Editor chat summary: 27 September, 2023

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda for 27th of September meeting) for Wednesday, September 27 2023, 03:00 PM GMT+1 in #core-editor. Moderated by @paaljoachim.

Accouncements

Gutenberg plugin 16.7 was released today. A big thank you to @mikachan for handling the release!
Beta 1 of WordPress 6.4 was released yesterday.
Only fixes can be added during a betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. period.
The current release target is 7th of November.
WordPress 6.4 Editor Tasks.

Key project updates:

Here is a new list of key updates. Thanks to @bph for gathering this list.

Task Coordination

No updates.

Open Floor

@NekoJonez

During translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. I noticed that some strings about the pattern directory were added… So, I wonder the new string “Directory” about what is it talking? Since in Dutch that can mean two things. I created this ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. for it: Translator confusion about “Directory”
Also, isn’t a verb missing here? See more details in this 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/ issue.
Missing verb in string?


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#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #gutenberg, #meeting-notes, #summary

What’s new in Gutenberg 16.7? (27 September)

“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.

What's New In Gutenberg 16.7?

Gutenberg 16.7 has been released and is available for download!

16.7 is the last Gutenberg release ahead of the upcoming WordPress 6.4 release, so it’s packed with features and 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. Exciting new features include the new Font Library for font management within the editor, lots of enhancements to pattern management, simplified lightbox functionality, and many UXUX User experience enhancements.

This release consists of 331 pull requests authored by 88 contributors, including 7 new contributors! 🥳 🎉

Table of Contents

  1. Font Management with the Font Library
  2. Import/Export of Patterns
  3. Explore New Pattern Filtering
  4. Naming Group Blocks in the Editor
  5. “My Patterns” Category Reinstated in Post Editor Inserter
  6. Simplified Lightbox Functionality for Images
  7. Background Image Control Added to Group Block
  8. New Social Link Icon for X
  9. Changelog
  10. First time contributors
  11. Contributors

Font Management with the Font Library

Screenshot of the Styles panel in the editor with the Typography settings open

The new Font Library allows users to install, remove, and activate typographic fonts from various sources in WordPress via the editor. The installed fonts are enabled globally, independent of the active theme in the /wp-content/fonts directory, similar to the Media Library. As part of this new feature, users can add fonts manually by uploading them from their local machine or choosing from a list of Google Fonts. (#53884 & #53307)

Import/Export of Patterns

Screenshot of a pattern in the editor with the options panel open, showing the new "Export as JSON" option

It’s now possible to import and export patterns as JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. files directly from the site editor’s patterns screen. This change mirrors the existing import/export functionality in the /wp-admin patterns screen, making it more straightforward for all users to migrate patterns between sites. (#54337)

Explore New Pattern Filtering

Screenshot of the pattern list panel, highlighting the new filters dropdown

Pattern filters have been restructured, with filters now being housed within a dropdown at the top of the pattern list panel. A sticky 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. has also been added to the top of the list panel for improved navigation. (#54681)

Naming Group Blocks in the Editor

Screenshot of the editor with the List View open, showing a custom named block with the name, "My custom name"

Group blocks can now be named using custom naming. Naming these blocks will update their name in the List View, making it easier to distinguish between blocks. This enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature. marks another step forward as the Site Editor’s tools and features continue to expand. (#53735)

“My Patterns” CategoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. Reinstated in Post Editor Inserter

Prompted by feedback, the “My patterns” category has been reintroduced to the post editor’s inserter, providing a central place for users to view their custom patterns. (#54767)

Simplified Lightbox Functionality for Images

The Behaviors UIUI User interface introduced as an experimental feature in Gutenberg 15.9 has been removed and replaced with an “Expand on click” toggle in the Image 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.’s Inspector Controls and in the Global Styles. (#54509) (#54509)

The support for Behaviors in the theme.json has also been deprecated and will be removed completely in Gutenberg 17.0:

  • Users who enabled the “lightbox” behavior in their theme.json file should migrate to a new syntax where the lightbox is simply a new block-level setting:
“settings”: {
	“blocks”: {
		“core/image”: {
			“lightbox”: {
				“enabled”: true | false
				“allowEditing”: true | false
			}
		}
	}
}
  • Note that the support for the “animation” value has been removed.

If you enabled the lightbox on any Image blocks using the previous Behaviors UI, please open and re-save posts that include those blocks to ensure they get migrated to the latest syntax.

With the removal of support for the “animation” value, all images will now only use the “expand” (zoom) animation, even if they had previously used the “fade” animation.

Background Image Control Added to Group Block

Background image support has been added to the Group block, in line with the color controls. (#53934 & #54439)

A new social link icon has been added for the X service. It can be found when searching for “X” or “Twitter”. (#54092)

Changelog

Features

Block Library

  • Social Links: Add X. (54092)

Typography

Font Library:

  • Add mime type validation for font uploads. (53986)
  • Font Collection backend. (54098)
  • Frontend [Stage 1]. (53884)
  • Font Collections frontend. (54566)

Patterns

  • Allow import/export patterns as JSON files. (54337)

Block Editor

  • Adds ‘nofollow’ setting to inline links (rich text only). (53945)
  • Rename Group blocks in the Editor via Modal. (53735)

Enhancements

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Data

  • Add edits data to the useEntityRecord. (54167)

Components

  • Add non-listbox functionality back to CircularOptionPicker. (54290)
  • Added missing “middle” allowed tooltip position. (52147)
  • BlockSettingsMenu: Ensure only one block settings menu is open at a time. (54083)
  • Bundle the block copy handler within the BlockCanvas component. (54207)
  • Bundle the block selection clearer hook into the BlockCanvas component. (54209)
  • Ensure that ‘Duotone 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.’ color pickers have relevant labels. (54468)
  • Export ProgressBar to allow it to be used. (54404)
  • FormTokenField – add prop to allow saving of tokens onBlur. (53976)
  • Refactoring BorderControl‘s unit tests. (54155)
  • Remove unnecessary padding-right on the dismissible notice. (52240)
  • Support controlling open/closed state for Dropdown and DropdownMenu. (54257)
  • ToggleGroupControl: Rewrite backdrop animation with framer motion shared layout animations. (50278)
  • ToolTip: Refactor using ariakit. (48440)
  • Tooltip: Add placement prop to replace deprecated position. (54264)
  • Tooltip: Add new hideOnClick prop. (54406)
  • Tweak border control button to proper metrics and simpler action. (53998)
  • Update FormTokenField styling for consistency and visibility. (54402)
  • Update spacing sizes control metrics and icons. (54470)
  • Update/form token field onblur. (54445)
  • Popover: Update positionToPlacement types. (54101)
  • SearchControl: Allow for 32px compact size, introduce option to change default size to 40px. (54548)

Block Library

  • #39457: Image block keep image size on replacing image. (49982)
  • Add __next40pxDefaultSize to featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. opacity control. (54389)
  • Add aspect ratio to image placeholder. (54216)
  • Allow using a button element for button blocks. (54206)
  • Buttons Block: Show inserter if button have variations (#53498). (53783)
  • Change dialogdescription for renaming group block. (54358)
  • Footnotes: Add missing placeholder instructions text. (54056)
  • Heading block: Add support for writingMode. (54351)
  • Improved description for the post-terms core block. (47715)
  • Make matrix position behave like valign. (54050)
  • Navigation block: Add core/buttons to the allowed blocks. (53966)
  • Remove unused prop from GroupPlaceHolder component. (51493)
  • Template parts: Use the template actions component for template parts patterns. (54173)
  • Text orientation: Rotate vertical text when the text is aligned (Upside down text). (53175)
  • Update parent labels in page attributes panel and page list block. (54403)
  • Use __next40pxDefaultSize on more UI. (54400)

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.

