The WordPress coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:
Found a bugbugA bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.?Create a ticket in the bug tracker.
“What’s new in 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/…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-newtagtagA directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.)) are posted following every Gutenberg released on a biweekly basis, discovering new features included in each release. As a reminder, here’s an overview of different ways to keep up with Gutenberg and the Site Editor project (Formerly known as Full Site Editing).
Gutenberg 14.8 has been released and is available for download!
With Gutenberg 14.8, the Site Editor interface gets a major overhaul and introduces Browse Mode. It is now easier than ever to navigate through templates and template parts. It’s even possible to add new ones through the sidebarSidebarA 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.. The work on this feature is ongoing and will continue to improve as new Gutenberg versions are released. (44770), (45100), (46458)
Introducing the Style Book
Users and designers can view and edit all blocks via the new Style Book feature, which is an extension of the Styles panel in the Site Editor. The interface exposes both coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and third-party blocks from plugins and are broken down by categoryCategoryThe 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging.. The Style Book provides an overview of all 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. styles in a centralized location while also making it easier to quickly make changes at the global level. (45960).
The Styles panel also offers a preview when customizing individual blocks. (45719)
Add custom CSSCSSCascading Style Sheets. rules for your site
Bringing feature parity with the WordPress customizerCustomizerTool 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., you can now add custom CSS via the Styles > Custom panel in the Site Editor. This will allow users and designers to quickly make changes that won’t be overwritten by a theme update. (46141), (46561), (46663) Currently, this is an experimental feature that can be enabled by visiting Gutenberg > Experiments and ticking the Global styles custom CSS checkbox.
Other Notable Highlights
List/quote: Unwrap inner block when pressing Backspace at start
Gutenberg 14.8 will now unwrap inner blocks of the List and Quote blocks when backspacing at the start. This results in the first inner block becoming a Paragraph that is separate from its previous parent List or Quote container. (45075)
Pattern title tooltip
The inserter now shows pattern titles when focused on or hovering an individual pattern preview. These were previously hidden from view and only shown to screen readers. (46419)
Navigation Block Improvements
This release continues to improve on the Navigation block with several changes that are building blocks for future releases. These include adding a location fallback for classic menus and an “open list view” button. The Page List block also has a convert panel when used within a Navigation block. (46426), (45976), (46286), (46335), (46070), (46352)
Changelog
Enhancements
Block Library
Add a current-menu-ancestor class to navigation items. (40778)
Page List Block: Adds a longdash tree to the parent selector. (46336)
Page List Block: Hide page list edit button if no pages are available. (46331)
Page List: Add convert panel to Inspector Controls when within Nav block. (46352)
Page List: Prevent users from adding inner blocks to Page List. (46269)
Reusable block: Pluralize the message “Convert to regular blocks” depending on the number of blocks contained. (45819)
Heading Block: Don’t rely on the experimental selector anymore. (46284)
Media & Text Block: Create undo history when media width is changed. (46084)
Navigation block: Add page list to Link UIUIUser interface transforms in Nav block. (46426)
Navigation block: Add location->primary to fallback nav creation for classic menus. (45976)
Navigation block: Update fallback nav creation to the most recently created menu. (46286)
Navigation block: Add a ‘open list view’ button. (46335)
Navigation block: Removes the headerHeaderThe header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. from the navigation list view in the experiment. (46070)
Add a CSS style to theme.jsonJSONJSON, 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. to allow the setting of custom CSS strings. (46255)
Expose before filterFilterFilters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. hook in useSettings for injecting block settings in the editor. (45089)
Global styles: Add a custom CSS panel to the site editor (currently behind an experimental flag). (46141)
Site Editor
Allow adding new templates and template parts directly from the sidebar. (46458)
Synchronize the sidebar state in the URLURLA specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org. (46433)
Try template drill down on the shell sidebar (browse mode). (45100)
Reorganize the site editor to introduce Browse Mode. (44770)
