What’s new in Gutenberg 17.3? (20 December)

“What’s new in 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/…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing 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 called Full Site Editing).

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Gutenberg 17.3 has been released and is available for download!

This update incorporates numerous enhancements, bugbug A 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. fixes, improvements in performance and accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility), and ongoing development of Phase 3 features.

1. Summary of changes in global styles revision history
2. Updated preferences panel
3. Integration of Gravatar Service for Social Icons
4. Other Notable Highlights
5. Changelog
6. First time contributors
7. Contributors

Summary of changes in global styles revision history

Updated preferences panel

Integration of GravatarGravatar Is an acronym for Globally Recognized Avatar. It is the avatar system managed by WordPress.com, and used within the WordPress software. https://gravatar.com/. Service for Social Icons

Other Notable Highlights

• Introduces the ability to adjust the dimensions (margin and padding) of individual list-item blocks. #55874
• Unified post editor with template and post-only editing modes. (#56671)
• Start using modules in the interactive create-block template. (56694)

Changelog

Bug Fixes

• (edit-site)(use-init-edited-entity-from-url) Safely access toString() on siteData‘s page_on_front. (57035)

Components

• Fix form token field suggestion list reopening after blurring the input. (57002)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@fullofcaffeine @talldan
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Enhancements

• Components: Replace TabPanel with Tabs in the editor’s ColorPanel. (56878)
• Editor: Move the edit template blocks notification to editor package. (56901)
• Editor: Unify the preview dropdown between post and site editors. (56921)
• Editor: Use the same PostTemplatePanel between post and site editors. (56817)
• Tabs: Replace id with new tabId prop. (56883)
• Update main toolbar buttons to all be compact. (56635, 56729)
• Update preferences organization. (56481)

Components

• FocalPointPicker with __next40pxDefaultSize. (56021)
• Font Library: Improve usability of font variant selection. (56158)
• Tabs: Sync browser focus to selected tab in controlled mode. (56658)
• Use consistent styling for duotone panels. (56801)
• BorderControl: Fix button styles. (56730)
• DimensionControl: Add __next40pxDefaultSize prop. (56805)
• FontSizePicker: Add opt-in prop for 40px default size. (56804)
• QueryControls: Add opt-in prop for 40px default size. (56576)

Block Library

• Control dimensions (margin and padding) of the list-item block. (55874)
• Consistent default typography controls across blocks. (55208)
• Social Icons: Add Gravatar service. (56544)
• Tweak table block placeholder with __next40pxDefaultSize props. (56935)

Site Editor

• Merge the post only mode and the post editor. (56671)
• Site Editor 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.: Add “Areas” details panel to all templates and update icon. (55677)

Block Editor

• Allow dragging between adjacent container blocks based on a threshold. (56466)
• Components: Replace TabPanel with Tabs in the editor’s ColorGradientControl. (56351)

Data Views

• Update data view layout. (56786)

Layout

• Match the front end layout classname in the editor. (56774)

Global Styles

• Global style revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision.: Show change summary on selected item. (56577)

Icons

• Another round of HiDPI icon tweaks. (56532)

Media

• Update external images panel in post publish sidebar. (55524)

Post Editor

• Implement Tabs in editor settings. (55360)

Bug Fixes

• Create-block-interactive-template: Add all files to the generated 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 zip. (56943)
• Create-block-interactive-template: Prevent crash when Gutenberg plugin is not installed. (56941)
• Fix end-to-end test: Update how we find the template title to match markup changes. (56992)
• Fix: Fatal php error if a template was created by an author that was deleted. (56990)
• Fix: PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher 8.1 deprecated warning strpos(). (56171)
• Fix: Use span on template list titles. (56955)
• Font Library: Add font family and font face preview keys to schema. (56793)
• Remove unnecessary CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. for shrinking central headerHeader The 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. area. (56220)
• Revert format types hook refactor. (56859)
• Show template center UIUI User interface when no block is selected. (56217)
• setImmutably: Don’t clone all objects. (56612)

Block Library

• Fix error when using a navigation block that returns an empty fallback result. (56629)
• Fixture Tests: Correctly generate fixture files for form-related blocks. (56719)
• Image: Fix resetting behaviour for alt image text. (56809)
• Social Links Block: Prevent Theme Styles Distorting Size. (56301)
• Update image block save to only save align none class. (56449)

Components

• DropdownMenuV2Ariakit: Prevent prefix collapsing if all radios or checkboxes are unselected. (56720)
• FormToggle: Do not use “/” math operator. (56672)
• PaletteEdit: Temporary custom gradient not saving. (56896)
• ToggleGroupControl: ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. correctly to external controlled updates. (56678)