  • Add timeout option to navigate(). (54474)
  • Add manual Server Side Rendering (SSR) to the Interactivity API blocks. (54343)
  • Ensure that the view scripts of core blocks have the wp-interactivity dependency. (54594)
  • Image block: Revise lightbox UI to remove ‘behaviors’. (53851)
  • Image block: UI updates for the image lightbox (redo). (54509)
  • Override unfinished navigate calls. (54201)
  • 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.: Add design enhancements for the “enhanced pagination” setting. (54455)
  • Query Loop: Allow “enhanced pagination” only with core blocks. (54347)
  • Query block: Start prefetching on first click to next/previous. (54781)

Patterns

  • Add categories to user patterns, and allow filtering by these in site and post editor. (53835)
  • Add editing of pattern categories to site editor. (54640)
  • Add user categories to 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. navigation screen. (53837)
  • Add user pattern categories to post editor inserter patterns tab. (53933)
  • Apply white background to the preview as a fallback. (54534)
  • Merge unsynced into inserter patterns tab and add paging and filtering. (54007)
  • Update empty template part label. (53842)
  • Memoize useSelect for usePatterns. (54588)
  • Site Editor: Prevent unintended actions on the classic theme. (54422)

Design Tools

  • Add back tooltip to styles UI. (54574)
  • Add block gap to Post Content block. (54282)
  • Add block instance elements support for buttons and headings. (53667)
  • Background Image block support: Add reset menu item. (54341)
  • Block Supports: Add background image support to Group block. (53934)
  • Columns: Adopt button and heading element colors. (54104)
  • Update block styles UI. (54446)
  • Improve background image control. (54439)

Site Editor

  • Copy: End the Templates page description in the Site Editor with a period. (54221)
  • Edit Site: Update progress bar to determinate. (53399)
  • Follow up visual tweaks to block-specific commands. (54427)
  • Site editor sidebar: Abstracting footer so it can be used across details screens. (54082)
  • [Page Inspector]: Add ability to switch templates. (51477)

Global Styles

  • Rename settings & userSettings props to value & inheritedValue respectively in ImageSettingsPanel. (54593)
  • Update Block specific CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. label to include additional instructions. (49626)

Block Editor

  • Use gray color on link control advanced toggle. (54545)
  • Verse: Exit on triple Enter. (53332)
  • Block editor: 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.: Fix rules of hooks violations (2). (48943)
  • Always show the total number of patterns even with only one page. (54813)

Typography

  • Font Face: Backportbackport A port is when code from one branch (or trunk) is merged into another branch or trunk. Some changes in WordPress point releases are the result of backporting code from trunk to the release branch. from Core changeset 56500. (54218)
  • Font Library: Changing the upload directory to wp-content/fonts. (54122)
  • Font Library: Load collection JSON data from a URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org in the collection configuration. (54067)
  • Font Library: Use wporg cdn to host the google fonts json data. (54795)

Themes

  • Theme Previews: Make the back button customizable. (54242)

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

  • Remove ‘Footnotes’ and ‘Comments’ from the non-dynamic block registration list. (54154)

Media

  • Correct function name handleFileChange is replaced by wrong function name. (52250)

List View

  • Allow Escape key to deselect blocks if blocks are selected. (48708)
  • Try directing focus to the list view toggle button when closing the list view. (54175)

Block API

  • Deprecated get_file_path_from_theme method. (45831)

Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Make the shortcuts provider optional. (54080)

Blob

  • refactor(blob): Type URL parameter as optional. (49201)

Collaborative Editing

  • Try bundling sync package. (54738)

New APIs

Components

  • Revert “Export ProgressBar to allow it to be used”. (54428)

Block API

  • Stabilize Block Hooks feature. (54293)

Data Layer

  • Data: Introduce countSelectorsByStatus redux metadata selector. (53767)

Framework

  • Add useStateWithHistory hook and use to show a block editor with undo/redo. (54377)
  • BlockEditor: Add BlockCanvas component = Iframeiframe iFrame is an acronym for an inline frame. An iFrame is used inside a webpage to load another HTML document and render it. This HTML document may also contain JavaScript and/or CSS which is loaded at the time when iframe tag is parsed by the user’s browser. + BlockList + WritingFlow. (54149)
  • Extract undo/redo as a separate package. (54292)

Bug Fixes

Components

  • Add children back to toolbar item render for rendered components. (53314)
  • Add missing useState import in Border Control documentation. (49476)
  • Adjust input-style__focus mixin to proper focus size. (54398)
  • DropdownMenu v2: Fix submenu chevron direction in RTL languages. (54036)
  • Fix incorrect focus style size on InputControl. (54394)
  • Make CircularOptionPicker focus styles resilient to button size changes. (54196)
  • PaletteEdit: Fix padding in RTL mode. (54034)
  • Popover: Set is-positioned class only after animation has finished. (54178)
  • Storybook: Restore previous URL for the introduction documentation page. (54247)
  • Storybook: Update doc param values for ConfirmDialog. (54130)
  • Update borderFocus to ADMIN.theme. (54425)
  • Use standard focus style on BorderControl. (54429)
  • DateTimePicker: Fix onChange callback check so that it also works inside iframes. (54669)

Post Editor

  • Adds animation state for DFM off to post editor header. (54244)
  • Block Editor: Memoize the createPageEntity callback. (54580)
  • Edit Post: Avoid fetching the edited template for non-viewable posts. (54158)
  • Editor: Catch errors when creating terms. (53369)
  • Fix layout when post content is root block. (54485)
  • Make order of pinned items consistent. (53908)
  • Prevent the list view shortcut from typing unexpected characters. (54078)
  • Top Toolbar: Prevent the focus outline of the button from being cut off. (54172)
  • Try using fallback layout instead of default in post editor. (54371)
  • [Edit Post]: Toggle Distraction free mode mode based on compatibility. (54073)

