Gutenberg Phase 2 Friday Design Update #54


Happy Friday! This post should catch you up with the latest design updates in Gutenberg right now. Let’s jump in.

Cover block

Improvements to the Cover block are underway. These include padding controls, color controls, and background controls. If you haven’t noticed, a really cool position control was introduced recently.

Cover block

Rich image editing

The Image block is getting some additional image editing features.

Rich image editing

Site navigation

Navigating through the full-site editing experience is coming along. This can be tested in the plugin right now.

Site navigation

Multi-entity saving

Also recently merged is a first pass at multi-entity saving. It allows the user to see a list of larger changes (especially global changes) that they did to their site before publishing them.


Ways to keep up with FSE

If you didn’t catch it, Anne posted recently about the various ways you can keep up with the work happening on full-site editing.


Get involved

Now is a great time to get involved. While the work on this project is intense, it is always important to glean new perspectives from other WordPress users and community members. Just drop into any of the links provided above to read up on the details, contribute, and leave feedback.

Thanks for reading, staying informed, and contributing anywhere you can!

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