As discussed in early December of last year, the Meta and Support teams have implemented the block editor in all international support forums, as well as in all plugin and theme forums/reviews.
The overall feedback has been positive. Specifically, a number of people have highlighted how adding images has become considerably easier.
In addition, some Rosetta (non-English) forums are already successfully using the block editor, including Russian, Swedish, and Dutch. Before rolling out the block editor in the remaining Rosetta forums, we will first test it in a single RTL (right-to-left) language forum.
Documentation
A new documentation page has been created, which explains how to use the block editor in the forums, and other references throughout the existing documentation have been updated.
Known issues, reporting bugs, and suggesting enhancements
There are a couple of remaining known issues we are currently working on. As always, any help would be most welcome!
- To paste most types of code, you must use a code block; otherwise, it’s stripped out. An upstream issue to resolve this is still under discussion, and it would not only solve the issue in the forums, but for all sites using the block editor.
- Emojis sometimes display an </img> tag
- There is an issue with the underline option outputting inline code.
- This Meta Trac issue outlines other known issues.
To report bugs or suggest enhancements, follow this guide. If you are unsure and need help reporting any issues, you can add a comment here or swing by the #forums channel in Slack
Opting out of blocks
You can opt-out of the block editor completely in your forum profile settings, by checking the “Disable the Block Editor for new topics and replies” box, as seen below:
