WordPress 5.4 Released with Two New Blocks, Features, APIs and Improved UI Designs
As we all know, WordPress 5.4 “Adderley” is released on 31st of March 2020, and it is the first major release in 2020 for whole WordPress Community world-wide.
WordPress 5.4 has come up with the many new features, improvements and bug fixes to the block editor. And these changes affect the functionality, UI, user accessibility and overall user experience. Along with all these, you will witness here the new APIs, cleaner UI-navigation improvements and developer-focused changes introduced in WordPress 5.4. So, let’s take a deep dive into it…
Two New Blocks Added to WordPress 5.4
- Two brand-new blocks: Among the interactive features, buttons and social icons have been added, making it easy to access the interface.
- New look with colour: A new look has been given with a touch of gradients on the buttons and the cover block. This apart, one can access toolbar in the colour options in case of rich text blocks. The colour option is also present in group and column blocks.
- Easy handling of the multimedia: The latest WordPress version enables placing multimedia in different blocks. It works in the same way for all the blocks.
- Using media with text: It has become easy to incorporate media along with text in the blocks. You can also add links such as a brochure that is available for download.
Display Featured Image in Latest Posts Block
This is another newly added feature in the block editor, and it is another step for using more complex blocks. Explore how to configure it at What’s New in WordPress 5.4
