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<\/figure>\nTL;DR: What\u2019s coming in WordPress 7.1<\/strong><\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> This beta release is for testing and development only. So, please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on your live website.<\/p>\n Instead, we recommend using a staging site<\/a> or a local site. You can test WordPress 7.1 Beta by installing and activating the WordPress Beta Tester<\/a> plugin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n WordPress 7.1 will be released on August 19, 2026, which is the final day of WordCamp US 2026. The date is still marked tentative on the official WordPress release schedule<\/a>, so it could shift if testing uncovers a serious bug.<\/p>\n Before then, WordPress 7.1 will go through two release candidates, on August 5 and August 12. Those are near-final builds, so you will know exactly what is in the release by early August.<\/p>\n The Notes feature arrived in WordPress 6.9<\/a> as a simple way to leave comments on blocks. WordPress 7.1 will turn it into a proper feedback system.<\/p>\n The most useful addition is @mentions. Typing \u2018@\u2019 inside a note brings up a searchable list of collaborators to tag directly. This makes it much easier to direct feedback to the right person on your team.<\/p>\n Inline notes are new too. Instead of attaching a comment to an entire block, you can select a specific sentence or phrase and leave a note on just that text. The selection stays highlighted, so everyone can see exactly what the note refers to.<\/p>\n This removes a lot of guesswork. Previously, a note saying \u201cplease rephrase this\u201d could apply to anything in a long paragraph. Now, it points at the exact words.<\/p>\n Other Notes improvements include:<\/p>\n These changes make Notes genuinely useful for teams, agencies, and multi-author blogs.<\/p>\n You can now define how a block looks at different screen sizes directly in the editor. <\/p>\n For example, a smaller font size for headings on mobile, or different spacing for tablets, without writing a single line of CSS.<\/p>\n When you switch the editor preview to Tablet or Mobile, any style change you make applies only to that screen size.<\/p>\n WordPress also shows a small badge in the block settings panel, so you always know which screen size you are styling.<\/p>\n It works on two levels. Responsive styles set in Global Styles apply to every instance of a block across your site. Styles set on a single block apply only to that page.<\/p>\n The editor canvas is also more flexible. Instead of being limited to the Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile preview presets, you can drag the canvas to any width and watch your blocks respond in real time.<\/p>\n In our testing, this felt natural very quickly. Theme developers can even define their own breakpoints in theme.json, so the preview widths can match the theme you\u2019re actually using.<\/p>\n If you style one block and then decide you want that look everywhere, applying the change to Global Styles brings up a quick review step. You can choose exactly which modified styles to apply globally and keep the rest as local overrides.<\/p>\n Alongside responsive styling, WordPress 7.1 will introduce interactive state styling. A new \u2018States\u2019 dropdown lets you visually style how blocks respond to interaction.<\/p>\n The most common use case is buttons: you can now set a different background color for hover, focus, or active states and preview the change live in the editor.<\/p>\n Until now, changing a button\u2019s hover color meant writing custom CSS, even though it\u2019s a tiny change. Now, it\u2019s a built-in design option.<\/p>\n WordPress 7.1 will add a Tabs block that many users have been asking for.<\/p>\n Tabs let you organize content into clickable panels instead of showing everything at once. They are great for product specifications, FAQs, or comparing options without making a page feel long.<\/p>\n Previously, you had to add tabbed content using a plugin<\/a>. Just keep in mind that tabs you already built with a plugin will not convert to this core block automatically.<\/p>\n The second new block in WordPress 7.1 will be the Playlist block. It lets you add a collection of audio files to any post or page. You can also show your track\u2019s title, artist, and cover art, plus a waveform graphic of the audio.<\/p>\n This is most useful for musicians, churches, educators, and anyone else who publishes audio. If you run a podcast with WordPress<\/a>, then you can add a set of episodes to one player on a page. <\/p>\n Several existing blocks will get meaningful upgrades in this release:<\/p>\n WordPress 7.1 will replace the old inline cropping tool with a dedicated Media Editor modal.<\/p>\n The entry point stays familiar. You still click the Crop button on an Image block.<\/p>\n But instead of the cramped inline controls, a full editing modal opens with freeform cropping, aspect-ratio presets, flip and rotate controls, and metadata editing in one place.<\/p>\n The new editor also works with the Cover block, so you can crop a background image right where you use it.<\/p>\n This won\u2019t replace a full photo editor. However, for the basic image editing<\/a> most site owners actually do, it is a big usability win.<\/p>\n \u00a0In WordPress 7.1, your web browser does most of the work of processing images before they are uploaded to your server. It resizes, compresses, and converts them, and creates the smaller thumbnail sizes that WordPress needs.<\/p>\n There are two benefits. Your server does much less work, which means fewer failed uploads on limited hosting plans. And WordPress can now handle more image formats, including HEIC, which is the default format on iPhones, plus UltraHDR, AVIF, and WebP. It can also convert animated GIFs into more efficient videos.<\/p>\n HEIC is the biggest change here. Until now, HEIC photos have been converted on the server, but only if your web host runs a recent enough version of ImageMagick, the software WordPress uses to process images. Some iPhone users had to convert HEIC to JPG<\/a> before uploading.