Block Library

  • Block Moving Mode: Prevent the block from being moved into itself. (54137)
  • Fix navigation block submenu focus when closing menu with the ESC key. (54299)
  • List Block: Fix numbering style to be applied correctly. (53301)
  • Navigation Link: Restore tooltip. (54263)
  • Post navigation link: Fix the writing mode setting on the front. (54053)
  • PreviewOptions: Fix critical error when children not passed. (54284)
  • Remove role attribute when set to null in data-wp-bind. (54608)
  • [Commands]: Add group/ungroup commands only when eligible. (53988)
  • Replace the gutenberg_ prefix with wp_ in image block. (54678)
  • Navigation block: Fix padding on mobile overlay when global padding is 0. (53725)

Patterns

  • Command Palette: Fix duplicate Patterns command. (54133)
  • Don’t output root padding when editing patterns. (54373)
  • Fix user pattern categories in site editor inserter. (54641)
  • Remove pattern category as a variation for post terms block. (54532)
  • StartPageOptions: Improve conditions to show modal only on a brand new page. (54245)
  • Add My patterns back to post editor inserter categories. (54767)
  • De-emphasise pattern filters in inserter. (54681)
  • Fix All Patterns category default display. (54721)
  • Fix bug with new categories not showing. (54768)
  • Fix bug with pattern categories not saving sometimes. (54676)
  • Fix category type for back link. (54753)
  • Fix duplication of uncategorized patterns. (54755)
  • Inject the theme name into the block attributes. (54595)
  • Reinstate my patterns category in site editor. (54726)
  • Require a title in the creation modal. (54717)
  • Use slug as fallback for empty title. (54731)
  • Allow non-user patterns under Standard sync filter. (54756)
  • Check that pattern is synced before replacing blocks with synced pattern on creation. (54804)
  • Fix back navigation after pattern creation. (54852)
  • Fix category control width in site editor. (54853)
  • Improve sentence case consistency of labels and notices. (54807)

Block Editor

  • Add keyboardReturn submit button back to LinkControl. (52620)
  • Formats: Memoize link value passed to the LinkControl. (54603)
  • List: Merge consecutive lists. (52995)
  • Rich text: Fix useAnchor (remove nextElementSibling). (54013)
  • Iframe: Adjust keydown event bubbling. (54565)
  • Reset page after changing pattern filters or search value. (54774)
  • Block Editor: Fix ‘isBlockSubtreeDisabled’ private selector. (54618)

Site Editor

  • Bump the z-index of the rename modal. (54277)
  • Default template lookup should use slug, not the full permalink, in the site editor. (54599)
  • Fix “Blogblog (versus network, site) title” input border radius in Index / Home details panel. (54192)
  • Hide ghost top toolbar. (54555)
  • CreateTemplatePartModal: Disable the ‘Create’ button while saving. (54716)

Plugin

  • Ensure font-face styles are printed in iframe editors. (54313)
  • Font Face & Font Library: Load PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher files only if the main class does not exist. (54103)
  • Gutenberg Plugin: Add hook to allow writing-mode as a safe CSS property. (54581)
  • Update readme.txt “tested up to 6.3”. (54072)
  • Update cherry-pick script to correctly verify 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/ CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress. setup. (54720)
  • Conditionally remove deprecated ‘print_emoji_styles’. (54828)

Typography

  • Font Library: Ensure merged fontFace data is enconded as an array instead of an object. (54435)
  • Font Library: Fix duplicate variants with different file types. (54490)
  • Font Library: Setting wp_font_family custom post typeCustom Post Type WordPress can hold and display many different types of content. A single item of such a content is generally called a post, although post is also a specific post type. Custom Post Types gives your site the ability to have templated posts, to simplify the concept. as _builtin and not plublic. (54559)
  • Font Face: Get name from “fontFamily” setting, not “name”. (54615)
  • Font Library: Fix modal width on mobile viewport. (54518)
  • Font Library: Fix space above theme fonts in font library modal. (54598)
  • Font Library: Fix error installing system fonts. (54713)
  • Font Library: Remove font files created by tests after tests run. (54771)
  • Font Library: Avoid rendering font library ui outisde gutenberg plugin. (54830)

Widgets Editor

  • Edit Widgets: Fix broken layout. (54372)
  • Edit Widgets: Fix invisible action area when the top toolbar is enabled. (54329)
  • Fix top toolbar for the customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. widgets sidebar control. (54255)

Global Styles

  • Font Library: Fix notification error for actions related to custom fonts. (54535)
  • Prevent layout changes from saving the whole inherited settings object. (54500)

Block API

  • Blocks: Fix incorrect placement for hooked blocks in the parent container. (54349)
  • Pass correct content argument to enter transforms. (54108)
  • Block Hooks: Avoid processing empty content for loaded templates. (54719)

Rich Text

  • Revert: Rich text: Copy tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) name on internal paste. (54301)

Interactivity API

  • Image: Fix block serialization test case to cover deprecation of behaviors. (54570)
  • Query Loop: Select first anchor inside Post Template with “enhanced pagination” enabled. (54730)

Icons

  • Fix ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. forwardRef warnings for TooltipAnchors. (54492)

History

  • Fix extra undo/redo step when removing or replacing all blocks. (54457)

Synced Patterns

  • Patterns: Apply layout and alignment to synced patterns in the editor. (54416)

npm Packages

  • Workflow: Fix the issue with npm publishing for WP major version. (54088)

Media

  • useMediaQuery: Avoid crashing on Safari < 14. (54023)

Nested / Inner Blocks

  • Fix: InnerBlocks allowed blocks change with different sizes. (53943)

Layout

  • Post Content: Ensure layout classnames are applied in readonly preview. (53864)

Document Settings

  • Set the timezone correctly. (48083)

React i18ni18n Internationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an acquired skill.

  • Fix: Invalidinvalid A resolution on the bug tracker (and generally common in software development, sometimes also notabug) that indicates the ticket is not a bug, is a support request, or is generally invalid. import in react-i18n documentation. (54308)

Design Tools

  • Background Image control: Use consistent button, ensure descriptive text accounts for no image selected. (54711)

Collaborative Editing

  • Make sure sync code only runs when experiment is enabled. (54710)

Core Data

  • core-data: Fix nested property access with undefined name. (54790)

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)

Block Library

  • Comments form: Accessibility fixes for back-end. (54393)
  • Navigation: Add ariaLabel block support. (54418)
  • Table block: Fix semantic structure for screen readers on back-end. (54324)

Components

  • Improve Notice component accessibility. (54498)
  • Making Circular Option Picker a listbox. (52255)
  • Allow Modal to place focus on first element within contents via new API. (54590)
  • Improve the placeholder instructions accessibility. (45801)

Site Editor

  • Clarify the “Entity” message of the snackbar. (54333)
  • Use solid accent color selection in command palette. (54318)

Block Editor

  • Update nofollow control label. (54184)

Performance

  • Use median instead of average to stabilize First Block metric. (54157)
  • improvement: Reduce the use of the _wp_array_get function. (51116)

