I think Fridays are speeding up. It’s hard to believe another one is already here.
Widgets to blocks
Discussion around “element queries” is happening. The reason is because we’d like to show the mobile-web view of Gutenberg in the Customizer for the widget-blocks stuff. The Customizer side still isn’t at the mobile-web view yet, but it’s working better thanks to this PR.
Navigation block
- Incorporating existing toolbar patterns can use feedback.
- Horizontal movers on the nav items needs feedback.
- Adding nav items needs feedback.
Tightening up
- The Inserter popover now has a help panel. This opens up some work to be done on inline tips: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/16582
- Edit media flow is just about done!
- Background color for the Cover block needs a bit more feedback.
- Gradients!!!
- Full screen images is nearly there too.
- The Typewriter experience just got merged too!
Usability tests
The usability tests are being conducted weekly. One thing I’ve noticed frequently is the lack of ease when placing images along side other images or text. Sure we’ve got blocks that make this possible (which is awesome!) but it’s not quite as discoverable yet.
I submitted an issue a while back regarding how we might make this better. We’d allow users to drag a simple block (Image block) onto another simple block (Image block) which would then automatically create a complex block (Gallery block).
Here’s a couple older gifs courtesy of @kjellr.
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