Editor

The Editor component covers:

Integration of the Gutenberg block editor, which was added in WordPress 5.0, into WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
Maintenance of the classic editor, which was the default editor until WordPress 5.0.

💬 Weekly chat Wednesday 14:00 UTC in the #core-editor Slack channel.

Subcomponents: TinyMCE, Autosave, and Quick/Bulk Edit.

556 open tickets in the Editor component

556 open tickets	defect (bug)	enhancement	feature request	task (blessed)
	16	5	0	0
7.2	5	7	0	0
Awaiting Review	332	75	24	0
Future Release	56	33	2	1

556 open tickets. Last 7 days: +2 tickets

117 tickets that have no replies

View list on Trac

#46171 Add "backing up this post in your browser" label to post-type administration
#50544 Move Navigation screen's PHP code from Gutenberg to Core
#51982 Textarea to which button 'Add block' attach to don't get the focus and Blocks from Blocks / Patterns area are placing into the previous place of focus ui
#51989 Preview does not reflect layout change on published posts
#52054 WordPress 5.6 broke my ability to create posts.
#52215 conflict with useBlockProps()
#52308 WordPress Editor does not preserve "blank" (empty) lines in Code/Text mode javascript
#52475 Metaboxes unable to be moved to side panel anymore?
#52659 Insert Link tool should not apply anchor tag before anchor has been applied ui
#52819 Naming of Reusable block: make it required & unique
#53027 gutenberg editor: click on document-outline elements has no effect.
#53029 'separate_items_with_commas' does not display in Block editor meta section
#53208 WordPress editor documentation: a few suggested changes docs
#53254 YouTube blocks becomes uneditable
#53256 Cover images within a column break the editor
#53267 Search Form Doesn't Return Results Found in Reusable Blocks
#53391 Block editor Code and Preformatted failing to accept text
#53439 Updating failed. The response is not a valid JSON response. javascript
#53517 Pasting Text
#53537 Default content overwrittern when using a default post format
#53583 Distraction Free Writing Mode not available on visual tab
#53630 Prior State Recall for Panes in Editor (Collapse/Expanded) ui
#53698 Published posts auto scrolls on reload
#53723 503 Errors in Posts with Complex Gutenberg Content
#53810 Template Editor: Code editor view doesn't show the template
#53814 Template Editor has no URL to access it
#53901 I found error in wordpress "Publishing failed. The response is not a valid JSON response." administration
#53934 Vimeo embed working in admin and not on post when using private link ui
#53999 it didn't save TAGS in post.
#54024 Internal links with href=outdated-slug and a data-type data-id as fallback should use that and update href=new-slug instead of resulting in broken link (404)
#54046 Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression javascript
#54220 Issue with link tool in block editor
#54305 Transition of block editor width when previewing desktop/tablet/mobile causes multiple resize events (and unnecessary lag)
#54417 Featured Image Exceeds Container ui css
#54430 Block Editor does not save text where the ellipsis are in quotation marks .
#54445 Space bar doesn't work when typing a post.
#54475 CSS Selector in block-library css will broke SVG scaled text rendering in Chrome 96 (Win 10, Win 11, Mac OS) css
#54522 unsaved edits should consistently trigger pop-up alert
#54587 In some gutenberg blocks the styles setting is not displaying image.
#54606 The selectControl component has margin bottom 0 in label of selectControl.
#54653 Alphabetically sorted Headers in a Single Blog Post
#55139 TypeError: k is not iterable javascript
#55142 Custom, external or 3rd party styles are not loaded inside the preview iframe
#55314 When saving edits to the footer in editor (beta), saving fails
#55315 SVGs in editor (beta)
#55548 Unchecked "Uncategorized" checkbox re-checks itself upon publish or update of a post ui
#55728 baseURL missing for remotely fetched editor styles
#55886 Need to check query loop block thumbnail issue in post template
#55916 Font size in post editing is not validated
#55945 UI Isssue on header list view ui css administration
#55951 Page List and Latest Posts Text Colors Do Not Automatically Adjust to Background Color in 6.0 ui
#56069 Footer Template Parts and Reusable Blocks Have Added Spacing By Default template
#56080 Block Editor Search Function Choke
#56082 Block editor does not unset changed/dirty flag for nested types
#56464 Event custom metabox with Gutenberg not showing correctly
#56506 Used default separator style in editor but It's showing Wide Line Separator style in My Patterns ui
#56627 Underscores are not allowed in block names; error message is misleading.
#56744 Inaccuracy in user_can_richedit() function on /wp-includes/general-template.php
#56768 Images encoded with Base64 with a given string length appears weird in editor but kills the post render on the site
#56859 Blocks: register_block_script_handle() does not account for symlinks
#56961 Stack on mobile (media and text block) doesnt work any longer
#57016 When searching for a block, there is an unexpected blank space at the bottom of the Editor ui
