Huge WordPress 6.1 Update Coming - Big Changes, Get Prepared Now
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- WordPress 6.1 will be released next month, and it comes with some pretty big changes! In this video, I go over the biggest changes in WordPress 6.1 and how they'll affect you.
Table Of Contents
00:00 - Huge Update
00:44 - 2023 Theme
01:28 - Fluid Topography & Spacing
01:52 - Block Editor Changes
04:17 - Full Site Editing
07:02 - Interface Changes
11:09 - Big Performance Improvements
13:18 - My FSE Prediction
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What I would love to see is collaboration feature where two or more individuals can work simultaneously on a single page together.
Thanks, Adam for sharing. Your time & tutorials are always appreciated.
Great video! I really hope your are right about full editing.
It's really coming along nicely. I do hope they put more emphasis on the experience itself.
5:12 Being able to create a template easily for custom post types is what I've been waiting for. Absolutely amazing!!
Yup, glad to see it here. This is why I think people will start adopting the big G, slowly but surely.
thank you for this great explanation! I didn't even know WP was having a new release until last week when my website disappeared and had to ask help at my website provider! Looking forward to the improved editor!! it will be so much fun to create new things!
Excellent video!!! I love change!!! Really looking forward to this! 😃
Once again, a great informative video, full of good content! Thank you Adam for being such a good professional... greetings from Greece!
Thank you. And I am headed your way this summer for the WordCamp in Athens.
Always awesome content man! Cheers, I’m the guy who meet you in Porto at Wordpress that I was not in the event 😂
Legend! That was literally the coolest thing ever. It was great meeting and so random, it was amazing.
Very useful. Thanks.
I appreciate that you always give clear explanations in your videos. Thanks!
WordPress 6.1 sounds really good. I'm wondering how it will change things those of us developers using page builders on our clients' websites. I've been using Beaver Builder with PowerPack for BB and/or Ultimate Addons for BB. Will those become obsolete? What will be easier for clients when I turn sites over to them to update and maintain?
Excellent content!
A very good summary, thank you so much! ❤️
Thank you Nico
Great summary, thank you Adam !
Thanks for showing what WP 6.1 is going to be like. I wish the WP query had something like a query set handle and similar to a database application you would be able to have more than one query set at the same time. For example, you have a query set handle for products and a second queryset handle for the reviews of the current product. You could then loop through the product and then do a query for the reviews on that product, while the product query set still remains in the cache.
There's a Query block. You can run multiple queries on a page without worrying about reset_postdata. You can build custom blocks that extend it for custom templating or even use server-rendered blocks if you really need to do something complicated (hit a 3rd party API for some info and then make a WP Query etc.)
Adam, thanks for this. Do you consult on the side? I need some SEO guidance... I don't live too far away from L.A.
very helpful bro
Thanks.
Your Cartflows link doesn't auto apply the 20% discount?
The new cache check in site health doesn't detect litespeed page cache at the moment, although the plugin authors have said a fix will be in the cache's next version to be compatible with it. Also the object cache recommendation seems like its overkill. This is reserved for high end hosting and I think is the exception rather than the rule, right?
Will be interesting to see how the custom post type templates work.
It will work the same as the current implementation for blog posts. There are many default blocks for dynamic content.
hello Sir ! i have a question please : i want to know how to add a testemonial page to my website ;; thank you
Great review. Having recently moved all my sites over from a pagebuilder (Enfold) to Gutenberg, I'm much more engaged with the improvements to the block editor being rolled out. Roll on the roll-out of 6.1.
Hey Damian - I guess you meant theme instead of page builder, right? Enfold is not a page builder! So in fact you still can use Enfold but using Gutenberg to work with it.
Hey. Yes, Enfold is a theme, but I guess you would call it a hybrid theme as it has a pagebuilder built in - the Advanced Layout Editor. You can use the block editor, but that's more for compatibility than design.
Can you make a video about the increase in performance of a store running on Woocommerce 7 vs 7.1 (High performance order storage)
I guess I ended with the new WP when I started work on my site. I did not use the old theme as it will not be an ecommerce site(it's a sister site to an Etsy buiz) When I opened it my first thought is what the H*ll have they done to WP?. Took an evening to plow through and get anything done (upgrading php versions to latest also through a major curve as I was using Elementor Pro and it screwed up my main url site....I did find some things were interestting but really missed being able to do the things like I used to do and really would like to get back to that point but not sure how to get the old editor back. (not sure what was chosen to get the new editor)
For me, the main improvement would be if the left and right control panels could optionally float so that the editing area could remain full width. If there was a hamburger icon in the top left and right corners to toggle the panel float function, then it would be easy to view the areas under the panels that would otherwise be hidden... aside from being able to drag these menu panels and pin them somewhere else. If the editing area could remain full width, then we could have a truly WYSIWYG editing experience without the dumb preview experience.
