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Jorge Costa 5:57 pm on August 5, 2021
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Editor chat summary: Wednesday, 4 August 2021

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 4 August 2021, 14:00 UTC held in Slack.

WordPress 5.8 final release

@jorgefilipecosta congratulated all the people that contribute to the WordPress 5.8 release. Adding that it was a big release that changed multiple things in the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., added part of the FSE engine, implemented 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. widgets between other big additions.

@youknowriad invited people to participate in a retrospective that is happening. And added the following:

One thing I didn’t share on my comment there is that we’ve been on a feature release work for a long time. I’d love if we can focus more on quality related work (polish/performance…). For instance if you worked on a feature on previous releases, what can you do today to make it better in terms of code, performance and maintenability.

What’s new in 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/ 11.2.0

@jorgefilipecosta announced that Gutenberg 11.2 was released before the chat, and asked people to report any regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5. found in their tests or if the update did not work as expected.

Project updates

Site Editor

@jorgefilipecosta submitted a PR that proposes a mosaic view one of the goals for July & August. The PE contains most of the functionality proposed in the mockups but not all of it because the PR was already huge. The PR also implemented the logic for an editor modes functionality that will be used to add the code editor in edit site very useful for example to full site editing theme developers.

Navigation block

@mkaz shared that, the Navigation Block is in a good state, still iterating but the next big step is a call for testing in the next week. And asked people to keep an eye out at #fse-outreach-experiment or the make.wordpress.org/test site. The team will collect feedback from that call to define what areas need focus, improving, and further iteration.

Navigation

Widgets

Native mobile application

Available in the next release:

  • “New block” block picker badge for 50% of users to measure performance.
  • Setting the featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. via the Image block directly.
  • Fixed a crash in the column block, and an issue with the “More” menu in the UBE.

In progress

  • Updated the Mobile Gallery Block Refactor (PR) with the changes from Web and merged it.
  • Block Picker Search, Embed block, editor onboarding help section, GSS Font size, line height, colors.

Task coordination

@youknowriad

Is working on performance work. Has a PR improving inserter search performance.
Is also iterating on some layout-related additions. Like the block gap support.
Reviewing the PRs that he can help with.

@joen

Looks forward to getting back to polishing and improving the navigation block, list view, and a ton of other cool things, perhaps even a little framer animation! Is also going to land github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/32659 one of these days, and follow up with what that will mean for the Gallery block.

@gziolo

  • Finished working on adding support for variations in block.json file to WordPress core: As part of the efforts the same patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. proposes a unified way to apply translations to block.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. and theme.json.
  • Finished working (together with @jsnajdr and @walbo) on webpack upgrade from v4 to v5 in the build tooling: It would be great to have a wider testing before the team lands it as it impacts Gutenberg, Storybook and all projects that use wordpress/scripts.

@get_dave

Mainly working with @joen on adding a Text field to the Link UI to improve the UX around adding links (mainly in the Nav Editor). Also taking a look at pattern-based solutions to some Widgets screen markup backwards compatibility problems. Starting to think about Navigation Editor and theme.json again.

@jorgefilipecosta

His objectives for the week are:

  • Address feedback and merge the mosaic view PR
  • Propose a follow up PR with the remaining mosaic functionality.
  • Propose a PR with the code editor view on the site editor.
  • Investigate and improve the performance of the site editor.
  • Submit some site editor bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. fixes and code quality/APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. improvements.
  • Review the locking improvement proposal.

Open floor

Alignments in the shortcodeShortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to insert a form or function generated by a plugin in a specific location on your site. block

@paaljoachim share the following:

The Shortcode block does not have alignment or a way to add a custom CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets.. Here is a conversation in 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/. which would be helpful to take a closer look at: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB2JS7/p1627590018095900

Adding that he is hoping that we can improve the shortcode block, as it is very limited in functionality.

@jorgefilipecosta said that for this use case the shortcode should be nested inside a group block.

@paaljoachim added that the shortcode is not working well inside the group block and as a follow up is going to open an issue so the team can investigate this further. The issue was created after the chat.

Wassim Boussebha new contributor presentation

Wassim Boussebha introduced himself to the participants of the chat:

I am Wassim Boussebha 18 years old,  computer science student in first year , I am interested to contribute to gutenberg project and be one of the maintainers in the future, currently I am learning computer science basics and foundations including algorithms, computer operating systems,databases….

