Editor chat summary: August 30th, 2023

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This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting (agenda, slack transcript), held in the #core-editor 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/. channel, on Wednesday, August 30, 2023, 14:00 UTC.

General Updates

Gutenberg 16.5.1 is available.
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/ 16.6.0 RC1 will be released during the next hours.

Open floor

@juanfra

raised Add CSS class to paragraph block for awareness.
- It’s a hard to maintain PR due to the large number of modified files so faster reviews would be useful. The PR will add a new CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. class to all rendered paragraphs.
- Do not be scared about the many changes the essence of the PR is detailed here.

@mdxfr

raised Query loop – remove current post ID for ‘related posts’ for awareness
- it appears the best way to redo this is a code exploration that would add 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. attribute to skip the current post when the post is set to not inherit.
Cover block align-top doesn’t work for awareness
- a code exploration now exists in Make matrix position behave like valign.
Inconsistent handling of line breaks in excerpts
- Still unclear what causes the issues, some opinions it may be a problem coming from how autop magically intervenes in classic content.

@gregross

raised the issue of DST bug on post scheduler and its PR in Set the timezone correctly for awareness.
- Hopefully the long standing PR can get a review soon.

@luminuu

asked if there is a tracking issue in the Gutenberg repo for things related to the newly developed TwentTwentyFour theme
- there isn’t
- the one in the theme’s repo Related Gutenberg Issues and PRs should be moved and maintained in the Gutenberg repository for better visibility

Async key project updates

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