Block Editor

• Apply __next40pxDefaultSize to TextControl and Button component in renaming UIs. (56933)
• Pattern inserter: Fix Broken preview layout. (56814)
• Patterns: Keep synced pattern when added via drag and drop. (56924)

Design Tools

• Background image support: Fix duplicate output of styling rules. (56997)
• Fix sticky position in classic themes with appearance tools support. (56743)

Post Editor

• Editor Canvas: Fix animation when device type changes. (56970)
• Editor: Fix display of edit template blocks notification. (56978)

Site Editor

• Fix active edited post. (56863)
• Show back button when editing navigation and template area in-place with no URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org params. (56741)

Typography

• Fix order of typography sizes and families. (56659)
• Font Library: Fix font uninstallation. (56762)

Navigation in Site View

• Navigation editor: Fix content mode. (56856)

Patterns

• Fix top position and height of Pattern Modal Sidebar. (56787)

Interactivity 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.

• Start using modules in the interactive create-block template. (56694)

Layout

• Fix input not showing when switching to “Fixed” width. (56660)

Data Views

• Align data view icon usage. (56602)

Block Styles

• Consolidate and resolve display issues between InserterPreviewPanel and BlockStylesPreviewPanel. (56011)

Inspector Controls

• Decode some characters if used in taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. name so it’s displayed correctly in Query LoopLoop The 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. filters. (50376)

Accessibility

Data Views

• Add scroll padding to dataviews container. (56946)
• Adding aria-sort to table view headers. (56860)
• Fix: Use span instead of heading for the template titles. (56785)

Post Editor

• Avoid to show unnecessary Tooltip for the Post Schedule button. (56759)

Block Editor

• Increase right padding of URL field to take the Submit button into account. (56685)

Site Editor

• Shorter screen reader announcement after changing pages. (56339)

Components

• Use tooltip for the Timezone only when necessary. (56214)

Performance

• Block editor: Make all BlockEdit hooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same. pure. (56813)
• Block editor: Remove 4 useSelect in favour of context. (56915)
• Block editor: hooks: Avoid BlockEdit filterFilter Filters 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. for content locking UI. (56957)
• Block editor: hooks: Share block settings. (56852)
• Keycodes: Avoid regex for capital case. (56822)
• Measure typing without inspector. (56753)
• Media upload component: Lazy mount. (56958)
• Paragraph: Store subscription for selected block only. (56967)
• Perf: Reopen inspector for remaining tests. (56780)
• useBlockProps: Combine store subscriptions. (56847)

Block Editor

• Improve opening inserter in post editor. (57006)
• hooks: Subscribe only to relevant attributes. (56783)

Site Editor

• Fix typing performance by not rendering sidebar. (56927)

Components

• ToolsPanel: Fix deregister/register on type. (56770)

Modules API

• Load the import map polyfill only when there is an import map. (56699)

Post Editor

• Editor: Avoid double parsing content in ‘getSuggestedPostFormat’ selelector. (56679)

Experiments

Data Views

• DataViews: Add story. (56761)
• DataViews: Add support for NOT IN operator in filter. (56479)
• DataViews: Centralize the view definition and rename list to table. (56693)
• DataViews: Do not export strings constants. (56754)
• DataViews: Export the view components as defaults. (56677)
• DataViews: Fix dropdown menu actions with modal. (56760)
• DataViews: Hide pagination if we have only one page. (56948)
• DataViews: Implement NOT IN operator for author filter in templates. (56777)
• DataViews: Iterate on list view. (56746)
• DataViews: Make Actions styles the same as any other column header. (56654)
• DataViews: Make mediaField not hidable. (56643)
• DataViews: Rename view components. (56709)
• DataViews: Render data async conditionally. (56851)
• DataViews: Set proper role for AddFilter’s items. (56714)
• DataViews: Set proper semantics for dropdown items. (56676)
• DataViews: Update sorting semantics. (56717)
• Dataviews: Extract to dedicated bundled package. (56721)

Block Validation/Deprecation

• Input Field Block: Use useblockProps hook in save function. (56507)

Patterns

• Implement partially synced patterns behind an experimental flag. (56235)