Adding that he would like to know what is the specific tech stack that would allow him to contribute and work on this project and if it would be possible to provide some orientation.

@jorgefilipecosta thanked Wassim Boussebha for the interest in contributing. And together with @paaljoachim shared links to some tutorials, explained the tech stack, and referred what could be the first issues Wassim can work on. @jorgefilipecosta added that the team is available on slack to help with any blocking points while trying to contribute.

#block-editor, #chats, #core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #gutenberg, #meeting-notes

Ajit Bohra 12:27 pm on August 2, 2021
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Editor chat summary: Wednesday, 28 July 2021

This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting (agenda, slack transcript), held in the #core-editor 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, on Wednesday, July 28, 2021, 14:00 UTC.

WordPress 5.8

WordPress 5.8 was released on 20th July check out the release post for a complete list of features and enhancements.

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/ 11.1.0

Gutenberg 11.1.0 was released on 21st July check out the release post for a complete list of features and enhancements:

Gutenberg 11.2.0

Gutenberg 11.2.0 RC is now available for testing.

Monthly Plan

The monthly update containing the high-level items that Gutenberg contributors are focusing on for June are:

  • Global Styles.
  • 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.-based WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Editor.
  • Navigation block.
  • Full Site Editing.

For a detailed plan check out monthly priorities post.

Updates on the key projects

@chipsnyder

For the Mobile side of things we have:

  • Soon Working to update the Mobile Gallery Block Refactor with the changes from Web, should be ready this week.
  • Work for the iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. share extension on hold as we investigate some of the technical challenges there
     
    In Progress:
  • Editor Onboarding.
  • Adding search to the block inserter.
  • Embed block.
  • Integration tests.
  • Support GSS Font Settings and specific text color settings.

@annezazu

Task Coordination

Note: Anyone reading this summary outside of the meeting, please drop a comment in the post summary, if you can/want to help with something.

@youknowriad

  • I’m working on the Flex Layout a bit, and experimenting with multi-layout architecture for inner blocks
  • I’ve also spent some time on performance jobs, tooling around that and I’m planning to continue that a bit
  • Reviewing a number of PRs

@get_dave

@mamaduka

  • Refactored Post Author component for editor. It now only makes one request to render the component instead of four.
  • Deprecated getAuthors data selector in favor of getUsers.
  • Fixed regression in withFontSizes HOC. I would love to get some feedback on this PR and maybe ship with 5.8.1.
  • Now it’s possible to pass context to getUser and similar data selector shortcuts.
  • Worked on flaky “Block Hierarchy Navigation” test issue.
  • Fixed issue when hitting maxLength in FormTokenField component triggered an error

@annezazu

  • I was out last week but am working on a few things this week for the #fse-outreach-experiment including a hallway hangout happening likely tomorrow (to be announced soon), a survey of block theme authors, and the next call for testing.
  • Working to try to update the github template to use forms as well to perhaps make it easier for people to report issues.
  • Hoping to fit in some time to triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. too.

Open Floor

@mikeschroder

  • If it’s okay, I’d be interested in shadowing someone close to my timezone (JST, so I’m guessing APAC or EU would work best) on a Gutenberg release, to learn more about what’s involved.
  • I’d eventually love to be able to help with running one, and hoping that would help with learning about the knowledge gaps to fill.

@get_dave

  • Could whoever is running the Gutenberg PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party release today please let me know how they found the automated changelog feature grouping? I worked on a couple of PRs on that and I’m curious to know whether anything could be improved. My DM’s are open.
  • Also on that note, please can I make a plea for folks to consider being even more proactive in assigning labels to GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ Issues? With the correct labels assigned creating the release changelog can be far more automated. I’ve noticed a number of recent PRs without any labels and so I’m hopeful that we can reverse that trend for the benefit of the release leads. Much appreciated.

@mamaduka

  • I try to label the issues, but can do same for PRs as well 

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Andrei Draganescu 5:30 pm on July 21, 2021
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Editor chat summary: 21 July, 2021

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on Wednesday, July 21, 2021, 02:00PM UTC on Slack. Moderated by @andraganescu.

Announcements

Monthly Priorities & Key Project Updates

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. based WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Editor

As the project has landed in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., there is now a new tracking issue set up for things identified by the community as great follow up work to improve on it.

Mobile Team

  • Shipping: Block picker search and first iteration of the embed block will be shipping in the next release.
  • In Progress: Scoping the next phase of Global Style Support work focusing on text-related styles.

