WordPress 7.0 in 7 Minutes ![rw-book-cover](https://img.youtube.com/vi/NV-MKz8pXkM/maxresdefault.jpg) 🔗 **Source:** [WordPress 7.0 in 7 Minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV-MKz8pXkM) Welcome back to the channel. It's WordPress 7 in 7 minutes. Here we go. All right, starting from the top, the biggest feature in WordPress 7.0 is not even really a feature. It's the foundation for artificial intelligence. It's AI. It's the connector screen inside of WordPress 7. I have it up on screen. Many of you who have already updated or watch other videos in this on this channel before know a little bit about it. We can activate Anthropic, Google, Open AI API keys right inside of our WordPress installation. And it lays the I don't know what metaphors I can use here, the foundation, the plumbing for AI to talk to other plugins and theme functions who want to access AI. This is WordPress' decision to say, instead of every theme and plugin having a space for the user to connect to AI, any popular models will be listed in the connector screen, and let's just have one place to say this is where you activate AI, and then all of the plugins and themes can run through this. So, as I've been saying about all of the last year's worth of WordPress updates, we're almost there to that next big step for WordPress. Something very minor but worth noting is that the dashboard does look slightly different today. We have a different color screen, and we also have a different feel for how the pages load inside of WordPress. So, if you've already made your updates to WordPress 7, or you are smart and started playing with WordPress 7 in the playground before updating, you know that there's like this new JavaScripty view, native app kind of feel that when you click on things in WordPress, it's not waiting for that screen to reload and repaint the entire dashboard. Now, it sort of has this nice ease in and ease out transition of loading, and it feels a lot more app native, right? It just feels quicker and faster at least visually and that's a welcome change. The beloved command palette is now stuck in place, anchored to the toolbar up top. It's always been command K on Mac to pull that up and now it's up in the upper left-hand corner. Users can now click that to activate the command palette so it just gives you this empty bar. I think I'd rather empty input field. I'd rather have it like [clears throat] have a little bit more explanation, maybe start to fill in a bit more of the browser window like oh this thing is here for for me to input some kind of command not just this tiny little input field which almost looks like am I just searching the page for something here? I also feel like the command K is going to be pivotal for anyone who want to maybe even build chatbots into like I can definitely see a future where opening up the command palette is like opening up the command line on your desktop and doing things with WordPress, executing commands, talking to a chatbot, running WP-CLI queries and stuff like that. So interesting to see hopeful to see some new emphasis on the command palette. This is a two-for-one on this screen. The font library has been updated. That's really cool. Now you can actually load the font, see the fonts a little bit easier in the appearance menu and then the visual revisions is really cool. Now we lost real-time collaboration. It was cut from the WordPress 7 road map for now. Welcome to change so that the team can really focus on improving WordP WordPress where where it's really needed. Having trouble talking. And visual revisions, I don't know if it was a part of that or if it fell off the tree of real-time collaboration, but now you can actually see stuff in the editor instead of just like being condensed into a revisions panel. So, really cool to see visual revisions in WordPress 7. I'd love some input on this. The iframe editor stuff in the editor is now in an iframe which allegedly makes developing blocks and interfaces inside the editor a little bit easier for developers. I started to develop a podcast plugin a few months back. It has been a pain in the neck to try to style that plugin inside of the editor. I'm hoping that I can start testing some of these new changes with the iframe inclusion there for the editor. So, that might make my life and probably developers who are much better than me style their stuff inside the editor. WordPress 7 has a little bit more of the block visibility controls for hiding or showing certain blocks on mobile, tablet, and desktop views. Often times we were using an a separate plugin to do something like that or your theme was doing that with their blocks that were included. So, nice to see this hit core. Developers can now build blocks with just PHP when they need server side rendering stuff only. That's something that I'm super interested in, but I'm sure the developers out there don't want to have to mix and match PHP with JavaScript to do things that they can just do with PHP will now be able to do that. That's a welcome change I'm sure for many of you out there. Something that's also building the future of the new visualization of the WordPress admin and content and data and features inside of the admin and for other plugins is the data views and data forms experience. Now, it's just getting better and better. Still not widespread adoption yet. This, in my opinion, is the foundation to what a new admin experience might look like, especially in a world where we can modify the admin and mix and match things like blocks of Gutenberg, but you should be doing that in the admin. These two features play a pivotal role or these two experiences play a pivotal role and um it's always good to see them continuing to update that. We're just waiting for that total revamp of the admin. Accessibility has been updated as well. Uh host of different things under accessibility, which is always welcomed and then there's a but wait there's more section on the make post which introduces more of these WordPress features as a field guide. I'll definitely link that up below. If your host has not updated yet to WordPress 7, your website to WordPress 7, um check out some of these these things in the playground. You go to playground.wordpress.net, you can actually start playing with some of the WordPress 7 stuff before your site updates and if you have a web hosting uh company that has staging environments, which 99.9% of them should these days, run your website in a staging environment, see how it reacts and see how it changes to WordPress 7. Should've been already testing this already. Today's the last day uh until maybe hosts start rolling the stuff out. So, do that. Check it out. Make sure everything runs uh but playground's always a great place to test future versions and iterations of WordPress. If you want to pick a better host, go to the wpminute.com/courses, register for our free course on choosing WordPress hosts and uh scoping WordPress projects if you're in a freelancer or an agency, both courses for free. Register for free. Join our Slack group brought to you by our favorite pillar sponsors here at the WP Minute. Thumbs up if you like today's video. 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