Gutenberg Phase 2 Friday Design Update #30

Happy Friday, everyone! Gutenberg 6.3 was released! Among the many enhancements was the new Navigation Mode that loads by default when opening the Editor. The AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Team communicated the difficulty tabbing through every 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. control before getting to the next block, so this nifty mode should help alleviate this. It feels natural, but we need more feedback, so a call for testing was recently posted.

Additional improvements with 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/ 6.3 include:

• Text alignments in the Table block.
• Color support for the Separator block.
• Improvement to the Preview Content.
• Modal component improvements including padding and Close button positioning.
• Added a purple option to default color palette.
• Add an Experiments settings page to 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.
• Padding for nested blocks.

WordPress Components

A call for feedback and contributors
Lot’s of work happening as shared in a recent post by @drw158. Dave outlines a great opportunity to unify design patterns across WordPress and outlines the process.

WordPress Component Doc Site
As mentioned in the GitHub PR#16953, This unofficial site is @itsjonq‘s effort to gather the component documentation into one place that shows live examples of each design pattern. It simply imports the component documentation and spits out a beautiful site with visual examples of what each component looks like. I believe Q (itsjonq) is also looking to include live code editing in a sandbox as well on the site. It’s currently a work-in-progress that can be found here: https://q-wordpress-component-doc-site-test.netlify.com/

Widgets to blocks

Improvements included in 6.3:

• Prevent the block toolbar from overlapping the 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. area headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes..
• Add the BlockEditorKeyboardShortcuts component.
• Fixed block paddings.

Block Directory

@melchoyce has been iterating on the Block Directory mockups in Figma. The development is moving smoothly with the block installation process just about completed. @karmatosed will be testing this with contributors during 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/. at WC Brighton.

Navigation block

As you all may remember the Navigation block went through a design pivot a few weeks ago. It’s received a focus issue created by @tinkerbelly to get the toolbar controls figured out. Contributors have been dropping in with feedback and opinions, so please join them in the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue.

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