Task Coordination

@ntsekouras

  • Landed SegmentedControl (PR: 31937)
  • I’m working on porting some more components from g2 and will make explorations for more layout integrations. Related Riad’s PR (PR: 33359)

@torounit

  • I am working on refactoring HierarchicalTermSelector (PR: 33418)

@zieladam

@mamaduka

  • Started refactoring FlatTermSelector into a functional component and utilize core data module for fetching terms.
  • While working on this discovered a few minor issues with the “Most Used Terms” component, which should be fixed now.
  • Also, now users with author roles should be able to set featured images uploaded by other users.

@aristath

  • Autogenerate headings anchors – PR: 30825.
  • Allow enqueing multiple stylesheets per-block – PR: 32510.

@getdave

  • I improved the build tooling by automatically grouping changelog items by feature when it is build on CI PR: 33229.

@ajlende

  • Cropping for the site logo needs reviewers PR: 31607.
  • Working on duotone enhancements we can discuss more during open floor PR: 33466.
  • Related bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. fix for cover block spacing ui PR: 33560.

Open Floor

A test file was added to WP Core in 5.6.0, but added incorrectly, which means that the tests effectively were never run. I’m trying to fix that, but am now finding that 7 out of the 20 tests are failing. Raised by @jrf

We need someone with good knowledge of global styles to help figuring out if the test’s problem is on the PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher or JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. side of the global styles.

@torounit surfaced issue 33589

This is probably a bug introduced by the recent work on the “select all” behavior in the block editor.

@ntsekouras surfaced a problem in PR: 1483 – It seems there will be the need for WP version check in patterns

The problem lies that patterns can have blocks with shape that is not supported in a WP version, but themes are also checked against WP version that are compatible. This isn’t the same WP version usually.

@ajlende asked if more people think it might be beneficial to have a system to that allow block supports to detect placeholder state.

General support for the idea was offered.

@mikeschroder raised PR: 32516 and asked if this direction is a good approach.

Looking forward for feedback from folks who know the rich-text package and can provide advice. Does that seem along the right lines for a fix?

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary

annezazu 5:45 pm on July 14, 2021
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Editor chat summary: 14 July, 2021

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, 02:00PM UTC on Slack. Moderated by @annezazu.

Announcements

WordPress 5.8 project board

Big celebration for all the hard work there with 107 issues in the Done column. There are a few new items listed but, with an RC4 coming tomorrow, anything that cannot be completed today will likely need to wait for 5.8.1. Both @desrosj and @youknowriad noted this for the group. Don’t let this stop you from testing and finding bugs but do let this set expectations!

Monthly Priorities & Key Project Updates

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. based WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Editor

Work continues to focus on bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. fixes and building out this refinement overview issue post release.

Navigation Block & Navigation Editor

Many of the folks working on these projects have been out on vacation to relax, get time away from screens, and get inspiration from the wider world.

Template editor

Work is mainly focused on 5.8 bug fixes/testing.

Patterns

The Pattern Directory is still underway with plans to go live when 5.8 does. You can see the latest in this milestone here.

Styling

The focus continues to look out for fixing bugs that are backported to the Betas/RC.

Mobile Team

Done:

  • Users can now set the text and background colors on blocks.
  • Mobile Gallery Block Refactor (PR) done, waiting on web side now.
  • Started work on supporting GSS Font Settings and specific text color settings.

In Progress:

  • Breakthrough on the Block Picker Search blocking issue, wrapping up the project soon.
  • Embed block about to ship a first iteration of the block.
  • Further investigations for the iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. share extension project.
  • Added some integration tests.

Task Coordination

@zebulan

@zieladam

@toro_unit

@paaljoachim

@mamaduka

@annezazu

  • Still heavily focused on end user documentation in order to get the major new features covered (Query LoopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop., Widgets editor, Block pattern directory, Preferences, etc).
  • Running a hallway hangout today for the #fse-outreach-experiment (all are welcome!) and have been testing 5.8 everyday over the last week+ to find some bugs.

@gwwar

Open Floor

Would it be possible to shadow 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/ Release process? Raised by @vcanales.

Both @vcanales and @gwwar expressed interest in shadowing for the release process for today’s RC. Documentation for managing releases was updated this week with more information including the need to be a part of the Gutenberg development team to help out.

Next step: @vcanales and @gwwar are going to pair up with help as needed from @youknowriad.

