WordPress 6.5 – New features highlight

IMPORTANT UPDATE: the Partially Synced Patterns feature has been delayed and pushed to the WordPress 6.6 release.

Here you can find the WP Tavern blog post on WordPress 6.5 Beta 2 if you want to dive deeper and access the free testing environment as I show at the beginning of the video.

Main features coming to WordPress 6.5

• Background image in the Group block
• Cover block: default overlay color, custom aspect ratio
• Box Shadow support for Button, Column and Image blocks
• Rename any block in the list view, improved drag & drop
• Partially Synced Patterns (my favorite new feature, unfortunately delayed to WordPress 6.6)
• Partially Sync Pattern tutorial: let's create one together!
• Site Editor navigation news: pages management
• New Revisions system in Site Editor Styles
• Example website: interactivity API (opens up new possibilities for developers)
• Font management system has arrived in the Site Editor!