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Mary Hubbard 3:53 pm on July 10, 2025
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Core Committers Check-in – July 2025

This post summarizes key discussions from the most recent coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. committercommitter A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent core developers with commit access. Additionally, the project usually has a few guest or component committers - a developer receiving commit access, generally for a single release cycle (sometimes renewed) and/or for a specific component. meeting held with project leadership. As with previous check-ins, the goal is to align on key initiatives, gather feedback, and clarify next steps for the WordPress project.

Note: This meeting followed the Chatham House Rule.

WordPress 6.9 Release Planning

Discussion focused on priorities and scope for a 6.9 release in 2025 (pending alignment on final schedule from @annezazu @jeffpaul). The group explored potential directions for 6.9, including:

  • Completing and stabilizing in-progress features such as:
    • Design tools and writing experience improvements
    • 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. bindings 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., HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. API, and Interactivity API
    • Enhancements to the command palette
  • Early promotion of a canonical AI-related 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, focused on foundational APIs (e.g., the Abilities API), rather than bundling AI functionality directly into core.
  • Continued iteration on infrastructure improvements and smaller UXUX User experience wins.

There was broad agreement to continue discussion asynchronously and collaboratively shape a public 6.9 roadmap post.

Adminadmin (and super admin) Redesign / “MP7” Exploration

A significant portion of the meeting centered around evolving wp-admin. There was alignment on the need for wider user testing through the 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/ plugin ecosystem, though implementation details are still to be worked out.

Key points:

  • There’s early alignment to test the refresh using the Gutenberg plugin (potentially as an opt-in experiment or a separate “MP7-style” plugin).
  • Using a larger testing base was favored over starting a new plugin from scratch.
  • Additional strategies discussed included:
    • Feature callouts in slash.news
    • Outreach via WordCamps and testing cohorts
    • Reviving structured usability testing programs

The redesign discussion also surfaced interest in expanding collaboration tools like block-level commenting and async workflows, some of which are already underway in Gutenberg.

Follow-up conversation is planned in #core-editor to shape implementation plans and clarify MVPs.

Plugin Classifications & Maintenance

The group discussed distinctions between canonical and feature plugins, and how those classifications inform expectations and maintenance.

Key takeaways:

  • Feature plugins are exploratory, short-term, and may eventually graduate into canonical status. But that’s not a guarantee nor the expectation.
  • Canonical plugins are officially supported, listed as authored by 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/, and expected to have a directly responsible individual (DRIDRI Directly Responsible Individual - the people who are taking ownership or responsibility for a particular project or feature.).
  • Two additional potential types were suggested:
    • Experimental plugins: can still graduate to feature or canonical status if they prove valuable.
    • Support plugins (ie. jQuery Migrate Helper and Memory Bump): these are temporary support focused tools addressing specific issues and may be retired when no longer needed.

Improving discoverability of these plugin types within the directory was raised as a longer-term goal, along with contextual activation within wp-admin (e.g., activating collaborative editing directly from the editor UIUI User interface), and better recognizing the contributors on the plugin pages in the directory.

Maintenance & Version Support Policy

The group discussed the challenges of maintaining older versions of WordPress, particularly as support is officially dropped for 4.1-4.6 later this month.

Discussion began around when it might be appropriate to trim another group of old versions. The next road block will be dropping support for 4.9.

  • Its current usage (~1.5%) is roughly 0.5% higher than every other version < 5.8 
  • A  number of sites are likely intentionally avoiding the block editor

Points raised:

  • Consider aiming for a general sub-5% usage threshold before discussing deprecation.
  • Support drop timing should be coordinated across PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher/MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com/. minimums, database health efforts, and comms with hosts.
  • Site Health visibility remains a pain point for users who don’t know their host/provider more visibility may be needed.
  • A yearly support-drop cadence could help standardize communication and reduce confusion after catching up.

The security team will continue this conversation with the goal of bringing forward a clear and thoughtful resolution.

Data Liberation & Importers

There was strong interest in reviving data migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. tooling as a strategic opportunity to support user freedom and growth.

Points discussed:

  • Existing importers focus on legacy platforms (e.g., Movable Type) and are often unmaintained or broken.
  • The importers are often the first plugin someone installs and can make or break whether the user stays with WordPress.  
  • Interest in adding support for platforms like Substack, Squarespace, Wix, and Framer.
  • Approaches include canonical plugins, browser extensions, and API-based importers.
  • Pairing tools with strong documentation and walkthroughs was emphasized as an effective early strategy.
  • This work may also help identify feature gaps in WordPress itself.

The conversation included exploring how importers can influence core improvements, similar to how early Movable Type importers shaped WordPress functionality.

Next steps include creating a shared issue tracker or discussion hub to catalog opportunities and begin prototyping with the North Star metric being the number of sites successfully migrated.

Future of Default Themes

The group revisited the idea of default themes and whether a TT6 release is appropriate this year. There was not a consensus decision, but the following points were raised:

  • Several contributors questioned whether a new theme was necessary this year, citing:
    • Ongoing maintenance burdens for prior themes
    • The opportunity to promote patterns, style variations, and starter templates instead
    • The need to clarify the vision for how the various tools should work together holistically (pattern directory, templates, font library, block plugins, etc.)
  • Others noted that default themes are a valuable way to:
    • Showcase new features
    • Support learning and education efforts
    • Inspire community creativity

While no decision was finalized, there was clear interest in re-evaluating the purpose of default themes and exploring new ways to demonstrate front-end capabilities across the project.

Campus Programs: Credits & Connect

There was a concern shared about the project potentially being overwhelmed with new contributors due to the Campus Credit pilot program. An update on the Campus Credits pilot was given with the University of Pisa:

  • The pilot includes 25–40 linguistics students contributing this fall.
  • A public announcement is planned soon.
  • Onboarding, mentorship, and scoping work are underway to ensure contributors have a positive and productive experience.
  • Early feedback from Pisa has been positive, and expansion into other departments is being requested.

This pilot is distinct from Campus Connect, which is a separate, events-based program already in motion in multiple regions.

Further planning will take place in public to ensure contributors, mentors, and community members have clear expectations and support.

Additional Topics

  • Theme support forums (particularly for 2025) are understaffed. Need to explore ways to improve coverage, AI-assisted support and better contributor onboarding were mentioned as possibilities.
  • Several participants emphasized the need for a structured user testing program, similar to the original outreach program, to improve onboarding and usability insights.
  • Interest in future tooling like WapuGPT, an LLM-powered support assistant trained on WordPress docs, was raised as a long-term idea.
  • Admin banners and notices were flagged for discussion: fake dismissals, non-dismissible notices, and UX fatigue are causing frustration for users and contributors. Further UX guidance may be needed.

Next Steps / Follow-up

  • Kick off admin redesign technical discussions in #core-editor.
  • Share and collaborate on the 6.9 roadmap draft. (cc @annezazu)
  • Draft plugin classification criteria and expectations for canonical, feature, experimental, and support plugins.
  • Continue public discussion on importer strategy and prioritize modern platforms.
  • Explore policy and timing for ending support for WordPress 4.7 and beyond.
  • Begin scoping something theme related to showcase in 6.8 (a “pattern bundle” or style showcase).
  • Re-engage with prior explorations from the Notifications API and WP Notify efforts to assess paths forward for more consistent, dismissible admin notices and improved admin interactions

Thanks to everyone who participated. These check-ins aim to improve visibility and encourage collaboration across WordPress Core and will continue at a roughly once per quarter cadence. Discussion will continue in Make 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/., P2P2 A free theme for WordPress, known for front-end posting, used by WordPress for development updates and project management. See our main development blog and other workgroup blogs. posts, and upcoming roadmap proposals.

Props: @jeffpaul @annezazu @desrosj

Daniel Richards 9:06 am on July 2, 2025
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What’s new in Gutenberg 21.1? (2nd July)

“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).

What’s New In
Gutenberg 21.1?

Gutenberg 21.1 has been released and is available for download!

This release contains improvements to the 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., refinements to 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. tools, and more extensibility features. Below is a curated summary of the most notable changes in this release.

Developers can now add new icons to the Social Links block by registering additional block variations. The pull request description has code examples for anyone interested.

Now you can add links for all your pet’s socials:

ToolsPanel refactoring continues

Similar to the last release, more blocks have had their settings panels updated to a newer UIUI User interface. This includes the Author, AvatarAvatar An avatar is an image or illustration that specifically refers to a character that represents an online user. It’s usually a square box that appears next to the user’s name., Post Navigation Link and Site Logo blocks.

Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

  • Author Block: Refactor Settings panel to use Toolspanel. (67965)
  • Avatar: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67952)
  • Comments Pagination: Remove unwanted bottom margin from links. (70360)
  • Navigation Block: Flip submenu indicator icon on submenu expansion. (70307)
  • Navigation Block: Rotate submenu indicator icons on submenu expansion. (70442)
  • Navigation Link: Add dropdownMenuProps and a resetAll function. (70505)
  • Post Navigation Link: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (70276)
  • Refactor Site Logo “Settings” Panel to Use ToolsPanel. (67972)
  • [ Experimental Form ]: Add example block previews. (70436)

Interactivity API

  • iAPI Router: Add support for new router regions with attachTo. (70421)
  • iAPI Router: Support new styles and script modules on client-side navigation. (70353)
  • iAPI: Export NavigateOptions and PrefetchOptions types. (70315)
  • iAPI: Introduce AsyncAction and TypeYield type helpers. (70422)

Extensibility

  • Social: Allow custom link icons using block variations. (70261)

Bug Fixes

  • CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. data: getHomePage: Do not return object until resolved. (70345)

Block Library

  • Fix : Calendar block: Colors do not change between global styles and theme.json. (70184)
  • Form Block: Apply class names correctly in the block editor. (70394)
  • FormFileUpload: Extend audio accept MIME types for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. compatibility. (70354)
  • Image: Fix outdated 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) hint on native component. (70346)
  • Image: Fixed resetAll to return image resolution to default value. (70398)
  • Revert “Flip submenu indicator icon on submenu expansion (#70307)”. (70427)
  • Social Links: Allow icon size to be reset and honor theme.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. styles. (70380)
  • Video Block: Guard against duplicate tracks. (70295)

Interactivity API

  • Fix image lightbox issues in new full client-side navigation logic. (70416)
  • iAPI Router: Fix dynamic imports on new visited pages. (70489)
  • iAPI: Fix captured errors in withScope generators. (70303)
  • iAPI: Fix duplicated nested regions. (70302)
  • iAPI: Fix parsing of comments without siblings. (70304)

Global Styles

  • Fix: Global styles affect all form elements ( Form Block ). (70392)
  • Implement uniform 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. layout. (70464)

DataViews

  • Data forms: Achieve vertical spacing with vertical spacing rather than cell padding. (70435)

Post Editor

Media

  • Invalidate entities when new media is uploaded. (70405)

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

  • Fix: Incorrect style handle in RTL style registration for wp-list-reusable-blocks. (70402)

Data Layer

  • Add private selector support to resolveSelect and suspendSelect. (52036)

Accessibility

Templates API

  • Templates: Add back button & fix focus loss when navigating through template creation flow. (70091)

Performance

Block Library

  • Avatar: Optimize user control query. (70511)

Documentation

  • Add isPostSavingLocked  example to doc block. (70370)
  • Commands: Add stylesheet requirements to README. (70323)
  • Create Block: Add documentation for custom block namespace. (70215)
  • Docs: Fix broken links on Developer.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/. (70473)
  • Fix some typos. (70419)
  • Fix typo folder-structure.md. (70375)
  • block-attributes: Add role attribute explanation. (70361)

Code Quality

  • Patterns: Delete unused property. (70321)
  • TypeScript: Converts HtmlEntities Package to TS. (69326)
  • TypeScript: Migrate deprecated package to TS. (70362)
  • TypeScript: Migrate is-shallow-equal package to TS. (70407)
  • iAPI: Fix the changelog to include PR 70296 in 6.25. (70309)

Block Editor

  • Media List: Use ‘placement’ prop for popover positioning. (70350)
  • Refactor: URLInputButton component to functional reactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. component. (70384)
  • Warning: Replace popoverProps.position to popoverProps.placement. (70347)

Components

  • Circular Option Picker: Use ‘placement’ prop for popover positioning. (70359)
  • FormFileUpload: Remove temporary fix for selecting .heic file in Chromium browsers. (70383)

Post Editor

  • PostAuthorCombobox: Simplify ‘onFilterValueChange’ debounced callback. (70512)

Interactivity API

  • iAPI: Minor fixes to the Interactivity and Interactivity Router comments. (70420)

Block Library

  • Social Link: Use placement prop for popover positioning. (70348)

Tools

Testing

  • Test: Improve document settings 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. locator. (70331)
  • Ensure the actual tests environment is used for end-to-end tests. (70280)
  • Skip falling end-to-end tests. (70460)
  • end-to-end Tests: Add test case for Link color support. (69141)
  • end-to-end Tests: Minor code quality improvement in some tests. (70382)

Various

Block Library

  • Remove screencast.com embed block variation. (70480)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@alejandrogonzalvo @BugReportOnWeb @DAreRodz @dd32 @ellatrix @himanshupathak95 @iamsandeepdahiya @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @jsnajdr @karthikeya-io @kushagra-goyal-14 @Maikuolan @Mamaduka @Mayank-Tripathi32 @NidhiDhandhukiya74 @peterwilsoncc @ramonjd @Rishit30G @SainathPoojary @SantosGuillamot @shimotmk @shrivastavanolo @t-hamano @talldan @USERSATOSHI @vk17-starlord @Vrishabhsk @westonruter @yashjawale @yogeshbhutkar

Props @ramonopoly, @isabel_brison and @andrewserong for peer review. Props @karmatosed for visual assets.

#block-editor, #core-editor, #gutenberg, #gutenberg-new

Carlos Bravo 2:22 pm on June 11, 2025
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What’s new in Gutenberg 21.0? (11 June)

“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 21.0 has been released and is available for download!

This release continues the ongoing effort to refine the editing experience, improve 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), and streamline 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. customization. Below is a curated summary of the most notable changes in this release.

The HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. Element is now selectable on Button and Separator blocks.

Users can now choose between <a> and <button> elements for better accessibility in the Advanced panel of the Button block.

For the Separator block, they can choose between <hr> and <div>.

Extensive ToolsPanel Refactoring

Many block settings panels—including Button, Comment blocks, Embed, File, List, Navigation, Post Title, RSS, and more—have been refactored to use the unified ToolsPanel interface, providing a more consistent and organized editing experience.

Accessibility and usability

Several blocks, including Button, Columns, and Details, received keyboard accessibility improvements and better focus management.

Numerous 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 address issues with block controls, gallery image captions, social link translations, and more, resulting in a smoother editing workflow.

Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

  • Button Block: Add HTML Element selection in Advanced settings. (70139)
  • Comment Date: Convert Comment Date block settings to ToolsPanel. (70248)
  • Comment Author Name Block: Refactor setting panel to use ToolsPanel. (69407)
  • Comment Edit Link: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (70247)
  • Comment Title: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (70246)
  • Comments Pagination Block: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (70245)
  • Embed Block: Refactor setting panel to use ToolsPanel. (69636)
  • File Block: Refactor setting panel to use ToolsPanel. (70189)
  • Form Input: Convert Form Input block settings to ToolsPanel. (70249)
  • Form: Convert Form block settings to ToolsPanel. (70253)
  • Latest posts: Change panel body to tools panel. (70200)
  • List Block: Refactor setting panel to use ToolsPanel. (69387)
  • Navigation Link, Navigation Submenu: Hide title UIUI User interface controls while keeping attribute support. (70234)
  • Navigation: Refactor display panel to use ToolsPanel. (68011)
  • Post Title: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (70229)
  • RSS: Refactor setting panel to use ToolsPanel. (70213)
  • Separator: Change html element option visibility. (70185)
  • ShortcodeShortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to insert a form or function generated by a plugin in a specific location on your site.: Add role attribute to content in block.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.. (70164)
  • Video: Add option to set a track as default. (70227)

Components

  • ComboboxControl: Handle Unicode characters when matching values. (70180)
  • DropZone: Allow overriding the default icon. (70236)

Block Transforms

  • Adds transforms functionality to Post comments link and post comments number. (70287)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

  • Button: Avoid empty block control slot. (70191)
  • Fix: Click-through blur effect when gallery images have a caption. (69067)
  • Pullquote block: Cannot override cite element style via theme.json. (70260)
  • Social Link: Localize social service names for translations. (70199)
  • Social: Moves size settings to inspector controls. (70186)

Components

  • Ensure SVG Images Without a Width Attribute Are Displayed Correctly in FocalPointPicker. (70061)
  • FormTokenField: Fix filtering with full-width string. (70232)

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.

  • iAPI: Make storePart argument optional in overloads. (70296)

Post Editor

  • Editor: Better normalize strings for hierarchical term filtering. (70178)

Block Editor

  • Flex Layout: Fix incorrect default alignment values for Vertical Alignment Control component. (68866)

Accessibility

Block Library

  • Button: Avoid focus loss when unlinking using keyboard. (70192)
  • Columns block: Don’t use ToolsPanelItem for Columns setting. (70210)
  • Details Block: Fix keyboard accessibility issues and allow list view selection to show up inner blocks. (70056)

Components

  • Toolbar: Adjust colors for dark mode support. (69278)

Experiments

Interactivity API

  • iAPI: Remove the full-page client-side navigation experiment. (70228)

Documentation

  • Docs: Added the missing ALT attribute to all images. (70225)
  • Docs: Remove misleading section from curating the editor experience. (70262)
  • Fix parameter hint for canInsertBlocks. (70305)
  • Fix: Render_block_core_site_title function doc has missing return type. (70269)
  • Improve default ALT attribute value for images in documentation. (70226)
  • JSON schema: Clean reference URLs. (70274)
  • Removed Empty line and corrected typo in inline document. (70203)
  • Replace “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.” with “panel” in tutorial.md. (70257)
  • Small grammar fix in glossary.md. (70292)
  • The wp_admin_notice() function should be called instead of custom HTML for adminadmin (and super admin) notice in docs/how-to-guides/notices/README.md. (70231)
  • Updated small typo in inline documentation. (70187)
  • useDropZone: Refactor documentation to use the correct function syntax. (70286)
  • block.json schema: Add role field. (70272)

Code Quality

Block Editor

  • Clarify ‘clientId’ prop use for ‘HTMLElementControl’. (70258)
  • ImageSizeControl: Use margin-free style. (70202)

Components

  • Remove forced focus of InputControl on mousedown. (41118)
  • SuggestionsList: Remove unused code. (70195)

Block Library

  • Video: Use a unique ‘key’ in the ‘TrackList’ component. (70263)

Tools

Testing

  • Cover Block: Add E2E Test for FocalPointPicker. (69077)
  • E2E: Add general end-to-end tests for templateLock functionality. (70160)
  • Fix end-to-end test for block API / filtered blocks. (51882)
  • Format .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/ workflows .yml file. (70219)
  • Account for tests env port being overridden from 8889 in PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher unit tests. (70267)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aurooba @catgofire @DAreRodz @dhruvikpatel18 @himanshupathak95 @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @Mamaduka @Mayank-Tripathi32 @Mukulsingh27 @nani-samireddy @OpuRockey @pmbaldha @ravigadhiya007 @Rishit30G @SainathPoojary @shail-mehta @shimotmk @stokesman @t-hamano @troychaplin @vipul0425 @vk17-starlord @westonruter @yogeshbhutkar

Props @luminuu, @priethor and @mamaduka for peer review. Props @joen for visual assets.

#block-editor, #core-editor, #gutenberg, #gutenberg-new

Jessica Lyschik 11:20 am on June 11, 2025
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What’s new in Gutenberg 20.8 and 20.9?

We’re catching up with these posts now, as they have not been posted in a while. Since the recent releases have been smaller in scope, this post combines updates from both the 20.8 (May 14) and 20.9 (May 28) releases.

Both versions introduce a collection of enhancements, 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, and improvements. These updates concentrate on refining the editor experience, improving 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), and ensuring consistent design. Additionally, the releases incorporate under-the-hood updates focused on code quality and performance.

  • 20.8 (14 May)
    • Prevent duplicate HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. main elements for improved accessibility.
    • Search functionality in template swapping modal.
    • Changelog
  • 20.9 (28 May)
    • Search 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.: Move search setting to inspector.
    • Move Styles to top of 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.
    • Changelog

20.8 (14 May) – Highlights

Prevent duplicate HTML main elements for improved accessibility.

The HTML Element option now includes validation to prevent duplicate <main> tags, enhancing accessibility and HTML compliance. (70002)

Screenshot of the editor, showing the advanced panel of a group block in the right sidebar with the new main tag warning.

Search functionality in template swapping modal.

The template swapping modal now includes a search feature for smoother navigation. (69667)

Screenshot of the template modal, the cursor is in the new search bar between the heading and the template previews.

Changelog

Enhancements

  • Create Block: Add --textdomain flag to create block tool. (69802)

Components

  • Guide: Make next and previous button text customizable. (69907)
  • Popover: Add virtual padding to prevent it from hitting the viewport edge. (69555)

Document Settings

  • Editor: Add search functionality to template swapping modal. (69667)

Block Editor

  • 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. Editor: Don’t close the inserter when focusing outside it. (67838)

Editor

  • Use split view for metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. boxes only when canvas is iframed and “Desktop” view. (69958)

New APIs

Widgets Editor

  • Edit Widgets: Save lock control via actions. (69984)

Bug Fixes

  • 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/ Actions: Fix components changelog CI check. (70034)
  • Persist git credentials when publishing via lerna. (70007)
  • 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: Fix deprecation for ‘apply_block_hooks_to_content_from_post_object’. (69909)
  • ServerSideRender: Don’t render the previous error response in loading state. (69988)
  • ServerSideRender: Refactor fetchData to use useCallback and refs. (69237)

Block Library

  • Author, Author Name block: Fix PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher warning error when there is no context. (69949)
  • Block Editor: Allow editing 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. blocks as HTML. (69902)
  • Block Editor: Prevent negative width values in Spacer block when used inside a row block. (68845)
  • Calendar block: Disable edit as HTML support. (69961)
  • Image: Avoid stale URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org when reselecting the same image from the library. (69985)
  • Latest Posts: Update content display labels to Display post content and Content length. (69839)
  • Navigation Link, Navigation Submenu: Fix undefined key warning. (69951)
  • fix: Update the logic of fetching current URL in loginout block. (70031)

Block Editor

  • Block HTML: Add box-sizing property to prevent overflow. (70014)
  • Fix: Improve warning message and add spacing in HTMLElementControl. (70002)
  • MediaPlaceholder: Fix 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. with media URL input type to allow a local URL path. (70043)
  • Prevent block merging on blocks with the ‘disabled’ editing mode. (69918)

Components

  • Don’t mutate ‘ALL_CSS_UNITS’ default value in ‘useCustomUnits’. (70037)
  • Fix double border in ItemGroup when last item is focused. (70021)
  • Fix: Duotone unset button. (69981)
  • ToggleGroupControl: Fix active background for empty string value. (69969)

Site Editor

  • Check user permissions before rendering export menu item. (69971)

Widgets Editor

  • Fix: Browser Warnings when closing keyboard shortcut modal. (69929)

Block 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.

  • Fix: Missing conversion from 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. styled variable to CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. variable. (69551)

Typography

  • Fix: Prevent FontSizePicker crash when no font size exists. (68733)

Icons

  • Remove width / height attributes from svg element. (43747)

Accessibility

  • Keyboard Shortcuts: Revert delete shortcut to access + z. (69931)

Block Library

  • Add new HTMLElementControl component. (69904)

Performance

Block Library

  • Latest Posts: Delay inspector control queries until the block is selected. (69898)
  • Latest Posts: Embed author in response. (69889)

Document Settings

  • Lazy load post authors’ data. (69950)

Documentation

  • Add WP version note for ‘setAttributes’ updater function. (69972)
  • Create Block: Add --textdomain in create-block README. (69927)
  • Docs: Add post meta limitations to Block Bindings API documentation. (68583)
  • Docs: Added copy and code for style_data. (69920)
  • Fix missing CSS import in data basics tutorial code. (69914)
  • Fix typos. (69957)
  • Fix: Remove an unnecessary @return 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.) from this 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. docblockdocblock (phpdoc, xref, inline docs). (69960)

Code Quality

  • ServerSideRender: Use useLayoutEffect to update latestPropsRef. (69999)
  • Stylelint: Migrate configuration from JSON to JavaScript format. (69590)
  • theme.json: Unify property order. (70033)

Themes

  • Simplify color specifications from rgba to rgb. (70008)

Block Editor

  • Simplify condition selectors for ‘useHasBlockToolbar’. (69930)

Block Library

  • Latest Posts: Only fetch necessary fields for categories. (69888)

Components

  • ColorPicker: Add tests for ColorPicker Alpha slider. (69203)

Tools

Testing

  • Automated Testing: Skip storybook smoke test. (69943)
  • List View: Add end-to-end test to verify pasting block styles via keyboard. (69979)
  • Try: Fix ‘wp-polyfill’ script dependents unit testunit test Code written to test a small piece of code or functionality within a larger application. Everything from themes to WordPress core have a series of unit tests. Also see regression.. (69912)
  • Workflows: Try different SHA. (70048)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

  • @jrmd: Block Editor: Prevent block merging on blocks with the ‘disabled’ editing mode. (69918)
  • @Maikuolan: Navigation Link, Navigation Submenu: Fix undefined key warning. (69951)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@bph @Debarghya-Banerjee @georgestephanis @himanshupathak95 @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @johnbillion @jrmd @karthikeya-io @Maikuolan @Mamaduka @Mayank-Tripathi32 @Rishit30G @SH4LIN @shimotmk @stokesman @Sukhendu2002 @t-hamano @yogeshbhutkar

20.9 (28 May) – Highlights

Search Block: Move search setting to inspector.

The settings of the search block have been moved from the block toolbar to the inspector panel for better consistency with other coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. blocks. (70144)

Move Styles to top of sidebar navigation.

Move the Styles navigation item to the top position in the Site Editor’s main sidebar navigation, before Navigation, Pages, Templates, and Patterns. (68582)

Changelog

Enhancements

  • Base Styles: Update to modern Sass module system. (70135)
  • Post Publish Panel: Open view post links in a new tab. (70127)
  • Revert Adminadmin (and super admin) bar: Update the Edit Site link. (69974)

Block Library

  • Custom HTML: Add role attribute to content in block.json. (70154)
  • HTML Block: Remove space below textarea. (70055)
  • Post Navigation Link: Reverse order of variations. (70149)
  • RSS: Add role attribute to content in block.json. (70166)
  • Search Block: Move search setting to inspector. (70144)

Write mode

  • Details block: Add role attribute to summary. (70124)
  • Enable Code block content editing in contentOnly. (70111)
  • Enable More block’s “Read more” text editing in contentOnly mode. (70100)
  • Post blocks: Enhance contentOnly editing experience. (70148)
  • Table Block: Enhance contentOnly Editing Experience. (70114)

Components

  • ColorPicker: Add a visual cue when the value is copied. (70083)
  • Snackbar: Add support to open links in new tab. (69905)

Block Transforms

  • Block Library: Add missing transforms between Verse and Preformatted blocks. (70101)

Global Styles

  • Remove “global” from styles variation in schema descriptions. (70089)

Site Editor

  • Move Styles to top of sidebar navigation. (68582)

Bug Fixes

  • DOM: Add summary element to focusable elements. (70051)
  • Site Editor: Fix PHP warnings in gutenberg_get_site_editor_redirection. (70062)
  • URL: Handle HTML entities and ampersand in ‘cleanForSlug’. (70078)
  • Workflows: Persist git credentials when publishing packages via Lerna. (70058)

Block Library

  • Button: Limit scope of width style for link. (70054)
  • Image: Provide ‘defaultValue’ for ‘ResolutionTool’ component. (70122)
  • Post Template: Don’t rely on the default ‘ignore_sticky’ 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/. value. (70020)

Components

  • Fix Styling for TextControland TextAreaControl in dark themes. (69640)
  • Fix URLPopover input handling to properly update value. (70156)

Post Editor

  • Editor: Honor rich/code editor settings when deriving the editor mode. (70080)
  • Hide “Create template part” menu from block settings dropdown for classic themes. (65568)

Block Editor

  • MediaPlaceholder: Fix potential error in ‘handleBlocksDrop’. (70090)

Accessibility

  • Editor: Add label inTextareaControl in CollabSidebar. (70133)

Global Styles

  • Background Image Panel: Fix focus loss. (69813)
  • Move Randomize colors button to Edit Palette panel. (70128)

Documentation

  • Add example doc comment. (70116)
  • Docs: Clarify versions in WordPress page title. (70112)
  • Docs: Fix PEG.js link. (70082)
  • Docs: Interactivity API Block removed. (69513)
  • Modify the spinner example code. (70084)
  • Popover: Update Popover component documentation. (70106)
  • RichText Readme – Fix 404 URL To Mozilla documentation. (70171)
  • Updated backticks to quotes. (70070)

Code Quality

  • ServerSideRender: Colocate delayed spinner logic. (70147)
  • Stylelint: Customise warning for CSS variables used outside components package. (70108)
  • Stylelint: Customise warning message for flex-direction warning. (70057)

Block Library

  • Blocks: Remove TODO for post comment block conversion. (70110)

Components

  • withIgnoreIMEEvents: Update documentation for clarity. (70098)

Font Library

  • Fix missing trailing period in user message. (70132)

Tools

Build Tooling

  • Workflows: Add option for publishing the latest npm packages. (70079)

Testing

  • end-to-end Tests: Add test suite for columns block template lock. (69089)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@carolinan @himanshupathak95 @igorradovanov @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @jasalt @karthikeya-io @Mamaduka @Mayank-Tripathi32 @peterwilsoncc @SainathPoojary @shimotmk @SirLouen @StevenDufresne @Sukhendu2002 @t-hamano @unscripted @yogeshbhutkar

Props to @yogeshbhutkar and @luminuu for writing this post and @priethor and @cbravobernal for reviewing.

