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Eileen Violini 11:49 am on July 7, 2021
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Editor chat summary: 30 June 2021

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on Wednesday, 30 June, 2021, 10:00 AM EDT in Slack. Moderated by @itsjusteileen.

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/ 11.0 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 Release

Gutenberg 11. RC 1 released on 30 June. The link includes release notes.

WordPress 5.8

The first Release Candidate is available. A few quick things from this post:

  • Theme and plugin authors should test and update their readme file.
    For theme authors, @youknowriad has a post on updating your theme for content width to work with global styles and settings.
  • For the ployglots out there, this release marks the Hard String Freeze for 5.8.
  • Everyone is needed for final testing!

This might also be a good time to mention deprecated Block Editor API’s. See @youknowriad posts for more information.

View the complete WordPress 5.8 development cycle.

Key Project Updates

Full Site Editing

The latest call for testing is out: FSE Program Testing Call #8: Thrive with Theme.json. As noted in the post, this round of testing targets developer-centric users in order to bring high impact feedback for 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., a new tool for extenders. Feedback is requested by 14 July.

Widgets Editor

See the full 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.-based Widgets Editor dev note for a overview description of the new feature.

Mobile

@mattchowning provided the update.


“Shipped”:
Enabled tests for the Cover Block


Coming Soon:

  • Gallery block refactor
  • Tooltips to help with Editor Onboarding
  • Block inserter search

In Progress:

  • Further Editor Onboarding improvements: a help section and a “new” badge for new blocks
  • Adding new integration tests for mobile embed block
  • Global Style Support for colors

Navigation Block

@mkaz provided the update.

  • Working on the overlay background colors for responsive menu and dropdowns is close
  • fixing up the Navigation Editor screen and working on improving tests.

Global Styles

@nosolosw provided the update.

The current focus is polishing the theme.json experience by finding and fixing bugs that are back ported to the Betas/RC. Two things left are:

  • 5779 Extract strings provided via theme.json for translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. in translate.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/. This depends on a new wp-cliWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ release that includes this PR and then updating the 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. infrastructure.
  • 53494 The global styles need to be enqueued in the footer for classic themes that opt-in into per-block asset loading.

The dev notedev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include: a description of the change; the decision that led to this change a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. for theme.json was published.

Task Coordination

@Zeb is looking for review on his TOC Block PR after fixing the infinite-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. 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. in the Table of Contents block PR.

@joen

Making a little progress on nav block menu item setup states, with a little summary here. Otherwise making PRs for a variety of small issues, in fact some of them just need your green checkmarks!

@annezazu

Mainly doing FSE Outreach Program wrangling in the form of shipping the theme.json call for testing post with two lovely collaborators (join in on the fun!) and a “How to Test FSE items for 5.8” post shipping today. I plan to turn my attention towards user docs starting at the end of this week through to the release to help out there alongside responding to feedback that comes in. I also want to spend more time in the land of GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ triaging.


@mamaduka

  • Updated documentation for ServerSideRender package.
  • Added check to avoid applying layout configs twice with 5.8.
  • Worked on adding busy state to the template creation modal. I would love some :eyes: on this PR.
  • Pushed improved check for Image Block “switch to cover” action.
  • Testing issues and helping out with PR reviews.

@priethor

In preparation for the next months after 5.8, we are refining the Site Editing scope, closing issues that have been completed for the most part, and creating new overview issues with the upcoming work.

@andraganescu

I am a one person mechanical end to end test runner for the block based widgets editor

Open Floor

What’s the status of FSE in 5.8?

@ironwiller Will there going to be a change at WP 5.8 and have an actual FSE or this one is an ongoing project till the end of the year or even beyond?

@mamaduka Template Mode is on for themes that provide theme.json` file or have special support flag.

@annezazu You can think of full site editing as a collection of features that brings the familiar experience of blocks to all parts of your site. Because it’s a collection of features, it means there’s the option to only release what’s stable and ready in a more gradual way rather than all at once! So… think of it less as an “on/off switch” approach for releasing FSE and more as a steady drip of features being released. In terms of what’s coming, check out this post or you can watch this recent video from another community member that goes over the major features planned. While some items related to FSE are going to be released, like Query Loop Block or Template Editing Mode for classic themes that opt in, this work will be ongoing and is expected to continue beyond this year (my best guess).

Embeds in iFrames Issue

@mrMark Bump to have Embeds looked at e.g. this issue. I added a comment on about embeds being cut off because 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. isn’t expanding for the content.

Replace white screen on home page

@colorful-tones
Is there a means to refrain from seeing white screen on home page if a theme just has a theme.json in it? I’ve tested with TwentySomething themes and does not seem to happen, therefore wondering if there is a deprecation jig in place for TwentySomething themes only to gracefully fail. Query Monitor shows wp-content/plugins/gutenberg/lib/template-canvas.php being loaded as template on home page. This is with WP 5.8 RC1-51270 and Gutenberg 10.9.1 active. It looks like an issue needs to be created for this topic for general review.

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David Smith 10:48 am on June 24, 2021
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Editor chat summary: 23rd June 2021

This post summarises the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on 2021-06-23 14:00 UTC in Slack. Moderated by @get_dave.

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/ 10.9 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 release

WordPress 5.8 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 3

  • 22nd June 2021 saw the release of WordPress 5.8 Beta 3.
  • It was noted that there is still time for 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 documentation to be written.
  • @desrosj explained that there is a 4th (unscheduled) Beta planned for later this week (likely Thursday or Friday) – if there are additional things you’d like to see get tested during the beta cycle (and not after RC), there’s still time to get those in.
  • The project board for Gutenberg and WordPress 5.8 still has outstanding items needing contributors.
  • Due dates for dev notes – the field guideField guide The field guide is a type of blogpost published on Make/Core during the release candidate phase of the WordPress release cycle. The field guide generally lists all the dev notes published during the beta cycle. This guide is linked in the about page of the corresponding version of WordPress, in the release post and in the HelpHub version page. is published on the same day as RC 1, which is this upcoming Tuesday. Ideally, all dev notesdev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include: a description of the change; the decision that led to this change a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. should be in by then. If there are any notes that will not be ready, they can be added to the guide after publish, but having them for that date is preferred.

