Editor chat summary: June 22, 2022

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This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on Wednesday, June 22. 2022, 03:00 PM GMT+1 in 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/.. Moderated by @fabiankaegy.

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/ 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 release

Gutenberg 13.5 got released by @annezazu. You can find the Changelog in the What’s new in Gutenberg 13.5? (22 June) post.

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Key project updates

The list of 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/ tracking issues was updated to reflect the updated Roadmap for Gutenberg Phase 2 for WordPress 6.1 Matias Ventura published earlier this month.

Task coordination

Nothing was discussed during the meeting.

Open floor

@andrewserong

Shared an update on some of the work they’ve been doing to explore a potential path forward for refactoring how the Layout 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. support works.

Update comment on the GitHub tracking issue
They are looking for feedback and reviews of this PR that explores refactoring the Layout support to progress some of the recent discussion forward in an incremental way

@ramonopoly

Shared an update about the work on the Fluid Font Size feature.