<\/p>\n With 7.1, your browser does the converting instead. This works fully in Chrome and Edge. Safari can convert iPhone photos, but the resizing and thumbnail creation still happen on your server. In Firefox, WordPress passes the whole job back to your server.<\/p>\n Uploads are also more reliable. If your internet connection drops mid-upload, the queue pauses and resumes automatically when you are back online. A progress indicator keeps you informed for batch uploads.<\/p>\n There are smaller everyday improvements too:<\/p>\n Together, these changes mean fewer upload errors and less load on your server. That\u2019s especially good news if you\u2019re on a budget WordPress hosting plan.<\/p>\n WordPress 7.1 will make the admin toolbar stay visible in the Site Editor and the Block Editor, instead of disappearing when you start editing.<\/p>\n The toolbar itself is also getting a design cleanup as part of this change:<\/p>\n The toolbar stays hidden in Distraction Free mode, so you still get a clean writing canvas.<\/p>\n Beyond the toolbar, WordPress 7.1 will include a set of smaller admin improvements that add up.<\/p>\n Command Palette improvements:<\/strong> The Command Palette (Ctrl+K on Windows, Command+K on Mac) now groups results into Recent, matching, and Suggestions sections. Your recently used commands are saved to your preferences, so they persist across sessions.<\/p>\n Your admin color scheme in the Site Editor:<\/strong> The Site Editor now reflects your chosen admin color scheme instead of always using a fixed dark sidebar. This is a small thing, but it makes the whole admin area feel consistent.<\/p>\n A dedicated Identity section:<\/strong> Site identity settings like your title, tagline, logo, and site icon now live in their own clearly labeled Design \u00bb Identity<\/strong> section in the Site Editor<\/a>. You no longer need to hunt through Settings and templates to update these basics.<\/p>\n On This Day widget:<\/strong> A new dashboard widget resurfaces what you published on this date in past years. It\u2019s a fun nudge for long-running blogs, and useful for finding old content worth updating.<\/p>\n Change a comment\u2019s parent:<\/strong> The Edit Comment screen will add an editable \u2018In reply to\u2019 control, so you can finally re-thread a comment that ended up under the wrong reply. It works within a single post, not across posts.<\/p>\n We want to be upfront: real-time collaboration will not ship in WordPress 7.1. If you followed our WordPress 7.0 coverage<\/a>, then you may remember that Google Docs-style real-time collaboration has been in development for a while.<\/p>\n The feature is enabled in the Gutenberg plugin, where multiple people can already edit the same post together.<\/p>\n However, the core team is still working through big decisions, including how collaboration data should be stored and whether to ship the full feature or just the underlying architecture first.<\/p>\n There is a dedicated community testing effort that will continue beyond the 7.1 cycle to get collaborative editing ready. Until it lands in core, you can add collaboration to the block editor with a plugin<\/a>. <\/p>\n We think that caution is the right call. A collaboration feature that loses someone\u2019s work would be far worse than a delayed one.<\/p>\n Similarly, support for Unicode (non-Latin) email addresses was originally planned for 7.1 but was pulled during beta testing. That work will continue in a community plugin for broader compatibility and security testing before it lands in core.<\/p>\n WordPress 7.1 will also ship several technical improvements for developers and site performance:<\/p>\n We are looking forward to the release of WordPress 7.1. It may not have a single blockbuster feature, but it fixes a long list of everyday annoyances, and that matters more for most website owners.<\/p>\n Our favorite additions are the upgraded Notes and responsive styling. The ability to tag a teammate on an exact sentence brings WordPress much closer to a modern editorial tool.<\/p>\n If you liked this article, then please subscribe to our\u00a0YouTube Channel<\/a>\u00a0for WordPress video tutorials. You can also find us on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n<\/p> The post What\u2019s Coming in WordPress 7.1? 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When Is WordPress 7.1 Coming Out?<\/h4>\n
Collaborate Better With the Upgraded Notes<\/h4>\n
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Responsive Styling Without Writing CSS<\/h4>\n
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<\/figure>\nStyle Hover and Focus States for Buttons<\/h4>\n
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<\/figure>\nNew Tabs Block<\/h4>\n
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<\/figure>\nNew Playlist Block<\/h4>\n
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<\/figure>\nBlock Improvements in WordPress 7.1<\/h4>\n
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<\/figure>\nA New Image Editor in WordPress 7.1<\/h4>\n
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<\/figure>\nSmoother and Smarter Media Handling<\/h4>\n
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<\/figure>\nThe Admin Toolbar Now Stays Visible When Editing<\/h4>\n
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A More Personal, More Navigable Admin<\/h4>\n
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<\/figure>\nWhat Didn\u2019t Make It Into WordPress 7.1?<\/h4>\n
Under the Hood (Developer & Performance Updates)<\/h4>\n
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wp_register_icon_collection()<\/code>, wp_register_icon()<\/code>, and wp_get_icon()<\/code> let plugins and themes register custom icon sets with server-side rendering and REST API endpoints. SVGs are sanitized against a strict allowlist. (Dev note<\/a>)<\/li>\nwordpress\/theme<\/code> package introduces design tokens and a stable React ThemeProvider for consistent UI theming. (Details<\/a>)<\/li>\n