Block Library

  • Footnotes: Add block-level caching when parsing content for footnotes. (52577)
  • Table of Contents: Use a custom store subscription for observing headings. (54094)
  • getClientIdsOfDescendants: Support single ‘clientId’ as a argument. (54421)

Site Editor

  • Edit site: Prevent enqueuing entire stylesheet in iframe. (54254)
  • Fix first block locator’s page reference. (54188)

Patterns

  • Move mapping of values from core-data selector into consumers. (54576)

Block API

  • Unnecessary JSON decoding in block parser. (54424)

Components

  • Tooltip: Render tooltip markup in the DOM only when open. (54312)

Post Editor

  • Editor: Memoize ‘getNestedEditedPostProperty’ selector helper. (54160)

Developer Experience

  • Tests: Improve the environment setup. (54309)

Experiments

Interactivity API

  • Remove wp_store from query block. (54359)

Documentation

  • Add a documentation page to explain how to implement undo/redo in a third-party editor. (54546)
  • Add the Commands Data page to Handbook. (53634)
  • Bootstrap a documentation website tailored towards the usage of Gutenberg outside WordPress. (54375)
  • Button: Undocument the focus prop. (54397)
  • Docs: Add missing callout class. (54558)
  • Docs: Add note about enqueueing assets in the iframe and trim whitespace. (54125)
  • Docs: Consolidated design Reference with the main Design Contributions doc. (51065)
  • Docs: Move Glossary page to Getting Started. (54120)
  • Docs: Move the FAQ page to Getting Started. (54117)
  • Docs: Overhaul the Development Environment section of the Block Editor Handbook. (54395)
  • Docs: Remove Outreach doc from Getting Started section. (54314)
  • Docs: Remove unneeded block theme docs. (51071)
  • Fix bullet hierarchy. (47178)
  • Fix createI18n package import location. (51328)
  • Fix incorrect image src in Design Contributions doc. (54302)
  • Fix: Broken links on ToolbarGroup documentation. (54229)
  • Fix: Remove unrequired code from BorderControl documentation. (54348)
  • Fix: Wrapped ref in quotes in theme.json documentation. (54591)
  • Incorrect file extension?. (54134)
  • Theme JSON schema: Fix “not allowed error” in settings property. (54521)
  • Try: Allow multiple attribute to be a string in upload components. (53350)
  • Update Commands documentation with examples and more context. (54441)
  • Update the components changelog to mark the popover slot removal as a breaking change. (54022)
  • Update versions in WP for 6.3.1. (54069)
  • Updated Related Components Links. (49176)
  • Updates Edit and Save code examples to have matching open/closing tags. (53915)
  • [Docs: Getting Started / Block Development Environment] Updates on the text to improve clarity and preciseness. (54563)
  • documentation – Contribution Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors.: Formatted text and changed some titles and structure. (54258)
  • documentation [Block Editor Handbook / Getting Started / Block Development Environment]: Fix links. (54571)
  • Add missing global declaration in DocBlockdocblock (phpdoc, xref, inline docs) of interactivity files. (54683)

Code Quality

  • Adds removal notice to view.js.mustache. (54105)
  • Block editor: Remove __unstableElementContext and filter EditorStyles instead. (52888)
  • Improving error messages and codes in jest-console, matcher.js. (53743)
  • Indicate nested paths on __experimentalSaveSpecifiedEntityEdits. (54161)
  • JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. unit tests: Update popover matcher. (54168)
  • Style engine: Sync doc changes from core. (54650)

Components

  • Composite: Refactor to TypeScript. (54028)
  • FocusableIframe: Refactor to TypeScript. (53979)
  • IsolatedEventContainer to Typescript (just test file). (54316)
  • Popover: Remove custom frame scroll/resize listeners. (54286)
  • Revert FormTokenField – add prop to allow saving of tokens onBlur. (54444)
  • Toolbar/ToolbarDropdownMenu Typescript Conversion. (54321)
  • ToolbarGroup – Typescript. (54317)
  • with-focus-outside: Convert to TypeScript. (53980)

Patterns

  • Revert usePatternsState to return an array instead of object. (54582)
  • Add missing dependency of @wordpress/patterns on @babel/runtime. (54118)
  • Move category map creation out of useSelect. (54584)
  • Remove experimental prefixes from patterns package. (54338)
  • Site editor: Consolidate constants. (54484)
  • Fix sidebar nav screen fallback category. (54754)

Post Editor

  • Annotations: Run end-to-end tests with iframe. (54191)
  • EditPostPreferencesModal: Refactor to remove snapshots for index.js. (54141)
  • Extract WordPress specific styles from the BlockTools component. (54356)
  • PageAttributesParent: A minor fixes for useSelect and useMemo hook usages. (54433)
  • PostSyncStatus: Derive sync status inside the selector. (54159)

Block Library

  • Heading: Remove unused ‘aria-label’. (54223)
  • Image Editor: Fix ESLint warnings and remove unnecessary dependencies. (53506)
  • Pattern Category: Set ‘publicly_queryable’ to false. (54567)
  • Post Terms: Fix a ‘useSelect’ warning in the ‘usePostTerms’ hook. (54068)

Interactivity API

  • Prepare image lightbox for private version of the Interactivity API in 6 4. (54547)
  • Remove gutenberg_should_block_use_interactivity_api and the old implementation of interactive blocks. (54297)
  • Search block: Switch interactivity to the Interactivity API. (53343)

Site Editor

  • Remove Tooltip workarounds added in the site and block editor. (54450)
  • 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.: Remove ‘gutenberg’ query param from revisions.php. (54166)
  • Prune store constants. (54585)
  • Use constants rather than hard coded template strings. (54586)

Rich Text

  • RichText: Remove __unstableOnSplitMiddle. (54183)

Typography

  • Fluid typography: Backporting Core since annotations. (54204)
  • Font Face: Remove static instance in wp_print_font_faces(). (54228)
  • Font Library: Refactor logic to disable font library in the frontend. (54748)

Block Editor

  • Improve code commenting around focus mount behaviour of rich text Link UI. (54085)
  • List e2e: Run all tests with iframe. (54181)

Layout

  • Use override editor style API. (54466)

Plugin

  • Require minimum WordPress 6.2. (53451)
  • Ensure that Block Hooks work correctly after landing in WP core. (54651)
  • Update uuid package to 9.0.1. (54725)

Themes

  • Iframe: Skip scoping styles. (46752)