Help review the refactored gallery block PR. Raised by @paaljoachim.

Paal raised this PR for the gallery block refactor work as needing reviews with @youknowriad chiming in to say that it’s an important one that might require input from everyone.

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary

Paal Joachim Romdahl 8:16 pm on July 12, 2021
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Editor chat summary: 7 July, 2021

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 04:00 PM GMT+1 in Slack. Moderated by @paaljoachim.

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/ 11.0

Gutenberg 11.0.0 release notes. Thanks to @get_dave for writing the notes!

New feature highlights:

WordPress 5.8

WordPress 5.8 project board.

Monthly Priorities

June monthly priorities. (A special update for July and August will be coming.)
Along with Key Project updates.

Global Styles

Update from @nosolosw

  • The focus continues to look out for fixing bugs that are backported to the Betas/RC. The only major thing left at this point is being able to translate strings coming from theme.json at translate.wordpress.org. TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.: theme.json strings not extracted for translation.

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. based WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Editor

Update from @andraganescu

  • The widgets editor is looking stable. This 5.8 RC2 release included several fixes and we’re hoping for a stable period with no new major issues. Currently, there are some problems in testing with WP 5.7.2 so please test using the 5.8 branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch"..

Update from @noisysocks

Navigation Block and Navigation Editor

Update from @andraganescu

  • For the navigation block I want to highlight the merge of @tellthemachines’s PR that decouples the markup if the block between the front end and the editor.

Update from @joen

Update from @get_dave

Mobile Team

Update from @chipsnyder

  • Gallery Block Refactor (PR) – Just needs the experimental feature flag work to wrap. NEEDS a code review:
  • In Progress:
  • Editor Onboarding.
  • Adding search to the block inserter.
  • Embed block.
  • iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. share extension.
  • Wrapping up support items for GSS Colors getting ready to look into GSS Font Sizes.

Full Site Editing Outreach program update

@annezazu

Task Coordination

@mamaduka

@joen

I have some PRs that need reviews to land, but are otherwise solid. If you have green checks, I’d appreciate it:

@get_dave

  • I’ve been working mainly on contributing bug fixes to the Widgets screens.
  • Also focused on facilitating the release of Gutenberg PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party 11.0.0, including spending time tweaking documentation and hacking on potential improvements to release tooling.

@annezazu

  • Main focuses: end user docs for the upcoming release and the FSE outreach program (current call for testing + high level feedback items post). Want to try to test 5.8RCs every day until the release.

@aristath

  • Main focus this past week for me was bugfixes for 5.8, lots of testing, and PR reviews.

@jorgefilipecosta

Open Floor

Not getting pinged directly in the issue
when an associated PR is created.

@paaljoachim

Regarding creating a PR. The PR author should also add a comment to the associated issue mentioning that a Pull Request has been made, so that commenters in the issue will get a pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” about the newly created PR. Could some information be added to the PR template to tell PR authors that they need to add a comment to the issue about the PR?

@aristath

Comment: Not all PRs are tied to a ticket… There are a lot of PRs that are the place where the actual conversation takes place, and that is fine.
So if such a comment gets added to the PR template, the wording should be such that makes it clear that if there is a ticket related to the PR, a comment would be welcomed.

Next steps and key projects

@nosolosw

I have seen that we are scoping the next steps and key projects and I think it would be good to re-align the editor agenda topics (key project updates), the monthly priorities post, and this work in the coming weeks.

@annezazu

Comment: I agree with that comment from André! I think first things first — the monthly priorities post needs to be adjusted so the key project updates can fall in line @priethor is on it as far as I know.

E2e tests

@annezazu

Topic: I’d like to talk about e2e testing and what can be done collectively to improve the reliability of these tests. I’ve repeatedly seen e2e tests brought up as a major pain point over time. I’d love to hear what ideas folks have but, for now, I think it might be neat to try having dedicated time to discuss e2e tests during meetings.

Comments:

  • Some of the main points that came up:
  • e2e tests are important to catch regressions, the more we work on them and feel responsible about their stability (and not just relaunch until it pass), the better.
  • Look to improve overall stability.
  • CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. is starting to build e2e tests following models/patterns from Gutenberg.
  • What about forming a project to focus on improving the stability and robustness of the Gutenberg e2e tests? It might provide focused attention and effort as well as a board to collect and promote shared collective insights and discussion.
  • Several tests that can become unstable from time to time, and often times, the reason they break is legitimate just hard to reproduce.

