Say hello to WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy,” named for the woodwind jazz wiz, the multi-instrumentalist—
Eric Allan Dolphy Jr
. Dolphy is acclaimed for having brought the bass clarinet to prominence in the jazz scene, creating a place for the flute and extending the lexicon of the alto saxophone. In a career that spanned continents, his artistry was at the forefront of pushing improvisational boundaries, ensemble work, and partnerships with well-respected artists like Charles Mingus and John Coltrane.
This latest version of WordPress reimagines your site editing experience, introduces more ways to style your site, and offers a new distraction-free way to write. Discover improvements that give you more control and freedom to express your creative vision. There’s something for everyone, whether you’re a content creator, developer, site builder, or designer. Let the
music of Eric Dolphy
delight you as you take in all that 6.2 has to offer.
WordPress 6.2 is the first major release of 2023, covering over 900 enhancements and fixes. It’s also a transition point in the WordPress project’s
development roadmap
, shifting focus from customization to
early exploration of workflows and collaboration
What’s inside
Meet the reimagined Site Editor
Ready for you to dive in and explore: 6.2 is your invitation to discover what the next generation of WordPress—and block themes—can do.
Now out of beta, the Site Editor has an updated interface, giving you a new way to interact with your entire site. Explore full previews of your templates and template parts, then jump in and get to editing your site from wherever you choose.
Manage menus in more ways with the Navigation block
Add, remove, and reorder menu items faster—with a new sidebar experience that makes editing your site’s navigation easier.
Discover a smoother experience for the Block Inserter
A refreshed design gives you easier access to the content you need. Use the Media tab to quickly drag and drop content from your existing Media Library. Find patterns faster with a split view that lets you navigate categories and see previews all at once.
Find the controls you want when you need them
Your block settings sidebar is better organized with tabs for Settings and Styles. So the tools you need are easy to identify and access.
Build faster with headers and footers for block themes
Discover a new collection of header and footer patterns. Use them with any block theme as a quick, high-quality starting point for your site’s templates.
Explore Openverse media right from the Editor
Openverse’s library catalogs over 700 million+ free, openly licensed stock images and audio—and now it’s directly integrated into the WordPress experience through the Inserter.
Focus on writing with Distraction Free mode
For those times you want to be alone with your ideas. You can now hide all your panels and controls, leaving you free to bring your content to life.
Meet the new Style Book
Get a complete overview of how every block in your site’s library looks. All in one place, all at a glance, directly in the Site Editor.
Copy and paste styles
Perfect the design on one type of block, then copy and paste those styles to other blocks to get just the look you want.
Custom CSS
Power up your site any way you wish with design tools and custom CSS for another level of control over your site’s look and feel for maximum creativity and artistry in your designs.
Other highlights in 6.2
Sticky positioning
: Choose to keep top-level group blocks fixed to the top of a page as visitors scroll.
Importing widgets
: Options to import your favorite widgets from Classic themes to Block themes.
Local fonts in themes
: Default WordPress themes offer better privacy with Google Fonts now included.
Performance highlights
“Dolphy” includes several impressive performance improvements. You’ll note overall faster load times for block themes of 14 to 18%, and for classic themes, speed increases of 2 to 5%. Server-side performance is also significantly boosted, with an increase of 17 to 23% for block themes and 3 to 5% for classic themes, 3 to 5%. The performance team is dedicated to these kinds of improvements. You can learn more about their work by following the Making WordPress blog using the
#performance hashtag
Learn more about WordPress 6.2
Explore
Learn WordPress
for quick how-to videos, courses, and other resources for the latest features in WordPress. Or join a free
live interactive online workshop
Check out the
WordPress 6.2 Field Guide
for detailed developer notes to help you build with WordPress and get the most out of the latest release. Read the
6.2 release notes
for additional technical details about this release, including installation information, updates, fixes, file changes, and more.
The 6.2 release squad
6.2 is made possible by the many folks who have enthusiastically helped keep the release on track and moving forward:
Release Lead:
Matt Mullenweg
Release Coordinators:
Francesca Marano
Héctor Prieto
Core Tech Co-Leads:
Tonya Mork
Jb Audras
Editor Tech Co-Leads:
George Mamadashvili
Nik Tsekouras
Core Triage Co-Leads:
Colin Stewart
Mukesh Panchal
Editor Triage Co-Leads:
Anne McCarthy
Nick Diego
Design Lead:
Rich Tabor
Documentation Co-Leads:
Birgit Pauli-Haack
Femy Praseet
Milana Cap
Abha Thakor
Marketing & Communications Co-Leads:
Jonathan Pantani
Lauren Stein
Mary Baum
Test Co-Leads:
Robin
Adel Tahri
Performance Lead:
Felix Arntz
Thank you, contributors
WordPress 6.2 couldn’t be here without the countless effort and passion of more than 600 contributors in at least 50 countries. A special thank you to the 178 new contributors who joined a release for the first time. Their collaboration helped deliver hundreds of enhancements and fixes, ensuring a stable release for all—a testament to the power and capability of the WordPress community.
