Say hello to more and better with WordPress 5.4

Every major WordPress release adds more to the block editor.

More ways to make posts and pages come alive with your best images. More ways to bring your visitors in, and keep them engaged, with the richness of embedded media from the web’s top services.

More ways to make your vision real, and put blocks in the perfect place – even if a particular kind of block is new to you. More efficient processes.

And more speed everywhere, so, as you build sections or galleries, or just type in a line of prose, you can feel how much faster your workflows.

Two new blocks. And better blocks overall.

• Two brand new blocks: Social Icons and Buttons make adding interactive features fast and easy.
• New ways with colour: gradients in the Buttons and Cover block, toolbar access to colour options in Rich Text blocks, and for the first time, colour options in the Group and Columns blocks.
• Guess a whole lot less! Version 5.4 streamlines the whole process for placing and replacing multimedia in every block. Now it works the same way in almost every block!
• And, if you’ve ever thought your image in the Media+Text block should link to something else – perhaps a picture of a brochure should download that brochure as a document? Well, now it can.

Cleaner UI, clearer navigation – and easier tabbing!

• Clearer block navigation with block breadcrumbs. And easier selection once you get there.
• For when you need to navigate with the keyboard, better tabbing and focus. Plus, you can tab over to the sidebar of nearly any block.
• Speed! 14% faster loading of the editor, 51% faster time-to-type!
• Tips are gone. In their place, a Welcome Guide window you can bring up when you need it – and only when you need it – again and again.
• Know at a glance whether you’re in a block’s Edit or Navigation mode. Or, if you have restricted vision, your screen reader will tell you which mode you’re in.

Of course, if you want to work with the very latest tools and features, install the Gutenberg plugin. You’ll get to be the first to use new and exciting features in the block editor, before anyone else has seen them!