Key Project updates

Updates were requested for the key projects:

Native Mobile Team

@mattchowning provided the update:

Shipped

  • 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 0.64.x upgrade, including upgrade to React v17!

Coming Soon:

  • Gallery 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. refactor
  • Tooltips to help with Editor Onboarding

In Progress:

  • Further Editor Onboarding improvements: a help section and a “new” badge for new blocks
  • Starting work on improving the integration tests for mobile so mobile breakages are caught earlier
  • Block inserter search
  • Embed block
  • Global Style Support for colors

Global Styles

@nosolosw provided the update async:

Current focus is polishing the theme.json experience by finding and fixing bugs that are backported to the Betas weekly.The two major things left are:

  • Show preset strings provided via theme.json in translate.wordpress.org so they can be translated. This depends on a new wp-cliWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ release (see) and then updating the 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. infrastructure. Trac ticket.
  • Publish dev notedev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include: a description of the change; the decision that led to this change a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. for theme.json (I’m working on this).

Block based 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 and 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..

@andraganescu provided the update.

Navigation Block

@mkaz provided an update:

  • Color overlay issues being worked and continued improvements.
  • It looks like the markup has been confirmed so will need review on the open PR to move it forward

Navigation Editor screen

@get_dave provided an update:

Full Site Editing

  • @aristath suggested that we stop using FSE as a term, and eliminate it from code whenever possible. We should use “block based” or similar instead.
  • @annezazu mentioned that template editing mode is officially opt in for classic themes and opt out for block themes for 5.8. You can see the dialogue here and you can see the PR for this here.
  • @annezazu flagged the FSE Outreach program is going to launch a call for testing/exploration around 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. tomorrow rather than today. You can see the full schedule here for June/July.

Task Coordination

@ntsekouras:

@annezazu:

  • I was out last week – still playing catch up.
  • Hyper focused on the FSE Outreach program.
  • Working on the theme.json call for testing with a few folks
  • Nearly done with the seventh call for testing summary post.
  • Shared a reflection previously on future programs (thoughts welcome).
  • Starting July 1, I’ll be focusing in as much time as I can on user docs for 5.8.

@mkaz:

  • Looking at Dev Notes for WP 5.8, the tracking issue is here.
  • The three major dev notes that I see left are:
    • Widgets Editor
    • Global Styles
    • 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. & registration
  • @gziolo already has a draft of the Block API note that I hope to review and publish this week. 
  • @andragan and @nosolosw are working on the other two: Widgets & Global Styles.

@get_dave:

@aristath:

  • WP 5.8 – working on improving styles & scripts loading and there are no blockers
  • We should stop using FSE as a term, and eliminate it from code whenever possible (see note above).

@zieladam:

  • I am getting back into the rhythm of contributing after my 6 months break (during which I explored data science in Tumblr).
  • Mostly going through the Widgets editor board and reviewing/submitting new PRs and refreshing my memory of how everything works.

Open Floor

Saving Flow Consistency (agenda comment)

  • @paaljoachim asking about saving flow consistency across various screens.
  • He’s made a detailed overview Issue and he feels “…it would be helpful to get this fixed for WP 5.8, so users who want to discard a save does not meet these errors.“
  • Is anyone able to take a look into this? Please let us know in the comments.

“Final call” for input on the transform vs convert debate for Block Transform API

Feedback about Block based Widgets screen

Note: this has subsequently been converted into an Issue and added to the Widgets project board.

Request for pull request approval: filters to get block templates functions

Problems testing Theme JSON for Classic Themes

  • @colorful-tones is eager to test leveraging just the theme.json for classic theme (or more like hybrid) approach.
  • Saw PR #32858, but not entirely certain how to test and verify. Should I be running latest Gutenberg plugin and latest WP Beta 3, or just latest Gutenberg? 
  • @annezazu provided advice:

@colorful-tones I might recommend asking directly on the PR to be extra safe. From what I can see to test this, you need to use WordPress 5.7 and the specific 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". that this PR is on.

Anne McCarthy

WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Japan Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. successes

No blocks in inserter on Widget screen with empty Widget area

Wrap up

It was great to hear/see so many voices in the Open Floor section.

Thanks to everyone who attended.

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Ajit Bohra 11:23 am on June 14, 2021
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Editor chat summary: Thursday, 10 June 2021

Moved to Thursday 10th June because of WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. EU.

This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting (agenda, slack transcript), held in the #core-editor SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel, on Wednesday, June 10, 2021, 14:00 UTC.

Thank you to all of the contributors who tested the BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. releases and gave feedback. Testing for bugs is a critical part of polishing every release and a great way to contribute to WordPress.

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/ 10.7 final

Gutenberg 10.7  will be the final release to be included in WordPress 5.8

WordPress 5.8

Tracking Board for WordPress 5.8 Must-Haves

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 Call For Testing

Call for testing the new 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.-based Widgets Editor. Please report your findings on GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ in the Gutenberg repository

Monthly Plan

The monthly update containing the high-level items that Gutenberg contributors are focusing on for June are:

  • Global Styles.
  • Block-based Widget Editor.
  • Navigation block.
  • Full Site Editing.

For detailed plan check out monthly priorities post.

Updates on the key projects

@nosolosw

Global styles and settings

  • Ported to WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and will be part of the WordPress 5.8.
  • Focus now is on polishing and fixing bugs.
  • Following settings & styles are still experimental and only work with the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party:
    • border
    • font-family
    • font-style
    • font-weight
    • text-decoration
    • text-transform

More details and update

@annezazu

Block-Based Widget Editor

  • For widgets, it’s still expected to be opt-out by default via three pathways listed at the end of this post.
  • The team is focused on resolving bugs and triaging reports.
  • In case of big incompatibility issues arise in beta, the plan is to change the screen to opt-in via the theme before 5.8 RC1.
  • It is still a huge help to test as much as you can as this is a big part of wp-adminadmin (and super admin) that’s changing.

Navigation Block

  • It is not likely to be included in 5.8 and efforts have decreased there as a result.
  • For now, folks are still working to resolve the major markup issue and finding a way forward there.

Full Site Editing

  • The focus is mainly on refining various blocks.
  • Currently, bugs are also being resolved around template editing mode. If you’re able to help out, highly recommend helping with the current FSE Outreach Program call for testing and reviewing the upcoming schedule so you can make time to help in the future.
  • If you’re a theme author, any help testing and exploring 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. would be hugely helpful too 
  • As it stands though, keep in mind that “Block-Based Themes do not work in 5.8 directly as-is read the full conversation.

