Happy Friday, everyone! 🙂 Gutenberg 6.4 was just released this week! I’ll highlight a few additions.
- The Cover block 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 slack 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 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!