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What’s new in Gutenberg 20.6 and 20.7?

We’re catching up with these posts now, as they have not been posted in a while. Since the recent releases have been smaller in scope, this post combines updates from both the 20.6 (April 3) and 20.7 (April 22) releases.

Both versions introduce a collection of enhancements, 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, and improvements. These updates concentrate on refining the editor experience, improving 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), and ensuring consistent design. Additionally, the releases incorporate under-the-hood updates focused on code quality and performance.

  • 20.6 (3 April)
    • Navigation 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.: Add transparency slider for submenu background.
    • Changelog
  • 20.7 (22 April)
    • Navigation in Site View: Automatically expand all options.
    • Editor: Enable starter pattern modal for all post types.
    • Changelog

20.6 (3 April) – Highlights

Navigation Block: Add transparency slider for submenu background

This PR adds the ability to set a transparent background for Navigation Block submenus by enabling the alpha (transparency) channel in the color picker for the submenu background setting. (69379)

Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

  • Feature: Adding support for more granular controls over the ToC block. (69063)
  • Navigation Block: Add transparency slider for submenu background. (69379)
  • Query Total: Add interactivity.clientNavigation block support. (69661)
  • RSS Block: Add option to open links in new tab/window and control rel attributes. (69641)

Block Editor

  • Add keyboard shortcut (cmd(ctrl)+option(alt)+v) to paste styles. (69196)
  • BlockPatternsExplorer: Hide scrollbar from 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. if not scrollable. (69706)

Post Editor

  • Editor: Revert new default rendering mode for Pages. (69680)

Bug Fixes

  • BlockBreadcrumb: Wrap text node in span 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.). (69605)
  • Fix Media & Text block preview alignment on larger devices. (67097)
  • Format Library: Ensure inline image with updates persist after removing the ‘width’. (69683)
  • Include blocks manifest build process in Webpack configuration to fix create-block bug with missing blocks manifest file. (69578)

Block Library

  • 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. Block: Prevent default action on image click to fix linking to post. (69716)
  • Fix CategoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. List Block: Add optional chaining to taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. name. (69703)
  • Fix(embed-block): Only call setAttributes() when attrs change. (68141)
  • Fix: Correct ‘Displaying 1 – 0 of 0’ issue when no results are found. (69666)
  • Image block: Omit max width observer element in galleries. (69601)
  • PostCommentsForm: Fix submit button width 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.. (69651)

Components

  • ComboboxControl: Replace undefined variable usage with color-mix for disabled selection. (69621)
  • CustomSelectControl: Use dynamic fill color for check icon. (69626)
  • Fix autocomple UIUI User interface flicker when deleting trigger prefix. (69562)
  • Update NumberControl stepping to match HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. number input stepping. (34566)

Block Editor

  • LinkControl: Fix visually Duplicative label and placeholder. (69620)
  • PatternsExplorerModal: Fix empty patterns in starter content category. (69629)

Post Editor

  • Post Template Panel: Render create-new-template-modal over post-template-panel. (69713)

Global Styles

  • Site Editor: Make the text “Custom Styles” translatable. (69677)

Site Editor

  • Set IFRAME_REQUEST constant for classic theme site preview. (69535)

Document Settings

  • PostStatus: Prevent form submission from refreshing the page. (69526)

Accessibility

Document Settings

  • Post Template Panel: Preserve parent modal when closing template creation dialog. (69724)

Block Library

  • Site Title: Prevent saving and rendering a value made of only spaces. (69628)

Block Editor

  • Fix shift+tab from post title. (69520)

Components

  • Global Styles: Prevent Unwanted ItemGroup List Rendering in Border Panel. (68633)

DataViews

  • Display Checkbox by default in dataviews. (67874)

Performance

Block Library

  • Image: Don’t subscribe to current post changes. (69630)
  • Navigation Link: Don’t check validity when block editing is disabled. (69627)
  • Navigation Link: Improve performance by only requesting entities when selected. (69633)
  • Navigation Link: Optimize ‘getBlockParentsByBlockName’ selector call. (69631)

Documentation

  • Developer Documentation: Update VS Code settings in the contribution guide. (69670)
  • Editor: Clarify icon prop behavior in README. (69672)
  • Fix: Missing comma in DataView documentation example. (69721)
  • Modify the AnglePickerControl example code. (69673)
  • Modify the RangeControl example code. (69591)
  • Reference splitTask from interactivity package in documentation. (69602)
  • Storybook: Update ToolbarItem and ToolbarDropdownMenu exports. (69618)
  • Update the list of 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/ versions in WordPress versions. (69700)
  • scripts: Fix broken changelog link. (69654)

Code Quality

Components

  • Component: Extract getNodeText to its own file and add unit tests. (69135)
  • Fixed broken className test for NumberControl. (69540)

Post Editor

  • PreviewDropdown: There’s no need to unlock the ‘getRenderingMode’ selector. (69682)

Font Library

  • FontLibraryModal: Remove temporary margin-bottom override. (69674)

Site Editor

  • Update old URLs to new path-based URLs. (69585)

Tools

Testing

  • Fix end-to-end and performance tests. (69690)
  • Fix flaky Typewriter end-to-end test. (69623)
  • Refactor ‘Template hierarchy’ end-to-end tests. (69692)
  • Upgrade Playwright to v1.51.1. (69622)
  • e2e: Fix taxomomies test. (69723)

Build Tooling

  • Fix Tests: Update browserslist and caniuse-lite to latest versions. (69669)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

  • @gmovr: Feature: Adding support for more granular controls over the ToC block. (69063)
  • @im3dabasia: Fix Media & Text block preview alignment on larger devices. (67097)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@bph @chrisbellboy @dhruvikpatel18 @felixarntz @gmovr @himanshupathak95 @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @karthick-murugan @Mamaduka @Mayank-Tripathi32 @Rishit30G @SainathPoojary @shimotmk @Sourav61 @StevenDufresne @stokesman @t-hamano @westonruter @yogeshbhutkar

20.7 (22 April) – Highlights

Navigation in Site View: Automatically expand all options.

This PR changes the default state of navigation submenus in Site View from collapsed to expanded, making all navigation options immediately visible to users without requiring manual expansion. (69343)

Editor: Enable starter pattern modal for all post types.

This PR fixes the starter pattern modal so it works for all post types, not just pages. It removes the restriction that was limiting the modal to only appear when creating new pages. (69753)

Changelog

Enhancements

  • Format Library: Add a feature to set the alpha value to Highlight. (67525)
  • Playwright end-to-end utils: Add new emulateNetworkConditions helper. (69865)

Block Library

  • Details: Enable all non-interactive formats. (68741)
  • Heading: Add/correct typography examples. (69812)
  • Navigation in Site View: Automatically expand all options. (69343)
  • Remove experimental status from comments count and comment link blocks. (69832)
  • Table Block: Preserve Column Alignment when Pasting Markdown Tables. (69322)
  • Tag Cloud: Remove unnecessary full-width padding. (69725)

Block Editor

  • Remove truncation from media tab preview tooltips. (69741)
  • Support passing updater function to ‘setAttributes’. (69709)

Media

  • Remove @shopify/web-worker Dependency from packages/upload-media. (69816)

Bug Fixes

  • DataViews: Ensure consistent display of primary ellipsis in list layout. (69846)
  • Scripts: Fix blocks manifest generation when directory name has space. (69766)

Block Library

  • Enhance Featured Image Block: Don’t include interactive elements within an element. (69730)
  • Featured Image: Don’t render empty Resolution tools panel if media is not set. (69805)
  • Fix: Background wrapper for ‘Button Inside’ option. (69624)
  • Fix: Update the static text and make them translatable in the Blocks example. (69859)
  • Fixed Media & Text Block – Image not rendered properly on frontend when inside stack. (68610)
  • 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.: Don’t overwrite the ‘query.inherit’ attribute value. (69698)
  • Query Loop: Fix ‘undo trap’ and improve debouncing for ‘Keyword’ control. (69845)
  • ToC: Fix condition for ‘Limit heading levels’. (69811)
  • ToC: Fix related block attribute persistence. (69734)

Block Editor

  • Block Tools: Prevent showing block toolbar when block interface is hidden. (69795)
  • Block drag & drop: Enable mouse click on input/textarea elements in Firefox. (69781)
  • Fix: Restore static properties on deprecated __experimentalLinkControl. (69860)
  • Fix: Space visualizer showing previous value. (69747)

Post Editor

  • Fix: Save custom template with non-latin slug. (69732)
  • 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.: Don’t enable for block themes in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. if v2 blocks exist. (69778)

Document Settings

  • PostPublishPanel: Fix post title overflow. (69804)

Patterns

  • Editor: Enable starter pattern modal for all post types. (69753)

Components

  • UI Components: Add theme support for FormTokenField and ComboboxControl. (69638)

Accessibility

  • DataViews: Always show primary action for list layout if hover isn’t supported. (69876)

Block Library

  • Navigation Link, Navigation Submenu: Remove the title attribute controls. (69689)
  • Navigation block: Fix submenu Escape key behavior. (69837)
  • Social Icons: Remove custom placeholder state. (69821)

Components

  • Button: Update hover styles to account for pressed state for tertiary button. (68542)
  • Global Styles: Fix incorrect usage of ItemGroup in the Background image panel. (68631)

DataViews

  • ActionModal: Add support for customisable focusOnMount. (69609)

Documentation

  • Add WithCloseHandlers story. (69688)
  • Create Block: Improve support for blocks manifest and relevant Core APIs. (69767)
  • Docs: Improve document and parameters in render_block_core_* function. (69856)
  • Fix: Incorrect Type of wp_widget_factory in render_block_core_legacy_widget Doc Block. (69775)
  • Fix: Expose TypeScript types for subcomponents. (69619)
  • Latest Posts block: Add missing @global PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher documentation. (69763)

Code Quality

  • Block Parser: Remove description for singular since tag. (69799)
  • Fix Documentation inconsistencies in Block Parser classes. (69785)
  • Stylelint-config: Add stylelint-scss as a peer dependency. (69685)

Block Library

  • Query Loop: Remove unused ‘Columns’ control. (69843)
  • Search: wp-block-search__inside-wrapper classname trailing spaces. (69405)
  • Social Icons: Fix effect dependencies. (69824)
  • Social Icons: Remove unused editor style. (69836)

Block Directory

  • Update metadata fields requested from server. (69801)

Components

  • Update gradient-parser dependency from 0.1.5 to 1.0.2. (69783)

Tools

Testing

  • Automated Testing: Add 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/ Actions workflow for Storybook smoke testing. (69679)
  • E2E: Split list view keyboard shortcuts into multiple tests. (69231)
  • Workflows: Ignore ‘widgets’ for manual backports. (69792)

Build Tooling

  • Workflows: Ignore ‘block-serialization-default-parser’ for manual backports. (69791)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@carolinan @Debarghya-Banerjee @dhruvikpatel18 @dilipbheda @himanshupathak95 @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @jonathanbossenger @karthikeya-io @Mamaduka @Mayank-Tripathi32 @Rishit30G @SainathPoojary @shimotmk @snehapatil2001 @stokesman @Sukhendu2002 @swissspidy @t-hamano @timse201 @yogeshbhutkar

Props to @priethor and @cbravobernal for reviewing this post.

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Jessica Lyschik 12:29 pm on June 5, 2025
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What’s new in Gutenberg 20.4 and 20.5?

We’re catching up with these posts now, as they have not been posted in a while. Since the recent releases have been smaller in scope, this post combines updates from both the 20.4 (March 5) and 20.5 (March 20) releases.

Both versions introduce a collection of enhancements, 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, and improvements. These updates concentrate on refining the editor experience, improving 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), and ensuring consistent design. Additionally, the releases incorporate under-the-hood updates focused on code quality and performance.

  • 20.4 (5 March)
    • Persist the user’s ‘Show Template’ preference in the editor
    • 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. 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. now supports sorting posts by menu order
    • Changelog
  • 20.5 (20 March)
    • The create-block package now supports blocks manifest and relevant CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. APIs by default
    • Changelog

20.4 (5 March) – Highlights

Persist the user’s ‘Show Template’ preference in the editor

The editor now remembers the ‘Show Template’ preference set by the user and uses it as the default rendering mode. (69286)

Query Loop Block now supports sorting posts by menu order

The Query Loop block now lets users sort posts by their menu order, in both ascending and descending order, for post types that support it. (68781)

Changelog

Enhancements

  • Generate built CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. file containing the adminadmin (and super admin) color theme CSS custom properties. (69128)

Post Editor

  • Editor: Conditionally enable the new default rendering mode for Pages. (69160)
  • Editor: Persist user’s ‘Show Template’ preference. (69286)
  • Editor: Restore starter content modal. (69081)
  • Post Template Panel: Display popover on the left side of the 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.. (69134)

Block Library

  • Post Navigation Link: Enable all non-interactive formats. (69325)
  • Pullquote: Adding missing alignment style. (68121)
  • Query Loop: Add menu_order as sorting option. (68781)

Site Editor

  • Enhance 404 message styling. (69234)

Media

  • Media Utils: Restrict file uploads with multiple prop in uploadMedia and mediaUpload. (69175)

Components

  • BorderControl: Always show Reset button. (69066)

Block Editor

  • Block Action: Implement cut functionality in block actions and settings menu. (68554)

Global Styles

  • Allow :Focus-visible pseudo-selector to be set in theme.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.. (68521)

Design Tools

  • Post Comments Count: Add Border Support. (68223)

Bug Fixes

  • Core Data: Allow ‘null’ as raw attribute value. (69257)
  • Dataviews: Fix alignment issue of “Title” column 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.. (68840)
  • Fix addQueryArgs and removeQueryArg on URLs with fragments. (69313)
  • Post formats: Make title and description human readable. (69275)
  • Site Editor: Fix back link from “Navigation” sub-menus in mobile web. (69192)
  • TextControl: Fix text direction for URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org and email fields in block editor for RTL languages. (68561)

Block Library

  • Fix: Extra top and bottom margin issue in Social Link block for classic theme below twenty twenty. (69100)
  • Make navigation block wavy underline more visible on dark backgrounds. (69004)
  • Template Part block: Guard against get_block_file_template returning null. (69309)
  • Video Block: Disable autoplay when video is not muted. (69232)

Post Editor

  • Editor: Add an extra check before enabling the new default rendering mode for Pages. (69209)
  • Editor: Avoid a ‘flash’ when rendering in ‘template-locked’ mode. (69173)
  • Editor: Revert bulk editing support for post actions. (69341)

Site Editor

  • Fix space on the left or right of the menu in mobile view. (69327)
  • Show pattern categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. step in navigation for mobile. (69206)
  • Site Hub: Navigate correctly in mobile view. (69157)

Components

  • Notice: Fix text contrast for dark mode. (69226)
  • NumberControl: 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. HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. attributes for infinite bounds. (69033)

Colors

  • Format Library: Prevent the text and color picker from overlapping. (69169)
  • Format Library: Text-color popover width to fit sidebar. (68881)

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.

