What’s next in Gutenberg? (April)

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This is a monthly update containing the high-level items that 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/ contributors are focusing on for the next month. Join us in our efforts.

Full Site Editing

Work on this major focus is ongoing and is expected to continue iterating over the next months.

The team is still working on the Edit Site UIUI User interface in order to bring parity with the Post Editor, support more template-management related features and improve the FSE blocks.

The important tasks have been splitted into sections and highlighted on this overview issue.

Global Styles

The Global Styles work is a major focus for this month. One of the most important aspect here is to add support for the global styles configurations (variables) to multiple blocks.

Some blocks have already been updated to support color settings and line height. This trend is expected to continue and expand to other settings and other blocks.

At the same time, the Global Styles UI is being iterated on the Edit Site screen.

You can follow the progress of this project on this overview issue.

Patterns & Inserter UI

Recently, the Patterns feature and APIs have been added to the editor. The UI is still experimental and an overall redesign of the inserter to absorb both blocks and patterns is one of the month’s priorities.

The team will continue to explore adding more patterns. This highlighted a need for more advanced block tools and customizations.

Updated Navigation Screen

A new experimental Navigation Menu screen is being explored and will serve as a 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.-based replacement for the existing menus page.

Refining the interface

The previous releases saw a big UI update for the editor. The team will continue to iterate based on the remaining tasks and the user feedback.

While these are our focuses don’t forget you can always help with triage, needs testing issues, good first issues and reviewing PRs.

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