WordPress, the most popular and favorite CMS, constantly works on bringing new updates to its core. Enhancing design layouts, performance, security, and more. Yes! WordPress truly does brilliant work. With all that, here’s about the latest WordPress 6.8 launch on 15th April 2025.
The release focuses on improving the current functionalities, improving loading speed, design upgrades, and much more. No matter if you’re a developer, website owner, or just a content creator, this major and first release of 2025 has got something exciting for everyone.
Then check out the blog post and keep reading till the end.
Let’s begin!
WordPress 6.8: In Short
WordPress 6.8 is the newest version of WordPress. As discussed, it focuses on:
- Refining the existing features
- Editor improvements
- Improving security & performance
- New and improved blocks
- Overall usability.
In addition, it improves data views, block interactions, and query loops.
While the major part is the integration of the Speculative Loading plugin to improve site speed, style book support for Classic themes, bcrypt for password hashing, and more.
These are certainly great additions to WordPress functionality.
WordPress 6.8 Compatibility Chart
| Current Version | Compatibility with 6.8 | Notes |
| 6.5 – 6.7 | Fully Compatible | A few adjustments required |
| 5.8 – 6.4 | ️Partially Compatible | May need fixes/updates |
| 5.7 or earlier | Risky Compatibility | Upgrades are highly recommended |
What’s All in WordPress 6.8? Let’s Get in Brief
WordPress has brought changes and enhancements in different forms. Check them out below:
Global Styles on Site Editor Sidebar
Visitors love websites that are well-organized and easy to navigate. If you want to access the Global Style interface in WordPress 6.8, you can easily do it from the main menu of site editor. When you click the Style menu item, you can see the Global Styles panel with colors, typography, shadows, backgrounds, etc. Any updates made here apply to all the pages and provide design consistency. Rest assured; your design experience goes to the next level with this.
Number #1 Security
One of the major updates in terms of security is WordPress now introduces bcrypt for password hashing. It mainly boosts the security of stored passwords and API keys. This change took 13 years and has finally made a mark.
With this security enhancement, hackers and attackers cannot steal user or password credentials in any way.
Preview Dropdown with Show Template Toggle
Switching between content and templates is now easy. You can now have access to the “Show Template” toggle which is added to the preview dropdown. This new place makes content editing straightforward and saves your time.
Speculative Loading
Visitors usually hate websites that take ages to load in today’s online world. Thus, to get good business results, you need to focus more on website loading speed. With the Speculative loading feature in WordPress user, slow load times will become a thing of the past for websites. You can now enjoy maximum performance, as with this approach, the pages or resources can be prerendered or prefetched before the user accesses it.
Style Book
With the introduction of Style Book, designing has become simple. The Style Book offers a range of site’s design elements, typography, colors and more. This feature was first included by Gutenberg 19.9. To access Style Book, you need to go first to Appearance, then Design and Styles, you’re all done here. Moreover, this implies if you don’t use Gutenberg.
Updates for Developers
WordPress 6.8 brings amazing updates for developers too. This makes it easier for them to create and manage blogs while boosting website performance and user interface.
Here are the new features:
Interactivity API updates
Multiple block-type registration
Performance warning for developers
Wrapping it Up!
WordPress 6.8 is a great enhancement and update for all the WordPress lovers out there. From focusing on security aspects to performance, the new version of WordPress is your go-to option for success.
The rollout is going to be an amazing one!
Keep reading more such updates at HiTechNectar.
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