This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting, held in the #core-editor Slack channel, on Wednesday, April 8, 2020, 14:00 UTC. These meetings coordinate collaboration in the development evolution of the Gutenberg project. You can find today’s agenda here.
First an update on Gutenberg 7.9 which was pushed one week. Progress has been good so far and release is on track for next week
WordPress 5.4 was released last week. Issue/PR’s are being kept track of using “Backport to WP Core” label. A 5.4.1 release is not scheduled yet.
Monthly Plan
It’s early in the month, but the plan looks to be on a good track. The priorities are still the same though and available here
Task Coordination
@isabel_brison
- working on Navigation Block-related tasks, I realized that currently submenus in that block are almost unusable on mobile devices.
- I have created PR 21471 to fix them.
@nosolosw
- I’ve been mostly helping Riad with the refactor of some block properties related to styles, including font-size for paragraph and heading.
- Pushed a bit to the target block selectors for Global Styles proposal (still work to do).
@youknowriad
- I have been mostly focused on the Color and gradient support for different blocks and consolidating the way we support these in different blocks. (Also thinking in relation to Global styles)
- I’m planning to do more work on the inserter and patterns UI on the next days
@nfmohit
- I’m working on adding a vertical style to the Buttons block.
- PR 20160
@brentswisher
- I’ve been looking into ways to make Storybook easier to work with, comments/opinions appreciated here
- Continuing to add stories for missing components
- Follow up on some old issues/PR’s that have resurfaced
@andraganescu
- still working on the experimental navigation screen
@pbrocks
- Reviewed some PRs this past week
@gziolo
- I’m working on Jest, JSDom, Babel and ESLint upgrades for Gutenberg contributors and wordpress/scripts users
@itsjonq
- I’m continuing work on Design Tools
- Focused specifically on improving the Cover block.
- I have a PR for inner content alignment
- Currently focusing on adding padding support!
@michaelarestad
- prototype to connect the various designs/functions around Full Site Editing and an iteration of multi-entity saving
@kirilzh
PRs and Issues for Review and Comments
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PR 20954 Scheduled post does not show correct url on preview
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PR 21440 Copy/cut input values copying entire block/removing block
PR 21359 Latest Posts: Fix selected category on existing blocks
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Issue 21391 Comments and review for the Drag & Drop feature
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Issue 11681 Looking for input into possible changes for block templates
Open Floor
Global Styles and Theme/Block Color Palettes
There seems to be a lot of (potential) crossover between Global Styles and Theme/Block Color Palettes. Is this something there’s been discussion about?
The focus currently has been on the foundational pieces for Global Styles, but that’s definitely something that we should look at shortly. There may be the possibility to use theme.json to define the palettes and the Global styles UI to potentially allow editing them/choosing colors based on them.
Possible Additions for 5.4.1
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PR 17413 Add Block Transform to transform Embed blocks into Paragraph blocks.
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PR 21410 Scheduled posts display the correct url
Today embeds do not function really well. There are cumbersome work arounds if a link wants to embed and one does not want to embed it, as in add a dot then the text link. Or add some text and then a link. Then remove the text again etc. The issue could use additional feedback.
Dynamic content in HTML files from Block-Based Themes Issue 20966
One potentially native solution would be to allow some php in these templates but more thought is needed.
Adding skip to content link and aria labels for FSE
An issue needs to be added to Github to add skip link support for theme authors in FSE. Skip links are one of the most fundamental things for a11y on a site which needs to be hidden to normal users and only visible on keyboard-navigation (tabbing) and screen-readers. The link needs to be the 1st thing on a page, and it needs to link to the main content of the site.
All theme developers add a skip link. It usually points to the <main> element of the page (which 99% of the time has id=”main”). If the template in FSE contains a “content” block, then we could add an ID to it and automatically add the skip-link. If there is no content block, then the skip-link would point to the loop block. If there is no loop-block either, then make an educated guess and point to the 1st title or p block. This is a possible solution but more discussion should be directed to a GitHub issue.
PR 21410
Is it possible to generate the permalink as the link property of a scheduled post in the REST API, as is the case for published posts now? The answer might be related to the fact that the slug might be already used by the time the post gets published but this is best asked in the #core-restapi channel.
PR 19436 Selection Behaviors with Reusable Blocks
This relates to some funky selection behaviors with reusable blocks, or really any instance of nested Block Editors, where you can have blocks selected in the upper and lower editors at once. RichText buttons are absorbed into the parent, etc, When experimenting with nested block editors to persist block data to unconventional data stores this problem arises quite a bit.
Nested block editors may not be a great idea, but potential options could be:
- The nested block editor should live in a modal or a separate page (link)
- Use the controlled “InnerBlocks” approach we’re experimenting for template parts (and multi-entity save flow). This approach is not stable 100% yet but seems promising.
