The Field Guide for WordPress 6.4 is now available. We’ve covered most of the features and changes that are coming, but here is a good summary if you haven’t been following it.

Customizing the login related pages is popular now and WordPress 6.4 provides some HTML markup improvements to make that easier. If you are a plugin author that provides customization to the login page then you might want to check that your code still works with the changes.

Of note to theme and plugin developers – WordPress 6.4 has a change in how some styles are loaded.

WordPress 6.3.2 is a security and maintenance release and is rolling out now.

Here is some performance news on the upcoming Twenty Twenty-Four core theme. Whether it is good news or not depends on how you look at it.

A minor release of WordPress, version 6.3.2 is being prepared for release. This article lists the changes.

Don’t trash your font management plugin yet … the WordPress core font library has been punted to 6.5 (March 2024?).

The Font Library feature coming in WordPress 6.4 will be a nice addition. It will provide a standard way for managing fonts and serving them locally.

This post on the make blog retrospectively looks at performance improvements gained in WordPress 6.3 over 6.2. Some good progress on mobile and desktop. Note that the discussion about the emoji loader script just means it has gotten more efficient. If you don’t need to add emoji support there is still a performance boost to disabling it.