Gutenberg Phase 2 Friday Design Update #54

The Design Team provides design for the WordPress project.

Want to get involved? See the handbook and optionally drop into #design to chat. Most active design work happens in the block editor project, consider dropping into Needs design or Needs design feedback.

Figma Access

You don’t need edit access to use the Figma libraries, you can copy components from there into your own drafts. If you’re a contributor with the ability to grant edit access, please be mindful, and downgrade to view access once the initial need for edit has waned.

Happy Friday! This post should catch you up with the latest design updates in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ right now. Let’s jump in.

Cover blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.

Improvements to the Cover block are underway. These include padding controls, color controls, and background controls. If you haven’t noticed, a really cool position control was introduced recently.

Rich image editing

The Image block is getting some additional image editing features.

Site navigation

Navigating through the full-site editing experience is coming along. This can be tested 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 right now.

Multi-entity saving

Also recently merged is a first pass at multi-entity saving. It allows the user to see a list of larger changes (especially global changes) that they did to their site before publishing them.

Ways to keep up with FSE

If you didn’t catch it, Anne posted recently about the various ways you can keep up with the work happening on full-site editing.

Get involved

Now is a great time to get involved. While the work on this project is intense, it is always important to glean new perspectives from other WordPress users and community members. Just drop into any of the links provided above to read up on the details, contribute, and leave feedback.

Thanks for reading, staying informed, and contributing anywhere you can!

#design, #gutenberg-weekly, #phase-2

Paal Joachim Romdahl 12:00 am on May 23, 2020

Any PR which has not been merged yet can be tested using gutenberg.run.
One needs to insert the PR number and have gutenberg.run load the PR. It can be a bit stubborn and need a few tries before working, but it is an easy way to give feedback before a PR is merged.
omnyweb 2:02 pm on May 23, 2020

Great! When will all these new features be included in the WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.?
- Mark Uraine 2:15 pm on May 23, 2020
  
  The full site editing features like multi-entity saving and page navigation are planned for WP 5.6. The other two features may be in WP 5.5.

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