Agenda, Dev Chat, Wednesday February 28, 2024

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Props to @annezazu for collating and sharing this list.

• Summary of Hallway Hangout on overlapping problems in the Site Editor.
• Font Library: Discussion has broken out around including the Font Library in 6.5 with questions around where fonts are stored and how easy it is to change, along with broader permissions questions.
• General interface: A PR is underway to Move legacy meta boxes to a toggle to help improve the UXUX User experience of those with these legacy metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. boxes in place.
• Zoomed out: Early work is underway around using Zoom Out Mode with Patterns and what that experience might be like, along with what exposing zoomed out mode in the PreviewDropdown might be like.
• Patterns: Add support for synced theme patterns (with overrides) opened as a new issue that would be great to get feedback on to see where the appetite is and how folks might want to use it in the future.
• In the inspector of the template editor, related patterns will appear and can be selected.
• You can now bulk export patterns.
• Section specific styling: Very early draft PR exploring per-instance stylesheets for application of block style variations. As noted, the plan is to use this PR to inform what foundational changes we might make e.g. new APIs, 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. etc., such that the implementation of extended 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. style variations here can be much cleaner. This is all part of unlocking section specific styling which was punted out of 6.5.
• Block Bindings & Custom Fields: A PR is underway for adding a visual indicator if a block is connected to block binding source.
• Block Hooks: a quick fix is underway to Display toggle for hooked blocks added via filter, solving a confusing UX.
• Data Views: various fixes are in progress including Use aria-disabled on disabled checkboxes and add tooltips & Don’t use combobox when few available options.
• Layout: the experimental flag has been removed from the Grid group variation, stabilizing the option in the 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.