  • iAPI Router: Revert “Handle styles assets on region-based navigation”. (69222)

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

  • Fix typo for ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ 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/. support. (69171)

Block Editor

  • Inserter: Hide drag-and-drop help text on mobile devices when previewing patterns. (69159)

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.

  • Fix duplicated insertion in Post Content. (69142)

REST API

  • Adds the site reading options to the index. (69106)

Block API

  • Block support: Add server-side processing for ariaLabel. (69096)

Document Outline

  • Show heading blocks when template-lock is enabled. (69073)

Media

  • Improve display of error returned from the REST API when an unsupported image type is uploaded. (68788)

Accessibility

Components

  • Cover: Fix placeholder color options keyboard accessibility. (68662)
  • InputControl: Ensure consistent placeholder color. (69334)

Post Editor

  • Improve the EntitiesSavedStates modal dialog design and labeling. (67792)
  • Swap fullscreen mode snackbar notice message. (69305)

Patterns

  • Close patterns modal on insertion and focus on inserted pattern. (68975)

Block Editor

  • Fix CSS classes for the post editor 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. body. (68481)

Performance

Interactivity API

  • Introduce withSyncEvent action wrapper utility and proxy event object whenever it is not used. (68097)

Documentation

  • Added Missing Double Quote in Number Control. (69207)
  • Added Missing Global Documentation in Query Total Block. (69233)
  • Added php.net/date links. (69280)
  • Components: Fix typo for notice color in readme.md. (69204)
  • Docs: Add Documentation for Adding Block Variations Using get_block_type_variations Hook. (68434)
  • Docs: Removes notes about Block Hooks only supporting static theme elements. (65455)
  • Fix Syntax Issue in Documentation. (69166)
  • Fix typo incorrect article before “user interface”. (69168)
  • FontSizePicker: Fix FontSizePicker Storybook control type and improve documentation. (68936)
  • Update javascriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/.-in-the-block-editor.md – fix link. (62431)
  • docs: Correction in plugin-sidebar-0.md. (69268)

Code Quality

  • Fields: Avoid ‘useSelect’ warnings in the template component. (69344)
  • Remove unnecessary opacity override for Firefox placeholders. (69312)
  • Revert “Feature: Add navigation.isLoading state to core/router store (#67680)”. (69330)

Post Editor

  • Editor: Use a stable array ref as fallback value in ‘BlockVisibility’. (69288)

Site Editor

  • Test: Add end-to-end test for 404 page. (69272)

Tools

Testing

  • ESLint: Improve lint regex for preventing “toggle” word usage in translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. ready functions. (68958)
  • Media Utils: Add tests for new error behavior. (69215)
  • Performance Tests: Update method for creating sample content. (69210)
  • Tests: Fix preloading end-to-end test. (69228)
  • end-to-end Tests: Add Block Hooks Test Coverage. (69044)

Various

Plugin

  • ESLint: Add rule to prevent usage of the word ‘sidebar’ in translatable strings. (68894)

Post Editor

  • Update template-related messages to improve clarity for custom post types. (67722)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

  • @alexchrysovergis: Fix typo incorrect article before “user interface”. (69168)
  • @andreawetzel: Components: Fix typo for notice color in readme.md. (69204)
  • @kellymears: docs: Correction in plugin-sidebar-0.md. (69268)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@adamsilverstein @afercia @alexchrysovergis @andreawetzel @benazeer-ben @carolinan @DAreRodz @davilera @fabiankaegy @felixarntz @himanshupathak95 @huubl @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @jonathanbossenger @juanmaguitar @kellymears @Mamaduka @ockham @Rishit30G @SainathPoojary @shail-mehta @shimotmk @singhakanshu00 @snehapatil2001 @stokesman @Sukhendu2002 @swissspidy @t-hamano @yogeshbhutkar

20.5 (20 March) – Highlights

The create-block package now supports blocks manifest and relevant Core APIs by default

Blocks created using the create-block package now include a block manifest file by default, making it easier to manage metadata and improving performance when working with multiple block types. (69446)

Pre-publish panel: Do not show suggestions for tags and categories if there are none.

The conditions that determine if the pre-publish panel should show suggestions to add categories or tags have been updated if no categories or tags are added. (69453)

Changelog

Enhancements

  • Admin bar: Update the Edit Site link. (69271)
  • Enhance create-block package to support blocks manifest and relevant Core APIs by default. (69446)
  • Remove trailing periods from Show or hide settings panel. (69356)
  • Site Editor: Make current theme and editor settings available to route area resolvers. (69299)

Block Library

  • Button Block: Add draft page creation capability. (69368)
  • Query Total: Update the block color support settings. (69500)

Block Editor

  • BlockEditor: Resolve MediaReplaceFlow UIUI User interface text inconsistency. (69546)

Site Editor

  • Add period to Design description. (69537)

Post Editor

  • Pre-publish panel: Do not show suggestions for tags and categories if there are none. (69453)

DataViews

  • DataView Actions Modal: Allow customizable modal size through props. (69302)

Bug Fixes

Block Library

  • Archives Block: Fix showLabel default state. (69469)
  • Comment Template: Use fallback when there’s an HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. error. (69422)
  • Fix: Show the author and author name examples in the Stylebook. (69436)
  • Image block: Unwrap img element in editor. (68666)
  • Latest Posts: Make Latest Posts block consistent with sticky posts display. (69428)
  • Query Total: Prevent stricted type fatal errors on post per page. (69508)
  • Social Icons: Disable edit as HTML support. (69374)
  • Spacer: Revert height defaults to 100px if left unset. (69450)
  • SpacerControls: Default the height to 100px if left unset. (68819)
  • Table Of Contents: Include headings exclusively within the core/post-content block. (69366)

Site Editor

  • Classic themes: Prevent access to parts of the Site Editor. (69473)
  • Hide admin bar in classic theme site preview. (69514)
  • Prevent access to the Design/Styles screen from classic themes without StyleBook support. (69377)
  • Show save panel in mobile layout. (69448)
  • Site Editor Sidebar: Fix header scrolling in mobile layout. (69413)

Global Styles

  • Shadow, Duotone: Fix reset button style. (69471)
  • ShadowsPanel: Remove Flex Wrapper from Subtitle. (69541)

Post Editor

  • Autocompleters: Change user slug color. (69003)
  • Editor: Fix ‘slug’ editing in ‘template-locked’ mode. (69516)

Document Settings

  • Editor: Use disabled state for ‘Change template’ menu item. (69558)

Style Book

  • Classic theme site preview: Make all interactive elements unclickable. (69522)

Document Outline

  • Disable selection for non-content headings. (69506)

Block Editor

  • Fix error from popover scroll hook. (69479)

REST API

  • Add additional default template data fields for the active theme. (69417)

Block Directory

  • Fix installations for ‘template-locked’ mode. (69394)

Layout

  • Layout Support: Replace incremental IDs with hashes. (68210)

Accessibility

Post Editor

  • Editor: Refactor the ‘PostVisibility’ component. (69451)
  • Make password protected input fields consistent. (69440)

Components

  • Button: Remove fixed width from small and compact buttons with icons. (69378)
  • Remove non translatable additional info from font size picker visual label and improve labeling. (69011)

Block Editor

  • ARIA: Fix invalid DropdownMenu children structure. (69441)

Block Library

  • Site Title: Fix logic for ‘aria-current’ attribute. (68909)

Performance

Post Editor

  • Editor: Optimize queries for ‘useAllowSwitchingTemplates’ hook. (69560)
  • Editor: Optimize selector queries for Homepage and Posts Page actions. (69461)
  • Editor: Preload template lookup. (69454)

Site Editor

  • Fix template lookup preloading for non-draft pages. (69400)

Experiments

  • Added Missing Trailing periods in Experiment Settings Page. (69395)

Documentation

  • Docs/update reference to JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. build setup 404 in scripts README, fix absolute links. (69495)
  • Fix: Update invalid JSON Schema link in README.md. (69505)
  • Update documentation about wp-scripts build-blocks-manifest in relation to new WordPress 6.8 function. (69445)

Code Quality

  • Alignment note with WordPress report 62426. (69519)
  • Core Data: Update ‘__unstableBase’ entity types. (69556)

Block Library

  • Audio Block: Refactor setting panel to use ToolsPanel. (69324)

Global Styles

  • Removed color.__experimentalDuotone from core blocks. (58241)

Tools

Testing

  • Restore post preview end-to-end tests. (69447)
  • Skip failing post preview end-to-end tests. (69429)
  • Template UI mu-plugin: Run 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. after the setup_theme action. (69542)

Various

Plugin

  • Update hierarchical data compat directory. (69550)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

  • @Anuj-Rathore24: Fix: Update invalid JSON Schema link in README.md. (69505)
  • @bschneidewind: Site Title: Fix logic for ‘aria-current’ attribute. (68909)
  • @dontfeedthecode: Docs/update reference to JS build setup 404 in scripts README, fix absolute links. (69495)
  • @sabbir1991: Removed color.__experimentalDuotone from core blocks. (58241)
  • @SirLouen: Alignment note with WordPress report 62426. (69519)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@afercia @Anuj-Rathore24 @bschneidewind @carolinan @cbravobernal @DAreRodz @dhruvikpatel18 @dontfeedthecode @felixarntz @HILAYTRIVEDI @himanshupathak95 @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @Mamaduka @sabbir1991 @SainathPoojary @shail-mehta @shimotmk @SirLouen @stokesman @t-hamano @yogeshbhutkar

Props to @yogeshbhutkar for writing the post and @luminuu and @bph reviewing it.

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Fabian Kägy 10:20 pm on March 3, 2025
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What’s new in Gutenberg 20.3? (18 February)

Gutenberg 20.3 is out of the oven and ready to download.

As with most releases since 20.0 this release has also primarily been focused on fixing bugs. But of course there are still always some features that join the mix.

Highlights

Ignore sticky posts in 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.

The query loop 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. now has a new option to ignore sticky posts. When selected, the query block ignores whether or not a post has the sticky option enabled. So, all posts show based on the sorting preferences selected without taking the sticky status into account.

Add social icon block variation for discord

The social icons block now ships with the option to add a Discord icon.

Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

  • Query block: Add option to ignore sticky posts behavior. (69057)
  • Added discord in social links. (68848)
  • 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. block: Use resolution tool component. (68471)
  • RSS: Border & Spacing support. (66411)

Global Styles

  • Disable Clear button if there’s no shadow. (69092)
  • Duotone Settings: Add reset button and improve toggle rendering in FiltersPanel. (68672)
  • Shadow Panel: Add reset button. (68981)

Post Editor

  • Editor: Add loading state to the ‘PageAttributesParent’ component. (69062)
  • Editor: Add loading state to the ‘PostAuthorCombobox’ component. (68991)
  • Editor: Display error message when loading current post fails. (68999)

Block Editor

  • Quick Inserter: Restore pattern search and insertion. (69028)
  • Update keyboard shortcuts to use primaryShift+backspace for block deletion. (69074)

Design Tools

  • Archives: Add Color Support. (68685)
  • Categories: Add Color Support. (68686)

Components

  • ComboboxControl: Add an isLoading prop to show a loading spinner. (68990)

Bug Fixes

  • Exclude Iterator helpers from polyfills. (69070)
  • Fix Dependabot ignore statements. (69144)

Block Editor

  • Block popover: Fix scrolling over. (68075)
  • Display root appender when default block is disabled. (68951)
  • Fix 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. for root appender logic. (68994)
  • Inserter: Remove block default icon from no results message. (68693)
  • Rename aspect property to ratio to carry the defaultAspect in AspectRatioDropdown. (69085)
  • Writing Flow: Restore early return for no block selection in tab nav hook. (69079)

Site Editor

  • Edit Site: Fix Fields package private APIs error. (68964)
  • Fix: Site Editor should display a 404 message. (69009)
  • Use the same editor component for all routes. (69093)
  • Disable hover animation on preview frame for classic themes. (68976)

Global Styles

  • Fix: Additional CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. button not working after back navigation. (68954)
  • Fix: Missing ‘No blocks found.’ message for block search in editor. (69036)

Block Library

  • Query Block: Fix ‘parents’ argument validation. (68983)
  • Social Links: Fix appender size in non-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. editor. (68215)

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/.

  • Add support for the ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ argument. (68970)
  • Fix: Prevent Errors in 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. Processing and Encode URLs Properly. (67780)

Icons

  • Fix the background, arrowUpLeft, keyboardReturn and square icons. (69076)

Font Library

  • Refactor font variant components to use useId for checkbox IDs. (69050)

Block Directory

  • Remove block icon from InstalledBlocksPrePublishPanel. (69046)

DataViews

  • Fixed: Empty Pattern Overlap in Pattern Title in Dataviews Table Layout. (68997)

Media

  • Add optional chain to sizes indexing of media details in edit-site. (68995)

CSS & Styling

  • Enabled Full height in Additional CSS. (68993)

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.

  • Fix truncation of post content. (68926)

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.