#57091 Global Styles: Element styles not working for third-party blocks
#57495 Cover block: fixed background doesn't work
#57499 Featured Image block size options not displaying in FSE
#57601 Custom browser user agent breaks visual editor
#57849 About supporting markdown officially
#58045 Global style change cannot be reverted template
#58153 Ctrl + SHIFT + D conflicts with browser shortcuts
#58260 Enable `elementpath` for the Classic Block TinyMCE editor
#58278 [Query Loop][Post Template][Custom dynamic block] Impossible to pass query loop context to a custom dynamic block as the post template context is hard coded.
#58720 Page-Specific template in Site Editor detaches itself from the page when page slug is updated. administration template
#58759 Iframed block editor breaks printing some pre-registered scripts enqueued late
#58799 Need to add filter to register a template in [NEW] WordPress site editor through a plugin template
#58886 When editing a pattern getting console error on chrome browser administration
#58975 Replace image deletes the link!
#59051 When copying multiple paragraphs, only one is copied
#59194 Lazy Loading not applying at all in the front page template
#59228 Links in 6.3 missing new window.nofollow.etc
#59344 Link UI Goes Off The Screen, Can't Acces Advanced
#59364 When editing Styles > Layout or Block > * > Dimensions, every possible (and unnecessary) combination of global settings is copied to custom styles
#59396 Allow the user to add a poster to YouTube videos
#59565 WordPress Block Editor Tag Limit Bug
#59773 WP-Admin post editor JS createPreloadingMiddleware has PHP WP_Query deliver Drafts while in editor they are not
#60005 Video block shows a blank white square with play button instead of video placeholder in mobile view.
#60063 Add a dynamic hook to filter the pre-rendered content of a single block.
#60075 Heading-Level Tooltip prevents from selecting a level
#60151 FSE theme Styles select Issue ui
#60152 Footnotes save to public, unprefixed "footnotes" field
#60396 Color Picker picks color by hex value
#60464 Shortcode in Patterns -> Template Parts -> General -> An item in it.
#60587 Block hooks: Allow filtering of block data on traversal
#60829 Improve shortcode support for link fields
#60956 Incorrect copy-paste behavior in the header ui
#60976 register_block_type not working with Oxygen
#61001 Hide the Editor Page Title when the current Template is "Page No Title" ui css administration template
#61018 Block editor color selector displays incorrect color information
#61058 Edit Permalinks, Date, Time and Visibility not working on 6.5.2
#61270 Error notice Updating failed. The response is not a valid JSON response.
#61551 Page template list lacks sorting ui administration
#61599 Can synchronize with pages and templates ? administration template
#61600 Import of scheduled posts
#61664 Can't insert a reusable block and other problems
#62256 A suggestion for binding blocks. ui
#62871 Font Library Install Fonts not accessible after migrating website
#62964 WordPress Master-Master Replication Conflicts Caused by Gutenberg Blocks
#63067 Allow non queryable taxonomies to be queried in Query Block
#63153 Onscreen keyboard obscures post body and Custom Fields input on mobile ui
#63993 wp_ajax_wp_remove_post_lock does not remove a post lock
#64216 Undefined array key 0 in wp-includes/block-editor.php on line 468
#64841 wp_editor() with quicktags enabled does not force-print buttons.css on the frontend, unlike editor.css
#65356 Columns block conversion workflow from 2 to 3 or 4 columns is not intuitive
#65361 Modify the notes capability model
#65614 Site Editor: skip block-theme-only preloads for classic themes performance
#65628 PHP-only blocks: in-canvas editing
#66105 Site Editor: Preserve block search state when returning from a block in Styles ui
#66115 PLEASE reword and revamp how “Inner blocks use content width” is used! ui template

12 tickets slated for 7.2

View list in Trac

#42540 Don't move focus to the editor when switching editor mode ui accessibility javascript
#59596 Cache file sizes of core block style files. performance
#62057 Addressing Autosave Memory Issues
#64638 Register emoji reactions comment meta for Notes
#65417 Bug: Classic Editor link dialog prepends http:// to URLs with uppercase protocol javascript
#65795 Icons: Improve the SVG sanitizer in WP_Icons_Registry
#65878 Make the focus style consistent in Core and the Editor accessibility administration
#65880 Global Styles: Add pseudo-selector support for text inputs
#65963 Add the option to set a description to post statuses and expose this in the API for use by Gutenberg ui tests administration rest-api
#66055 Editor: Migrate the Column block to the width block support css
#66094 Editor: Add a background clip block support to facilitate text gradients
#66114 Icons: Add a reserved `_builtin` icon collection

556 open tickets

Open enhancements: 120 View list on Trac
Open tasks: 1 View list on Trac
Open feature requests: 26 View list on Trac
Open defects: 409 View list on Trac

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