WordPress 7.0 is now available and can be downloaded for free. Perhaps the most important part of this update is that it lays the groundwork for artificial intelligence (AI) plugins to connect with whichever AI each person sees fit to contract.
Although this new feature (the centralized control center for your connections) is not a direct improvement, it allows any plugin that needs to connect to an external AI service to access this standardized connection management system. This makes it easier to use for both users and developers.
WordPress has published more information about the 7.0 update as well as useful videos on its new landing page on the subject.
Navigation has also been improved, so that it can now be more complete than a list of links. This is interesting, but here we were already using the well known Ollie Menu Designer plugin, so it does not represent a major step forward for us either.
The WordPress revisions system has also been improved, so that if you ever feel the need to return to a previous version of an article or page, you can do so in a much more visual way than before.
Patterns and blocks also receive improvements with WordPress 7.0. Patterns are now added to the page or template much more easily, simply by dragging them from the patterns sidebar.
As for blocks, a new icons block arrives that I personally find very useful and will probably make it possible to stop using the famous emojis so much. In addition, it is now possible to decide which blocks are activated and which are not by screen type, which is always interesting for refining the experience on each one.
The update is rounded out by the fact that the font library is now available for any theme and that the backend has been tweaked to slightly improve the experience. Accessibility has also been improved, as has performance in some areas.
We will see, then, when collaborative editing finally arrives, as it was the star feature of WordPress 7.0 and ultimately stayed out because of various problems, including performance and architecture. We are not going to think that this feature is highly requested by the community either, but apparently it is the necessary prior step to later make open source WordPress better in terms of internationalization and enable it to tackle more complex projects of this kind with full guarantees.
* Original article written in Spanish, translated with AI and reviewed in English by Jorge Mediavilla.
