Editor chat summary: May 10th, 2023

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda for May 10th meeting) held on Wednesday, May 10 2023, 03:00 PM GMT+1 in Slack. Moderated by @fabiankaegy.

Gutenberg 15.8 RC1 was released right after the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. editor chat concluded.

A release candidate for WordPress 6.2.1 is available for testing.

Key project updates

• Navigation Block
• Site Editor & Templates
• Building with Patterns
• Design Tools
  • Layout Option & Design Tools
• Styles
  • Style Engine
• Query Block
• Mobile Team
• Components Team
• WebFonts API

Open Floor

@gigtux created two PRs for improving the preview of some theme level blocks. An overview issue to track this overall effort was also created: Improve the preview states for blocks that require entities

• Post Title: improve preview on the editor site
• Post Excerpt: improve preview on the editor site

Reviews are welcome 🙂

@paaljoachim shared two PR’s that could use some additional testing:

• Group Block – add support for Background Images
• Show the content of paragraph and lists in the List view

@Hanzala would love to get some feedback on Fix toggle new tab does not persist changes to text input in Link Control, which looks at the UXUX User experience of the LinkControl component

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