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WordPress.com News<\/a>
Our newest features are largely design-focused, giving you the confidence to explore a variety of styles and then easily apply them across your entire site.\u00a0
Jeremy Anderberg
At WordPress.com, we\u2019re always adding features and pushing our blocks and Site Editor to do more so that you can create, design, and publish amazing things with ease. Our newest features are largely design-focused, giving you the confidence to explore a variety of styles and then easily apply them across your entire site. 
Let\u2019s jump in and see what\u2019s new. 
Site View allows you to easily explore, navigate, and edit your site\u2019s templates and template parts, including adding new templates right from this interface. To play around with Site View, simply click your site\u2019s icon from the Site Editor.\u00a0
When to use this feature:<\/strong> You want to see how all the pieces of your site fit together \u2014 and to jump between your templates and template parts for easy editing.  
With more powerful blocks comes the need for easier, more intuitive access to advanced settings for those blocks. To that end, we\u2019ve split block settings into two tabs within the sidebar. On the left side, you\u2019ll find standard customization options like color, typography, and spacing. On the right side, you\u2019ll find more advanced options, like layouts, custom CSS, and a button to apply changes across your entire site (more on that below).  
When to use this feature: <\/strong>You\u2019re working on your navigation menu and need more customization than just color or typography options. Go over to advanced settings to change the orientation of the menu from horizontal to vertical \u2014 among other things! 
A number of themes, including staff favorite Twenty Twenty Three<\/a>, now come with styles<\/em>, which change the look and feel of your site \u2014 color, spacing, etc. \u2014 within the overarching design aesthetic of the theme. 
With the newly launched Style Book, you can now see how various styles affect different blocks. You\u2019re able to preview colors, typography, embeddable media, and more. 
When to use this feature:<\/strong> You\u2019re curious about switching up the colors or typography on your site, but you want to know what it\u2019ll look like, especially within specific blocks, before committing. 
When working and designing in the Site Editor, it\u2019s easy to find yourself having created a certain style that you really like and want emulated across your entire site. With our new \u201cApply globally\u201d button, you can do just that. 
When to use this feature:<\/strong> You\u2019ve spent some time styling a heading (or other block) on your homepage or a page template, and you want that look to carry over across all the headings (or whichever block you\u2019re working with) on your site. 
In the midst of holiday season business, you may have missed some of our other recent and exciting updates:  
Learn how to turn your posts and pages content into clean, compelling ads that run across millions of sites on WordPress.com and Tumblr.
We introduced five beautiful new designs in January, including our new default theme, Twenty Twenty Three. 
A .link domain name and Link in Bio page supercharges your social media by giving you a place to host all of your links.
Chapter breaks offer a quick, convenient way for viewers to navigate longer videos or see the outline of a video\u2019s content at a glance. 
With Site Previews, you can generate a unique link for your in-progress Business or eCommerce site that allows your team or clients to access and explore the site without needing to log in.