@ntsekouras

Query Block

  • 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 renamed to Post Template and Query label changed to Query Loop.
  • Post blocks are now uneditable when inside the Query Loop block.

@mattchowning

Mobile

  • Audio block and floating toolbar fixes.
  • Integration tests for reusable blocks.
  • In Progress: Editor onboarding, Block picker search, Embeds block.
  • 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 0.64.x upgrade coming soon, including the upgrade to React v17.

Task Coordination

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

@mikeschroder

  • Updated tests in PR that add the ability to choose the number of tags in the Tag Cloud block.
  • Added PR for making CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. valid for inline images with empty width.

Looking for things to work on that would help with 5.8.

@mamduka

  • Fixed the issue when the user got locked in saving state if the 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 saving request failed with a 5xx error.
  • Trying to help with remaining Widget Editor issues in the Project board.

@paaljoachim

  • Want to hight light this issue:
    Reusable block: Add a lock to the parent toolbar to protect the inner content from accidental editing.
    It contains similar functionality as to how the edit button worked in Reusable blocks in WP 5.6. An important feature to get back into Reusable blocks. (Btw the fix will likely get backported to WP 5.7.x)

@annezazu

Open Floor

@janwoostendorp

Highlighted https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/31806/ for code review and feedback.

@mkaz

  • In the Docs meeting today, we brought up the suggestion for all teams to create a new docs ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. for any user-facing features that need documentation. One of the hardest parts of creating the user docs is just knowing what is new and/or changing.
  • For examples of what we try to document for user-facing docs see the Block Editor and Blocks documentation.

@desaiuditd

@mamaduka

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Andrei Draganescu 5:02 pm on May 26, 2021
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Core Editor Meeting Notes 26 May, 2021

This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting (agenda, slack transcript). This meeting was held in the #core-editor SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel on Wednesday, 26 May, 2021, 2:00 PM UTC and was facilitated by @andraganescu.

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/ 10.7 release 

Gutenberg 10.7 was released today. It’s probably one of the biggest, if not the biggest in terms of number of PRs, releases to date.

Feature freeze

This week held the feature freeze for WordPress 5.8. From the wishlist @youknowriad mentioned the 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. and the Post Author block as the ones being left out from the merge effort because of various issues. @mkaz mentioned that the navigation block is still searching for the best solution for its markup. @paaljoachim mentioned the refactored gallery block as one other item that didn’t make it into 5.8.

For the future, it was raised that WordPress should have a process that enables more often and early merges instead of doing everything all at once to avoid stressful situations.

WordPress 5.8 board

The GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ board for monitoring progress for WordPress 5.8 is still open and maintained. Past feature freeze there’s still a log of 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 polish required and a few additional tasks like dev notesdev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include: a description of the change; the decision that led to this change a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. and such. The board will serve us to track all of that.

Block based Widgets editor call for testing

Help Test the Widgets Editor for WordPress 5.8!  The block based widgets editor is in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. as part of the merge for 5.8, so now testing can also be done with WordPress 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.. Updating and bug fixing will continue via 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.

Monthly Plan

The monthly plan for May 2021 is still up. @annezazu brought up that today is the last day for the current call for testing for the FSE Outreach Program and a new call for testing will also be launched soon after 10.7 is released.

Key project updates

Global Styles

@nosolosw shared this week’s global styles update:

  • Global Styles and Global Settings have been ported to WordPress core and will be part of the WordPress 5.8 release. The focus now is on polishing and fixing bugs as we find them.
  • Now that the 1.0 version of this feature has been shipped and we need to revisit focuses, I thought it’d be a good time to pause these reports while we figure out the next steps. Anything relevant should still be posted in the tracking issue but on an on-demand basis not weekly.
  • More at Issue 20331

Block based 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

@andraganescu shared this week’s update:

  • The Block based Widget Editor. has been ported to WordPress core and will be part of the WordPress 5.8 release. The focus now is on polishing and fixing bugs as we find them. As always you can help by checking out the project’s board on GH and participate in the #feature-widgets-block-editor channel – open at all times of day!

Navigation block

@joen shared this week’s update:

  • Still trucking on with the navigation block. There’s a PR in queue that will enable global styles item padding (PR 31878). Also starting to look to helping with the List View component, which plays a key role in the block.

Block based navigation editor

@getdave shared this week’s update:

  • we’re continuing with our recent theme of lots of code quality and UIUI User interface fixes.Other than that we’re gearing up for addressing some of the “bigger picture” issues on the Navigation Editor including:
    • Disabling / enabling features in the block to better support the editor.
    • Adding support for missing 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..
    • Improving the experience for editing navigations that are simple or complex.

Mobile/native

@hypest shared this week’s update:

  • Slash inserter!
  • Support for Xcode 12.5.
  • Blocking issue with translations broken which affects the mobile apps (relevant convo too).
  • In Progress: Editor onboarding, Block picker search, Embeds block, working hard to finish up 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 0.64.x upgrade.

Task Coordination

@aristah

  • focused on the site-logo block. Long story short, after a brief experiment with using the default custom_logo theme-mod, it will revert to using a site_logo option.  PR 32229 – fixes 2 of the items in the 5.8-must-haves board. After this is reviewed and merged I’ll be porting the block to core.
  • Pushed some code-quality PRs, fixing eslint warnings
  • Allow non-latin characters in slugs – PR 32232  some eyes on this one would be appreciated since it fixes a long-standing bug for those of us with non-latin posts-titles.
  • Lots and lots of PR reviews. At this stage in the release process, if anyone has some time to spare pleaaase do some reviews, they help everyone move the project forward.

@joen

  • doing small 5.8 things where I can, including a notices bugfix and some Safari flickering debugging.

@annezazu

@mkaz

  • I’m looking at flaky tests and trying to see how we might be able to automate some bits to flag so people can address. This ticket discusses a little but merely retrying is not enough, we’ll need a way to precisely  identify what test is failing for action.

Open Floor

@poena asked, with the upcoming updates in 5.8 how should we call theme types to best differentiate them. A general consensus was that themes with PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher templates will be called classic themes and themes with HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. templates are called block themes.

