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This update is considered to be the feature complete for starting the WordPress 5.0 cycle.
Highlights include a blockBlockBlock 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. navigation system that can be used to access child and parent blocks within nested blocks easily. It also works as a way to navigate quickly through all the blocks in post. This is a top level affordance that works as a “path” finder and would be the basis for many of the phase 2 layout implementations.
Alternative mechanism for selecting nested groups.
There is also a new block, new style variations for Table, support for video backgrounds in the newly renamed Cover block, accessible date and color pickers, better visibility for style variations, and an “options” modal similar to the former “screen options” to toggle document and metaMetaMeta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.-boxes on and off.
And this one shows a convenient block for splitting media and text in two columns with mid resizing. In phase 2, this can be the base for internal resizing of columns:
The next step is going to be to freeze the numerous APIs while bugs and outstanding backwards-compatibility issues are addressed.
4.1 is at the release candidaterelease candidateOne of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). stage, which can be grabbed here.
4.1 🎾
Implement a block navigation system that allows selecting child or parent blocks within nested blocks (like folder path traversal) as well as functioning as a general fast navigation system when a root block is selected.
Add a Media & Text block that can facilitate the creation of split column content and allows the split to be resizable.
Defer fetching non-hierarchical terms in FlatTermSelector.
Move the theme support data previously exposed at the REST APIREST APIThe 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/. index into a read-only theme controller for the active theme.
Add self-closing tag support (like path element) when comparing HTMLHTMLHyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers..
Silence PHPPHPThe web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher errors on REST API responses.
Allow default_title, default_content, and default_excerpt filters to function as expected.
Replace gutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ in classNames with block-editor.
Change all occurrences of ‘new window’ to ‘new tab’.
Conditionally load PHP classes in preparation for inclusion in coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..