhancements. New Default and Custom modes enable you to use either default template settings or create custom configurations where content is displayed based on different criteria, like category, tag or date. At the same time, the Query Loop Block has a clearer layout in the settings sidebar, there’s a post format filter for customised display and a quick preview for when you add a block from the inserter.

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Enhanced font management

WordPress 6.7 has made font management more intuitive, with users now able to create, edit and delete custom font size presets from within the Global Styles section. What’s more, you can apply these presets across your site to ensure consistency with your brand’s requirements. The update also lets you customise font names and sizes and introduces fluid scaling, a feature that automatically adjusts font sizes based on a visitor’s screen dimensions.

To make it easier to manage active fonts, they are now grouped by their source, such as those which come with the theme or Google Fonts. Additionally, the new ‘Select All’ option enables you to activate or deactivate fonts in bulk.

Personalised Data Views

The Data Views feature of the WordPress Site Editor is the control room of the platform’s design capabilities; it’s the place where users can access an overview of their pages, templates and reusable design elements. Located in one place, it makes it much easier to access and edit each of these components.

In WordPress 6.7, Data Views has received several upgrades designed to improve the navigation and management of pages, templates and patterns. At the same time, site organisation has been streamlined by providing quicker access to components and reducing the time it takes to carry out multiple actions. These improvements include:

  • Grid layout preview size: This lets you choose from a range of different view sizes to give you a clearer and more personalised oversight of the components you need.
  • Customisable columns: You can now customise the order in which columns are arranged based on your priorities.
  • Undertake bulk actions: You can now select multiple items on which to perform bulk actions.

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Developer features

With WordPress widely used by developers, it is no surprise that version 6.7 includes several changes that have been designed to improve customisation and workflow. These include:

  • Block Bindings improvements: The introduction of an updated Block Bindings interface enables developers to connect block attributes to custom field data directly within the block editor, making it simpler to manage dynamic content.
  • Template Registration API: APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are important tools and protocols that allow WordPress to communicate effectively with other software, such as third-party apps and plugins. The Template Registration API makes it easier for developers to register custom block templates within plugins and set the default content for custom post types and taxonomies.
  • Data Views API: This feature enables developers to register and unregister Data Views actions. This allows them to create data displays within projects without manual configuration, helping them produce custom workflows and manage tasks more effectively.

Conclusion

Since the introduction of the block editor in 2018, WordPress has made considerable progress in allowing users to create pages and content using drag-and-drop and customisable blocks. Version 6.7 continues this trend, providing website owners and developers with a range of new features that offer greater flexibility and control over website design, together with the introduction of a new, more versatile, block theme.

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