Block Editor
Update the synced block hover styles in Inserter. (46442)
Add new selector getLastInsertedBlockClientId. (46531)
PluginPluginA 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
Update the Gutenberg plugin to require at least the WP 6.0 version. (46102)
PHPPHPThe web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher: BackportbackportA port is when code from one branch (or trunk) is merged into another branch or trunk. Some changes in WordPress point releases are the result of backporting code from trunk to the release branch. changes from core theme resolver. (46250)
Update: Move gutenberg_register_core_block_patterns from 6.1 to 6.2. (46249)
Upgrade ReactReactReact is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. packages to v18. (45235)
Themes
Empty Theme: Add the $schema property in theme.json and rename template directories. (46300)
Mobile: Updates packages to not use GitGitGit is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/.HTTPSHTTPSHTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information. URLs. (46422)
Bug Fixes
Block Library
Fix Nav Submenu block Link UI text control. (46243)
Fix auto Nav menu creation due to page list inner blocks. (46223)
Handle innerContent too when removing innerBlocks. (46377)
Image Block: Ensure drag handle matches cursor position when resizing a center aligned image. (46497)
Navigation Block: Add social link singular to list of blocks to be allowed. (46374)
Page List Block: Fix error loading page list parent options. (46327)
Query LoopLoopThe Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. Block: Add migrationMigrationMoving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. of colors to v2 deprecation. (46522)
Site Logo: Correctly set the image’s natural height and width. (46214)
Strip markup from link label data in inspector. (46171)
Style Book: Clear Global Styles navigation history when selecting a block. (46391)
Global Styles 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/. endpoint: Check custom CSS is included before attempting to validate. (46561)
Reverts the custom CSS to an experiment while we resolve the handling of unfiltered HTMLHTMLHyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. capabilities. (46663)
Block Editor: Add initial view mode in BlockPatternSetup. (46399)
Site Editor
Do not remount iframeiframeiFrame is an acronym for an inline frame. An iFrame is used inside a webpage to load another HTML document and render it. This HTML document may also contain JavaScript and/or CSS which is loaded at the time when iframe tag is parsed by the user’s browser.. (46431)
Modal: Fix unexpected modal closing in IME Composition. (46453)
MaybeCategoryPanel: Avoid 403 requests for users with low permissions. (46349)
Rich text: Add button to clear unknown format. (44086)
Document Settings
Fix template title in summary panel and requests for low privileged users. (46304)
Permalink: Hide edit field for users without publishing capabilities. (46361)
Patterns
Content lock: Make filter hook namespace unique. (46344)
Layout
Child Layout controls: Fix help text for height. (46319)
Widgets Editor
Shortcuts: Add Ctrl+Y for redo to all editor instances on Windows. (43392)
Block APIAPIAn 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.
Block Editor: Fix no-node-access violations in BlockPreview. (46409)
Block Editor: Fix no-node-access violations in BlockSelectionClearer. (46408)
Columns mobile edit: Remove unused updateBlockSettings action bind. (46455)
ESLint: Fix warning in getBlockAttribute documentation. (46500)
List View: Use default parameters instead of defaultProps. (46266)
Removed: Remove small APIs marked to be removed in WP 6.2. (46106)
Site Editor: Remove invalidinvalidA resolution on the bug tracker (and generally common in software development, sometimes also notabug) that indicates the ticket is not a bug, is a support request, or is generally invalid. CSS. (46288)
Block Library
Group Block: Remove placeholder leftovers. (46423)
Inserter: Update mobile tab navigation styles. (46186)
Layout
Clarify inline comment about switching to safecss_filter_attr. (46061)
Tools
Build Tooling
Adds GithubGitHubGitHub 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/ Action to validate Gradle Wrapper. (46247)
Prevent api-fetch and core-data from being imported in the block editor package. (46302)
Serialize the map objects properly in the Redux dev tools. (46282)
end-to-end tests: Add width and color test to button block. (46452)
Performance Benchmark
The following benchmark compares performance for a particularly sizeable post (~36,000 words, ~1,000 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.
Post Editor
Version
Loading Time
KeyPress Event (typing)
Gutenberg 14.8
7.8s
48.14ms
Gutenberg 14.7
6.25s
46.4ms
WordPress 6.1
5.9s
48.04ms
Site Editor
Version
Loading Time
KeyPress Event (typing)
Gutenberg 14.8
3.36s
31.7ms
Gutenberg 14.7
5.47s
34.78ms
WordPress 6.1
5.72s
36.1ms
Kudos to all the contributors that helped with the release! 👏
First time contributors
The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:
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