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Gutenberg 24.3 Brings Wondrous Text Formatting Across Several Blocks at Once
Gutenberg 24.3 lets WordPress editors format text across several blocks at once, adds emoji reactions to notes, and brings a redesigned Media inserter.
Monday, 9 November 2026 · 1 min read
By decree of the WordPress project, Gutenberg 24.3 is available. The Make WordPress Core release notes date the release 28 October, and the WordPress project announced its availability on 6 November. The release lets writers format text across several blocks at once, react to notes with emoji, and browse their media in a redesigned inserter. It also carries the security fixes from WordPress 7.1.4. Selections that span several blocks were once off-limits for formatting, a small tyranny now ended. Select the text, and the formatting controls apply to all of it. A selection may also be dragged by pressing anywhere inside it, and a rich text selection survives a Shift+click within the same block. Notes, the comments left upon content, now accept emoji reactions, for sometimes a single symbol is all the reply a note needs. They highlight and connect to their content more clearly, and the text of an unsent note now gets a draft marker. The Media inserter, meanwhile, displays media in a DataViews grid, the same component behind the lists in the Site Editor, and audio and other files that are not images or videos receive proper previews. Failed saves, long an arcane misery, now explain themselves. Save failure notices offer a copy option and a Show/Hide details button, so the cause can be shared, and autosave failures with no server response are explained, with the HTTP status shown when available. After a failed autosave, a countdown reveals when the next attempt will run. For developers, the release brings server-side Core actions and fields, plus a few fixes to the Interactivity API, the toolkit for adding interactive behaviour to blocks. The Make WordPress Core release notes credit a team of contributors that includes ten first-timers, a wondrous addition to the annals. Because Gutenberg 24.3 includes the security fixes from WordPress 7.1.4, updating is recommended.
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