@priethor brought up the monthly “what’s next” post and asked for suggestiions to improve the format and on feedback about its usefulness. Reply in a thread here, open a Guthub discussion issue or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” Hector in #core-editor with anything you want to share about this.

@janw.oostendorp brought up their PR 31806 and asked for feedback. The on the spot suggestion was to add the description of a usecase for the filters added by the PR.

#chats, #meeting-notes

Paal Joachim Romdahl 2:21 pm on May 25, 2021
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Editor chat summary: 19 May, 2021

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on Wednesday, May 19, 2021, 04:00 PM GMT+1 in Slack. Moderated by @paaljoachim.

WordPress 5.8

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/ 10.7 is the last 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 version to be included into WordPress 5.8.
Project board.

@youknowriad who is the technical lead for 5.8 gave this reminder on Tuesday on 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/..
“Reminder: It’s feature freeze day (19 May) in Gutenberg, in general that means one of the most stressful days in our release lifecycles. I’ll be milestoning the PRs that I ideally should make it in the RC with “Gutenberg 10.7″ to ensure we all help review and move these forward. All of these might not make it but that will allow us to know where to prioritize our time for today.”

Gutenberg 10.7 RC

The release candidate of Gutenberg 10.7.0 can be downloaded here.

Gutenberg 10.6

@vdwijngaert  took charge of releasing Gutenberg plugin 10.6! His very first release of the Gutenberg plugin. Koen also wrote the “What’s new in Gutenberg 10.6?” Make coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. post.

Widgets editor in WordPress 5.8.

A call for testing of the new widgets editor.

Monthly Priorities

May monthly priorities. Along with Key Project updates.

Global Style

Update from @nosolosw

  • The focus getting tasks ready for Gutenberg 10.7. Most have been landed.
    Will start the merge process in core (got an initial PR for this).
  • Shipped this week. 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. supports: margin, duotone, font-family, layout, typography and link color.
    Settings: REST Request for mobile.
  • Ongoing. Block supports: typography, border, add letter-spacing and migrate more blocks to the 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. system.
    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.. Show both core & theme colors. Link color not to use CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Custom Property. Core merge. Add settings for all editors.
  • Priorities. Merge process for theme.json APIS in core.

Check out the Github comment for additional details.

Block based 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

Update from @andraganescu

  • The widgets block editor has had a good number of fixes and missing features merged for the Gutenberg 10.7 release. Soon a core patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. for the Widget Editor feature will be worked on.

Navigation Block

Update from @joen and @andraganescu.

Full Site Editing

Mobile

Update from @mattchowning

  • Block picker search almost done, progress on embeds block, ready to ship first iteration of reusable blocks, working hard to finish up 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 upgrade.

Refactored gallery block

Update from @glendaviesnz
Regarding incorporating the new Gallery block into Gutenberg plugin 10.7 and WordPress 5.8.
We are waiting on two things in order to be able to make a decision on this:

  • The mobile/native code needs to be brought into line, and there have been some issues to resolve with this in terms of backwards compatibility with old versions of the app. Hopefully by next week we will have a better understanding of the timelines around getting this work finished.
  • We are exploring options for providing backwards compatibility in terms of plugin /theme support with the move from an unordered list format. Hopefully we can get some decisions on this by next week as well.

Task Coordination

@annezazu

@copons

Open Floor

Feedback needed

A comment from @zebulan
Improving the Table of Contents block so it can be re-enabled (it was disabled shortly after merge due to implementation concerns). Following PR needs feedback: ToC block: use static markup and only support core Heading and Page Break blocks.

Adding action hooks into FSE

Question from @bobbingwide
How easy will it be to get some do_action() hooks into FSE template and template part logic, to aid problem determination?
@bernhard-reiter
I have started work on backporting the template resolution logic to Core (currently collecting notes at https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/53176). Did you have any specific hooks you wanted added?
@bobbingwide
Yes. Two new ones which I have currently called rendering_template and ‘rendering_template_part.
Add debug divs to templates with appropriate CSS

Regarding Theme.json

Comment from @bobbingwide
Documentation shows JSON with // comments. People are copy and pasting verbatim and it’s not working. But there’s nothing visual to say theme.json is broken. Just an entry in debug.log
1- Can the documentation be changed?
@nosolosw Added this PR: Make the theme.json examples copy-pasteable. (PR has been merged.)
2- Can the parsing failure be surfaced?
@mcsf
Removing comments from the docs is something we should fix asap. In the future, I expect us to have a semi-official tool for building and validating theme.json files, which would answer the question of parsing failures.

Documentation for block themes

Comment from @daisyo
I have started an issue here to discuss documentation for block themes.
Needs feedback. Discussion: Block Theme Developer Documentation.

Expanding the link control with hooks

Comment from @bula
It would be very beneficial to give developers a hook to extend it.
Is it possible that the link popover could be extended with a block hook?
Link Control: Add more controls.

Regarding failing e2e tests.

Comment from @jffng
Is the recommended process to rebase until the checks pass? Or when is it “safe to merge”?
@aristath
All tests are halted on new PRs, so rebasing etc won’t make a difference… We’ll need to wait for GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ to resolve its issues.

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

David Smith 3:42 pm on May 6, 2021
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Editor chat summary: 5th May 2021

This post summarises the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on 2021-05-05 14:00 UTC in Slack. Moderated by @get_dave.

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/ 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 release

  • At the time of the meeting the latest release was 10.5.4.
  • @get_dave noted 10.6 RC is due today (May 5th) with the stable release on May 12th.
  • Riad asked for volunteers to release the RC for 10.6 – this was completed post-meeting by @vdwijngaert.

WordPress 5.8

  • Feature freeze for Gutenberg for WordPress 5.8 is May 19th (10.7 RC).
  • The release schedule for WP 5.8 is available.
  • Riad noted that to follow the progress, we have these two things:
    • A project to see all the different mandatory tasks for this release.
    • A merge issue to track the progress of the integration of the Gutenberg updates into 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. before feature freeze date.
  • Riad asked for folks to review and help with the experimental APIs in this Issue.
  • @gziolo is already working on bringing Gutenberg 10.5 into WordPress trunk.
  • @youknowriad is the Editor Tech lead for 5.8.

