WordPress 6.6 Update

An extremely large white WordPress logo in front of a wall with street art. The number 6.6 indicates the update.

A new WordPress update is available: 6.6. The update includes a block editor feature that displays fonts and a color palette at the theme level. So don’t change themes or those settings will go away. Also, a new page quick-view option in the site-editor. Note – the Altimeter theme does not have support for either of these two features as it is a Gutenberg WordPress update. Gutenberg is an option if enabled with Altimeter, but comes disabled out of the box. Another update is the plugin update rollback. I, personally, do not enable plugin auto-updates, but to each their own and I think this is a great idea. Especially if a plugin pushes code (unintentionally, we’ve all been there) that has a nasty bug that will shut down both the front and back end. See notes below for a fix to that scenerio. Lastly, there are some performance tweaks to include a 33% speed increase in loading the template in the editor. I’m not sure if that applies to Altimeter sites, but it sounds good. Full details here. and documentation here.

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