Hallway Hangout recording: Let’s chat about what’s next in Gutenberg (August 2024)

Covered topics

The following topics were demoed:

• New tabs block
• New accordion block
• Image gallery lightbox
• Custom Fields UI
• Free-form cropping tool
• Status update on Data Views
• Status check on Zoomed-out mode
• Status check on the Grid Layout
• Updates on Background Image block supports

Recordings

Below, you can find the recording of the first half of the session:

Due to technical reasons, the second half of the session couldn’t be recorded. Fortunately, the latter demos were prerecorded and can be found below:

Zoomed-out mode

Grid Layout

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Thanks to everyone for joining and participating! Special props to @mikachan, @grantmkin, @jffng, @madhudollu, @santosguillamot, @ajlende, @ntsekouras, @scruffian, and @andrewserong for presenting, and to @richtabor for jumping in to facilitate while I was going through technical issues.

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