Tools

Testing

  • Button: Update test assertion to match test name. (54260)
  • E2E: Do not run page actions in beforeEach hook when using fixme. (54065)
  • Fix Font library unit tests. (54645)
  • Font Library: Remove upload_mimes filter after uploading fonts. (54647)
  • Migrate RichText end-to-end tests to Playwright. (53493)
  • Perf Tests: Update base point to compare. (54111)
  • Puppeteer tests: Try to fix failing tests related to notices in core. (54452)
  • Remove accidental addition of perf test results (2). (54363)
  • Remove accidental addition of perf test results. (54355)
  • Update WPCSWPCS The collection of PHP_CodeSniffer rules (sniffs) used to format and validate PHP code developed for WordPress according to the WordPress Coding Standards. May also be an acronym referring to the Accessibility, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, etc. coding standards as published in the WordPress Coding Standards Handbook. to v3.0, and fix all reported Coding Standards issues. (53866)
  • Modal: Add more unit tests. (54569)
  • end-to-end Test Utils: Add new fixtures for performance metrics. (52993)
  • end-to-end Tests: Fix ‘no-useless-not’ ESLint warnings. (54652)
  • package(e2e-test-utils): Update fixtures. (54128)
  • wp-scripts: Add support for Playwright. (53108)
  • Font Library: Use resolvable domain in test. (54763)
  • Global styles tests: Fire hooks when updating post. (54836)
  • Remove action to fix tests. (54806)
  • Font Library: Fix set upload dir test. (54762)

Build Tooling

  • Backport tools: Filter PRs to be cherry picked by merged date. (54171)
  • Changelog tool: Update Automated Testing label. (54070)
  • Running npm run format:Php may result in an error. (54162)
  • Scripts: Correctly resolve entry points when the directory is symlinked. (54212)
  • Upgrade wp-prettier to v3.0.3. (54539)
  • Update typescript-eslint to v6. (53975)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

  • @andrewhayward: Making Circular Option Picker a listbox. (52255)
  • @jamiemchale: Fix createI18n package import location. (51328)
  • @johnhooks: refactor(blob): Type URL parameter as optional. (49201)
  • @MericKarabulut: Improving error messages and codes in jest-console, matcher.js. (53743)
  • @Piyush-Deshmukh: Fix: Wrapped ref in quotes in theme.json documentation. (54591)
  • @Rajinsharwar: Editor: Catch errors when creating terms. (53369)
  • @toolstack: Set the timezone correctly. (48083)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @alexstine @andrewhayward @andrewserong @annezazu @anomiex @anton-vlasenko @aristath @artemiomorales @atachibana @bangank36 @bfintal @bph @brookewp @c4rl0sbr4v0 @carolinan @chad1008 @chintu51 @ciampo @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @derekblank @draganescu @ediamin @ellatrix @fluiddot @gaambo @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @gvgvgvijayan @gziolo @hellofromtonya @jameskoster @jamiemchale @jeherve @jffng @johnhooks @jordesign @jorgefilipecosta @joshuatf @jrtashjian @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @kevin940726 @kkoppenhaver @kmanijak @leewillis77 @luisherranz @madhusudhand @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @margolisj @masteradhoc @matiasbenedetto @mburridge @mcsf @MericKarabulut @mhimon @michalczaplinski @mikachan @mikejolley @mokagio @ndiego @ntsekouras @Olein-jp @petitphp @Piyush-Deshmukh @Rajinsharwar @ramonjd @richtabor @SantosGuillamot @SaxonF @scruffian @spacedmonkey @stokesman @swissspidy @t-hamano @tellthemachines @thelovekesh @toolstack @torounit @tyxla @vcanales @walbo @WunderBart @youknowriad

Props to @siobhyb, @czapla, and @artemiosans for co-writing; @saxonafletcher for the visual assets; @annezazu, @priethor, @andraganescu, @cbringmann, and @ngreennc for peer review; @bernhard-reiter for helping publish the release to WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/.

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Editor Chat Agenda: 27 September 2023

Facilitator and notetaker: @paaljoachim

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for Wednesday, September 27 2023, 03:00 PM GMT+1. This meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in the Making WordPress 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/..

  • Announcements
  • Project updates
  • Task Coordination
  • Open Floor – extended edition.

If you are not able to attend the meeting, you are encouraged to share anything relevant for the discussion:

  • If you have an update for the main site editing projects, please feel free to share as a comment or come prepared for the meeting itself.
  • If you have anything to share for the Task Coordination section, please leave it as a comment on this post.
  • If you have anything to propose for the agenda or other specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.

#agenda, #core-editor, #core-editor-core-editor-agenda, #meeting

Editor chat summary: September 20th, 2023

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda for September 20th meeting) held on Wednesday, September 20th 2023, 03:00 PM GMT+1 in Slack. Moderated by @fabiankaegy.

WordPress 6.4 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 will be released in less than a week on September 26th. The full development cycle for 6.4 can be found here: https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-4/

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/ 16.7 RC1 was released right before the meeting. It’s available to test through GitHub.

Gutenberg 16.6 was released last week and the full changelog was posted here in the Make blog.

Key project updates

Open Floor

@mamaduka asked for feedback/testing on a PR that fixes an issue relating to contentOnly locking.

@mdxfr shared several regressions related to the post excerptExcerpt An excerpt is the description of the blog post or page that will by default show on the blog archive page, in search results (SERPs), and on social media. With an SEO plugin, the excerpt may also be in that plugin’s metabox. functionality in WordPress 6.3.

Just want to point out several issues related to Excerpt regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5. in WP6.3. Since it is a base feature, it is important to fix it soon.
The tracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. issues are milestoned for 6.3.2 but would be nice to ship the fixes into next Gutenberg release (16.7/16.8) but also next WP6.4
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/53570
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/15117
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/59270 (flagged 6.3.2)
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/59043 (flagged 6.3.2)
It has impact for instance on
https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-blocks/issues/10653
https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/39934

About Cover 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. align-top doesn’t work for awareness, the fix was merged into 16.7, thx (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/54050), maybe we can pick it into WP6.3.2 target list also…

@proxxim asked about any plans for adding a focal point picker to the cover block when it pulls in the featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. of a post. We moved the discussion to the relevant GitHub issue.

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #gutenberg, #meeting-notes, #summary

Editor Chat Agenda: September 20th 2023

Facilitator and notetaker: @fabiankaegy.

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 at 04:00 PM GMT+2.

This meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in the Making WordPress 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/..

  • Announcements
  • Project updates
  • Task Coordination
  • Open Floor – extended edition.

If you are not able to attend the meeting, you are encouraged to share anything relevant for the discussion:

  • If you have an update for the main site editing projects, please feel free to share as a comment or come prepared for the meeting itself.
  • If you have anything to share for the Task Coordination section, please leave it as a comment on this post.
  • If you have anything to propose for the agenda or other specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.

#agenda, #core-editor, #core-editor-agenda, #meeting

Core Editor chat summary: 13th September 2023

This post summarises the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda for 13th September meeting) held on 2023-09-13 14:00 UTC in Slack. Moderated by @get_dave.

Status Updates

Updates based on updated scope for site editing projects

Task Coordination

@jeryj:

  • I’ve been working on refactoring how the block toolbar is semantically communicated in the DOM by moving it to render in the editor 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., rather than within the editor canvas.
  • The is a PR as a proof of concept. It is not ready to really be reviewed but is useful for seeing the direction it’s going

@get_dave:

Open Floor

Registering Variations for Posts terms and Nav 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.

