Welcome to WordPress 6.4.2
Every version of WordPress empowers your creative freedom, and WordPress 6.4 is no different. New features and upgrades to your site editing, design, and writing experience allow your ideas to take shape seamlessly. Elevate your site-building journey with the flexibility and power of WordPress 6.4.
Say hello to
Twenty Twenty-Four
Experience the latest advancements in site editing with Twenty Twenty-Four. Built with three distinct use cases in mind, the versatility of the new default theme makes it an ideal choice for almost any type of website. Dive into its collection of templates and patterns and unlock a world of creative possibilities with just a few tweaks.
Add a lightbox effect to images
Turn lightbox functionality on for interactive, full-screen images with a simple click. Apply it globally or to specific images to customize the viewing experience.
Categorize and filter patterns
Organize your synced and unsynced patterns with categories. Explore advanced filtering in the Patterns section of the inserter to find them all more intuitively.
Get more done with the Command Palette
Enjoy a refreshed design and more commands to find what you’re looking for, perform tasks efficiently, and save time as you create.
Rename Group blocks
Set custom names for Group blocks to easily organize and differentiate parts of your content. These names will be visible in List View.
Image previews in List View
New media previews for Gallery and Image blocks in List View let you visualize and locate at a glance where images on your content are.
Share patterns across sites
Need to use your custom patterns on another site? It’s simple! Import and export them as JSON files from the Site Editor’s patterns view.
Enjoy new writing improvements
New enhancements ensure your content creation journey is smooth. Find new keyboard shortcuts in List View, refined list merging, and enhanced control over link settings. A revamped and cohesive toolbar experience for Navigation, List, and Quote blocks lets you efficiently work with the tooling options you need.
Build your creative vision with more design tools
Get creative with new background images in Group blocks and ensure consistent image dimensions with placeholder aspect ratios. Do you want to add buttons to your Navigation block? You can now do it conveniently without custom CSS. If you’re working with synced patterns, alignment settings stay intact for a seamless pattern creation experience.
Introducing Block Hooks
Block Hooks is a new powerful feature that enables plugins to auto-insert blocks into content relative to another block. Think of it as recommendations to make your work with blocks more intuitive. A new “Plugins” panel gives you complete control to match them to your needs—add, dismiss, and rearrange Block Hooks as desired.
Performance
WordPress 6.4 includes more than 100 performance updates for a faster and more efficient experience. Enhancements focus on template loading performance for Block Themes and Classic Themes, usage of the script loading strategies “defer” and “async” in core, blocks, and themes, and optimization of autoloaded options.
Accessibility
Every release is committed to making WordPress accessible to everyone. 6.4 brings List View improvements and aria-label support for the Navigation block, among other highlights. The admin user interface (UI) includes enhancements to button placements, “Add New” menu items context, and Site Health spoken messages.
Learn more about WordPress 6.4.2
Learn WordPress is a free resource for new and experienced WordPress users. Learn is stocked with how-to videos on using various features in WordPress, interactive workshops for exploring topics in-depth, and lesson plans for diving deep into specific areas of WordPress.
Explore the WordPress 6.4 Field Guide. Learn about the changes in this release with detailed developer notes to help you build with WordPress.
Read the WordPress 6.4 Release Notes for information on installation, enhancements, fixed issues, release contributors, learning resources, and the list of file changes.
WordPress 6.4.2
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Maintenance and Security Releases
Version 6.4.1 addressed 4 bugs. For more information, see the release notes.
Version 6.4.2 addressed a security issue and fixed 7 bugs. For more information, see the release notes.
Welcome to WordPress 6.4.2
Every version of WordPress empowers your creative freedom, and WordPress 6.4 is no different. New features and upgrades to your site editing, design, and writing experience allow your ideas to take shape seamlessly. Elevate your site-building journey with the flexibility and power of WordPress 6.4.
Say hello to
Twenty Twenty-Four
Experience the latest advancements in site editing with Twenty Twenty-Four. Built with three distinct use cases in mind, the versatility of the new default theme makes it an ideal choice for almost any type of website. Dive into its collection of templates and patterns and unlock a world of creative possibilities with just a few tweaks.
Add a lightbox effect to images
Turn lightbox functionality on for interactive, full-screen images with a simple click. Apply it globally or to specific images to customize the viewing experience.
Categorize and filter patterns
Organize your synced and unsynced patterns with categories. Explore advanced filtering in the Patterns section of the inserter to find them all more intuitively.
Get more done with the Command Palette
Enjoy a refreshed design and more commands to find what you’re looking for, perform tasks efficiently, and save time as you create.
Rename Group blocks
Set custom names for Group blocks to easily organize and differentiate parts of your content. These names will be visible in List View.
Image previews in List View
New media previews for Gallery and Image blocks in List View let you visualize and locate at a glance where images on your content are.
Share patterns across sites
Need to use your custom patterns on another site? It’s simple! Import and export them as JSON files from the Site Editor’s patterns view.
