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Background Gradient Block Support Ships in WordPress 7.1

July 27, 2026• Category: Blog

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

July 26, 2026• Category: Blog

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

July 24, 2026• Category: Blog

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

July 21, 2026• Category: Blog • Plugins • WordPress Guides

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

July 20, 2026• Category: Blog

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

July 18, 2026• Category: Blog

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

July 12, 2026• Category: Blog

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

July 8, 2026• Category: Blog

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

Responsive Styling Lands in Gutenberg 23.5 for WordPress 7.1

July 7, 2026• Category: Blog

Responsive styling in WordPress 7.1 ships in Gutenberg 23.5 with a public call for testing. Per-viewport styles from the editor, no CSS....

Connector Field Registry Proposed for WordPress 7.1

July 1, 2026• Category: Blog

Gutenberg PR #79373 proposes a PHP connector field registry that closes the api_key-only gap left by the 7.0 Connectors screen....

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