WordPress 6.5

Font Library

Add and manage fonts directly in the Site Editor with the new WordPress Font Library. You can now install fonts to your site from Google Fonts, while developers can also integrate other third-party font collections.

Block Bindings

Create dynamic connections between block attributes and external data sources with the Block Bindings API, enabling more interactive, personalized, and adaptable content, as changes at those sources reflect in blocks.

Note, it’s code-only for now.

Interactivity API

Add interactions to blocks on the frontend of a site, with the Interactivity API—a new standard for sharing data, actions, and callbacks between blocks.

An example is an Add to cart block communicating the user’s intent to add an item to a Cart block, to update its contents count. And when clicking that Cart block, a flyout renders with all your updated cart contents in it.

Data Views

WordPress 6.5 introduces a new method for rendering data throughout WordPress with Data Views, starting with the templates, patterns and pages within the Site Editor.

And soon you’ll be able to create custom views—much like in Notion and Airtable—with data in WordPress.

Refreshed link control

A refreshed link editing experience that prioritizes usability, along with a slimmer profile, and a new “Copy link” control.

Revisions for templates and template parts

Design confidently with a detailed history of site changes for templates, template parts, and global styles.

List View enhancements

A new drag-and-drop experience that offers enhanced visualization and item displacement, streamlining your workflow more effectively than ever. Also, quickly access a block’s options menu with new right-click support.

Extended background controls

Pick a focal point for background images, or add a seamless repeatable pattern for an interesting tiled background effect.

Rename all blocks

Rename all blocks, not just Group blocks, throughout your website for easier organization of your content.

Add shadow presets and effects

Curate shadow presets within a theme, just like you do for colors, duotone filters and gradients. Then apply those shadows to blocks throughout your website.

Site Icon in General Settings

You can now update your site icon within General Settings.

Support for allowedBlocks

Block developers can now specify which block types can be inserted within a parent block, using allowedBlocks.

It can be filtered to extend core blocks, like the WordPress Navigation block, with any third-party blocks.

Plugin Dependencies

Plugin dependencies are now part of WordPress, making the process of installing and activating plugins that require other plugins consistent and intuitive.

Performance

Input processing is now five times quicker, while both the Site and Post Editor load times have been reduced by more than half, accelerating the editing experience across WordPress. Also, the i18n improvements in WordPress 6.5 focus on making translations more performant than ever, speeding up load times for multilingual websites and blogs.