A followup conversation between @hellofromtonya and @youknowriad

  • Current state: e2e test suite is robust and stable.
  • Failed e2e tests are real failures.
  • Problem: difficult to debug and identify why and where new code is legitimately making existing tests fail.
  • This changes the discussion and focus: shift towards => how to surface the why and where to help contributors make their tests more robust as well as fix problems in their source code that are making existing tests fail.

Check out the longer discussion about this topic that happened during the meeting.

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #gutenberg, #meeting-notes, #summary

Eileen Violini 11:49 am on July 7, 2021
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Editor chat summary: 30 June 2021

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on Wednesday, 30 June, 2021, 10:00 AM EDT in Slack. Moderated by @itsjusteileen.

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/ 11.0 PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Release

Gutenberg 11. RC 1 released on 30 June. The link includes release notes.

WordPress 5.8

The first Release Candidate is available. A few quick things from this post:

  • Theme and plugin authors should test and update their readme file.
    For theme authors, @youknowriad has a post on updating your theme for content width to work with global styles and settings.
  • For the ployglots out there, this release marks the Hard String Freeze for 5.8.
  • Everyone is needed for final testing!

This might also be a good time to mention deprecated Block Editor API’s. See @youknowriad posts for more information.

View the complete WordPress 5.8 development cycle.

Key Project Updates

Full Site Editing

The latest call for testing is out: FSE Program Testing Call #8: Thrive with Theme.json. As noted in the post, this round of testing targets developer-centric users in order to bring high impact feedback for theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML., a new tool for extenders. Feedback is requested by 14 July.

Widgets Editor

See the full 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.-based Widgets Editor dev note for a overview description of the new feature.

Mobile

@mattchowning provided the update.


“Shipped”:
Enabled tests for the Cover Block


Coming Soon:

  • Gallery block refactor
  • Tooltips to help with Editor Onboarding
  • Block inserter search

In Progress:

  • Further Editor Onboarding improvements: a help section and a “new” badge for new blocks
  • Adding new integration tests for mobile embed block
  • Global Style Support for colors

Navigation Block

@mkaz provided the update.

  • Working on the overlay background colors for responsive menu and dropdowns is close
  • fixing up the Navigation Editor screen and working on improving tests.

Global Styles

@nosolosw provided the update.

The current focus is polishing the theme.json experience by finding and fixing bugs that are back ported to the Betas/RC. Two things left are:

  • 5779 Extract strings provided via theme.json for translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. in translate.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/. This depends on a new wp-cliWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ release that includes this PR and then updating the metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. infrastructure.
  • 53494 The global styles need to be enqueued in the footer for classic themes that opt-in into per-block asset loading.

The dev notedev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include: a description of the change; the decision that led to this change a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. for theme.json was published.

Task Coordination

@Zeb is looking for review on his TOC Block PR after fixing the infinite-loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. in the Table of Contents block PR.

@joen

Making a little progress on nav block menu item setup states, with a little summary here. Otherwise making PRs for a variety of small issues, in fact some of them just need your green checkmarks!

@annezazu

Mainly doing FSE Outreach Program wrangling in the form of shipping the theme.json call for testing post with two lovely collaborators (join in on the fun!) and a “How to Test FSE items for 5.8” post shipping today. I plan to turn my attention towards user docs starting at the end of this week through to the release to help out there alongside responding to feedback that comes in. I also want to spend more time in the land of GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ triaging.


@mamaduka

  • Updated documentation for ServerSideRender package.
  • Added check to avoid applying layout configs twice with 5.8.
  • Worked on adding busy state to the template creation modal. I would love some :eyes: on this PR.
  • Pushed improved check for Image Block “switch to cover” action.
  • Testing issues and helping out with PR reviews.

@priethor

In preparation for the next months after 5.8, we are refining the Site Editing scope, closing issues that have been completed for the most part, and creating new overview issues with the upcoming work.

@andraganescu

I am a one person mechanical end to end test runner for the block based widgets editor

Open Floor

What’s the status of FSE in 5.8?

@ironwiller Will there going to be a change at WP 5.8 and have an actual FSE or this one is an ongoing project till the end of the year or even beyond?

@mamaduka Template Mode is on for themes that provide theme.json` file or have special support flag.