@mercime
Aaron D. Campbell
Aaron Graham
Aaron Jorbin
Aaron Robertshaw
Abha Thakor
Abid Hasan
abitofmind
ace100
Adam Bosco
Adam Silverstein
Adam Wiltgen
Adam Zieliński
Adel Tahri
Adhun Anand
adityaarora010196
aduth
Afshana Diya
Ahmed Kabir Chaion
Ajay Maurya
ajayver
Akash Mia
Aki Hamano
Alain Schlesser
Alan Jacob Mathew
albarin
Alberuni Azad.
alecgeatches
Aleks Ganev
Alex Concha
Alex Lende
Alex Stine
alvastar
Alvi Tazwar
Amin
amirrezatm
Amit Barai Alit
Amit Paul
Anantajit JG
Andrea Fercia
andreaboe
Andrei Draganescu
Andrei Zhitkov
Andrew F
Andrew Matthews
Andrew Nacin
Andrew Ozz
Andrew Serong
Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko
André
Andy Fragen
Andy Peatling
Aniket Patel
Ankit K Gupta
Ankit Panchal
Anne McCarthy
Anthony Burchell
Anthony Hortin
Anton Vlasenko
Antony Agrios
Aparna Adhun
AR Rasel
Arafat Jamil
Aravind Ajith
Ari Stathopoulos
arnolp
Artemio Morales
Arthur Chu
ArtZ91
Arun
Ashar Irfan
Ashraful Sarkar Naiem
Autumn
Ayesh Karunaratne
azurseisme
Barry Ceelen
Bart
Beatriz Fialho
Ben Dwyer
benish74
Benjamin Grolleau
Benoit Chantre
Bernhard Kau
Bernie Reiter
Bethany Chobanian Lang
bgin
Bhavik Kalpesh
Birgir Erlendsson (birgire)
Birgit Pauli-Haack
Bjorn Holine
BogdanUngureanu
bonjour52
bookwyrm
Boone Gorges
Brad Jorsch
Brady Vercher
Brandon Kraft
Brennan Goewert
Brian Alexander
Brian Gardner
Bronson Quick
Brooke
Brooke.
buutqn
Calvin Alkan
Cameron Jones
Carlos Bravo
Carlos G. P.
Carolina Nymark
cbirdsong
Chad Chadbourne
Channing Ritter
Chauncey McAskill
Chintan hingrajiya
Chirag Rathod
Chloe Bringmann
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Chouby
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Christoph Daum
Chrystl
ckanderson22
Clayton Collie
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Colin Stewart
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Copons
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Craig Francis
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Crisoforo Gaspar
Cupid Chakma
Daisy Olsen
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Damien Alleyne
Damon Cook
Daniel Bachhuber
Daniel Johnson
Daniel Richards
Daniele Scasciafratte
Dareth NHANG
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David Aguilera
David Arenas
David Baumwald
David Biňovec
David Calhoun
David Gwyer
David Herrera
David Levine
David Marín Carreño
David Peronne
David Shanske
David Smith
David Vongries
Dean Sas
Dennis Claassen
Dennis Snell
Derek Blank
Devanshi Joshi
devshagor
Dhrumil Kumbhani
dhusakovic
Dilip Bheda
Dion Hulse
doctorlai
Dominik Schilling
Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)
Dr. Sahil Baghla
drzraf
dustinrue
edanzer
Edwin Cromley
Ehtisham Siddiqui
Ella van Durpe
emanuelx
Emmanuel Hesry
Enej Bajgorić
Enrico Battocchi
Eric Andrew Lewis
Erik
Esrat Sultana Popy
Eugene M
Evan Herman
Fabian Kaegy
Faisal Ahmed
Faisal Alvi
fasuto
Felipe Elia
Felipe Lavín
Felix Arntz
Femy Praseeth
Florian TIAR
fpodhorsky
Francesca Marano
Francisco Vera
Frank Bueltge
Fransisca H
Fuad Ragib
Gal Baras
gamecreature
Garrett Hyder
Gary Pendergast
Gennady Kovshenin
George Hotelling
George Mamadashvili
Gerardo Pacheco
gisgeo
Glen Davies
Gopal Krishnan
Greg Ziółkowski
grl570810
guzmandrade
H-var
hakre
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Hanzala Taifun
Hareesh S
Harit Panchal
Hasan Misbah
Hasanuzzaman Shamim
Haz
Helen Hou-Sandi
HelgaTheViking
Helmut Wandl
Hendrik Luehrsen
hide
Hilay Trivedi
hiren sanja
Hitesh Patel
hughie.molloy
hugodevos
Héctor Prieto
Iain Poulson
Ian Belanger
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Iazel
Ignat Georgiev
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inwerpsel
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Isabel Brison
IT Path Solutions
Ivan Jerônimo
j.hoffmann
Jack Reichert
Jaed Mosharraf
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James
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James Roberts
janthiel
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Jarko Piironen
Jason Crist
Javier Arce
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Javier Casares
jchambo
Jean-Baptiste Audras
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Jeff Matson
Jeff Ong
Jeffrey Paul
Jennifer M. Dodd
Jeremy Felt
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Jeremy Lind
jeryj
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jhned
Jigar Bhanushali
Jip Moors
Joe Dolson
Joe McGill
joelmadigan
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John Watkins
Jokerrs
Jon Brown
Jonathan Bossenger
Jonathan Desrosiers
Jonathan Pantani
Jong
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Jorge Costa
jornp
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Josepha Haden
Josh
joshuatf
Joy
jsh4
Juanfra Aldasoro
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Julio Potier
Justin Ahinon
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K. Adam White
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Kajal Gohel