Full Site Editing Next Steps

  • Reminder about Hector Prieto’s Full Site Editing Go/No Go: Next steps post which summarizes scope for Gutenberg in WordPress 5.8.
  • To summarise, the scope is roughly:
    • 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. theme building
    • Theme blocks (eg: Query, Navigation, Site Logo…etc) 
    • Template editing within the post editor
    • Widgets Editor & Block Widgets in the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. 
    • Persistent List view in the post editor
    • Duotone design tool 
    • Gallery block refactor
  • Riad said we’re already in a good state as everything is developed but we may still have to do some calls about whether to keep everything or reconsider some parts of it.

What’s new in Gutenberg

@ajitbohra posted What’s New In Gutenberg for the end of April.

Highlight’s included:

  • New block patterns and pattern transformations
  • “Template Editing Mode” – enables editing templates without leaving the Post Editor.
  • File Block now supports embedding PDFs in most major browser
  • Block widgets in the Customizer now have media upload and richtext formats.
  • Fix autoscrolling when selecting partially “off screen” blocks.

Key Project updates

Updates were requested for the key projects.

Global Styles

@nosolosw provided an update async via a Github Issue. I have omitted it here for brevity.

@youknowriad also provided us with a summary update:

  • the new 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. format merged
  • we’re making theme.json stable (no more experimental-theme.json ) in 10.6.

Block based 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 and Customizer.

@andraganescu provided the update.

  • The widgets editor has gone through an amazing round of polish.
  • Grouped up only late last week, this week all the major testing blockers have had their fixes merged in time for the new Gutenberg release.
  • The aim is to have a call for testing as soon as possible to collect feedback on the state and progress of the project.

Navigation Block

@joen provided an async update:

@mkaz also provided:

  • Responsive hamburger menu aiming for GB 10.7 PR-30047 eyes welcome
  • Dynamic Home URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org is the last must-have for 5.8 in progress and looking good  PR-30926
  • Refining placeholder and design

Navigation Editor screen

@get_dave provided an update:

  • The Nav editor continues to see steady progress.
  • We now have all entity (post, page, 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.)…etc) block variations serialising to/parsing from their respective nav_menu_items. So when you add a Post link it stays synced to that Post.
  • We also have lots of work going on regarding notifying users about unsaved changes.
  • Both nav block and editor features have also seen background improvements to stability and test coverage.

Full Site Editing

The meeting agreed this was mostly covered by the above items.

@paaljoachim did ask if someone could provide an async update on the Page templates.

Feel free to leave an update in the comments if you have one.

Mobile Team

Task Coordination

@annezazu:

@aristath:

  • Last week was Greek/Orthodox Easter so it was a half working week here:
  • Continued working on PR to autogenerate anchors for headings – #30825. Could use a review after today’s updates.
  • Font-sizes can now use non-px values – #31314
  • WIP – Worked on splitting the theme.css file to conditionally load parts for rendered blocks only – #31239 (same as what we previously did for the style.css file).
  • This week & next week I plan to continue working on 5.8 tickets, converting the quote block to nested blocks, and improving the sustainability of block themes. Hopefully I won’t need to continue working on the autogenerate-anchors PR ’cause it will be merged.

@mamaduka:

  • Primarily focused on the new Navigation Editor.
  • I pushed another update for the “Most used terms” feature and based on the latest feedback. I think it’s in a good place to merge into the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
  • There’s also a new PR Site/Template editor welcome guide if anyone wants to test and provide feedback.

@paaljoachim:

@get_dave:

@ntsekouras:

@vdwijngaert:

  • Working on an accessible (and reusable) way of describing a path (eg: go to Settings > Reading) to follow, came up in 31122
  • Resuming work on the first step of duplicating post/page title to the top toolbar (issue: 27093, PR: 31288 )
  • Tweaking the ImageResizeControl behavior, now it returns NaN when empty or 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. 31355
  • Gave a go at fixing block conversion for <!–more–> tag in the middle of a paragraph 31374, could use a review.

@desrosj

@jorgefilipecosta:

  • Helping the merge of the theme.json shape changes (with reviews suggestions etc).
  • I also made some PR reviews not related to global styles.
  • I added some PR’s removing unused code 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.’s and stabilising other API’s.
  • Changed the way the global styles cpt is associated to a theme to use a 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. like the other FSE post types do.
  • Finishing a refactoring to the link color to use an elements + the same mechanism as duotone/layout instead of css variables.
  • I will work on moving theme.json to core and the code changes required to be core first code.
  • I plan on fixing some old issues/tasks where I have been pinged and have some insights.
  • And if time allows I plan on starting the work on dashboard that shows the performance metrics on each commit merged to trunk.

Open Floor

Note for task coordination purposes: Automattic will be on remote virutal meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. next week.

@annezazu noted for task coordination purposes that much of Automattic that focuses on the editor space is going to be on a remote, virtual  meetup next week (12th & 13th). It might mean less of us coming to the core editor chat or slightly less responsiveness during those days but it’ll probably depend on the person.

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

  • @desrosj flagged issue with some GitHub and WordPress.org connections where tokens expired for some users.
  • If you have previously connected your GitHub account to your WordPress.org account, please head over and verify the connection is still active!
  • If you have never connected your accounts, please do! This is a huge help for the release squads when they compile the list of props for a given release.
  • We always want everyone to receive proper recognition for their contributions, and this is a huge help with matching contributions to Gutenberg on GitHub to a .org profile. 
  • More info on connecting your Github profile to your WordPress.org account.

Opt out Plugin to be used to disable the block based Widgets editor.

@paaljoachim wanted to highlight this issue: Add a plugin to disable the block based Widgets editor.

As a plugin has been added if/when a user wants to go back to using the Classic Widget screen. I am hesitant. As it should be easier to jump between old <-> new.

@andraganescu responded:

“Easier” is complex. Adding buttons to switch in and out may sound easier, but using the same system that has been used for years via plugins can be easier as well. Opening that issue, I did think about the option to add an “opt out” button. But that would mean adding an opt in button as well. And that would mean adding a user setting. And, if not a user setting then a way to store the opt in state. This, as the welcome screen in the Guteneberg editor has shown us, is not a reliable way.

@andraganescu indicated there would be a “Welcome screen” on first use of the new Widget editor with clear information about how to install the Plugin to easily opt out.

