What’s new in Gutenberg? (27 November)

More than 51 contributors helped shape the 7.0.0 GutenbergGutenberg The 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/ release. It’s one of the biggest number of contributors we’ve ever had.

The release includes a big number of fixes and enhancements to the Navigation 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. and marks it as a stable feature.

Navigation block in action

In terms of APIs, developers will be happy to know that this PR introduced some new APIs like allowing the internationalization of strings containing safe HTML, a new Card component in wordpress/components and a few other enhancements we encourage you to try and provide feedback.

7.0

Features

Enhancements

Bug Fixes

New APIs

Experiments

Documentation

Various

Performance Benchmark

The following benchmark compares performance for a particularly sizeable post (~ 36000 words, ~ 1000 blocks) over the last releases. Such a large post isn’t representative of the average editing experience but is adequate for spotting variations in performance.

VersionLoading TimeKeyPress event (typing)
Gutenberg 7.0.05.1s67.7ms
Gutenberg 6.9.06.6s53.5ms
WordPress 5.36.3s61.44ms

👏 Kudos to all the contributors. Thank you.

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