kaneva
Kapil Paul
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Kelly Choyce-Dwan
Kelly Hoffman
Kevin Batdorf
Kira Schroder
Kjell Reigstad
Konstantin Obenland
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Kowsar Hossain
Krunal Bhimajiyani
Krupal Panchal
Kunal Madhak
Lana Codes
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Lauren Stein
Lena Morita
lenasterg
Leonidas Milosis
lifeboat
Linkon Miyan
lkraav
Loïc Antignac
Lovekesh Kumar
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luisherranz
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Madhu Dollu
Madhu Dollu
Maggie Cabrera
Mahbub Shovan
Mahek Kalola
manfcarlo
Manish Menaria
Manoj Patil
Marc
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Marcio Duarte
Marco Ciampini
Marek Dědič
Marie Comet
Marin Atanasov
Marine EVAIN
Mario Santos
Marissa Matthews
Marius L. J.
Mark Jaquith
Marko Ivanovic
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Markus
Markus Kosmal
Martijn van der Klis
martin.krcho
Mary Baum
matclayton
Mateus Machado Luna
Mathieu Paapst
Matias Benedetto
Matias Ventura
Matt Keys
Matt Mullenweg
Matt Wiebe
Matthias Reinholz
Max
Max Lyuchin
Maxime J.
MD Jamil Uddin
Md Kawser Ahmed Khan Jami
Md Rakib Hossain
Md. Abir Hasan Dipu
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mdviralsampat
Mehul Kaklotar
mensmaximus
mevolkan
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mgol
Michael Burridge
Michael Kelly
Michał Czapliński
Michel Many
Miguel Axcar
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Mike Straw
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miya
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mtias
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Mukesh Panchal
Mumtahina Faguni
Musarrat Anjum Chowdhury
Mustaque Ahmed
mw108
Naeem Haque
Nalini Thakor
Namith Jawahar
Nathan Johnson
Nazmul Hasan
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Nicholas Garofalo
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Nitesh Das
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nitman43
Noah Allen
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ockham
oguzkocer
oh_hello
Olga Gleckler
OllieJones
Omar Alshaker
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Pascal Birchler
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Petter Walbø Johnsgård
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Rafael Agostini
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Rajan Panchal
Rajesh Raval
Ramon Ahnert
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Ramon James
Razthee Md. Yakini
Renato Augusto Gama dos Santos
Reza Khan
Riad Benguella
Riccardo Di Curti
Rich Tabor
Rinky Chowdhury
Ritesh Patel
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Robert Anderson
Robin
Robin Labadie
rodage
rodricus
Rolf Allard van Hagen
Ross Gile
Roy Tanck
Ruchir Goswami
Rupok
Ryan
Ryan Kienstra
Ryan McCue
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Ryo
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Sérgio Gomes
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Sajib Talukder
Sakib Mohammed
Sam Fullalove
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Samuel Wood (Otto)
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Sanket Chodavadiya
Sanne van der Meulen
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Sarah Norris
Sarath AR
Saumil Nerpagar
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Scott Kingsley Clark
Scott Reilly
Scott Winterroth
Scout James
Sean Hayes
Sergey Biryukov
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Seth Miller
Shahidul Islam
Shamayel
Shamim Mia
Sharif ME
Shraboni
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Simon Dowdles
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Siobhan
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Stephen Bernhardt
Stephen Edgar
Stephy Miehle
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Steven Word
Subrata Sarkar
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Tom J Nowell
Tomasz Dziuda
Toni Viemerö
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Tonya Mork
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Wojtek Naruniec
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Yuliyan Slavchev
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Zenaul Islam
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Česlav Przywara
By release day,
70 locales had translated 90 percent
or more of WordPress 6.2 in their language. Community translators are hard at work ensuring more translations are on their way. Thank you to everyone who helps to make WordPress 6.2 available in 200 languages.
A release haiku for 6.2
Six point two, so new
Shiny and ready for you
Congrats on hard work!
* Portrait of Eric Allen Dolphy Jr. discovered via
Openverse
. Colorization by D. Pountain; Original by F. Wolff
eric dolphy
” by
dick_pountain
is licensed under
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0