  • iAPI Router: Fix CSS rule order in some constructed style sheets. (68923)
  • iAPI Router: Revert “Handle styles assets on region-based navigation” (69222)

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)

Components

  • Font Size Picker: Remove Custom option from FontSizePickerSelect dropdown. (69038)

Global Styles

  • Add missing list role to the list of blocks in the global Styles. (69027)

Block API

  • Block support: Preserve aria-label value in comment delimiter. (69002)

Block Editor

  • [Block Editor]: 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) – Add and Update missing reduce-motion mixing. (68417)

Performance

Post Editor

  • Editor: Don’t use selector shortcuts for the taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. queries. (68998)
  • Editor: Optimize ‘PostAuthorCheck’ component data selection. (69105)

Style Book

  • Improve StyleBook resize responsiveness for Classic Theme. (68980)

Documentation

  • Added Missing Global Documentation. (69104)
  • Changed Inline Document Order. (68992)
  • wp-env: Add lifecycleScripts to the schema. (68724)

Code Quality

  • CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Data: Add type for term entity. (69151)
  • iAPI Router: Add missing changelog entry for #68923. (68945)

Block Library

  • E2E: Add regression test for spacer block in themes without spacing units. (68913)
  • Navigation Link Block: Use stable variable for underline color styling. (68953)
  • Regenerate block fixtures. (68982)
  • Social Links: Remove redundant reduce-motion mixin. (69000)

Site Editor

  • Fast follow: Redirections of deprecated site editor URLs. (68971)
  • Quality: Remove unused props and styles from SidebarNavigationScreen. (68972)

Block Editor

  • Inserter: Remove unused no-results-icon styles. (69018)

Tools

  • PR Template: Suggest linking the issue. (68924)
  • Relocate changelog file for WP#6910 to 6.9 backports. (69068)

Build Tooling

  • Fix installing svn during deploys. (69047)
  • Remove react-native dependabot group. (69118)

Testing

  • e2e: Fix “add new” selector. (69111)

Various

  • Remove reactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/.-native dependabot group – Take 2. (69122)

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

  • Code Quality: Delete unused function from PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher Sync Issue generation script. (68947)
  • npm scripts: Use node -p instead of echo. (68946)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

  • @benazeer-ben: RSS: Border & Spacing support. (66411)
  • @grgar: Add optional chain to sizes indexing of media details in edit-site. (68995)
  • @Gulamdastgir-Momin: Added discord in social links. (68848)
  • @Juzar10: Fix: Prevent Errors in Header Processing and Encode URLs Properly. (67780)
  • @singhakanshu00: Disable hover animation on preview frame for classic themes. (68976)
  • @srtfisher: wp-env: Add lifecycleScripts to the schema. (68724)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@adamsilverstein @afercia @akasunil @benazeer-ben @carolinan @DAreRodz @desrosj @ellatrix @grgar @Gulamdastgir-Momin @himanshupathak95 @Infinite-Null @joemcgill @Juzar10 @Mamaduka @Mayank-Tripathi32 @ockham @peterwilsoncc @Rishit30G @SainathPoojary @shail-mehta @shimotmk @singhakanshu00 @srtfisher @swissspidy @t-hamano @torounit @yogeshbhutkar

Props to @joemcgill for helping with the actual release and @benjamin_zekavica for helping review this post

#6-8, #block-editor, #core-editor, #gutenberg, #gutenberg-new

Fabian Kägy 4:46 pm on January 11, 2025
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What’s new in Gutenberg 20.0? (10 January)

This is 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/ 20.0, which means it’s the 200th release of the Gutenberg pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party.

It’s been almost exactly eight years since the initial commit to the Gutenberg repository and about four years since we celebrated the 100th release.

There is a lot happening in the WordPress world these days. But I want to use this moment to take a step back and just say thank you! Thank you to all the individual contributors that have spent countless hours over the past eight years steadily moving this project along. Whether you are still an active contributor, or you have long moved on to work on something else, thank you for all your work. ❤️

Even though this is the 200th release of the Gutenberg plugin, the actual release itself is the same as any other release in the past eight years. It includes new features, enhancements, and bugfixes. The remainder of this “What’s new in Gutenberg” post will follow the regular format.

The “What’s new in Gutenberg” posts (#gutenberg-new) appear on a biweekly basis after every Gutenberg release, and showcase the latest features and improvements. 

Interested in learning more? Here’s an overview of how you can keep up with news and events related to Gutenberg and the 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. Editor.

Gutenberg 20.0 is out of the oven and ready to download.

The last first of 2025 introduces improvements to the Style Book, a new starter pattern ui, a swathe of component library enhancements, and code quality improvements.

Table of contents

  1. Enhancements for the Style Book
  2. Starter Patterns get a new UI
  3. Easily set a Page to become the Posts Page
  4. Display Block Type Badge for renamed blocks
  5. More Highlights
  6. Changelog
  7. Contributors

Enhancements for the Style Book

The Style Book got a few improvements in this release. It now features different sections for typography, colors, and individual blocks that all activate when the user navigates to those menu items. Additionally, the Style Book now its own URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org (#67811), so you can access it directly.

Starter Patterns get a new UIUI User interface

We’ve received a lot of feedback that the old Modal based approach for starter patterns caused more annoyance than it helped. So, in an effort to improve the experience, the modal has been removed, and instead, if starter patterns exist, the page will load in the zoomed-out mode with the pattern inserter already opened.

Easily set a Page to become the Posts Page

Similar to the “Set Homepage” action that was added in a recent release, it is now possible to easily set a page to become the posts page using a post action in the dataviews for pages.

Display Block Type Badge for renamed blocks

To clarify what block you are currently editing, the block type is displayed as a badge next to the custom name when a block is renamed.

More Highlights

wp-env now supports multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site installations allowing developers to easily bootstrap multisite environments, especially for ease of feature testing and quality control. (67845)

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. get a major boost by now allowing developers to apply hooks to post content and synced patterns. This has been a highly requested feature of block hooks since day one. (67272 & 68058)

Changelog

Enhancements

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.

  • iAPI Router: Handle styles assets on region-based navigation. (67826)
  • Prevent each directive errors and allow any iterable. (67798)

Block Library

  • Button: Update Settings text labels. (68265)
  • Introduce new 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. “render_block_core_navigation_link_allowed_post_status”. (63181)
  • Latest Posts add Border Block Support. (66353)
  • Add block example attribute for Comments Form block. (68267)
  • Add block example attribute for Comments block. (68266)
  • Read More: Add example preview. (68288)
  • Query Pagination: Update ‘showLabel’ help text. (68105)
  • Query Total block: Reduce concatenation in the output text. (68150)
  • Post 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.: Use the ‘ResolutionTool’ component. (68294)
  • Add Tools Panel dropdown menu props to More block. (68039)
  • Archive: Add dropdown menu props to ToolsPanel component. (68010)
  • Date Block: Add dropdown menu props to ToolsPanel component. (68018)
  • Archives Block: Refactor setting panel. (67841)
  • Button Block: Refactor setting panel. (67887)
  • Date Block: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67906)
  • Details Block: Migrate to Toolspanel. (67966)
  • 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. Block: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67908)
  • Featured Image Block: Refactor setting panel. (67456)
  • Login/Logout: Add dropdown menu props to ToolsPanel component. (68009)
  • Login/Logout: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67909)
  • More Block: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67905)
  • Navigation Submenu Block: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67969)
  • Page List Block: Add dropdown menu props to ToolsPanel component. (68012)
  • Page List Block: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67903)
  • Query Page Numbers Block: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67958)
  • Query Page Numbers: Add dropdown menu props to ToolsPanel component. (68013)
  • Query Pagination: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67914)
  • Refactor “Settings” panel of Navigation Item block to use ToolsPanel instead of PanelBody. (67973)
  • Replace PanelBody with ToolsPanel and ToolsPanelItem in column block. (67913)
  • Replace PanelBody with ToolsPanel and ToolsPanelItem in spacer block. (67981)
  • Replace PanelBody with ToolsPanel in columns block. (67910)
  • Site Title Block: Add dropdown menu props to ToolsPanel component. (68017)
  • Site Title Block: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67898)
  • Social Icon: Migrate to Toolspanel. (67974)
  • Social Icons: Migrate to Toolspanel. (67975)
  • Table Block: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67896)
  • Tag Cloud Block: Refactor settings panel to use ToolsPanel. (67911)
  • Video Block: Refactor setting panel. (67044)
  • Add dropdown menu props to ToolsPanel component. (68019)

Components

  • Add new “Badge” Component. (66555)
  • Badge: Support text truncation. (68107)
  • BoxControl: Add support for presets. (67688)
  • Button: Add hover style to secondary variant. (67325)
  • CreateTemplatePartModalContents: Use native radio inputs. (67702)
  • Menu: More granular sub-components. (67422)
  • RangeControl: Animate thumb and track only when using marks. (67836)
  • Storybook: Add more max-width containers. (68080)
  • Storybook: Upgrade to the latest version (v8.4.7). (67863)
  • Storybook: Upgrade to v8.0.x. (67574)
  • Unite inline Ariakit imports. (67818)

DataViews

  • Proof of concept: Visualize hierarchical data. (66479)
  • Add confirm dialog before Permanently delete. (67824)
  • Use Badge component in dataview grids. (68062)

Style Book

  • Give style book its own route so it can be linked to directly. (67811)
  • Stylebook: Add the Appearance -> Design submenu through admin_menu action. (68174)
  • Try splitting style book into sections. (68071)
  • Try toggle instead of dropdown to show stylebook. (67810)

Design Tools

  • Post Comments Link: Add Border Support. (68450)
  • Post Template: Add Border and Spacing Support. (64425)
  • Query Total: Add Border Support. (68323)

Block Editor

  • Add reset button to ColorGradientSettingsDropdown. (67800)
  • ChildLayoutControl: Use units defined in theme.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.. (67784)
  • KeyboardShortcuts: Update delete shortcut to use shift + Backspace. (68164)
  • Use Badge component in page markers. (68103)
  • Use custom name in block 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. if available (retaining block type information). (65641)

Block hooks

  • Apply to Post Content (on frontend and in editor). (67272)
  • Synced Patterns: Apply Block Hooks. (68058)

Site Editor

  • Pages: Add “Set as posts page” action. (67650)
  • Add command to navigate to site editor. (66722)

Write mode

  • Allow template part editing in write mode. (67372)
  • Remove placeholder of default paragraph when it’s the only block and canvas is zoomed out. (68106)

Patterns

  • Replace Starter Content modal with inserter panel. (66836)

Build Tools

  • Create Block: Allow external templates to customize more fields. (68193)
  • Create Block: Optimize the default template for multiple blocks case. (68175)
  • Scripts: Recommend passing JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. entry points with paths. (68251)
  • Upgrade sass to version 1.54.0. (68380)
  • postcss-plugins-preset: Bump autoprefixer to 10.4.20. (68237)
  • wp-env: Add multisite support. (67845)

Various

  • DOM: Support class wildcard matcher in ‘cleanNodeList’. (67830)
  • Split upload into verbs and nouns. (68227)
  • Add a Playground blueprint json to the /assets/blueprints folder of Plugin Repo. (67742)

Bug Fixes

  • Add duotone and dimensions to the block level for translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization.. (68243)
  • Add text domain option while scaffolding the block in create-block. (57197)
  • Added is-focus-mode class on all viewports. (67377)
  • Editor: Fix initial edits applied again after saving the post. (68273)
  • Fix dataviews commonjs export. (67962)
  • Get active element within the 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. when restoring focus. (68060)
  • Make strings in theme.json translatable. (66675)
  • Scripts: Use fork of rtlcss-webpack-plugin to fix issues with deps. (68201)

Block Library

  • Columns: Add space above notice text. (68259)
  • Enhance: Improve pagination logic in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress./query-pagination-previous block. (68070)
  • Fix author information leakage by author blocks for Custom Post Types without author support & display notice to user. (67136)
  • Media & Text: Correctly reset the ‘useFeaturedImage’ attribute. (68247)
  • Navigation Submenu Block: Add dropdown menu props to ToolsPanel component. (68015)
  • Page List Block: Fix critical error when converting to link. (68076)
  • Page List block: Don’t wrap Edit button with ToolsPanelItem component. (68248)
  • Query Total: Remove nested element. (68304)
  • Table Block: Fix margin/padding to include caption in spacing. (68281)
  • Update SiteTitle block to Fix isLink Toggle Behavior. (68295)
  • 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.: Make example and variations translatable in post-navigation-link. (68375)
  • i18n: Make example translatable in query-no-results. (68376)
  • i18n: Make example translatable in table-of-contents. (68377)
  • Button Block: Set proper typography for inner elements. (68023)

Components

  • Block Editor: Fix the ‘Reset all’ 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. for the ‘ResolutionTool’ component. (68296)
  • BoxControl: Better minimum value support. (67819)
  • BoxControl: Fix aria-valuetext value. (68362)
  • Fix end-to-end storybook. (68307)
  • Fixing Text Contrast for Dark Mode. (68349)
  • FontSizePicker: Add display: Contents rule to custom size select. (68280)
  • Storybook: Fix emotion/is-prop-valid warning. (68202)
  • Storybook: Fix a few editor styles warnings. (68198)
  • Storybook: Fix warnings in Layout document. (67865)
  • Use default value in useMediaUploadSettings. (68100)

Block Editor

  • Media Replace Flow: Add custom toggle support and fix button height. (68084)
  • BlockCard: Fix title alignment. (68115)
  • DateFormatPicker: Fix styles & spacing. (68079)
  • Fix Iframe error for links without ‘href’. (68024)
  • Grid Visualizer: Improve observation logic. (68230)
  • List View: Fix appender size. (68221)
  • MediaReplaceFlow: Remove store subscription in favor of modern CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets.. (68276)
  • Remove patterns from the Quick Inserter to prevent misuse in block-specific contexts. (67738)
  • Revert ‘Warning’ component autofocus. (68133)
  • Image: Avoid link class loss when pasting for raw transformation. (67803)
  • Make Block Bindings work with editor.BlockEdit hook. (67523)

Post Editor

  • DataViews: Fix text in action for setting site home page. (67787)
  • Edit post: Fix metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. box pane’s pointer capture. (68252)
  • Editor: Remove HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. from the post title in the document bar. (68358)
  • Fix: Some 403 errors for editor roles. (68146)
  • Improve logic to show entities saved panel description. (67971)

DataViews

  • Don’t render actions dropdown when all eligible ones are primary. (68168)
  • Handle grid preview size based on container width. (68078)
  • Hide actions related UI in grid when no actions or bulk actions are passed. (68033)
  • Pages: Update layout-specific configuration when the view is updated. (67881)
  • Use action.disabled state to disable actions (primary and secondary). (68275)

Site Editor

  • Add CSS classname to fix the negative margins not appearing in the Navigation Screen. (67825)
  • Fix obsolete getLocationWithParams usage. (68388)
  • Pages: Remove unnecessary padding for items. (67977)
  • Update active menu item appearance. (68147)

Style Book

  • Fix global styles updating in style book. (68111)
  • Fix style book background color. (68088)
  • Fix uploading background images in stylebook view. (68159)
  • Stylebook: Avoid double line in subcategory titles. (67752)

Zoom Out

  • Allow replace operation on empty default block in Zoom Out. (68026)
  • Fix don’t show inserter in Zoom Out dropzone when the text is visible. (68031)
  • Hide separators for currently dragged section in Zoom Out. (67638)
  • Make Write mode and Zoom out block options menus consistent. (67749)

Design Tools

  • Background supports: Add default controls supports. (68085)
  • Block supports: Show selected item in font family select control. (68254)
  • Fix: Ensure consistency in editor tools for navigation buttons and delete options. (67253)

Template Editor

  • Fix: Editing “Page” is broken for low capability users. (68110)
  • Plugin: Fix eligibility check for post types’ default rendering mode. (67879)

Widgets Editor

  • 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: Fix inserter button size and animation. (67880)
  • 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. Editor: Fix: Close button is not working. (65443)

Various

  • Show metaboxMetabox A post metabox is a draggable box shown on the post editing screen. Its purpose is to allow the user to select or enter information in addition to the main post content. This information should be related to the post in some way. when pattern is accessed directly. (68255)
  • Query Pagination: Fix ‘undo’ trap. (68022)
  • Add –glob argument to rimraf cli scripts. (67829)

