What’s New in Gutenberg? (May 22nd)

We’ll start making weekly posts here in the name of making the ongoing editor updates more visible outside of the SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel and the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ development stream. At the moment there are 13 blocks implemented in the project, and a few more being worked on by the team and contributors.

• Integrated ImageBlock with media gallery.
• Adjusted positioning of inserter menu.
• Adjusted focus behaviour when closing the inserter.
• Rendering selected blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. settings in the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. inspector (#731, #819).
• Created UI components for structuring the sidebar content.
• Updated documentation to mention how to package a zip file for the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party.
• Extracted build script to separate file.
• Transforming a list block to a text block.
• Added a pending review toggle.
• New: Pre-formattedText.
• New: TableBlock.
• New: CodeBlock.
• Initial foundation for inferring post format based on the presence of single blocks.
• Tweaked block editing mode to dismiss selected styles when pressing a key (not modifiers).
• Moved block merge handlers to actions and added tests.
• Fix focus behaviour on ButtonBlock and specified limited formatting.
• Avoid unselecting a block when losing focus.
• Added caching for external JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. resources and libraries.
• Added PostVisibility setting to the sidebar.
• Added placeholder text for QuoteBlock source field.
• Added focus styles for buttons.
• Added alignment options to EmbedBlock.
• Implemented indentation buttons for ListBlock.
• Disabled save button in release build (not ready for prime time yet!).

In Progress

• Show insertion point and implement inserting a block after currently selected block.
• Creating a GalleryBlock.
• Implementing a “recent posts” block using the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/..
• Supporting all core oEmbeds in the EmbedBlock.
• Adding calendar popover for selecting a date.
• Better handling of “wide” media blocks.
• Exploring further testing of parsing and serialization of block’s data.
• Exploring using state structure for Editable component.
• Rendering block controls directly through the edit function.

We welcome all your feedback and contributions on the project repository, or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” us in #core-editor.

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