@annezazu You can think of full site editing as a collection of features that brings the familiar experience of blocks to all parts of your site. Because it’s a collection of features, it means there’s the option to only release what’s stable and ready in a more gradual way rather than all at once! So… think of it less as an “on/off switch” approach for releasing FSE and more as a steady drip of features being released. In terms of what’s coming, check out this post or you can watch this recent video from another community member that goes over the major features planned. While some items related to FSE are going to be released, like Query Loop Block or Template Editing Mode for classic themes that opt in, this work will be ongoing and is expected to continue beyond this year (my best guess).

Embeds in iFrames Issue

@mrMark Bump to have Embeds looked at e.g. this issue. I added a comment on about embeds being cut off because the iframeiframe iFrame is an acronym for an inline frame. An iFrame is used inside a webpage to load another HTML document and render it. This HTML document may also contain JavaScript and/or CSS which is loaded at the time when iframe tag is parsed by the user’s browser. isn’t expanding for the content.

Replace white screen on home page

@colorful-tones
Is there a means to refrain from seeing white screen on home page if a theme just has a theme.json in it? I’ve tested with TwentySomething themes and does not seem to happen, therefore wondering if there is a deprecation jig in place for TwentySomething themes only to gracefully fail. Query Monitor shows wp-content/plugins/gutenberg/lib/template-canvas.php being loaded as template on home page. This is with WP 5.8 RC1-51270 and Gutenberg 10.9.1 active. It looks like an issue needs to be created for this topic for general review.

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #gutenberg, #meeting-notes

David Smith 10:48 am on June 24, 2021
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Editor chat summary: 23rd June 2021

This post summarises the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on 2021-06-23 14:00 UTC in Slack. Moderated by @get_dave.

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/ 10.9 PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party release

WordPress 5.8 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 3

  • 22nd June 2021 saw the release of WordPress 5.8 Beta 3.
  • It was noted that there is still time for bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. fixes and documentation to be written.
  • @desrosj explained that there is a 4th (unscheduled) Beta planned for later this week (likely Thursday or Friday) – if there are additional things you’d like to see get tested during the beta cycle (and not after RC), there’s still time to get those in.
  • The project board for Gutenberg and WordPress 5.8 still has outstanding items needing contributors.
  • Due dates for dev notes – the field guideField guide The field guide is a type of blogpost published on Make/Core during the release candidate phase of the WordPress release cycle. The field guide generally lists all the dev notes published during the beta cycle. This guide is linked in the about page of the corresponding version of WordPress, in the release post and in the HelpHub version page. is published on the same day as RC 1, which is this upcoming Tuesday. Ideally, all dev notesdev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include: a description of the change; the decision that led to this change a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. should be in by then. If there are any notes that will not be ready, they can be added to the guide after publish, but having them for that date is preferred.

Key Project updates

Updates were requested for the key projects:

Native Mobile Team

@mattchowning provided the update:

Shipped

  • ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. Native 0.64.x upgrade, including upgrade to React v17!

Coming Soon:

  • Gallery 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. refactor
  • Tooltips to help with Editor Onboarding

In Progress:

  • Further Editor Onboarding improvements: a help section and a “new” badge for new blocks
  • Starting work on improving the integration tests for mobile so mobile breakages are caught earlier
  • Block inserter search
  • Embed block
  • Global Style Support for colors

Global Styles

@nosolosw provided the update async:

Current focus is polishing the theme.json experience by finding and fixing bugs that are backported to the Betas weekly.The two major things left are:

  • Show preset strings provided via theme.json in translate.wordpress.org so they can be translated. This depends on a new wp-cliWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ release (see) and then updating the metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. infrastructure. Trac ticket.
  • Publish dev notedev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include: a description of the change; the decision that led to this change a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. for theme.json (I’m working on this).

Block based WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Editor and CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings..

@andraganescu provided the update.

Navigation Block

@mkaz provided an update:

  • Color overlay issues being worked and continued improvements.
  • It looks like the markup has been confirmed so will need review on the open PR to move it forward

Navigation Editor screen

@get_dave provided an update:

Full Site Editing

  • @aristath suggested that we stop using FSE as a term, and eliminate it from code whenever possible. We should use “block based” or similar instead.
  • @annezazu mentioned that template editing mode is officially opt in for classic themes and opt out for block themes for 5.8. You can see the dialogue here and you can see the PR for this here.
  • @annezazu flagged the FSE Outreach program is going to launch a call for testing/exploration around theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. tomorrow rather than today. You can see the full schedule here for June/July.