Yup, this is a good idea and something that drives me crazy too. Its the constant shifting of the layout when a panel is opened. And having 2 panels that shift layouts is a bit much.
Years ago I used Microsoft Publisher. With Publisher (to the best of my recollection) you could right click on an area of the page, choose from a menu of what you wanted to put on the page (image, text, etc.) and literally drag the object where you wanted it on the page. You could also click and drag the edge to resize the object. I wish Wordpress would create a WYSIWYG like that. The reason I remember this so clearly is when they came out with Microsoft Front Page I was like "Why didn't you just make Front Page work like Publisher?"
@@brentmcnutt And decades ago I used an Amiga with a program called PageStream that also allowed to simply click anywhere on the canvas, add any kind of content, and move and resize it in place.
@@brentmcnutt With 90s desktop publishing the output was to a printer. The colour depth of that printer was known, as were the dimensions of the paper onto which the design would be printed. The letter and word spacing and line height was known. Once printed, nothing moved, shifted, rendered incorrectly, relied on a deactivated browser feature, could be subverted by accessibility features, or otherwise failed to work because browser X had a different reading of the specification for a particular CSS or HTML feature you were trying to use.
The reverse is the case for the web and a true WYSIWYG editor is an enormously difficult task to pull off. In the day's of Frontpage the primitive nature of HTML and CSS made the job of a WYSIWYG editor even harder. Microsoft did an amazing job given the limitations they were working with.
Today's builders do an exceptional job, but also have to deal with an explosion in the variety of screen sizes, aspect ratios and colour depths. Browsers and blockers provide users with fine-grained control too, allowing users to change the font, its size, line height, letter spacing, word spacing and even the colour palette. Your desire to impose your design will over the viewer is thwarted at every step! Good luck building a true WYSIWYG editor under those conditions!
Thus, the sort of experience you're looking for hasn't been practical to date, and probably never will be. This is a fact and must be accepted. But once accepted, the limitations of today's best page builders are superseded by the excellent job they do in getting you as close as possible to WYSIWYG.
If you haven't done so already, watch a few reviews of WP page builders, make a short list, and then try out two or three. It's likely one will work better for you, and the time spent mastering it will pay you back in spades.
The WP core block editor complicates matters somewhat. Who knows what the future holds? But there is one situation where the block editor moves to the top of the list: If you're working on a frontend-heavy site that requires a lot of rendering to produce a web page, go for the block editor.
The technology underpinning the block editor shifts the rendering to the browser and frees up server resources. Yes, even in WP 6.1 the block editor is a pig to use. Nevertheless, the rendering speed on a frontend-heavy site makes it worth investing your time in mastering the block editor.
As a bonus, there are now many free libraries of custom blocks and page design elements. There are even tools that allow you to build your own custom blocks. There are also what I think of as design snippets, where you can download predefined designs for specific elements on a page rather than build them yourself. You can even assemble and save groups of blocks that perform some function on the page. It's very flexible once mastered (especially in 6.1), and you can get a LOT of blocks, designs and custom assemblies for free. That situation, along with the usability of the block editor, is likely to improve going forward.
@@user-yg2gw4je8d Thanks so much for the detailed reply. Yes, I have used several of the page builders and have become fond of the block system over the Classic editor. I have exported a group of blocks as you mentioned and imported the group to another entire site. I’m excited in the direction of Wordpress.
There is a loot of odd changes that change your social media icons and everything at first glance gets put in a list. At least on one of my sites
hi buddy.
After site builder should we have to use WordPress default theme or we use the astra or stick with any other theme.
I personally wouldn't use one of the default themes becasue they are just too opinionated for me. I would go with Astra.
I use the Astra Theme!
Can you please post the FSE code for the child theme, and which file it should go into?
What I did was incomplete as you saw it only offered the footer. I would wait for something official. Essentially it was just a custom function and adding a HTML file named footer.html
Can we still have the classic editor?