@andraganescu also confirmed there will be multiple touch points:

  • Post install page.
  • Welcome screen.
  • Make post with more information.

Wrap up

Due to the meeting taking longer than usual @get_dave wrapped up by encouraging any further open floor questions to be left async as a comments (below).

Thanks to everyone who attended.

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

Jorge Costa 7:04 pm on May 3, 2021
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Editor chat summary: Wednesday, 28 April 2021

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 28 April 2021, 14:00 UTC held in Slack.

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/ 10.5 RC release.

The first topic was the Gutenberg 10.5 release. The RC was already shipped a week before the chat https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/releases/tag/v10.5.0-rc.1. @jorgefilipecosta said that we had some PR’s that were cherry-picked since the RC.

The final release was scheduled for the day of the chat. @jorgefilipecosta gave public congratulations to @ajitbohra for the first RC release!

Posts requiring feedback and insights.

@jorgefilipecosta said that we have two important posts published recently that deserve wide attention:

In case anyone has some insights or thoughts to share please leave a comment on the posts! Your insights are appreciated!


Monthly Plan and key project updates.

Global Styles

Shipped this week

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.

block.json / 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. supports

  • duotone #26752
  • padding: fix to allow units other than px #31057
  • font-size: can be used in nodes other than the wrapper #30879
  • border-color: fix for dynamic blocks #31020
  • blocks
    • padding for site title #31125
    • padding and letter casing for site tagline #31042
    • link color for post date #30791
    • table uses now background/text colors from the theme #30791

Internationalization

  • custom templates can be translated via theme.json #29828

KSES

  • fix to sanitizing user styles #30888

Site editor:

  • fixes for preset classes in the site editor #31218 #31217 #31204
  • fix for color selector in the UIUI User interface color panel #31015

Ongoing

theme.json

  • Changes to format #29891 are ready #30541 we’re now testing and polishing. It also includes versioning (aka migrate the older formats to the new one).
  • Improve 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. to take data from the theme directly #31267

block.json / block supports

  • typography (line-height, font-weight, etc) can be used in nodes other than the wrapper #30880
  • border and color (background, text) to the pull quote block #30951

New style properties

  • Add support for letter-spacing #31118

Misc

  • Add a new endpoint that exposes block editor settings through the 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/. (by mobile to access global styles data) #29969
  • standardize capabilities of wp_template, wp_template_part and wp_global_styles #30893

Priorities

The priority continues to be shipping #29891 as soon as possible to unblock related work.

#28913 is a good issue to look at if you can lend a hand (help with reviews, migrate more blocks, more properties, etc).

Block based 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. and Navigation Editor.

@andraganescu provided the following update:

The legacy widget got an UXUX User experience upgrade and now the default view is the preview while the embedded widget editor in the customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. had a performance overhaul. The focus on back combat continued with more testing with legacy widgets from various plugins. As expected a lot of new issues were opened.

On navigation editor the steady pace of improvements continued last week. Many thanks for the many welcome contributions!

Navigation block.

@joen provided the following update:

For the navigation block, we recently merged a padding change and I’m doing some followups (submenu gap, placeholder items, nav screen). Also looking at small separate improvements, and hope to get back to patterns now that the padding change is merged  — thank you for reviews.

Full Site Editing/Page templates

@youknowriad provided the following update regarding page templates:

I’ve spent some time iterating on that on the last days. We now merged the UIs for templates under a single “template” panel in 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., we iterated a bit on the design of the “frame” to distinguish properly between template and post modes and simplified the save flow a bit. There are a number of iterations we could make, I don’t expect all of them to happen before 5.8, at some point, we’d make a final decision about whether it’s good enough to include.

@ntsekouras made a heads up regarding the query block:

Query block has now a wrapper element which for now is div (and will be the default when more tags will be supported) here: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/30804I’ve added a deprecation so everything will work as before but it will be good to update any block themes you have that use Query.

Task Coordination

@aristath

This past week:

  • Continued working on PR to autogenerate anchors for headings – #30825
  • Continued on @nosolosw‘s existing PR to allow inner blocks in quotes – #25892
  • Sustainability: PR to split theme.css styles and only load the ones for rendered blocks – #31239
  • Smaller PRs, mostly to improve code quality & linting errors
  • Lots and lots of PR reviews

Next week: Continue working on all the things mentioned above

@mamaduka

Helping out with the new Navigation Editor screen:

  • Sync menu name updates.
  • Introduce useMenuEntityProp hook.
  • Better handling of unsaved changes. PRs one and two.

Continued my work on the “Most Used Terms” feature and got great feedback about improvements. Thanks, everyone.Planning to continue working on Navigation Editor tasks.

@paaljoachim

@ntsekouras

@annezazu

Continued FSE Program work with the fifth call for testing, publishing a schedule of upcoming plans, reviewing/adding to a brief FSE doc, and launched a second round of questions. I’m planning to likely do a hallway hangout tomorrow on FSE issues/prs/designs in #fse-outreach-experiment for anyone interested!

@poena

Plans to continue on the site block changes but also I want to test the theme.json format and update the tutorial for creating block themes. Awaiting review of the letter-spacing.

@vdwijngaert

Will be working on a PR for moving the post/page title to the top bar. Current PR: #31240, but going to close that in favor of a new one based on a 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".

@jffng

@jorgefilipecosta

The main goal for next week is to review https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/30541 and help it be merged. Plans on reviewing other Global Styles PR that are opened (e.g: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/30880). Wants to fix https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/27478, which is probably very simple but may have a considerable impact and should be done ASAP.

Open floor

Post title moving in site editor

@bobbingwide said that there’s a problem moving the post title in the Site Editor. Adding that it’s tricky editing the topmost block if one does not have the toolbar set to top. @joen said @ellatrix is working on a fix https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/31134.

G2 Components

@aristath asked the status of “G2 components” and if there is any plan on removing them. @youknowriad said that G2 is not removed but while reviewing some of the integration PRs, he noticed that G2 reimplements a lot of things we already have in Gutenberg in its own way. So the plan is still to integrate it but aligning with Gutenberg practices.

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Ajit Bohra 1:55 pm on April 26, 2021
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Editor chat summary: Wednesday, 21 April 2021

This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting (agenda, slack transcript), held in the #core-editor SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel, on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 14:00 UTC.

