Hallway Hangout: What’s next for DataViews and DataForm components (Oct 23, 2024)

Join us on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 12:00 GMT to discuss what’s next for DataViews and DataForm with Riad Benguella @youknowriad and André Maneiro @oandregal, both working on the feature and the component.  

DataViews and DataForm have been the foundation of the overall admin design efforts, for now, visible in the site editor. 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 and agency developers can already start using the components for their WordPress customizations. 

The `DataForm` API was introduced 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/ 18.8 as part of a larger effort to reduce duplicated form code in Data Views. Work has continued over the last few releases, and Gutenberg 19.4 added support for the `combinedFields` layout, enabling multiple fields to be rendered in the same row.

Join this informal discussion and learn about the work in progress. Zoom link will be shared in the #outreach 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 and in a comment on this post on Oct. 23, 2024

Learn more about the APIs:

GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ issues for context:

Props to @youknowriad and @greenshady for input and review