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WordPress V. 5.9 has been released with the long-awaited full-site editing (FSE)features

Dear community,

this week WordPress 5.9 “Josephine” has finally been released with the long-awaited full-site editing features that give users more control over site design and page templates.
The new release comes with great enhancements and improvements. A new era in WordPress theme editing has dawned with the debut of the new template editor. It allows users to manipulate templates (home, single post, etc) and template parts (headers, footers, etc) with a visual interface.

see some *enhancements Theme TT2 Twenty Twenty Two *- whats new: a little overview on the features:

Perfomeance improvements
UI / UX-improvements and enhancements.
Full Site Editing (FSE) Features;
new Theme-Blocks (ca 35 new Blocks in Core);
active usage of Pattern Repos;
new inclusion of Block Pattern, Pattern Menus and Navigation-Menus;
option to create new Templates for custom Post-Types;
Query_Loop options
Theme.Json: Interface for theme.json,

and furthermore:
Block-Theme - that are able to arrange all the areas of the site like...:
Site-Logo;
Block-Themes-Interface;
Navigation-Editor;
many areas more

--Design-Interface;
--Design-Tools;
--Style Interface;
--Navigation-Blocks;

a **little list of theme blocks introduced **in 5.9:

-Navigation
-Template Part
-Header
-Footer
-Previous Post
-Post Author
-Next Post
-Post Comments
-Term Description
-Archive Title and a bunch of other things furthermore...
note: Site editor blocks can also be used inside a WordPress post or page if needed.

Another important feature of the site editor is the ability to create new styles for the theme that will be applied across the site.
How: well its just that easy: To customize - we just need to click on the Style icon on the top right corner of the screen when editing any post or page.
For block themes, the new Site Editor and Styles interface has replaced the former Customizer. If you use a block based theme - you do not need the customizer any more,
But there is even more: Styles lets users customize their sites with different colors, typography, and layouts, as well as give blocks a more unifying appearance.

**Twenty Twenty-Two: **A New Default Theme for Building Beautiful Block-based Websites
Twenty Twenty-Two is bundled in WordPress Version 5.9 as the first ever block-based default theme. You can dive into the FSE very easily by picking the TT2 Theme and start with thi new standard-default-theme.
It has a lot of benefit: It comes with many pre-designed color palettes and a beautiful array of great (and lovely) patterns that you can use for all kinds of creative combinations. Twenty Twenty-Two (TT2) was built to showcase full-site editing features, so the layout of every page can be completely customized; Therefore we can say: it is a truly multipurpose theme. Try it out.

see a great introduction into the Twenty Twenty-Two (TT2) WordPress Standard-Theme: by Ellen Bauer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9cYhzipEFk
Clip by Ellen Bauer:

[quote]The new default theme Twenty TwentyTwo ships with WordPress 5.9 on January 2022. Since it's the first default theme which is a Full Site Editing Block Theme I wanted to give you a little overview of all the new FSE features.[/quote] Links in the video: 2022 theme demo: https://2022.wordpress.net/

Other notable updates in the 5.9 release include the following:

-Pattern Explorer: you can browse all the patterns with a allmost fully fledged-screen view. Thats fantastic - you are quite able to add many new patterns

  • fulle fledged editing of the Patterns and Templates: you are able to patterns and templates them to suit your site with just a few clicks.
  • nice revamped list view in a great menu: you are able tro drag and drop items in the list; besides this you also are able to expand and collapse various sections in the list, And last but not least-
  • you are able to add HTML anchors to blocks
  • you have enhanced and improved block controls: with the new version you have new typography tools and besides that flexible layout controls, and finer control of design details like spacing and borders; last but not least you can work with a -Updated Gallery Block: this give you all images at just the same style or style each one differently, change the layout with drag-and-drop

Furthermore: Developers also have some new tools in 5.9 – a new API for locking blocks, register multiple stylesheets per block, and theme.json support for child themes.
WordPress 5.9 was made possible by the efforts of more than contributors, who worked on more than 360 Trac tickets and submitted 1,919 PR’s on GitHub. And WordPress was translated in many many languages: Translators have made WordPress available in 205 languages, and more than 65 locales were more than 90 percent translated at the time of the release.

Awesome things - just load down and play around...

whats new - here a littel overview tt2 them

BTW more than 150 Videos can help and assist you

more than 150 Videos are allready available at Youtube : see https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wordpress+5.9

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