WordPress 7 is the first major release in four years, and it brings a number of changes to Aurora, particularly for sites running Cynder, our most recent Aurora theme. If you’re interested in creating a new site with Cynder or migrating an existing site to Cynder, fill out the Aurora account request form.
While some features have been removed for the sake of Aurora stability, the following features are now available.
- Admin Dashboard Command Palette
- Breadcrumbs Block
- Custom CSS for blocks
- Icon block
- Responsive Block Visibility — show/hide blocks based on device
- Style and Transition Update for Admin Dashboard
- Visual Revisions for the block editor
While you may see the following changes listed in WordPress’s field guide for the release, they have been purposefully removed from Aurora.
- Connector functionality, used to attach third-party AI services (this may be enabled in the future)
- Font library, due to branding standards
- Improvements to full site editing, since FSE is disabled on Aurora
- Navigation Block Overlay, since the Navigation Block has been removed from Aurora