Awesome
Hello WPCrafter, It is truth that WP 6.1 is a lot More Faster when it come to Website Loading speed?
Yes it certainly is the case. I look forward to testing it after its official release.
Why there is no Table of Content block?
Adam! Thanks for sharing this with us... Wordpress is evolving and providing better tools for everyone out there...
But I am MOST excited about SureCart Pro 💚 along with SureTriggers, SureAI Writer 📝 and the Presto Player "Playlists" 🤩... will all of these be ready by November? 😜
Yes lots of things to look forward to. Things that are right around the corner. The only thing in the list that will not be in November is the Playlists, that is more a December thing.
I can't set up the new 6.2 editor
I select the theme,
Activate it
I create a Home page.
Checking "Read - Static" I choose Home
Checked "Blog".
Editor I choose the main page of the template
Everything is fine, but as soon as the editor closes and the Home page comes out, which clogs the main page of the template.
I'm using Divi. Many features don't apply to me. Am I wrong, or am I missing something?
Oh yea, many interface things are going to be different for all WordPress users. Those were covered in the video.
Will the design changes I make be applied only to the site I'm editing, or will they change every site on the internet? And if it changes everything on the internet, when everyone starts doing it won't it cause the internet to explode?
The design changes you make will only be applied to the website you're editing, so don't worry - your internet won't explode! However, if enough people start making these changes, it's possible that the entire internet could experience some issues. So tread carefully and make sure you have a plan in place for potential glitches or bugs before implementing any major design tweaks! ;)
Finally looks like Gutenberg provides a building experience that is nice and useful!
Template feature feels & functions like oxygen builder template.
So, WordPress team copying features from WP builders/designers now? Curious!
can we have a f@#king "center image" feature without using custom CSS ? you know, basic regular every-day stuff
In other words, Gutenberg is being updated, but still far behind Elementor. Think I have said enough there.
Elementor is not to be compared with Gutenberg. It is to be compared with professional Gutenberg enhancements, viz. GenerateBlocks, Kadence Blocks, Stackable, etc.
Period
I hope they have finally fixed the tag bug, where not all tags show up when using the query loop, that's been around for at least 18 months now. 🙄
Did you report that bug?
@@nicohood It's a known bug.
There are alot of errors with 6.1 - I had to downgrade... It doesn't work with certain elements on Thrive Architect such as tabs, accordion, etc...
How many plugins will get broked by this update???
Not that many 😂
please add a big play button on videos so we don't have to tell people "hey, this below is a video, you gotta click the super small triangle at the bottom"
Will this change, when it evolves, eventually eliminate 'traditional' themes? E.g Kadence, Astra etc.?
They will adapt.
They should just get ideas from Elementor and implement them into every WordPress update. No sweat!
Oh oh! There's something going ooown here 😅
That slider for padding/margin, etc. is atrocious UX. Anyone who wants to use custom units is going to have to click 10000000000 times per build.
🤣
But still i install Classic Editor ;)
can you guys fix the adding a text between two images ? it's annoying as hell
It would interest me - who is really using the block editor when there’s Elementor and Co.?
Most people will still do all their blog posts in the block editor.
Why use Elementor when you have the block editor?
There are big differences in page speed comparing Gutenberg and Elementor. Gutenberg gives a much faster experience. And it's free! And it's in WP's source.
It's the future 😅
@@Samxronn what are the benefits of using the block editor over Elementor? Ive never used the block editor, cause I was told that Elementor is the best website builder for WordPress. Im genuinely asking, not trying to challenge you or anything. Im a web developer, but am new to WordPress development. Thanks, looking forward to hearing your take.
Designing intricate page layouts in Gutenberg is like trying to paint the Mona Lisa with a mop 😟
But Gutenberg is a satisfactory tool for simple blogging tasks.
Full Site Editing kills Child Themes concept, but the last one has its own right to life via PHP hardcoded templates.
It's been a min
A hot min 😂
Have taught people both sides - Gutenburg then Elementor, they wonder why I bother teaching them Gutenburg!
First!
Thank you Roger, great to see you.
PHP ded
Adam best!!!!!!!!!!!!!🤩👍👍👍👍👍👍
Will the performance enhancements be enough to replace traditional performance plugins?
I'd like to know that too. RIP Flyingpress?
Ain that the real question
It will certainly make noticeable improvements. I think you would still want a CDN for sure.
I just want the Twitter block to get fixed. It never aligns vertically on pages, but does on the blog and single post view.