Happy Friday, everyone! It’s time for a roundup of this week’s Gutenberg links.
Gutenberg 6.0
A new version of Gutenberg was released on Wednesday! Version 6.0 is packed with enhancements, and includes a new set of layout options inside the columns block placeholder. This functionality will be expanded and made available to other blocks in the near future.
Here’s a selection of other enhancements in this release:
- Snackbar notifications are now available on the experimental widgets screen
- The Group Block now ships with an inner container div to help make theme styling easier.
- Placeholder text phrasing has been synced up for all the media blocks.
- Embed block placeholders now come with better descriptive text and a documentation link.
- Brand icons in the Block Inserter are now grayscale.
- The modal overlay (or “scrim”) color is now darker, for better accessibility, and to sync up with the rest of WP-Admin.
You can read more about these updates in the release post.
Updates from WCEU
This year’s Summer Update at WCEU featured Gutenberg prominently. It included an overview of Phase 2 work to date, along with some inspiring examples of things to come: the block directory, enhanced motion, and experiments like “snap to grid” for blocks.
The usability testing table was a great success! Thanks to everyone who helped make that possible. The videos from those tests will be posted next week.
A number of design contributors worked on Gutenberg tickets during Contribution day as well. A recap of those was posted today.
Editing beyond the post content
@youknowriad has opened some issues that begin laying the groundwork for Gutenberg editing outside of just the post_content. This is an exciting step towards full-site editing, and a great area to keep your eyes on.
- https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/16281
- https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/16282
- https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/16283
Other in-progress issues to watch
- Improvements to the publishing flow are underway, and could use feedback.
- Beautifully fluid block reordering animations are almost ready to be merged.
- More improvements to nested block interaction are on their way.
- The preview component is being improved.
- The Columns block continues to be iterated on.
Updates to the WordPress Figma component library
Also of use to designers working on Gutenberg: @drw158 has published some excellent new Figma component library updates. These include Figma components that mirror the base UI components found in the @wordpress/components npm package. 🎉
Thank you for reading and for all your contributions. Have a great weekend!