WordPress 7.1 Site Editor Screen Filters: A First Look

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WordPress 7.1 ships four PHP Site Editor screen filters for Pages, Templates, Template Parts and Patterns. Server-side curation, finally....

WordPress 7.1 Design System Theming: Admin Tokens Land

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WordPress 7.1 ships Design System Theming: --wpds-* design tokens, a ThemeProvider React component, and a foundational admin theming layer....

Background Gradient Block Support Ships in WordPress 7.1

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WordPress 7.1 adds background.gradient block support that finally layers over images. Five core blocks adopt it. Here is what to do....

WordPress 7.1 Adds Text Shadow to Global Styles

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WordPress 7.1 adds text shadow to Global Styles via theme.json — set shadows globally, per block, and per element state without custom CSS....

Editable Blocks Inside the Custom HTML Block in 7.1

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WordPress 7.1 lets the Custom HTML block hold editable blocks inside static markup — one clean surface for AI-generated pages editors can still edit....

WordPress 7.1 Icons API: The v15 Breaking Change You Missed

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The @wordpress/icons v15 flip to fill=currentColor and the new register_icon() surface in the WordPress 7.1 Icons API rewrite plugin CSS. Here is what breaks....

WordPress 7.1 Iframed Post Editor: What Breaks in Blocks

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WordPress 7.1 enforces the iframed post editor on every block theme. Here are the five failure modes in custom blocks and how to fix them....

WordPress 7.1 Makes the 40px Component Default Permanent

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WordPress 7.1 hard-deprecates the __next40pxDefaultSize prop across ten core components. Here is the audit I would run this week....

Classic Block Stays in the WordPress 7.1 Inserter

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WordPress 7.1 reverses course: the Classic block stays fully available in the inserter, and here is what the reversal tells us about TinyMCE and migrations....

WordPress 7.1 Design System Theming Merge Proposal

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WordPress 7.1 gains a design system theming layer: wp-theme handle, ThemeProvider React component, DTCG tokens. What actually ships....

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