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WordPress Gutenberg 15.6 is Here with Details Block, Spacer Block Presets, Style Variations in Site Editor and much more

WordPress Gutenberg 15.6 is Here with Details Block, Spacer Block Presets, Style Variations in Site Editor and much more

Ahoy! People of WordPress. Gutenberg 15.6 released on 19 April, 2023. This version comes packed with important enhancements and plenty of bug fixes. 112 pull requests closed in git, authored by 45 contributors. Kudos 🍻 to them once again once again and the whole community for constantly improving the block editor.

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WordPress Gutenberg 15.5 is Here with Patterns as Template Starters, Experimental Grid Layout, and much more

WordPress Gutenberg 15.5 is Here with Patterns as Template Starters, Experimental Grid Layout, and much more

WordPress Gutenberg 15.5 released on 5 April 2023. The previous release (Gutenberg 15.4) had a heavy focus on bug fixes, this version focuses on user-facing features to improve the content creation experience. Let’s unbox those features one by one in detail:

Major highlights

Patterns as template starters

Gutenberg 14.9 introduced Template […]

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The Major Release of 2023: WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy” is Here!

The Major Release of 2023: WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy” is Here!

You will be able to customize blocks more quickly than ever before with WordPress, either globally or individually.

Introducing WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy”! Significant performance improvements, a brand-new distraction-free writing mode, a revamped navigation block, a plethora of interface improvements, and other developer-friendly features.

With the latest release of WordPress, it’s a festival with

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WordPress Gutenberg 15.4 is Here with Color Support for Cover Block, Updated Template Descriptions, and much more

WordPress Gutenberg 15.4 is Here with Color Support for Cover Block, Updated Template Descriptions, and much more

WordPress Gutenberg 15.4 released on 22 March 2023. This release is different from previous releases, this version has small changes to the user-facing features and focuses heavily on bug fixes, testing, and other improvements. 

But still, there are some features introduced in this version that I would like to highlight – turning paragraphs into columns, […]

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WordPress Gutenberg 15.3 is Here with Site Editor Improvements, Time to Read block, and much more

WordPress Gutenberg 15.3 is Here with Site Editor Improvements, Time to Read block, and much more

WordPress Gutenberg 15.3 released on 13th March, 2023.

This version comes with various improvements that enhance the site editing experience. Additionally, a new block “Time to read” has been added, which enables the users to estimate the time it takes to read the post. This version also brings several enhancements to the Duotone design tool.

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WordPress Gutenberg 15.2 is Here with Template Revisions, Accessibility Improvements and much more

WordPress Gutenberg 15.2 is Here with Template Revisions, Accessibility Improvements and much more

Gutenberg 15.2 released on February 22, 2023, and is available for download. If you have ever struggled with template editing, the struggle comes to an end with this version.

From intuitive controls to accessibility improvements, this update covers every corner of user requirements.

Major Highlights

Edit templates and template parts fearlessly with […]

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WordPress Gutenberg 15.1: Openverse integration in the Inserter menu, Shadow presets, and much more!

WordPress Gutenberg 15.1: Openverse integration in the Inserter menu, Shadow presets, and much more!

Gutenberg 15.1 released on 8 February 2023 on WordPress. This release integrates the Openverse to the media inserter, brings new shadow effect presets to Global Styles, ability to add custom CSS for single blocks, ‘paste style’ option, featured image resizing options, and much more.

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Openverse Integrates with Media inserter

Openverse […]

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Gutenberg 15.0 is Here with List view for Navigation block, Sticky image position block, and much more

Gutenberg 15.0 is Here with List view for Navigation block, Sticky image position block, and much more

WordPress Gutenberg 15.0 is here, with 28 enhancements and 16 bug fixes. This version released on 18 January 2023. This release stabilizes the block inspector tabs, preventing images from being resized over the containing element, “sticky” option for blocks, and much more.

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Added stability to Block inspector tabs

This version added […]

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WordPress Gutenberg 14.9 brings Push Block Changes to Global Styles, Typography Support to Page list block and much more

WordPress Gutenberg 14.9 brings Push Block Changes to Global Styles, Typography Support to Page list block and much more

It’s here! WordPress Gutenberg 14.9 with 19 enhancements and 26 bug fixes. This update wouldn’t have been possible without an amazing team of 44 contributors, including five first timers. 

The previous version Gutenberg 14.8 introduced us to a new and reorganized Site editor interface, style book, ability to add custom CSS for your site, […]

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WordPress Gutenberg 14.7 is Here with Quickly Identifiable Template parts, Reusable Blocks by color and more

WordPress Gutenberg 14.7 is Here with Quickly Identifiable Template parts, Reusable Blocks by color and more

Is this the last Gutenberg update of this year? It might be.

Keep guessing 🤔, while I quickly explain the features present in this version of Gutenberg.

WordPress Gutenberg 14.7 released on December 10, 2022. This version introduces a new experimental tabbed sidebar, colors to help identify some block types in list view, improvements to […]

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