Jorge Costa 7:04 pm on May 3, 2021
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Editor chat summary: Wednesday, 28 April 2021

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 28 April 2021, 14:00 UTC held in Slack.

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/ 10.5 RCrelease candidate One 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). release.

The first topic was the Gutenberg 10.5 release. The RC was already shipped a week before the chat https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/releases/tag/v10.5.0-rc.1. @jorgefilipecosta said that we had some PR’s that were cherry-picked since the RC.

The final release was scheduled for the day of the chat. @jorgefilipecosta gave public congratulations to @ajitbohra for the first RC release!

Posts requiring feedback and insights.

@jorgefilipecosta said that we have two important posts published recently that deserve wide attention:

In case anyone has some insights or thoughts to share please leave a comment on the posts! Your insights are appreciated!


Monthly Plan and key project updates.

Global Styles

Shipped this week

theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML.

block.json / 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. supports

  • duotone #26752
  • padding: fix to allow units other than px #31057
  • font-size: can be used in nodes other than the wrapper #30879
  • border-color: fix for dynamic blocks #31020
  • blocks
    • padding for site title #31125
    • padding and letter casing for site tagline #31042
    • link color for post date #30791
    • table uses now background/text colors from the theme #30791

Internationalization

  • custom templates can be translated via theme.json #29828

KSES

  • fix to sanitizing user styles #30888

Site editor:

  • fixes for preset classes in the site editor #31218 #31217 #31204
  • fix for color selector in the UIUI User interface color panel #31015

Ongoing

theme.json

  • Changes to format #29891 are ready #30541 we’re now testing and polishing. It also includes versioning (aka migrate the older formats to the new one).
  • Improve APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. to take data from the theme directly #31267

block.json / block supports

  • typography (line-height, font-weight, etc) can be used in nodes other than the wrapper #30880
  • border and color (background, text) to the pull quote block #30951

New style properties

  • Add support for letter-spacing #31118

Misc

  • Add a new endpoint that exposes block editor settings through 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/. (by mobile to access global styles data) #29969
  • standardize capabilities of wp_template, wp_template_part and wp_global_styles #30893

Priorities

The priority continues to be shipping #29891 as soon as possible to unblock related work.

#28913 is a good issue to look at if you can lend a hand (help with reviews, migrate more blocks, more properties, etc).

Block based WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. and Navigation Editor.

@andraganescu provided the following update:

The legacy widget got an UXUX User experience upgrade and now the default view is the preview while the embedded widget editor in the customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. had a performance overhaul. The focus on back combat continued with more testing with legacy widgets from various plugins. As expected a lot of new issues were opened.

On navigation editor the steady pace of improvements continued last week. Many thanks for the many welcome contributions!

Navigation block.

@joen provided the following update:

For the navigation block, we recently merged a padding change and I’m doing some followups (submenu gap, placeholder items, nav screen). Also looking at small separate improvements, and hope to get back to patterns now that the padding change is merged  — thank you for reviews.

Full Site Editing/Page templates

@youknowriad provided the following update regarding page templates:

I’ve spent some time iterating on that on the last days. We now merged the UIs for templates under a single “template” panel 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., we iterated a bit on the design of the “frame” to distinguish properly between template and post modes and simplified the save flow a bit. There are a number of iterations we could make, I don’t expect all of them to happen before 5.8, at some point, we’d make a final decision about whether it’s good enough to include.

@ntsekouras made a heads up regarding the query block:

Query block has now a wrapper element which for now is div (and will be the default when more tags will be supported) here: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/30804I’ve added a deprecation so everything will work as before but it will be good to update any block themes you have that use Query.

Task Coordination

@aristath

This past week:

  • Continued working on PR to autogenerate anchors for headings – #30825
  • Continued on @nosolosw‘s existing PR to allow inner blocks in quotes – #25892
  • Sustainability: PR to split theme.css styles and only load the ones for rendered blocks – #31239
  • Smaller PRs, mostly to improve code quality & linting errors
  • Lots and lots of PR reviews

Next week: Continue working on all the things mentioned above

@mamaduka

Helping out with the new Navigation Editor screen:

  • Sync menu name updates.
  • Introduce useMenuEntityProp hook.
  • Better handling of unsaved changes. PRs one and two.

Continued my work on the “Most Used Terms” feature and got great feedback about improvements. Thanks, everyone.Planning to continue working on Navigation Editor tasks.

@paaljoachim

@ntsekouras

@annezazu

Continued FSE Program work with the fifth call for testing, publishing a schedule of upcoming plans, reviewing/adding to a brief FSE doc, and launched a second round of questions. I’m planning to likely do a hallway hangout tomorrow on FSE issues/prs/designs in #fse-outreach-experiment for anyone interested!

@poena

Plans to continue on the site block changes but also I want to test the theme.json format and update the tutorial for creating block themes. Awaiting review of the letter-spacing.

@vdwijngaert

Will be working on a PR for moving the post/page title to the top bar. Current PR: #31240, but going to close that in favor of a new one based on a branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch".

@jffng

@jorgefilipecosta

The main goal for next week is to review https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/30541 and help it be merged. Plans on reviewing other Global Styles PR that are opened (e.g: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/30880). Wants to fix https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/27478, which is probably very simple but may have a considerable impact and should be done ASAP.

Open floor

Post title moving in site editor

@bobbingwide said that there’s a problem moving the post title in the Site Editor. Adding that it’s tricky editing the topmost block if one does not have the toolbar set to top. @joen said @ellatrix is working on a fix https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/31134.

G2 Components

@aristath asked the status of “G2 components” and if there is any plan on removing them. @youknowriad said that G2 is not removed but while reviewing some of the integration PRs, he noticed that G2 reimplements a lot of things we already have in Gutenberg in its own way. So the plan is still to integrate it but aligning with Gutenberg practices.

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