  • They are about creating variations on the server side for the post terms block and the navigation link block.
  • They happen too early, so custom taxonomies and post types may not be registered yet.
  • @get_dave suggested raising PRs and he would support with reviews or getting others to contribute.

Keep selected size on changing image in Image block

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #gutenberg, #meeting-notes, #summary

Editor Chat Agenda: September 13th 2023

Facilitator and notetaker: @get_dave.

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for 2023-09-13 14:00 UTC.

This meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in the Making WordPress 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/..

  • Announcements
  • Project updates
  • Task Coordination
  • Open Floor – extended edition.

If you are not able to attend the meeting, you are encouraged to share anything relevant for the discussion:

  • If you have an update for the main site editing projects, please feel free to share as a comment or come prepared for the meeting itself.
  • If you have anything to share for the Task Coordination section, please leave it as a comment on this post.
  • If you have anything to propose for the agenda or other specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.

#agenda, #core-editor, #core-editor-agenda, #meeting

Editor Chat Summary: 06 September 2023

Facilitator and notetaker: @bph

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for  Wednesday, September 6th, 2023, 14:00 UTC The meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in the Making WordPress 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/.. See full transcript.

Announcements

WordPress 6.3.1 maintenance release

Gutenberg 16.6 RC is available Thank you to @vcanales for managing the release. Stable release is due later today.

Project Board for Editor Tasks for WordPress 6.4

@mikachann on the next 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/ release (16.7):

The WordPress 6.4 Editor Tech Leads (@karmatosed, @siobhyb, and myself) have agreed to delay the 16.7 GB release one more week to give some extra room for new features during the shorter release cycle for 6.4, so the current schedule is the following:

  • Gutenberg 16.7 RC1 on September 20th (originally planned on September 13th)
  • This will be the general cut-off date for new features developed in the 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, except tasks blessed in TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress..
  • WordPress 6.4 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 on September 26th.
  • Except for the blessed tasks, only fixes can be included after this date.
  • Gutenberg 16.7 on September 27th.

Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.

Project updates

Update on the Key Projects
This is an update list after the 6.3 release.

Task Coordination

@poena

“Hi, I am away this week and feeling a bit short on time getting the text orientation feature into 6.4. I need help with two things:

  • -Code review of the PR.
  • -How to reset two values/controls inside one ToolsItemPanel (onDeselect).

Who can I pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” that has worked on this?”

@onemaggie added: Solving this is relevant to the development of Twenty-Twenty Four default theme. Please do have a look at it if you can

@leemon

“Can someone take a look at these issues, please: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/52644 and https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/40018 ? They are important for people running hybrid themes. It would be great if these bugs were fixed for WP 6.4.” (via the agenda post)

@mdxfr 

via the agenda post inquried that these issues be added to 6.3.2 target boards.

Still unclear what causes the issues, some opinions it may be a problem coming from how autop magically intervenes in classic content. We have other issues with excerptExcerpt An excerpt is the description of the blog post or page that will by default show on the blog archive page, in search results (SERPs), and on social media. With an SEO plugin, the excerpt may also be in that plugin’s metabox. as well see the 2 others linked from Excerpts Not Showing Bold Text..

and this one in the “Punted to 6.5” card in the WP 6.4 Editor Task Project Board ?
Query loop – remove current post ID for ‘related posts’ for awareness.iI appears the best way to redo this is a code exploration that would add a 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. attribute to skip the current post when the post is set to not inherit.

The editor tech leads @tellthemachines and @ramon are and as far as I know they already started with the preparations for 6.3.2.

@mikachan mentioned she will take a look at the 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. issue and comment on 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/.

Open Floor – extended edition.

@onemaggie

Work on Twenty Twenty-Four is on going, but there are a few issues that the theme requires to be done in the editor, I would like to raise them here (one of them was already mentioned by Carolina) for anyone that would care to help out: 

Related Gutenberg Issues and PRs

@gregross

Just wanted to note that my pr Set the timezone correctly) is getting close to ready to merge, thanks for all the help in getting it there. During the meeting this PR was merged by @ajlende

Note: Anyone reading this summary outside of the meeting, please drop a comment in the post summary, if you can/want to help with something.


Props to @paaljoachim for review

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #gutenberg, #meeting-notes, #summary

Evolving the FSE Outreach Program

What started as an experimental program in May 2020 with the expectation that the Site Editor would ship in the following 6 or so months turned into nearly 3.5 years of feedback loops, knowledge sharing, and community building. With WordPress 6.3 bringing Phase 2 to completion, it’s time for the FSE Outreach Program to evolve alongside the broader WordPress project and needs. All good things must come to an end–or they need to adapt to continue to stay relevant. 

The proposed plan:

  • The FSE Outreach Program transitions into a focused space for solving issues, creating resources, and facilitating conversations around adopting Phase 2 led by a new crew of folks (@ndiego, @greenshady, @bph). If you are interested in contributing, please comment on this post. Big thank you to those folks for stepping into this! 
  • After 6.4 betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1, the facilitated calls for testing will be replaced by ad hoc calls for testing run by the Make Test team or contributors who need specific features tested.

The program will run for an additional 6 months minimum with this evolved approach before concluding with hand-offs and collaboration with the Training, Documentation, and Test teams as needed. This is the proposal so please share your feedback below so it can be iterated upon as needed.

Why is this happening?

With WordPress 6.3, the Site Editor is firmly part of the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. WordPress experience. What was once experimental, is now matured and can use the usual WordPress feedback pathways available for all. The intention of this experimental Outreach Program was to “get feedback about pain points to the right people faster and help keep us on track for Phase 2”. We did this! You did this. 

Now, it’s time to focus even more on adopting what’s been built, something that has been a part of the Outreach Program efforts but that deserves a greater spotlight at this stage. With Phase 3 coming into view, this will also open up an opportunity for new outreach efforts. 

When will this happen?

Here’s the expected timeline if we follow the above proposal:

Where was this discussed? 

While this has been a topic of discussion throughout the duration of the FSE Outreach Program (it’s one of the most repeated questions I’ve been asked), it gained more prominence around the 6.3 release and the wrap up of phase 2. The first mention of what was to come happened on August 7th which was followed up with a flurry of conversations in the last few weeks including in a #make-test meeting, recap pings in the outreach program, and an amplifying ping in #6-4-release-leads. This post in and of itself is part of the broader discussion too so please share your thoughts/questions/concerns. 

Where will user feedback go when this happens? 

User feedback is always valued and can go the same places we’ve always brought it in the community: 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/ and TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.. It’s so important to continue receiving user and contributor feedback, and moving it to the main feedback channels will help streamline the triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. process at this stage and scale. Additionally, keep in mind that some contributor team meetings, like #core-editor offer Open Floor times to ask questions, or feature channels like #feature-website-navigation where you can talk about a specific topic.

