Happy Friday, everyone!
Widgets to blocks
@karmatosed and I did a review on the state of 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.–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. screen 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. this week. Plenty of issues were created to help push this along.
Tightening up
- In today’s Accessibility chat, there was some discussion around Gutenberg’s Experiment Settings page.
- Lots of Table block improvements are being explored.
- Tips are being redesigned.
- Redesign of the block mover controls.
- Exploring alternative ways to search lists.
- Transform blocks to columns.
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