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)

  • Dataviews List layout: Do not use grid role on a ul element. (67849)
  • Fix: Templates and patterns are nesting two elements with the button role. (67801)
  • [Dataviews] Fix: Media item focus style is not visible on Grid. (67789)

Block Editor

  • Fix: Inserter categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. tabs: Avoid unnecessary aria-label. (68160)
  • Improve accessibility of the Warning component in the block editor. (67433)

Global Styles

  • Shadows: Always show reset button if hover is not supported. (68122)
  • Visual Refactor: Add Chevron Icon for Shadows in Global Styles. (67720)

Block Library

  • Button: Replace ButtonGroup usage with ToggleGroupControl. (65346)
  • Fix Choose menu label when a menu has been deleted. (67009)

Site Editor

  • Make sure the sidebar navigation item focus style is fully visible. (67817)

Components

  • CustomSelectControl: Refactor to use Ariakit store state for current value. (67815)

Performance

Block Library

  • Don’t fetch media details if the block doesn’t use a featured image. (68299)
  • Media & Text: Optimize block editor store subscriptions. (68290)

Documentation

  • .wp-env.json schema: Add testsPort field. (68220)
  • Add README for TextAlignmentControl component. (68126)
  • Add layout related updates to the DataForm README. (68050)
  • Added Global Documentation in load.php. (68325)
  • Badge component: Fix Storybook URL link. (68077)
  • Badge: Fix up extra newline in readme. (68359)
  • Block Editor Storybook: Restructure the directory and add badges to private components. (68352)
  • Clarify template property behavior in InnerBlocks documentation to specify prefill when empty. (66911)
  • Components: Normalize newlines in auto-generated READMEs. (68208)
  • Components: Prevent broken lists in auto-generated readmes. (68301)
  • Components: Warn private API in auto-generated readmes. (68317)
  • Create a catalog list of private APIs. (66558)
  • DateFormatPicker: Improve line breaks in JSDoc and README. (68006)
  • Doc: Add JSDoc and update README for BlockCard component. (68114)
  • Docs: Fix some typos on reference-guide data-core-block-editor.md. (68066)
  • Documenting innerBlocks in save function. (66689)
  • Fix reference to wp-env start in documentation. (68034)
  • Fix wrong npm start command. (65221)
  • Fix: Fix link to minimal-block example plugin code. (67888)
  • Fixed typo in README of TextTransformControl. (68443)
  • Section Styles: Update block style variation documentation. (68169)
  • Storybook : Add TextTransformControl stories. (67365)
  • Storybook: Add BorderRadiusControl story. (67383)
  • Storybook: Add PlainText Storybook stories. (67341)
  • Storybook: Add stories for BlockCard component. (67191)
  • Storybook: Add stories for BlockTitle Component. (67234)
  • Storybook: Add stories for DateFormatPicker Component. (67290)
  • Storybook: Add stories for the ContrastChecker component. (68120)
  • Storybook: Add stories for the TextAlignmentControl component. (67371)
  • Storybook: Add stories for the TextDecorationControl component. (67337)
  • Storybook: Add story for the Warning component. (68124)
  • Storybook: Make prop sort order consistent. (68152)
  • Tabs: Auto-generate README. (68209)
  • Update platform documentation intro. (61341)
  • Update the copyright licensecopyright license Copyright holders may grant a license with various allowances including the ability to modify or distribute the copyrighted material. Also see GPL. to 2025. (68440)
  • Updated since Doc Order in Inline documentation. (68003)
  • Updated Document URL in Documentation. (67990)
  • Updated Small Typo in documentation in docs/getting-started/faq.md file. (68357)
  • [Docs] Fix: Two broken links to the packages reference API and to blocks documentation. (67889)
  • env: Fix changelog entry. (68219)
  • theme.json schema: Fix block list. (68343)

Code Quality

  • Create Block: Migrate Inquirer.js dependency to the new API. (67877)
  • Fix indentation in the upload-media tsconfig. (68083)
  • Fix indentation in upload-media package.json. (68037)
  • 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. JSDoc syntax for optional object. (68061)
  • Remove some obsolete stylelint at-rule-no-unknown disable rules. (68087)

Components

  • DatePicker: Prepare day buttons for 40px default size. (68156)
  • DropZone: Make the drop zone in Storybook the same size as the item. (68231)
  • Fix Button size violations in misc. unit tests. (68154)
  • Fix: Add soft deperecation notice for the ButtonGroup component. (65429)
  • InputControl : Deprecate 36px default size. (66897)
  • Menu: Migrate Storybook examples to CSF3. (68204)
  • Menu: Use ariakit types. (68206)
  • Navigation: Prepare for hard deprecation. (68158)
  • Navigation: Upsize back buttons. (68157)
  • RadioGroup: Log deprecation warning. (68067)
  • SelectControl : Deprecate 36px default size. (66898)
  • Slot: Use layout effect and update Cover block unit tests. (68176)
  • SlotFill: Use observableMap everywhere, remove manual rerendering. (67400)
  • Tabs: Use correct ariakit type for root component. (68207)
  • TreeSelect: Deprecate 36px default size. (67855)

Plugin

  • fix: return type for WP_Duotone_Gutenberg::Get_selector(). (66695)
  • fix: Deprecated WP_Webfonts() constructor takes no arguments. (66700)
  • fix: Remove extraneous arg from gutenberg_url() call in gutenberg_posts_dashboard(). (66699)
  • fix: Remove extraneous param from remove_filter() calls. (66697)
  • fix: Wrong number of $accepted_args on add_filter() calls. (66694)
  • fix: explicitly return false in WP_Theme_JSON_Gutenberg::Should_override_preset(). (66696)

Block Editor

  • Fix ESLint warnings for the ‘useInnerBlockTemplateSync’ hook. (68355)
  • FontAppearanceControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (67854)
  • FontFamilyControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (67853)
  • Inserter: Use 40px default size for toggle button. (68155)
  • LineHeightControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (67850)

Post Editor

  • DocumentTools: Use standard ToolbarButton for inserter. (68332)
  • Editor: Remove constants for notices. (68361)
  • Editor: Remove the ‘content-only’ check from ‘TemplatePartConverterMenuItem’. (67961)

DataViews

  • DataForm: Add unit tests. (68054)
  • DataForm: Remove FormFieldVisibility. (68203)
  • [DataView] Initial list of unit tests for the DataView component. (68205)

Block Library

  • Columns: Replace some store selectors with ‘getBlockOrder’. (67991)
  • Fix trailing spaces in navigation block classnames. (68161)

Site Editor

  • Edit Site: Standardize reduced motion handling using media queries. (68419)

Design Tools

  • Block Supports: Revert stabilization of typography, border, skip serialization and default controls supports. (68163)

Zoom Out

  • Correct spelling in Zoom Out Inserters comment. (68051)

Block API

  • Fail gracefully when block in createBlock function is not registered. (68043)

Icons

  • Deprecate warning and rename to cautionFilled. (67895)

Tools

Build Tooling

  • Add new private upload-media package. (66290)
  • Build: Simplify tsconfig.json files. (68326)
  • Clean script: Use braces instead of @-pattern for glob. (67833)
  • Fix VS Code performance. (68347)
  • Fix tsconfig for test/ directory. (68346)
  • Fix: Script with glob option doesn’t work on Windows. (67862)

Testing

  • Page – Quick Edit: Add end-to-end tests. (68151)
  • Add ESLint rule to prevent usage of the verb ‘toggle’ in translatable strings. (67741)
  • Enhance template registration end-to-end tests to handle welcome dialog visibility. (68059)

Various

  • ActionItem.Slot: Render as MenuGroup by default. (67985)
  • Storybook: Add BlockAlignmentMatrixControl Stories and update README. (68007)
  • Update “Call to Action” to “Call to action”. (67876)

Plugin

  • Assets: Add README.md about syncing. (68128)
  • Workflows: Sync assets to plugin repo upon change in trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision.. (68052)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

  • @benazeer-ben: Add command to navigate to site editor. (66722)
  • @dhruvikpatel18: Fixed typo in README of TextTransformControl. (68443)
  • @fushar: Stylebook: Add the Appearance -> Design submenu through admin_menu action. (68174)
  • @im3dabasia: Storybook : Add TextTransformControl stories. (67365)
  • @justlevine: fix: Deprecated WP_Webfonts() constructor takes no arguments. (66700)
  • @karthick-murugan: Latest Posts Border Block Support. (66353)
  • @mayurprajapatii: Updated Document URL in Documentation. (67990)
  • @PARTHVATALIYA: Widget Editor: Fix: Close button is not working. (65443)
  • @prasadkarmalkar: Replace PanelBody with ToolsPanel and ToolsPanelItem in column block. (67913)
  • @rilwis: Fix wrong npm start command. (65221)
  • @sarthaknagoshe2002: Clarify template property behavior in InnerBlocks documentation to specify prefill when empty. (66911)
  • @timse201: Split upload into verbs and nouns. (68227)
  • @vampdroid: Add text domain option while scaffolding the block in create-block. (57197)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @akasunil @benazeer-ben @bph @Chrico @ciampo @d-alleyne @DAreRodz @dhruvikpatel18 @draganescu @ellatrix @fabiankaegy @fushar @getdave @gigitux @gziolo @hbhalodia @himanshupathak95 @im3dabasia @Infinite-Null @jameskoster @jasmussen @jeryj @jorgefilipecosta @jsnajdr @juanfra @justlevine @karthick-murugan @kmanijak @louwie17 @Lovor01 @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @matiasbenedetto @Mayank-Tripathi32 @mayurprajapatii @mcsf @michalczaplinski @mikachan @mirka @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @PARTHVATALIYA @prasadkarmalkar @ramonjd @rilwis @rinkalpagdar @Rishit30G @rohitmathur-7 @SainathPoojary @sarthaknagoshe2002 @SH4LIN @shail-mehta @shimotmk @sirreal @stokesman @Sukhendu2002 @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @timse201 @tyxla @up1512001 @vampdroid @Vrishabhsk @yogeshbhutkar @youknowriad

Thanks to @priethor, @gziolo, @jonsurrell, @jorbin who helped with this release and to @joemcgill and @sergeybiryukov for helping review this post.

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ramonopoly 8:28 am on December 18, 2024
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What’s new in Gutenberg 19.9? (19 December)

“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 (#gutenberg-new) appear on a biweekly basis after every Gutenberg release, and showcase the latest features and improvements. 

Interested in learning more? Here’s an overview of how you can keep up with news and events related to Gutenberg and the 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. Editor.

Gutenberg 19.9 is out of the oven and ready to download.

The last release of 2024 introduces the Style Book to classic themes, a new Query Total block, a swathe of component library enhancements, and code quality improvements.

Table of contents

  1. Style Book in classic themes
  2. Introducing the Query Total block
  3. More Highlights
  4. Changelog
  5. First-time contributors
  6. Contributors

Style Book in classic themes

The Style Book now appears in supported classic themes under Appearance > Design > Styles in the adminadmin (and super admin) menu. 

Support is available for classic themes that either support editor styles via add_theme_support( 'editor-styles' ) or have a theme.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. file. 

The Style Book provides a comprehensive overview of your site’s colors, typography, and block styles in an organized layout. Each block example and style group is labeled, making it easy to preview and understand your theme’s current design settings. Think of it as if your theme threw a party, and all the design elements showed up wearing name tags. 😀

For classic themes that support the Style Book, site patterns have been relocated to Appearance > Design > Patterns, consolidating all design-related functionality from the Site Editor into one place. Previously, patterns were listed under Appearance > Patterns. 

Testing is an important step for this feature before it’s introduced to WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. If you have the time, please help identify potential issues, and suggest areas for improvement by logging your feedback 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/. Testing instructions can be found on the original PR. Thank you!

Introducing the Query Total block

You know how many results are in your queries, but do your site’s readers? The new Query Total block is here to help.

When added within a 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. block, the Query Total block displays the number of results the query has returned, or, alternatively, the current range in a set of paginated results.

More Highlights

Gutenberg 19.9 introduces phpMyAdmin to wp-env as a launch option. phpMyAdmin will automatically connect to the running mysqlMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com/. database service, allowing you to inspect and manage the local WordPress database as you develop. (#67588).

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. backgrounds in the Cover block now come with resolution controls so that you can change their sizes (#67273). 

Reset colors for blocks and global styles in the editor with a single click thanks to the inline reset button added to all color controls (#67116).

Looking to replace your Query block’s design? Query block patterns have been relocated from a modal to a dropdown. It’s still in the block toolbar, now under “Change design” (#66993).

You can now also set your site’s home page from within the Site Editor via the page actions menu (#65426). This is the equivalent of updating the Reading Settings in “Settings > Reading”. Under “Pages” in the editor, find the page you’d like to set as your homepage, click on the action menu, and select ‘Set as homepage’.