Thank you to all of the contributors who tested the BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. releases and gave feedback. Testing for bugs is a critical part of polishing every release and a great way to contribute to WordPress.

Full Site Go/No Go

The Full Site Editing Go/No Go demo took place a few days ago, where project leadership determined what new features should be included in WordPress 5.8 based on their current status, feedback gathered in calls for testing, and the prospect of achieving a solid implementation before the feature freeze.

As a next step high-level overview of the focuses to attend to before the feature freeze is defined. WordPress 5.8 FSE must-haves project board is available to trace individual items.

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/ 10.4

Gutenberg 10.4 was released on 14th April introducing cool features like 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. widgets in the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings., enhancements to the Site Editor, improvements to rich text placeholders, and, as always, many 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 as well.

Gutenberg 10.5 RC

Gutenberg 10.5 RC 1 was released last week test and report bugs.

FSE Outreach

Two weeks remaining to go on a Query (block) Quest with the fse outreach expirement.

Monthly Plan

The monthly update containing the high-level items that Gutenberg contributors are focusing on for January are:

  • Global Styles.
  • Block-based 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.
  • Navigation block.
  • Full Site Editing.

For detailed plan check out monthly priorities post.

Updates on the key projects

@andraganescu

A brief update on Widgets and Navigation:

  • Focus on figuring out the best approach for backward compatibility and see how much can the block based editor offer.
  • Navigation editor progressed with bug fixes, but still hanging around the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. issues of how to best reuse the navigation block.

@nosolosw

This week in global styles:

  • Landed 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. with elements #29891.
  • extract sanitization method #30809.
  • Added block support & theme.json support for: border-color, border-style, and border-width #30124.
  • Clean cached data when switching themes #30830.
  • Standarize block editor settings load #30245.
  • 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. in color panel of global styles 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. #31015.
  • Add utility to retrieve classes and styles in color hook #30869 #30870.
  • Polish color labels #30075.
  • changes to shape (working in all editors & front-end) #30541.
  • Allow skipping serialization for typography attributes #30880.
  • Conversation about “overlay” colors #29963 (comment).
  • Migrate more blocks using the skipSerialization mechanism as well as adding more properties #2891.
  • kses filtering (approved) #30888.


The priority continues to be shipping #29891 as soon as possible to unblock related work.
#28913 is a good issue to look at if you can lend a hand (help with reviews, migrate more blocks, more properties, etc).

@mkaz

Navigation block improvements follow all the details in the tracking issue here.

  • Responsive menu is close and got delayed due to external priorities, but I’d expect in 10.6.
  • Home Link has started new since last time.

Task Coordination

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

@mamaduka

@joen

Focusing on the navigation block, looking into patterns.

@paaljoachim

  • Working on a few issues for Learn.
  • VVV/Vagrant setup a local dev environment tutorial.
  • Exploring improvements to the Page templates UIUI User interface.

@hypest

Quick update from the native mobile folks: 

  • Block transforms, Interim dual-license for new contributions merged, media insertion flow simplification.
  • Gallery Block Refactor Resumed, Editor Onboarding implementation started.
  • Fixes in Stepper 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), Unsupported Block Editor start, Quote block citation newlines.
  • Refined media progress error notice.
  • In Progress: GSS, Reusable blocks, Search block, Block Picker Search, Embed block, Slash inserter.

@nerrad

Published a PR with a proposal introducing a document defining some Gutenberg Principles for the project to adopt. Would be good to get more eyes on it (especially from the coreteam).

@ntsekouras

@mkaz

@get_dave

  • Work on the Navigation editor/screen.
  • Focused on ensuring wp nav menu items are mapped to the correct block types/variations #31004.
  • Exploring a clearer “close” UX for the Site Editor navigation sidebar that appears when you click the `W` icon.

@annezazu

  • Focused on the FSE Outreach Program (responding to feedback, amplifying, testing, writing up the latest summary).
  • Alongside a work in progress core editor improvement post and a post on the role 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/when to .use Gutenberg for /news to help guide people.

@aristath

Open Floor

@get_dave

  • Block Transforms: deprecating `transform` 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 favour of `convert` for block transforms.
  • When the group block was introduced we had to create a new experimental API `convert` to allow us to group a block/selection of blocks via the “Block Transform” UI in the block toolbar.
  • This was because the existing `transform` API only provided access to a limited set of data about the block(s) being transformed, whereas we needed the blocks themselves.
  • In many cases it is more useful to simply receive the block(s) being transformed – this provides access to all data about the block (including `attributes` and `innerBlocks`). This is (for the most part) a “blocks in, blocks out” mindset which feels quite natural.
  • @aduth proposed we promote the `convert()` API and deprecate `transform`. `transform` would remain in place for backwards compatibility so there would be no breakage. The API has been in use for over a year but is not standardised or documented. Also, it cannot easily be removed as the Group block is dependent on it.
  • The PR has fallen dormant and needs a decision to take it forward. I’m happy to help do the work to get it over the line if we can wrangle a decision.

@paaljoachim

  • I am working on the flow of the Page template and I am seeing a few things here and there that needs adjusting. One issue I have met a few times is the lack of ability to discard a save. I made this issue showing how one gets stuck. 
  • There are explorations going on in relation to discarding saves but it is more complex.

@mamaduka

  • I would love to get UXUX User experience feedback on this issue and if it’s okay to hide block controls while an image is uploading.

@aristath

  • Right now I can’t use any non-px values. We can’t say that font-size should be 2em and I suspect that’s from g2. Things that were supposed to work don’t (paddings). If anyone is able to use non-px values for paddings in latest 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., please let me know how… Right now I can’t see how it could possibly work, it looks like units is always an empty array and I can’t figure out how/why it was working in the old days

@annezazu

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Paal Joachim Romdahl 10:44 pm on April 5, 2021
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Editor chat summary: 31 March, 2021

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 04:00 PM GMT+1 in Slack. Moderated by @paaljoachim.

WordPress 5.7.1

WordPress 5.7.1 maintenance release.
The following release schedule is being proposed:
Release Candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta).: Wednesday 7 April, 2021 around 23:00 UTC.
Final release: Wednesday 14 April, 2021 around 23:00 UTC.

