Must-Have WordPress Features 2024: For Enhancing Your Business Website  

• Manage Gutenberg block patterns.
• Style options include color, typography, padding.
• Create highly responsive layouts.

Theme builder enhancement  

With the new WordPress feature 6.5 cover and group widget, administrators can create dynamic backgrounds and change HTML tags like “section,” “div,” and “nav.” This feature also allows adding multiple text paragraphs and other Gutenberg blocks and patterns within the group and cover elements. Discover How to manage Gutenberg block patterns in WordPress 6.5 effectively for the best results.

Styling revisions  

For styling backup, the new WordPress styling revisions feature allows you to revert any changes made by mistake with a single click, ensuring that your website’s design remains intact .What is the WordPress styling revisions feature? It’s a safety net for maintaining your website’s visual consistency.

Anchor links support  

Previously, making text clickable in the editor was complicated. With improved anchor link support, making any text an anchor link quickly enhances navigation and user experience.

Performance improvement  

WordPress performance improvements in version 6.5 include significantly improved static content performance, almost doubled speed, and Gutenberg input performance five times faster. This ensures a smoother and more efficient website operation.

Interactive API  

The new Interactive API is a game-changer for developers. It allows for the implementation of complex features with intuitive navigation and data loading, all without the need to refresh the page. For instance, an e-commerce site can enhance the shopping experience by dynamically loading product details as users browse different categories. What are the interactive API benefits in WordPress 2024? This feature significantly speeds up development, making it more efficient and effective.

Support for AVIF images  

WordPress now supports AVIF images, which are 50% smaller than JPG and JPEG images, while maintaining the same quality. This format supports various HDR colors, improving image loading times and visual quality.

Data views and layouts  

WordPress 6.5 offers different layouts and views, all manageable from the admin panel. This flexibility allows administrators to customize the presentation of their content to suit their audience’s needs better.

Smoother plugin dependency  

What is the new plugin dependency feature in WordPress? It allows WordPress to automatically manage the installation process, making it easier to handle complex plugin requirements. Developers can now add dependencies in the plugin header file using WordPress’s new plugin dependency feature.

 /**
 * Plugin Name: August Infotech WordPress Store
 * Requires Plugins: woocommerce, advanced-custom-fields, advanced-custom-fields-pro
 */

Appearance tool settings  

The new settings field provides unique properties that can be added to the theme.json file. Administrators can add multiple theme options in JSON format, which WordPress will auto-populate inside the admin panel.

{
 "version": 2,
 "settings": {
 "color": {
   "palette": [
    {
     "color": "#0584c4",
     "name": "Background Color",
     "slug": "bg-color"
    },
    {
     "color": "#00000",
     "name": "Text Color",
     "slug": "text"
    }
   ]
  }
 }
}

 npx @wordpress/create-block augustinfotech-block
 Creating a new WordPress plugin in the augustinfotech-block directory.

 Creating a "block.json" file.

 Creating a "package.json" file.

 Installing `@wordpress/scripts` package. It might take a couple of minutes...

 Formatting JavaScript files.

 Compiling block.
 
 Done: WordPress plugin Augustinfotech Block bootstrapped in the augustinfotech-block  directory.

This command will create a new WordPress plugin in the augustinfotech-block directory with the following structure:

 augustinfotech-block
 |-build
 |-src
 |-.editorconfig
 |-.editorconfig
 |-augustinfotech-block.php
 |-package.json
 |-readme.txt

The default block is registered in the augustinfotech-block.php file, and the build folder is based on the Node.js structure. The npm package is built using npm commands, which compile the code and generate optimized output in the build folder.

 function create_block_augustinfotech_block_block_init() {
 register_block_type( __DIR__ . '/build' );
 }
 add_action( 'init','create_block_augustinfotech_block_block_init' );

Block hooks  

Using block hooks, developers can modify the layout and move and delete blocks in the site editor. Custom hooks can be injected into blocks using the following filters:

• hooked_block
• hooked_block_{$hook_block_type}

Both filters have similar function parameters. For more information, visit the WordPress Feature 2024 documentation for version 6.5.

HTML API  

A new tag processor functionality is being added. The tag processor scans the entire WordPress site and skips all non-tags, allowing developers to modify the content of tags like HTML, body, and others. Example:

 $title = '';
 $content = '';
 $processor = new WP_HTML_Tag_Processor( $html );
 while ( $processor->next_token() ) {
    if ( '#text' === $processor->get_token_type() ) {
        $content .= $processor->get_modifiable_text();
    } elseif ( null === $title && 'MYTITLE' === $processor->get_token_name() ) {
        $title = $processor->get_modifiable_text();
    }
 }
 echo $title ? $title : '';
 echo $content;
 

 # Create PHP files for PO files in the active directory.
 $ wp i18n make-php .

 # Create a PHP file from a single PO file in a specific directory.
 $ wp i18n make-php augustinfotech-block-de_EN.po languages