Enjoy new writing improvements
New enhancements ensure your content creation journey is smooth. Find new keyboard shortcuts in List View, refined list merging, and enhanced control over link settings. A revamped and cohesive toolbar experience for Navigation, List, and Quote blocks lets you efficiently work with the tooling options you need.
Build your creative vision with more design tools
Get creative with new background images in Group blocks and ensure consistent image dimensions with placeholder aspect ratios. Do you want to add buttons to your Navigation block? You can now do it conveniently without custom CSS. If you’re working with synced patterns, alignment settings stay intact for a seamless pattern creation experience.
Introducing Block Hooks
Block Hooks is a new powerful feature that enables plugins to auto-insert blocks into content relative to another block. Think of it as recommendations to make your work with blocks more intuitive. A new “Plugins” panel gives you complete control to match them to your needs—add, dismiss, and rearrange Block Hooks as desired.
Performance
WordPress 6.4 includes more than 100 performance updates for a faster and more efficient experience. Enhancements focus on template loading performance for Block Themes and Classic Themes, usage of the script loading strategies “defer” and “async” in core, blocks, and themes, and optimization of autoloaded options.
Accessibility
Every release is committed to making WordPress accessible to everyone. 6.4 brings List View improvements and aria-label support for the Navigation block, among other highlights. The admin user interface (UI) includes enhancements to button placements, “Add New” menu items context, and Site Health spoken messages.
Learn more about WordPress 6.4.2
Learn WordPress is a free resource for new and experienced WordPress users. Learn is stocked with how-to videos on using various features in WordPress, interactive workshops for exploring topics in-depth, and lesson plans for diving deep into specific areas of WordPress.
Explore the WordPress 6.4 Field Guide. Learn about the changes in this release with detailed developer notes to help you build with WordPress.
Read the WordPress 6.4 Release Notes for information on installation, enhancements, fixed issues, release contributors, learning resources, and the list of file changes.
The Four Freedoms
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WordPress comes with some awesome, worldview-changing rights courtesy of its license, the GPL.
The 1st Freedom
To run the program for any purpose.
The 2nd Freedom
To study how the program works and change it to make it do what you wish.
The 3rd Freedom
To redistribute.
The 4th Freedom
To distribute copies of your modified versions to others.
WordPress grows when people like you tell their friends about it, and the thousands of businesses and services that are built on and around WordPress share that fact with their users. We are flattered every time someone spreads the good word, just make sure to check out our trademark guidelines first.
Every plugin and theme in WordPress.org’s directory is 100% GPL or a similarly free and compatible license, so you can feel safe finding plugins and themes there. If you get a plugin or theme from another source, make sure to ask them if it’s GPL first. If they do not respect the WordPress license, it is not recommended to use them.
Privacy
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From time to time, your WordPress site may send data to WordPress.org — including, but not limited to — the version you are using, and a list of installed plugins and themes.
This data is used to provide general enhancements to WordPress, which includes helping to protect your site by finding and automatically installing new updates. It is also used to calculate statistics, such as those shown on the WordPress.org stats page.
We take privacy and transparency very seriously. To learn more about what data we collect, and how we use it, please visit our Privacy Policy.
Get Involved
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Do you use WordPress for work, for personal projects, or even just for fun? You can help shape the long-term success of the open source project that powers millions of websites around the world.
Join the diverse WordPress contributor community and connect with other people who are passionate about maintaining a free and open web.
- Be part of a global open source community.
- Apply your skills or learn new ones.
- Grow your network and make friends.
No-code contribution
WordPress may thrive on technical contributions, but you don’t have to code to contribute. Here are some of the ways you can make an impact without writing a single line of code:
- Share your knowledge in the WordPress support forums.
- Write or improve documentation for WordPress.
- Translate WordPress into your local language.
- Create and improve WordPress educational materials.
- Promote the WordPress project to your community.
- Curate submissions or take photos for the Photo Directory.
- Organize or participate in local Meetups and WordCamps.
- Lend your creative imagination to the WordPress UI design.
- Edit videos and add captions to WordPress.tv.
- Explore ways to reduce the environmental impact of websites.
Code-based contribution
If you do code, or want to learn how, you can contribute technically in numerous ways:
- Find and report bugs in the WordPress core software.
- Test new releases and proposed features for the Block Editor.
- Write and submit patches to fix bugs or help build new features.
- Contribute to the code, improve the UX, and test the WordPress app.
WordPress embraces new technologies, while being committed to backward compatibility. The WordPress project uses the following languages and libraries:
- WordPress Core and Block Editor: HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, and React.
- WordPress app: Kotlin, Java, Swift, Objective-C, Vue, Python, and TypeScript.
Shape the future of the web with WordPress
Finding the area that aligns with your skills and interests is the first step toward meaningful contribution. With more than 20 Make WordPress teams working on different parts of the open source WordPress project, there’s a place for everyone, no matter what your skill set is.
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