What do you all want to see documented for future outreach efforts?

I’d love to know what I can do to ensure that anyone else who tries to start an outreach program in WordPress has an abundance of helpful places to turn. Here’s what I have currently that I plan to sweep through before wrapping everything up: 

What’s missing? I am happy to write personal blogblog (versus network, site) posts as well, similar to prior reflections like On future outreach program models in the WordPress community, if something doesn’t fit nicely in the mix.

Want to help with the future of the Outreach Program?

Fantastic, please comment below. I’d love for this evolution to be even more impactful than the current version. 

Thank you for making WordPress better

For the folks who translated the calls for testing to bring others along:

For folks who ran group testing and summarized the feedback: 

For the folks who responded 3+ times to a call for testing: @paaljoachim @piermario @bgturner @elbsegler @get_dave @priethor @courane01 @poena @luminuu @beckej @itsjustdj @hage @antigone7 @robglidden @clubkert @chopinbach @franz00 @jordesign @soivigol @josvelasco

For the folks who responded 5+ times to a call for testing: @paaljoachim @piermario @courane01 @hage @antigone7 @robglidden @clubkert @franz00

For @paaljoachim who responded to every single call for testing without fail, rain or shine. 

For folks who shared the calls for testing and helped get the word out, even when they couldn’t contribute directly.

For everyone who helped run or participated in the various hallway hangouts.

For all 140 folks who received Test Contributor badges for responding. 

For everyone who asked a question, opened an issue, shared a piece of feedback, and tried the Site Editor long before anyone else saw it. Thank you for making WordPress and the open web better. Thank you for engaging in a time and place when it’s so easy not to, especially during the depths of the pandemic when this all began.

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To help focus incoming feedback and to stay in an actionable place, please share any questions/comments/concerns in the next two weeks. I will write a summary then and help facilitate any next steps.

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What’s new in Gutenberg 16.6? (06 September)

“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).

Gutenberg 16.6 has been released and is available for download!

This latest release comes packed with improvements and bugfixes, including an enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature. to the List View in the post editor, introducing a horizontal scrollbar for heavily nested list views, a fix for the Cover 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. on Safari on iPad, addressing an issue where images with a “Fixed background” were zoomed in excessively, and more!

Table of Contents

  1. 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-inserted blocks.
  2. Captured toolbars.
  3. Changelog.

Block 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., formerly known as Auto-inserted blocks

On activation, plugins are now equipped with the capability to auto-insert blocks, enhancing the integration and automation between plugins and the Gutenberg editor. Early versions of this experiment were called Auto-inserted blocks, but after some discussion, they have now been dubbed Block hooks. (#52969, #54029, #54024, #54147)

Captured toolbars for an easier editing experience

Toolbars for child blocks are now seamlessly attached to their parent blocks, offering a more intuitive and organized editing experience. This feature is currently supported for Navigation, List, and Quote blocks. (#53699, #53697)

Other Notable Highlights:

  • Make mid size parameter settable for Query Pagination block. (#51216)
  • Add keyboard shortcut for duplicating blocks. (#53559)
  • Add toggle list view command in site editor. (53983)

Changelog

Features

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.

  • Add Slot and Fill directives. (53958)
  • Query block: Client-side pagination. (53812)
  • Update data-wp-bind directive logic. (54003)
  • Query block: Move “Enhance pagination” toggle under Settings. (54198)

Enhancements

  • Bundle ObserveTyping within the BlockList component. (53875)
  • Default appender: Hide the dashed indicator until ancestor is selected. (53761)
  • Register the block editor keyboard shortcuts automatically when using BlockEditorProvider. (53910)
  • [Commands]: Add toggle list view command in site editor. (53983)

Components

  • Bundle SlotFillProvider within BlockEditorProvider. (53940)
  • Make the Popover.Slot optional. (53889)
  • Popover: Update @floating-ui to latest version, remove custom fix for iframeiframe iFrame is an acronym for an inline frame. An iFrame is used inside a webpage to load another HTML document and render it. This HTML document may also contain JavaScript and/or CSS which is loaded at the time when iframe tag is parsed by the user’s browser. positioning and scaling. (46845)
  • AlignmentMatrixControl: Replace act() with userEvent. (53703)
  • ProgressBar: Add transition to determinate indicator. (53877)

Block Library

  • Blocks: Move bootstrapped block types to Redux state. (53807)
  • Capture toolbars in navigation block. (53697)
  • Content Block: Change placeholder and end-to-end test to refer to Content block. (53902)
  • Make mid size parameter settable for Query Pagination block. (51216)

Block Editor

  • Capture toolbars in quote block. (53699)
  • Improve writing flow for lists by capturing list item toolbars. (53306)
  • RichTextValue: Typescript Adjustment. (54002)

Typography

  • Font Face: Prepare for merge into CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. (53858)
  • Renames “Fonts Library” to “Font Library”. (53780)

Post Editor

  • Edit Post: Use hooks instead of HoCs in TaxonomyPanel. (53773)

List View

  • Add keyboard shortcut for duplicating blocks. (53559)

Patterns

New APIs

Interactivity API

  • Router with region-based client-side navigation. (53733)

Bug Fixes

  • Add missing aria roles for block locking toolbar and menu buttons. (53734)
  • Block Editor: Fix cleanup in the ‘useNavModeExit’ hook. (53795)
  • Command Palette: Fix crash on block-related commands. (53923)
  • Date: Add relative time translations for moment.js. (53931)
  • Date: Update translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. domains for strings to be translatable. (53995)
  • Iframe: Set character encoding to utf-8. (53519)
  • Replace horizontal ellipsis icon with vertical ellipsis icon. (52731)
  • Toggle Distraction free mode mode based on compatibility. (54030)
  • Warning: Introduce SCRIPT_DEBUG to make the package compatible with webpack 5. (50122)
  • [Commands]: Fix move to command condition for registering. (54049)
  • [Commands]: Fix block editor commands availability. (53994)
  • [Format library]: Fix language popover position. (53841)

Block Library

  • Add init.js module for the Footnotes block. (53763)
  • Adding center align css for social icon issue. (43120)
  • Cover block: Fix exception when adding video background. (53961)
  • List View: Allow replacing template part when a block isn’t selected. (53757)
  • Post Navigation Link: Remove unnecessary space between arrows and label. (53572)
  • Search block: Fix width input field. (53952)
  • Simplify check for no posts in query-no-results block. (53772)
  • Site Logo: Remove line-height for the anchor element. (53909)

Components

  • Always render the fallback Popover anchor within the Popover’s parent element. (53982)
  • Fix the cleanup method for SandBox. (53796)
  • PaletteEdit: Fix component height. (54000)