Documentation

• Add the nested blocks chapter to the platform documentation. (56689)
• Components: Update CHANGELOG.md. (56960)
• Doc: Search Control – add Storybook link. (56815)
• Doc: Spinner – add Storybook link. (56818)
• Docs: Add storybook link for spinner component. (56953)
• Docs: Fix {% end %} tab position to show the text. (56735)
• Docs: Fundamentals of Block Development – Minor fixes – registration-of-a-block. (56731)
• Docs: Fundamentals of Block Development – add links. (56700)
• Docs: Fundamentals of Block Development —- Small fixes for “Block wrapper”. (56651)
• Link to Dashicons. (56872)
• Platform Docs: Add trusted by section. (56749)
• Revert “Doc: Spinner – add Storybook link”. (56913)
• Update Getting Started Guide for Gutenberg 17.2. (56674)
• Update InnerBlocks defaultblock doc usage. (56728)
• Update formatting and fix grammar in the Block Editor Handbook readme. (56798)

Code Quality

• Block editor: hooks: Avoid getEditWrapperProps. (56912)
• Block lib: Use RichText.isEmpty where forgotten. (56726)
• Block library: Reusable caption component util. (56606)
• CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. data revisions: Remove hardcoded supports constant. (56701)
• Editor: Cleanup default editor mode handling. (56819)
• Editor: Move the BlockCanvas component within the EditorCanvas component. (56850)
• Editor: Move the device type state to the editor package. (56866)
• Editor: Unify device preview styles. (56904)
• Fix PHP linter failing. (56905)
• Framework: Bundle the BlockTools component within BlockCanvas. (56996)
• Move useDebouncedInput hook to wordpress/compose package. (56744)
• Post Editor: Rely on the editor store for the template mode state. (56716)
• Refactor . (56335)
• Remove Block Tools BackCompat. (56874)
• Site and Post Editor: Unify the DocumentBar component. (56778)
• getValueFromObjectPath: Remove memize. (56711)

Block Editor

• Don’t render undefined classname in useBlockProps hook. (56923)
• One hook to rule them all: Preparation for a block supports API. (56862)
• RichText: Pass value to store. (43204)
• hooks: Manage BlockListBlock filters in one place. (56875)

Global Styles

• Command Palette: Use getRevisions instead of deprecated selector. (56738)
• Global styles revisions: Remove PHP unit tests that are running in Core. (56492)

Components

• Site editor: Do not use navigator’s internal classname. (56911)

Data Views

• DataViews: Remove TanStack. (56873)

Tools

• Env: Migrate to Compose V2. (51339)
• Scripts: Fix CSS imports not minified. (56516)
• wp-env: Make env-cwd option work on Windows. (56265)

Testing

• Migrate ‘editor multi entity saving’ end-to-end tests to Playwright. (56670)
• Migrate ‘inner-blocks-locking-all-embed’ end-to-end tests to Playwright. (56673)
• Migrate ‘site editor export’ end-to-end tests to Playwright. (56675)
• RN: Add watch mode for native tests. (56788)
• Scripts: Enable skipping Playwright browser installation. (56594)
• Tabs: Implement ariakit/test in unit tests. (56835)
• CustomSelectControl: Add additional unit tests. (56575)

Copy

• Copy/fix capitalization of WordPress. (56834)

Site Editor

• Improve text and design of the block removal warnings. (56869)

Global Styles

• Global styles welcome guide: Add a space between translated strings. (56839)

Block Library

• Simplify page list edit warning. (56829)

Patterns

• End pattern page descriptions with a period. (56828)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @benoitchantre: Scripts: Fix CSS imports not minified. (56516)
• @kmanijak: Decode some characters if used in taxonomy name so it’s displayed correctly in Query Loop filters. (50376)
• @lithrel: Env: Migrate to Compose V2. (51339)
• @nk-o: Fix: PHP 8.1 deprecated warning strpos(). (56171)
• @taylorgorman: Link to Dashicons. (56872)
• @valerogarte: #55702 – Control dimensions (margin and padding) of the list-item block. (55874)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@afercia @ajlende @alexstine @andrewhayward @andrewserong @apeatling @atachibana @Aurorum @benoitchantre @bph @brookewp @chad1008 @ciampo @colorful-tones @dcalhoun @derekblank @draganescu @ellatrix @fluiddot @geriux @getdave @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeherve @jeryj @jffng @jonathanbossenger @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @kevin940726 @kmanijak @lithrel @luisherranz @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mikachan @miminari @mtias @ndiego @nk-o @ntsekouras @oandregal @ramonjd @richtabor @scruffian @SiobhyB @t-hamano @talldan @taylorgorman @tellthemachines @tyxla @valerogarte @WunderBart @youknowriad

Many thanks to @mikachan for helping out to publish the plugin, @jameskoster for providing graphics for this post, @mikachan and @vcanales for reviewing the draft of this post.

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