Happy Friday, everyone! 🙂 Gutenberg 6.4 was just released this week! I’ll highlight a few additions.
- The 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. can now be resized and includes solid background colors.
- User’s can now select default block styles that maintain the selected choice when adding new blocks.
- Typewriter experience!
- The Block Inserter now has a help panel.
- Circle cropping for images.
User-selected default styles & Circle cropping option for images:
Navigation block
@tinkerbelly wrangled a great Navigation block discussion earlier this week in the #design slackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel. The Nav block has a bit more direction but is still in need of some feedback on this particular issue.
Adding new menu items:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/17116
Tightening up
As mentioned before, the 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/ team is working to make sure there are a clear set of weekly priorities. These priorities are brought up during each #core-editor slack meeting. This week’s set include:
- Inline tips is still getting resolved.
- Edit MediaFlow received feedback and needs to be updated.
- Regarding the architecture work preparing the editor to handle multiple entities, @epiqueras shared the framework changes. Now we need designs for template selection/creation, and post block save flows, etc.
- Background color for the cover block was merged and released.
- Regarding the gradient backgrounds, @jorgefilipecosta proposed a PR implementing gradient functionality.
- Screen height image expand is updated and just about to cross the finish line.
Thanks for reading, staying informed, and contributing anywhere you can!