Post Editor

  • Edit Post: Fix tab border conflicts in the Document Overview panel. (53711)
  • EditPostPreferencesModal: Fix intermittently failing tests. (53814)
  • getInsertionPoint: Fix type check for the state value. (53793)

npm Packages

  • Workflow: Run Learn directly from 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/ action when publishing to npm targeting WP core. (53762)
  • Workflows: Fix issues with the npm publishing workflow when using locally. (53565)

Themes

  • Command Palette: Proper handling of page/post links in all themes. (53718)
  • Fix 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. bugs by correctly relying on the main query and removing problematic workaround. (49904)

Block Editor

  • Fix: Indicator style when block moving mode. (53972)

Icons

  • Fix invalidinvalid A resolution on the bug tracker (and generally common in software development, sometimes also notabug) that indicates the ticket is not a bug, is a support request, or is generally invalid. namespaces. (53955)

Patterns

  • Disable the preview option button when editing. (53913)

Global Styles

  • Gallery: Re-enable block spacing at block level while still hiding in global styles. (53900)

Layout

  • BlockList: Ensure element styles (and svg) are always appended at the end of the document. (53859)

Interactivity API

  • Add “supports.interactivity” to Image block. (53850)

Style Variations

  • Block Styles: Fix misplaced preview popover on RTL site. (53726)

List View

  • Recalculate window list when expanded state changes (fix logic for long nested lists). (53716)

Widgets Editor

  • Block WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user.: Fix content cutoff in the keyboard shortcut modal. (53638)

Rich Text

  • Fix cleanup in useRemoveBrowserShortcuts. (52225)

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)

  • Edit site: Add missing label to post status password protected input field. (52885)
  • [a11yAccessibility 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)] Fix: Aria-haspop, aria-expanded attributes on the link format button. (53691)

Site Editor

  • Add missing aria roles to the ‘Create template part’ menu item. (53754)
  • Unify the delete button style in the dropdown menu with red. (52597)

Block Library

  • Add missing aria roles to the ‘Replace template part’ menu item. (53755)

Patterns

  • Add missing aria roles to the ‘Create pattern’ menu item. (53739)

List View

  • [a11y] Fix: Aria-haspop and aria-expanded attributes on list view button. (53693)

Block Editor

  • [a11y] Fix: Aria-haspop and aria-expanded attributes on the inserter button. (53692)

Performance

  • Revert “Switch performance tests to Playwright (#52022)”. (53741)
  • StartPageOptions: Load and parse patterns only after establishing the need for them. (53673)
  • Switch performance tests to Playwright: Take 2. (53768)

Experiments

Block API

  • Auto-inserting blocks: Add block inspector panel. (52969)
  • – Auto-inserting blocks: Add block icon to block inspector panel toggles. (54029)
  • Auto-inserting blocks: Remove toggle if block is present elsewhere. (54024)
  • Rename “auto inserting blocks” to “block hooks”. (54147)

Documentation

  • Add juanmaguitar as codeowner of /packages/interactivity/docs. (53845)
  • Add new How-to Guide for enqueueing assets in the Editor. (53828)
  • Adds example for useBlockProps hook. (53646)
  • Adds explanatory text to view.js template. (53870)
  • Clarification for parent and ancestor hierarchical relationships. (53855)
  • Docs: Extend the information about using render with block.json. (53973)
  • Docs: Remove duplicate sections from FAQ page. (53830)
  • Document the naming convention for block-library PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher functions. (53777)
  • Fix ‘lerna’ links in the release documentation. (53770)
  • Fix typo in code sample for Interactivity API. (53916)
  • MenuItem: Add Storybook stories. (53613)
  • Shortcut: Add Storybook stories. (53627)
  • Storybook: Add back subcomponents to props table. (53751)
  • Storybook: Fix default source visibility. (53749)
  • Storybook: Show main story before description. (53753)
  • Update local instructions on the dev env documentation. (53924)
  • Update the Block Variations API doc. (53817)
  • Update to node 16 and npm 8 in the getting started with code contribution doc. (53912)
  • docs: Fix report-flaky-test link. (53848)

Code Quality

  • Components: Update Popover per reviews. (53907)
  • Edit Site: Rename CanvasSpinner to CanvasLoader. (53728)
  • Enforce valid function names in the packages/block-library/src//.php files. (53438)
  • Fonts Library: Update properties name from snake case to camel case to match the rest of the properties. (53746)

Block API

  • Auto-inserting blocks: Remove obsolete TODO, fix REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. field description. (54208)

Post Editor

  • Editor: Fix the ‘useSelect’ warning in the ‘useIsDirty’ hook. (53759)
  • Fix browser console error when changing device preview mode. (53969)
  • Refactor latest content selectors in ‘CopyContentMenuItem’ components. (53676)

Components

  • Remove unnecessary utils. (53679)
  • SlotFill: Refactor <Slot bubblesVirtually />. (53272)
  • Storybook: Update TypeScript types. (53748)

List View

  • Fix warning error when the gallery block has the same image URLs. (53809)

Typography

  • Font Face API: Use gutenberg_get_global_settings instead of private API. (53805)

Tools

  • Try: Change PR label enforcer automation not to work on draft PRs by default. (53417)

Testing

  • Attempt to fix intermittent end-to-end test failure. (53905)
  • Fonts Library: Test improvements. (53702)
  • Make fonts test files use Core approach. (53856)
  • Migrate shortcut help end-to-end tests to Playwright. (53832)
  • Relocates Font Face and Fonts Library PHP files into Core’s fonts directory. (53747)
  • ColorPalette: Refine test query. (53704)
  • end-to-end Playwright Utils: Automatically detect canvas type. (53744)
  • test: Automate mobile editor tests. (53991)

Build Tooling

  • Update Jest to latest version, and use optimized JSDOM. (53736)

Plugin

  • Backportbackport A port is when code from one branch (or trunk) is merged into another branch or trunk. Some changes in WordPress point releases are the result of backporting code from trunk to the release branch. themes is_block_theme collection param from core. (53846)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

  • @JEverhart383: Fix typo in code sample for Interactivity API. (53916)
  • @krokodok: Make mid size parameter settable for Query Pagination block. (51216)
  • @mklute101: Update local instructions on the dev env documentation. (53924)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@afercia @andrewserong @anton-vlasenko @bangank36 @brookewp @ciampo @colorful-tones @DAreRodz @dcalhoun @derekblank @ellatrix @felixarntz @geriux @glendaviesnz @gziolo @hellofromtonya @jasmussen @jblz @JEverhart383 @jordesign @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanmaguitar @krokodok @luisherranz @Mamaduka @margolisj @matiasbenedetto @mburridge @mirka @mklute101 @mokagio @ndiego @ntsekouras @oandregal @ocean90 @ockham @priethor @ramonjd @richtabor @SiobhyB @Smit2808 @stokesman @t-hamano @torounit @tyxla @walbo @WunderBart @youknowriad

Many thanks to @jameskoster for the release assets, @annezazu and @priethorfor the general support and help collecting highlights, and @jeffikus for the copy check!

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