Changelog

Enhancements

  • Feature: Add navigation.isLoading state to core/router store. (67680)
  • Update the title, description, and order of Experiments page. (67762)
  • wp-env: Add phpMyAdmin support. (67588)

Components

  • Added enableAlpha prop to CustomGradientPicker and GradientPicker components. (66974)
  • BorderBoxControl: Reduce gap value when unlinked. (67049)
  • DateTime: Add default date/time to stories. (67678)
  • Deprecate COLORS.white. (67649)
  • Disabled: Suppress contentEditable warning in story. (67679)
  • Document layout in Storybook. (67628)
  • DropdownMenu: Increase option height to 40px. (67435)
  • DuotonePicker: Simplify Button styles. (66641)
  • Menu: Throw when subcomponents are not rendered inside top level Menu. (67411)
  • Popover: Use anchor instead of anchorRef in story. (67674)
  • Storybook: Remove unnecessary feature flags. (67576)
  • Storybook: Update ArgsTable to Controls in preview. (67582)
  • Storybook: Update control types from null to undefined. (67581)
  • Storybook: Use manager-api instead of addons package. (67578)
  • Update @ariakit/reactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. to 0.4.13. (65907)
  • Update @ariakit/react to 0.4.15 and @ariakit/test to 0.4.7. (67404)

Block Library

  • Cover Block: Image size option for featured image. (67273)
  • Feature: Allow Post Template block to get deeply nested within Query Block. (67657)
  • Image Block: Change how the Image’s overlay styles are applied. (67788)
  • Navigation: Enable all non-interactive formats. (67585)
  • Query block: Move patterns modal to dropdown on block toolbar. (66993)
  • Separator block: Allow divs to be used as separators. (67530)
  • New Block: Add Query Total block for displaying total query results or ranges. (67629)
  • Block Library: Update the relationship of No results block to ancestor. (48348)

DataViews

  • Add 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. to the quick edit when bulk editing. (67390)
  • Data views: Expand configuration drop down on mobile. (67715)
  • Quick Edit: Add Template field. (66591)
  • Refactor actions to render modal outside of the menu. (67664)
  • Renders DataForm component only when data has been fetched. (67694)
  • Unify layout configuration. (67477)
  • Update bulk header with actions. (67743)

Style Book

  • Add stylebook screen for classic themes. (66851)
  • Scroll to top at styles root. (67605)
  • Stylebook: Render overview colors in 4 columns. (67597)
  • Update style book headings to new design. (67546)

Post Editor

  • Inline Commenting: Added new 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. as extension of the canvas. (67347)
  • Inline Commenting: Re-order the comments in sidebar in which blocks are listed. (66927)
  • Inline commenting: UXUX User experience Enhancements for Comments. (67385)

Site Editor

  • Data Views: Add action for pages to set site homepage. (65426)
  • Sidebar: Update appearance of active items. (67318)
  • Style the selected template pattern. (65917)

Data Layer

  • Data: Expose ‘useSelect’ warning to third-party consumers. (67735)
  • Data: Include more details when shallow equality fails in ‘useSelect’. (67713)

Global Styles

  • Controls in grid should match between sidebar panel and editor. (67602)
  • Shadows: Improve design and 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) of remove button. (67705)

Block Editor

  • Prefer exact matches in Link Search results sorting. (67367)
  • Try direct drag (outside text editable). (67305)

Zoom Out

  • Keep only copy, duplicate and delete in the zoom out more block toolbar menu item. (67279)

Font Library

  • FontCollection: Update pagination controls. (67143)

Colors

  • Add reset button to color control. (67116)

Bug Fixes

  • Exclude Set instance methods from polyfills. (67230)
  • Preload: Fix settings fields order. (67450)
  • Scripts: Make React Fast Refresh work with multiple blocks. (64924)
  • WP Scripts: Update webpack dependencies related to styling. (67572)

Site Editor

  • Allow access to quick edit. (67469)
  • Edit Site: Fix sidebar template author navigation. (67382)
  • Fix Site editor navigation menuNavigation Menu A theme feature introduced with Version 3.0. WordPress includes an easy to use mechanism for giving various control options to get users to click from one place to another on a site. items alignment visual 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.. (67321)
  • Fix sidebar item animation regression. (67771)
  • Fix sidebar plugins. (67557)
  • Fix the templates route on mobile. (67547)
  • Fix: Fixed site-editor crashing when added front-page template and clicking more option. (67500)
  • Fix: Fixed styling tab not opening on themes without style variations on mobile & desktop. (67537)
  • Preload: Parse post ID from p (path). (67465)
  • Remove default page slug. (67673)
  • Router: Fix addition and removal of empty classnames. (67378)
  • Wrap each router area in ‘ErrorBoundary’. (64245)
  • useEditorTitle: Fix wrong request without ID. (67475)

Block Editor

  • Animate useScaleCanvas() only when toggling zoomed out mode. (67481)
  • Drag and drop: Fix drop zones on block drag. (67317)
  • Drag and drop: Fix firefox compat logic. (67439)
  • Fix JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. error in the ‘useTabNav’ hook. (67102)
  • FontFamilyControl: Restore margin bottom. (67424)
  • Inserter: Hide child blocks from the inserter when needed. (67734)
  • Inserter: Patterns: Remove loading indicator. (67072)
  • Inserter: Should receive focus on open. (67754)
  • Remove words count in the multi-selection inspector. (67624)
  • Storybook: Fix BlockPatternsList fixtures. (67672)
  • Drag and drop: Fix misplaced drop indicator. (67434)
  • Drag and drop: Fix scroll disorientation after drop. (67405)
  • Drag and drop: Restore moving animation. (67417)

Block Library

  • Align Submenu block and Nav Link block by including description and wrapping span. (67198)
  • CommentsPagination: Set font-size to inherit for pagination items. (67296)
  • Fix latest post block spacing issue. (66442)
  • Fix: Caption with Link in Wide-Width and Full-Width Images Appears on two lines. (67392)
  • Fix: Don’t show aria-label when its value is empty. (67381)
  • Navigation Block: Fix issue with double-clicking “Create a new menu” causing duplicate menus. (67488)
  • Pullquote block having design issue when text-decoration is choosen strikethrough. (66707)
  • Remove inline-block display from image anchor in style.scss. (67368)
  • Search block: Add space between attributes when using “Button only” option. (61399)
  • Updated ‘Set featured image’ text in dropdown. (67775)

DataViews

  • Avoid double click handler on primary fields. (67393)
  • Better handling of missing onClickItem prop. (67402)
  • Fix filters lost when switching layouts. (67740)
  • Fix hidden List layout actions dropdown. (67778)
  • Fix reordering fields in list and grid layouts. (67777)
  • Fix: Duplicate template part refers to original name instead of duplicated name. (67329)
  • Preserve filters when switching layouts in templates dataviews. (67744)
  • QuickEdit: Prevent site-editor from crashing when slug is not an object. (67577)
  • Site Editor: Fix featured image not appearing in pages dataviews. (67562)

Components

  • CustomSelectControl: Update Value from Fresh State. (67733)
  • Fix the ‘ClipboardButton’ effect cleanup. (67399)
  • Navigation: Fix active item hover color. (67732)
  • Scrollable: Fix story by declaring field as readonly. (67683)
  • Storybook: Fix control types. (67646)
  • Storybook: Fix storybook blocks imports. (67684)
  • Storybook: Fix table markup in Design Language – Radius documentation. (67686)
  • Theme: Fix contrast in nested story. (67681)

Post Editor

  • Fix MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. boxes saving when they’re not present. (67254)
  • Fix hiding and showing of meta boxes. (67504)
  • Fix: Header layout spacing in Firefox. (67074)
  • Make sure Document Bar doesn’t go missing. (67322)
  • Update pre-publish panel wording to accurately describe the review process. (67328)

Zoom Out

  • Fix for inserter. (67495)
  • Fix useZoomOut inserter behavior. (67591)
  • Fix zoom animation scrollbar. (67536)
  • UseScaleCanvas performance improvements. (67496)

Write mode

  • Fix color of disabled buttons in dark toolbar. (67348)
  • Fix synced pattern editing in write mode and refactor block editing mode to reducer. (67026)
  • Fix: Remove parent block selector while in Write mode. (67395)
  • Fix: Write Mode mode persists as enabled in 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. editor. (67587)

Global Styles

  • Edit site: Remove empty preview border and redirect to editor in global styles navigation. (67548)
  • Fix: Styles section does not moves stylebook to typography. (67423)
  • Global Styles Preview: Don’t use 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. component. (67682)

Style Book

  • Fix critical error when blocks are not registered. (67703)

Design Tools

  • Global Styles: Fix handling of booleans when stabilizing block supports. (67552)

Block bindings

  • Revert “Extensibility: Make Block Bindings work with editor.BlockEdit hook”. (67516)

Patterns

  • Site Editor: Fix the patterns route on mobile. (67467)

Focus Mode

  • Site Editor: Fix focus mode navigation. (67458)

List View

  • Fix List View not updating when switching editor modes. (67379)

Extensibility

  • Make Block Bindings work with editor.BlockEdit hook. (67370)

Synced Patterns

  • Remove use of contentOnly block editing mode for synced patterns. (67364)

Widgets Editor

  • Block Bindings: Remove client core sources registration in widgets. (67349)

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/.

  • Support search_columns argument in the user endpoint. (67330)

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)

  • [Dataviews] Fix: Space does not triggers the media button on grid view. (67791)

Block Editor

  • BlockSwitcher: Refactor to use Button layout properly. (67502)
  • Remove one occurrence of incorrect usage of ItemGroup. (67427)

DataViews

  • [a11y] Fix: Media button on the page view grid does not have an accessible name. (67690)

Components

  • Fix incorrect usage of ItemGroup in the Image block filters panel. (67513)

Post Editor

  • Fix EntitiesSavedStates panel dialog props. (67351)

Performance

  • Fix re-renders caused by getEntityRecordsPermissions after #67667. (67770)
  • Preload: Fix end-to-end test. (67497)
  • Site Editor: Pages: Preload template lookup. (66654)
  • [mini] Preload: Add post type. (67518)

Experiments

  • Move duplicateTemplatePart action to the @wordpress/fields package. (65390)

Documentation

  • Button: Revise documentation. (66617)
  • Docs: Fix Playwright Page Object Model link. (67652)
  • Docs: Include the strategy for setting engines for WordPress packages. (67727)
  • Docs: Remove 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. key projects links on the documentation. (67491)
  • Improve documentation for fields package. (67580)
  • Refine getServerState() & getServerContext() documentation. (67499)
  • Storybook: Add WritingModeControl story. (67343)
  • Storybook: Add stories for AlignmentToolbar and AlignmentControl components. (67046)
  • Storybook: Add stories for HeadingLevelDropdown component. (67294)
  • Storybook: Revert “Preview: ArgsTable => Controls (#67582)”. (67656)
  • Storybook: Support keyword search in Icon Library. (67442)
  • Switch Several Links to httpsHTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information. in Document Files. (67706)
  • Update README.md. (67711)
  • Update extending-the-query-loop-block.md. (67529)
  • Update global stylesheet docblocks with custom-css parameter. (67716)
  • Updated old URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org in Documentation. (67446)

Code Quality

  • Convert lock unlock to generics. (66682)
  • CreateTemplatePartModal: Avoid identity warning in useSelect. (67786)
  • CreateTemplatePartModal: Replace ts-ignore with ts-expect-error. (67709)
  • Fix misc type compilation errors in editor and block editor packages. (67410)
  • Fix: Invalid JSDoc for optional string parameter and return value. (67489)
  • Fix: Remove unused test code on tools panel. (67589)
  • Removed trailing space in “Color randomizer “. (67457)
  • Update misc types and revert WPCompleter export from components. (67599)

Components

  • BoxControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (66704)
  • BoxControl: Passive deprecate onMouseOver/onMouseOut. (67332)
  • BoxControl: Refactor and unify the different sides implementation. (67626)
  • CustomSelectControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (67441)
  • FormFileUpload: Deprecate 36px default size. (67438)
  • FormTokenField: Deprecate 36px default size. (67454)
  • NumberControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (66730)
  • RangeControl: Update the default marks styles to match the padding/margin control. (67611)
  • Remove __unstableMotionContext from @wordpress/components. (67623)
  • SlotFill: Remove explicit rerender from portal version. (67471)
  • Tabs: Overhaul unit tests. (66140)
  • ToolbarButton: Set size to “compact”. (67440)
  • UnitControl : Deprecate 36px default size. (66791)

Block Editor

  • Group ‘onRemove’ callback with other public APIs. (67551)
  • InspectorControlsSlot: Remove unused framer motion context forwarding. (67522)
  • LetteringSpacingControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (67429)
  • Reduce the ‘isZoomOut’ selector calls in the block toolbar. (67594)
  • Remove ‘React.Children’ legacy 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. in ‘Warning’ component. (67675)
  • Replace remaining custom deep cloning with ‘structuredClone’. (67707)
  • Stabilize LinkControl Component. (56384)

Site Editor

  • Remove .components-item-group selector in edit-site components[2]. (67575)
  • Site Editor Sidebar: Remove hasGlobalStyleVariations condition for the Styles nav item. (67545)
  • Unify layout with posts dataviews. (67162)
  • Use path based routing instead of query args and site-editor.php routes. (67199)

Post Editor

  • Editor: Refactor ‘PostPublishPanelPostpublish’ to function component. (67398)
  • Editor: Use 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. instead of HOC in ‘PostPublishButtonOrToggle’. (67413)
  • Remove PostSlugCheck and PostSlug unused components. (67414)

DataViews

  • Create a single component for rendering the actions list. (67558)
  • Fix: Dataviews remove primary field concept from some classes. (67689)

Data Layer

  • TypeScript: Convert factory utils in data package to TS. (67667)

Shortcodes

  • Add types for shortcodeShortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to insert a form or function generated by a plugin in a specific location on your site. package. (67416)

Block bindings

  • Remove fallback for context.postType in post meta. (67345)

Block hooks

  • Navigation block: Remove more obsolete Block Hooks helpers. (67193)

Tools

  • PR template: Add before/after table. (62739)

Build Tooling

  • Build: Stop generating unused legacy scripts for core blocks. (65268)
  • CI: Skip native jobs. (67799)
  • DataViews build-wp: Don’t bundle singleton WordPress packages. (67590)
  • DataViews build-wp: Don’t bundle the date package. (67612)
  • Keycodes: Improve tree shaking by annotating exports as pure. (67615)
  • Upgrade TypeScript to 5.7 and fix types. (67461)
  • Combine the release steps to ensure that releases are tagged. (65591)

Testing

  • e2e-test-utils-playwright: Increase timeout of site-editor selector. (66672)

Security

npm Packages

  • Update npm dependencies to fix issues reported by audit. (67708)

Various

Extensibility

  • Add ability to show drop cap setting in paragraph block by default. (45994)
  • DataViews: Move template and pattern title fields. (67449)
  • DataViews: Update usePostFields to accept postType. (67380)

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

  • Only override REST server for older WP versions. (67779)

NUX

  • Welcome guide headline update. (67654)

Block Locking

  • Simplify description and option names in the Lock modal dialog. (67437)

First-time contributors

A colossal kudos to all the first-time contributors who submitted the following PRs:

Contributors

Finally, thanks to everyone who gave their time, code, reviews and ideas to Gutenberg 19.9:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @ajlende @akasunil @AKSHAT2802 @benazeer-ben @benniledl @carolinan @cbravobernal @desrosj @dhruvang21 @dougwollison @ellatrix @getdave @gigitux @gziolo @hbhalodia @himanshupathak95 @Infinite-Null @jeryj @jsnajdr @juanfra @louwie17 @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @matiasbenedetto @mcsf @michalczaplinski @miminari @mirka @ndiego @ntsekouras @oandregal @ockham @PARTHVATALIYA @ramonjd @SainathPoojary @SantosGuillamot @sarthaknagoshe2002 @snehapatil2001 @Soean @Sukhendu2002 @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @TylerB24890 @tyxla @up1512001 @vipul0425 @yogeshbhutkar @youknowriad

See you next year for Gutenberg 20.0! 🎉

Thanks to @annezazu, @bernhard-reiter, @joen, @isabel_brison and @ndiego who helped with this release.

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Carlos Bravo 4:49 pm on November 6, 2024
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What’s new in Gutenberg 19.6? (6 Nov)

“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 19.6 has been released and is available for download!

This release includes 193 PRs from 55 contributors, and includes one really exciting experimental feature, inline comments!

Experimental inline comments

Experimental inline comments are available as an experimental feature in  Gutenberg. Users will be able to comment on top of blocks, only in non-published posts. In order to activate them, go to Gutenberg > Experiments and enable the 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. Comments checkbox.

Example of experimental inline comments feature.

Code quality, 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 and build tooling

The release includes some improvements on the overall site editing experience:  a keyboard shortcut for zoom out (66400), a cleaner layout (66255), and a new color tab (65692) for the style book.