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/ 10.3

What’s new in Gutenberg 10.3.

5.8 Pre-planning

5.8 schedule

Monthly Priorities

March monthly priorities. Along with Key Project updates.

Global Style

Update from @nosolosw

Navigation Editor

Update from @grzegorz

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.

Update from @mkaz

Mobile

Update from @hypest

Full Site Editing

Update from @annezazu

Task Coordination

@annezazu

  • Mainly focused on FSE Outreach program (daily fse testing, reporting issues, writing up summaries, writing tests, amplifying!) and a few CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Editor Improvement post ideas in the pipeline.

@aristath

  • Focus FSE and getting things ready for our MVP for inclusion in core.
  • Past week focused on implementations for hybrid themes, and also adding skip-links to FSE themes.
  • Focus on reviewing PRs.

@ntsekouras

@mamaduka

@poena

  • Reviews.
  • Testing Full Site Editing.
  • Reporting issues and creating pull requests toward the FSE MVP.

Open Floor

Discussing the Full Site Editing MVP.
To summarize the discussion that happened during the meeting and after, here are the top takeways:

  • There is confusion of what MVP for Full Site Editing consists of.
  • As has been previously shared, the MVP should make it possible to build a version of the Twenty Twenty-One theme, using only blocks, without any coding knowledge.
  • Widgets & Navigation work are not included in FSE but they are seen as complementary projects to help with adoption.
  • At the moment we have two targets: the full site editing MVP & what would be introduced in 5.8.

A link to the full discussion on Slack.

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

Andrei Draganescu 5:23 pm on March 24, 2021
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Core Editor Meeting Notes 24 March, 2021

This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting (agenda, slack transcript). This meeting was held in the #core-editor SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel on Wednesday, 17 March, 2021, 10:00 AM EDT and was facilitated by @andraganescu.

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/ 10.3 release 

At the time of the meeting the release process was having some issues, looked at by @gziolo and @bernhard-reiter

WordPress 5.7.1 maintenance release

WP 5.7.1 RC 1 will be on Wednesday 7 April, 2021 around 23:00 UTC and according to @noisysocks  the WordPress 5.7 board is the one to watch for editor updates that will need to land in this release.

Monthly Priorities

The monthly post outlining Gutenberg’s priorities for March 2021 is available.

Global Styles

@nosolosw shared this week’s global styles update:

  • Merged a few important things for 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.: add a layout config in theme.json, allow themes to use any style via theme.json whether or not the block supports it, translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. for custom templates.
  • Continue iterating on 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. supports mechanism: allow skipping the serialization of border.
  • Some bugfixes: PR:30088.

Ongoing/Next tasks necessary for MVPMinimum Viable Product "A minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers, and to provide feedback for future product development." - WikiPedia:

And more:

Full Site Editing (FSE)

@youknowriad and @vindl shared this week’s update:

  • working on making sure the frontend and backend are equivalent for all blocks and themes (as much as we can). The idea being that a user can open the site editor in an unstyled theme, start blank, add blocks bit by bit and having everything look as expected (front and back)

Infrastructure and UI milestone update:

  • Fix for template saving issue after switching FSE themes should be merged soon in PR:29842
  • Experiments to open browsing 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. to the appropriate template sub-menu landed today (PR:26964, PR:30098)
  • Persistent List View now has visual support for multiple selected blocks (PR:29878); its performance has also been improved (PR:29902)
  • Block toolbar is no longer overlapping the navigation panel (PR:29918)
  • Browsing sidebar will now close after template selection (PR:29956)
  • PR for template part block variations in the Inserter was merged (PR:30032), which should unblock the continuation of our work on semantic template parts

Block based 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 (and navigation editor)

@andraganescu and @grzim shared this week’s update:

  • the widgets editor progressed a lot by having two PRs landing, one that updated the REST API to work better with widgets and one that added the block inspector as a sliding panel to the customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.. Work continues, and the aim is to have blocks in customizer functional in the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party by the end of the month. Be sure to check things in #feature-widgets-block-editor 

Navigation editor update:

  • Minor improvements in styling PR:30168, PR:29832, PR:30129, PR:29975
  • Theme location settings moved to sidebar and have more features PR:29458
  • Fix of navigation editor toolbar which was disappearing in small screensPR:29967
  • Use the interface package for the navigation screen PR:30013
  • …and there are also a few other PRs that are nearly completed.

Navigation block

@joen shared this week’s update:

  • Layers of CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. has been refactored, dead code removed, inheritance fixed so styles work, and in general from here on out it will just be a great deal easier to manage. At the moment we’re also working on a hamburger menu for better responsive behavior, and it’s looking great already.

Mobile/native

@hypest shared this week’s update:

  • Landed various E2E tests related fixes, 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) improvements in UnitControl/StepperCell/RangeCell, removed the cancel button from many settings options on Android, split/merge 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. on Android fixed
  • In Progress and Next up: same as previous week’s update

Task Coordination

@annezazu

  • FSE Program wrangling (responding to feedback, triaging, figuring out what’s next to test, etc), testing FSE everyday (lots of reported bugs), and some light triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors.!

@ntsekouras

  • Keep on explorations with block patterns integrations mostly on Patterns transforms(PR:29890) – could use some feedback/testing there 🙂
  • Expose Template part block variations to Inserter
  • Code reviews and triaging

@andraganescu

  • I have merged a few small PRs, triage and code review mainly for the new block editors (widgets and navigation).

@mamaduka

  • Image block now will use image default size from settings. PR:29966
  • Added since parameter to the deprecated function. PR:30017
  • Added/Updated since versions for deprecated features. PR:30072
  • Created PR for Gallery Block pattern to prevent adding all images when adding media. PR:30122

@paaljoachim

  • Triaging.
  • Focusing on getting more exposure on basic Full Site Editing user issues. Such as the preview drop down, easier save, editing template/post content etc 
  • Just made an issue for using a big modal to have a common approach for editing templates/reusable blocks/patterns.

@rafaelgalani

  •  I worked on some small PRs to fix some bugs 

Open Floor

@paaljoachim reminded that the new Gallery Block which uses Inner Image blocks has a call for testing. It is a new and awesome way to use the Gallery block, and it has a lot of potential. Go and test it..:)

#chats, #core-editor, #meeting-notes