WordPress 6.4: An In-Depth Overview of New Features, Improvements, and the Default Theme

Many people are excited and looking forward to trying out the new features of WordPress 6.4 as soon as it comes out. From making the writing tools easier to use to improving security, every part of WordPress has been carefully tweaked to smooth the user experience.

Join us as we closely examine the update's best features and talk about how they can help your website reach new heights in a digital world that is always changing.

WordPress 6.4 features.

Some new things have been added to WordPress 6.4 as well. We'll look at these next.

Font library

The main goal of the new font library is to make it easier to add and use fonts on a website. It also has places where apps can be added. The font library will be available to all users, no matter what theme is currently running.

This will ensure that every website owner can pick the exact fonts they need for their page. The font library will work like the media library already built into WordPress.

Template Revisions

People are working on making websites look better in several styles. They want to ensure that everyone who changes their design can take those changes back, no matter where they made them. It's now much easier to add to and remove from the website.

New blocks.

After you update to WordPress 6.4, you should be able to use three new blocks:

• Block for "Table of Contents"

• Block that says "Time to read."

• Marquee Block That Scrolls

Automatic insertion of blocks

There is now an option to automatically put blocks in the right place, which makes it even easier to use. For example, if you are making a website page, you might get a message telling you to add a login or logout button. Over time, the exact reasoning behind these suggestions will be worked out.

WordPress 6.4 has new and better features.

One of the most well-known content management systems is WordPress. But just because functions have been added in previous updates doesn't mean they are perfect. So, with WordPress 6.4, some changes are made to features that were already there to make them even better.

Writing is easier

WordPress 6.4 should make writing text in WordPress even easier, like blog posts or new pages. The things you use should not get in the way of your creativity.

You can quickly change your texts into what you want them to be with the help of different choices and tools, like toolbars and link control. You should be able to focus on your ideas more after the update instead of fixing bugs.

More efficient work

Website owners use many different tools daily to make posts and pages. The following tools, among others, will be better because of the changes:

• The list of blocks will be better put together: Users should soon be able to resize and copy blocks quickly, name whole groups of blocks, and see images in gallery blocks.

• There are now better distraction-free modes, so you can focus on writing more.

Improvement of the design tools

Developers are adding more features to the design tools for more complex designs. This could mean making small changes to certain parts of the design, like letting users add pictures to the background of the group area. Bigger changes, like adding predefined spacing sets to "theme.json."

Changes to the pattern

Besides adding the option to make patterns or themes while editing, WordPress 6.4 will also include more advanced features and several other improvements:

• Add categories

• Make it work better with themes that aren't based on blocks

• The sample page's empty sections are being worked on even more.

Footnotes

The reference block was added in WordPress 6.3, and the new update will make it even better:

• Easier to add font, size and border for the block

• It's easier to add text, background, and links.

• Making sure that the outcome works with special post types as well

Ability to import and export patterns.

Importing and exporting themes in WordPress as JSON files is now possible. There is a + sign next to the pattern library. To add a pattern, click on it and then choose "Import pattern from JSON."

If you want to move the patterns you've made to a different website, click on the three dots next to each one and choose "Export as JSON."

Changes to the command menu

In WordPress 6.4, the Command Palette gets some updates that improve it. The changes from the last version include a new look and some new functions.

The picture below makes it easy to see how the Command Palette looks different in WordPress 6.4. There is a new search icon, and the words and icons have been changed to be easier to see.

As part of the other updates, you can show or hide breadcrumbs, explore in a new tab, and do other things.

Brand-new block hook feature

This block hook feature is better than the auto-inserting block feature with Gutenberg version 16.4. This function is very helpful for developers, and with the blocks API, the right blocks can be put together, called up, and placed automatically in the right place.

Improvements to the toolbar

This is a small but important change that not everyone will notice right away. The new toolbar is in the quote, list, and menu blocks. A unique feature in WordPress 6.4 is that the toolbars of these blocks stay in the same place for both the main text block and the secondary cite block. This makes things a lot better for the person.

New link teasers that open in a new tab

With this feature, the website administrator can choose whether a link should open in a new or current tab. Most people would rather open the links in a new tab than close the current one and then open it again. If you check the box, the link will open in a new tab for readers.

The list view gets better.

Many changes and additions have been made to the list view in WordPress 6.4. Users can now change the names of group blocks in the list view, making things run more smoothly. In the list view, click on the three dots next to the group block, and then click on Name Change.

The list view now has image previews, another change that stands out.

Additionally, you can make copies of blocks in the list view by pressing ctrl+shift+d (Windows) or cmd+shift+d (Mac).

Query loop improvements to pagination

You can now set the number of pages shown to readers in the query loop pagination. The settings can be found in the settings panel for the page numbers block. The number of links will be shown.

That is helpful if you have a lot of blog posts and want people to switch between pages quickly.

The next change will be the client-side scrolling for the query loop block. The query information is retrieved on the client side when the server loads. So, when people move to a different page within the query loop block, the browser doesn't have to reload the page. This makes viewing faster and better.

Select the query loop block in the editor, open its settings panel, and turn off the Force page reload option. This will allow client-side browsing.

The new standard theme is Twenty-Four.

The main idea behind the new Twenty Twenty-Four default theme is to make a design that can be used on a wide range of websites, no matter what they are about.

This year, instead of focusing on a single theme like last year, the developers worked on three different use cases: one for business people and small businesses, one for photographers and artists, and one for magazines and blogs.

Twenty Twenty-Four was made with current design trends in mind. A fancy font is used for headings in this theme, while a simple font is used for writing. The design is mostly light colours, but there is also a darker choice for those who would rather have that. Also, you can pick from two other fonts: a light one and a dark one.

Twenty Twenty-Four is a WordPress block theme, just like the ones that came before it. It works great with all the tools you can use to make websites. For design, it adds the "Details Block" and the ability to order text vertically, among other things. One great thing about this theme is that it comes with full-page styles and patterns.

This means you don't have to start from scratch when making your website; you can use parts already made. Most of the time, this makes your process easier and clearer.

Conclusion

WordPress 6.4 has many cool new features and changes that will improve the experience for everyone, from new users to experts. With the updated block editor, better accessibility choices, and speed improvements, this update makes WordPress an even more reliable and innovative way to build websites. The new default style also gives WordPress websites a fresh, modern look.

WordPress 6.4 has some new features.WordPress 6.4 has some new features.