The client-side media processing work has started (64845), but keep in mind that this new package is private and experimental.

Also, a few ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. Compiler errors have been fixed and packages now use npm workspaces (65681).

Changelog

Enhancements

Components

  • Add elevation tokens to storybook. (66122)
  • Add foundations:Elevation to storybook. (66124)
  • Add radius foundation and tokens to storybook. (66219)
  • Combobox, FormTokenField: Show message when no matches found. (66142)
  • Storybook: Organizes components under ‘Utilities’. (66210)
  • Tabs: Expose active tab item props, use ariakit prop types. (66223)
  • Tabs: Remove custom logic. (66097)
  • DropdownMenuV2: Rename to Menu. (66289)

Block Library

  • Add Transformation from Separator to Spacer. (66230)
  • Add lightbox option in gallery block link control. (64014)
  • Archives: Add border block support. (63400)
  • Border support added to comments. (66354)
  • Cover Block: Add Image Resolution options. (62926)
  • HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. Block: Force HTML preview in view mode. (66440)

Zoom Out

  • Add keyboard shortcut in editor. (66400)
  • Iterate zoom out shuffle into a more visual control. (66194)
  • Use the zoom-level value to scale the 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.. (66280)

Site Editor

  • Remove synchronization of canvas mode into store. (66213)
  • Style Book: Clean up layout. (66255)
  • Update site icon and title position. (66171)
  • Editor Interface: Remove small 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. from global styles/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 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.. (64474)
  • Remove purple coloring from DocumentBar and PostCard. (66451)
  • CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Data: Add the ‘getEntitiesConfig’ resolver. (65871)
  • BlockGroupToolbar: Better 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. context for toolbar labels. (66211)
  • Set ResizableEditor height based on border-box. (66342)
  • Add align-item related icons. (66242)
  • Stabilize isPreviewMode flag. (66149)

Data Views

  • Fix alignment of action items in list layout. (66273)
  • Templates: Hide media field in list view. (66573)

Global Styles

  • 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.: Caching of global styles for blocks from core. (66349)
  • Style Book: Add color tab. (65692)

Real-time Collaboration

  • Inline Commenting: Disable comments on published posts for now. (66583)

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/.

  • Backport from WordPress core: Improvements for the post format 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. 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.. (66037)

Build Tooling

  • Create Block: Adds --target-dir flag to allow the tool to target where to scaffold. (53781)
  • Scripts: Add build-blocks-manifest command. (65866)
  • Scripts: Add BlueOak-1.0.0 license to GPL2 compatible. (66139)
  • WP Scripts: Add a --root-folder argument to the plugin-zip command. (61375)

Bug Fixes

Zoom Out

  • Disable zoom out toggle button when Style Book is open. (66228)
  • Don’t switch editor mode when changing entities. (66452)
  • Fix scaling animation for device previews. (66132)
  • Fix zoom out not persisting while switching between editor and code editor. (65932)
  • Fix zoom out shortcut on Windows. (66506)
  • Fix: Activate zoom out on large viewport. (66308)
  • Hide slots and grouping buttons. (66243)
  • Remove zoom-out toolbar. (66039)
  • Resets the Zoom on viewed/edited entity change. (66232)
  • Revise zoom layout shift fix. (66390)
  • Zoom Out: Rely on zoom-level instead of zoom-out mode. (66141)
  • Zoom Out: Fix bouncy drop zones. (66399)

Block Editor

  • Block inserter: Prevent editor from crashing if blockType.parent is a string. (66234)
  • Block toolbar: Account for scrollable blocks that affect the position of the block toolbar. (66188)
  • Fix extra scrollbar appearing when searching in the inserter. (66229)
  • Fix: Show paragraph block variations in rich text inserter. (66318)
  • Group: Fix padding select. (65857)
  • Link Shortcut: Only trigger the link shortcut if there’s a text selection. (66056)
  • Remove relative position from sidebar tabpanel. (66267)
  • Rich text: Remove empty file. (66553)
  • Block editor: Self nesting and circular nesting block fix. (66121)
  • Post Editor: Set the default value of the editorTool to edit. (66636)

Components

  • ColorPalette: Prevent overflow of custom color button background. (66152)
  • Fix: Text overflow in Patterns filter. (66504)
  • RadioGroup: Fix arrow key navigation in RTL. (66202)
  • Tabs and TabPanel: Fix arrow key navigation in RTL. (66201)
  • Tabs and ToggleGroupControl: Round indicator size. (66426)
  • Tabs: Fix animation timings. (66198)
  • Tabs: Override tablist’s tabindex only when necessary. (66209)
  • Tabs: Restore vertical alignment for tabs content. (66215)
  • Tabs: Update indicator more reactively. (66207)
  • SpacingSizesControl: Use generic label for linked button. (66304)

i18n

  • Miscellaneous i18n fixes. (66510)
  • Remove most of the occurrences of the verb toggle. (66371)

Post Editor

  • Always force iframe in pattern editor. (65887)
  • Editor: Multi-entity saving: Show correct count of entities to be saved. (66482)
  • Fix : “Set 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.” button border flashes on focus. (66092)
  • Fix Parent Check Condition in buildTermsTree. (66006)
  • Fix: Improve the DocumentBar post type label for the Homepage and Posts Page cases. (66355)
  • PostTaxonomiesFlatTermSelector: Restore space between 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.) list and most used tags. (66566)
  • Typo metaboxMetabox A post metabox is a draggable box shown on the post editing screen. Its purpose is to allow the user to select or enter information in addition to the main post content. This information should be related to the post in some way. pane is a metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. box panel. (66502)

Block Library

  • Block registration: Normalize blockType.parent to array. (66250)
  • Button Block: Apply Stretch Styles Correctly. (64770)
  • Buttons: Fix the initial white space in nofollow rel. (66303)
  • Fix – Image block: Aspect ratio not responding when dimensions are not set. (66217)
  • Navigation block: Fix block appender size. (66153)
  • Fix the navigation issue inside cover blocks. (66093)

Site Editor

  • Edit Site: Fix canvasMode var. (66316)
  • Fix button hover style in sidebar navigation screen. (66505)
  • Remove toggle verb from post list data views ‘Toggle details panel’. (66334)
  • Revert 66431 (Site editor: Remove “default” adminadmin (and super admin) CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets.). (66540)
  • Restore block-library editor.css outside canvas. (66556)
  • Fix extraneous scrollbar in device previews. (66494)
  • Global styles: Move preload paths filter to 6.7 (previously 6.8). (66543)
  • Fix comment output in styles. (66439)
  • Site editor: Fix save shortcut. (66423)
  • Preload: Fix multiple regressions around global styles. (66468)

Build tooling

  • Create block: Ensure $slug is replaced with passed slug. (66528)

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)

Post Editor

  • Add featured image alt text. (66189)
  • Fix : Badge Color contrast. (66360)

Block Editor

  • ImageSizeControls: Replace ButtonGroup with ToggleGroupControl. (65386)
  • Improve the link preview accessibility and labels. (60908)

Block Library

  • Search: Replace ButtonGroup usage with ToggleGroupControl. (65340)
  • Remove clip & -webkit-clip-path for downloadable-block-list-item style.scss. (66147)

Global Styles

  • Global styles menu: Avoid visible labels and accessible names mismatch. (65124)

Site Editor

  • Fix Global styles panel header buttons text overlap for ‘Show button text labels’. (63243)
  • Update the speak messages when switching editor modes. (66278)

Performance

Site Editor

  • Remove “default” admin CSS. (66431)
  • Remove content styles outside canvas. (66432)
  • Block Style Variations: Reuse block metadata in WP_Theme_JSON::Get_valid_block_style_variations() for better performance. (66539)
  • Block Bindings: Use getEntityConfig instead of getPostTypes to get available slugs. (66101)

Build Tooling

  • Fix/compare performance with correct branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch".. (66196)

Experiments

  • Add Inline comment experimental flag. (60622)
  • QuickEdit: Add slug field control. (65196)

Data Views

  • Quick Edit: Fix JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. error when bulk editing pages. (66358)
  • QuickEdit: Add Featured Image Control. (64496)
  • QuickEdit: Add Parent field. (66527)

Documentation

  • BaseControl: Auto-generate readme. (66500)
  • Components: Prevent generated readmes duplicating h1 elements when published. (66180)
  • Correct documentation on display type in flow layouts. (66224)
  • Docs: 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 documentation for getServerState() and getServerContext(). (66104)
  • Fix undo/redo Button size in Storybook playground. (66538)
  • Fix: 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. Schema Docgen doesn’t work on Windows OS. (66414)
  • ItemGroup: Improve stories to default to bordered and separated. (66191)
  • README: Add Storybook badge. (66529)
  • Remove meetings that no longer occur from Contributor Guide. (66421)
  • Site editor routes: Add documentation for areas and prevent edit area from rendering when canvas is edit. (66309)
  • Update documentation about build process changes. (66428)
  • Docs: Example for getSelectedBlock. (66108)

Code Quality

Block Editor

  • ESLint: Remove explicit react-hooks/exhaustive-deps disabling. (66461)
  • ESLint: Remove various React Compiler mutation violations. (66327)
  • Fix ‘useInstanceId’ hook reference. (66406)
  • Fix React Compiler error for Duotone. (66492)
  • Fix React Complier error for ‘useEventListeners’. (66495)
  • Import only the actually used PostCSS exports. (66379)
  • No need to unlock public actions. (66260)
  • Remove patterns UIUI User interface stylesheet from iframe. (66306)
  • Remove unnecessary Tooltip component from radius control linked button. (66274)
  • Rich Text: Fix React Complier error for ‘useEventListeners’. (66460)
  • Storybook: Add BlockPatternsList story. (66227)
  • Block editor: Remove reusable blocks stylesheet from iframe. (66285)

Components

  • BorderBoxControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (65752)
  • BorderControl: Deprecate 36px default size. (65755)
  • DrodownMenuV2: Rename folder to menu. (66473)
  • ESLint: Stop disabling react-hooks/exhaustive-deps rule. (66324)
  • Fix React Compiler error for ‘useAutocomplete’. (66496)
  • PaletteEdit: Use ItemGroup and Item, and avoid custom styles. (66164)
  • TabPanel: Add 40px size prop to tab Button. (66557)
  • Tabs: Align to standard compound components structure. (66225)
  • Tabs: Simplify styled components code. (66208)

Compose

  • Compose: Fix React Complier error for ‘useCopyToClipboard’. (66444)
  • Composer: Fix React Compiler errors for ‘useDropZone’. (66469)

Dataviews

  • Fields: Fix React Compiler mutation errors. (66464)
  • Fields: Update a few function definitions. (66315)

Interface

  • Interface: Remove duplicate ‘withComplementaryAreaContext’ file. (66348)
  • Interface: Remove unused private API support. (66565)
  • Interface: Use plugin context hook instead of HoC. (66362)

Zoom Out

  • Bundle behavior in block-editor and add story. (66240)
  • Editor: Handle zoom out state via the ‘switchEditorMode’ action. (66262)
  • Fix/html scale code quality. (66181)
  • Make useZoomOut hook private. (66374)
  • Remove double click to exit hook from the block-editor package. (66335)
  • Remove viewport check from useZoomOut hook. (66341)

Post Editor

  • Editor: No need to reset mode when changing device preview types. (66261)
  • Editor: Use plugin context hook in ‘PluginMoreMenuItem’. (66351)
  • Editor: Use plugin context hook in ‘PluginPreviewMenuItem’. (66350)
  • Fix typo after #63669. (66396)
  • Remove leftover JS code from 66451. (66472)

Block Library

  • Cleanup unnecessary notice removal. (66409)
  • ESLint: Fix a couple of React Compiler reassignment errors. (66331)
  • Footnotes: Remove extra callback when parsing content. (66370)
  • Gallery: Fix React Compiler reassignment error. (66408)
  • Table Block: Remove hasArrowIndicator prop. (66204)

Style Book

  • Avoid state/effect combo when generating values. (66446)
  • Fix React Compiler error. (66445)

Global Styles

  • Clean up: Adjust reusable-blocks dependencies. (66302)
  • Fix React Compiler variable mutation error. (66410)
  • Theme JSON: Get_block_nodes – relocate $selectors assignment. (66265)

Interactivity API

  • Interactivity API: Add comments to the deepMerge() function. (66220)
  • Interactivity API: Add tests for handling arrays in deepMerge(). (66218)
  • Interactivity API: Delay block hydration to allow interactive block stores to initialize. ([66772])(https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/66772)

Site Editor

  • Prepare route registration by refactoring the site editor router. (66030)
  • Navigation: Improve trigger for fallback navigation. (66478)

Build Tooling

  • Scripts: Refactor to extract license logic. (66179)
  • Plugins: Deprecate ‘withPluginContext’ HOC. (66363)

Tools

Testing

  • Fix [Flaky Test] Entering zoomed out mode zooms the canvas. (66212)
  • Fix end-to-end test for padding appender. (66080)
  • Upgrade Playwright to v1.48. (66296)

Build Tooling

  • Add new private vips package. (64845)
  • Revert “Use npm workspaces for packages”. (66270)
  • Add theme type to the bug report issue template. (63851)
  • Pull request automation: Use full npm install. (66314)
  • Use npm workspaces for packages (second attempt). (66272)

First-time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first-time contributors:

  • @AhmarZaidi: Remove toggle verb from post list data views ‘Toggle details panel’. (66334)
  • @mediaformat: Remove clip & -webkit-clip-path for downloadable-block-list-item style.scss. (66147)
  • @nicolasgalvez: WP Scripts: Add a --root-folder argument to the plugin-zip command. (61375)
  • @poojabhimani12: Add Inline comment experimental flag. (60622)
  • @rinkalpagdar: Border support added to comments. (66354)
  • @rudrakshi-gupta: Add Transformation from Separator to Spacer. (66230)
  • @SH4LIN: GH-66090: Self nesting and circular nesting block fix. (66121)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @afercia @AhmarZaidi @akasunil @andrewserong @arthur791004 @carolinan @cbravobernal @ciampo @dhruvang21 @ellatrix @getdave @gigitux @hbhalodia @jameskoster @jeryj @jsnajdr @juanfra @madhusudhand @MaggieCabrera @Mamaduka @mattrwalker @mcsf @mediaformat @michalczaplinski @mirka @mreishus @ndiego @nicolasgalvez @ntsekouras @oandregal @PARTHVATALIYA @peterwilsoncc @poojabhimani12 @prajapatisagar @ramonjd @renatho @rinkalpagdar @rudrakshi-gupta @ryanwelcher @SantosGuillamot @SH4LIN @sirreal @stokesman @swissspidy @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @torounit @troychaplin @tyxla @vipul0425 @Vrishabhsk @vykes-mac @westonruter @youknowriad @zaguiini

Props to @auareyou for visuals assets, @artemiosans, @welcher, @annezazu for peer review.

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