Task Coordination

@ntsekouras:

@annezazu:

  • I was out last week – still playing catch up.
  • Hyper focused on the FSE Outreach program.
  • Working on the theme.json call for testing with a few folks
  • Nearly done with the seventh call for testing summary post.
  • Shared a reflection previously on future programs (thoughts welcome).
  • Starting July 1, I’ll be focusing in as much time as I can on user docs for 5.8.

@mkaz:

  • Looking at Dev Notes for WP 5.8, the tracking issue is here.
  • The three major dev notes that I see left are:
    • Widgets Editor
    • Global Styles
    • Block APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. & registration
  • @gziolo already has a draft of the Block API note that I hope to review and publish this week. 
  • @andragan and @nosolosw are working on the other two: Widgets & Global Styles.

@get_dave:

@aristath:

  • WP 5.8 – working on improving styles & scripts loading and there are no blockers
  • We should stop using FSE as a term, and eliminate it from code whenever possible (see note above).

@zieladam:

  • I am getting back into the rhythm of contributing after my 6 months break (during which I explored data science in Tumblr).
  • Mostly going through the Widgets editor board and reviewing/submitting new PRs and refreshing my memory of how everything works.

Open Floor

Saving Flow Consistency (agenda comment)

  • @paaljoachim asking about saving flow consistency across various screens.
  • He’s made a detailed overview Issue and he feels “…it would be helpful to get this fixed for WP 5.8, so users who want to discard a save does not meet these errors.“
  • Is anyone able to take a look into this? Please let us know in the comments.

“Final call” for input on the transform vs convert debate for Block Transform API

Feedback about Block based Widgets screen

Note: this has subsequently been converted into an Issue and added to the Widgets project board.

Request for pull request approval: filters to get block templates functions

Problems testing Theme JSON for Classic Themes

  • @colorful-tones is eager to test leveraging just the theme.json for classic theme (or more like hybrid) approach.
  • Saw PR #32858, but not entirely certain how to test and verify. Should I be running latest Gutenberg plugin and latest WP Beta 3, or just latest Gutenberg? 
  • @annezazu provided advice:

@colorful-tones I might recommend asking directly on the PR to be extra safe. From what I can see to test this, you need to use WordPress 5.7 and the specific branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch". that this PR is on.

Anne McCarthy

WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Japan Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. successes

No blocks in inserter on Widget screen with empty Widget area

Wrap up

It was great to hear/see so many voices in the Open Floor section.

Thanks to everyone who attended.

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #meeting-notes, #summary

Jorge Costa 3:12 pm on June 21, 2021
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Editor chat summary: Wednesday, 16 June 2021

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 16 June 2021, 14:00 UTC held in Slack.

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/ 10.8 release.

The first topic was the Gutenberg 10.8 release. The release was already shipped a week before the chat https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/06/10/whats-new-in-gutenberg-10-8-9-june/.

@jorgefilipecosta referred the main features of the 10.8 release (more 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. design tools and template editor enhancements) and added the Gutenberg 10.9 RC was going to be released soon.

@mamaduka will handle the 10.9 release, with @get_dave in the “shadow” and @youknowriad coordinating. Thank you all!

Monthly Plan and key project updates.

Mobile

  • Shipped:
    • Reusable blocks rendering and converting to normal blocks.
  • Soon:
    • RN upgrade to 0.64.x – Merge is very close
  • In progress
    • Gallery Block Refactor – Almost done
    • Editor Onboarding
    • Global Style Support – Colors
    • Adding search to the block inserter
    • Embed block
    • iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. share extension

Global Styles

The shape of the typography block.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. supports was updated to be consistent with the colors and theme.json shape. The data structures used internally were updated to keep track of each preset origin this open path to show multiple palettes e.g: theme and use for example.

Navigation block

The navigation block is still on deck and is getting home link improvements, invalidinvalid A resolution on the bug tracker (and generally common in software development, sometimes also notabug) that indicates the ticket is not a bug, is a support request, or is generally invalid. item flagging, and hopefully soon separate overlay colors. The big nav markup also remains on the to-do list.

Navigation editor

  • Exploring methods to provide a better way to disable/enable nav block features for the nav editor. Watch for incoming Issue on this soon!
  • Exploring creation of a reordering endpoint extension for the Menus APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. endpoint.
  • Looking into converting the persistence to utilise the REST bulk API.

Feel free to join to chat for this feature over at #feature-navigation-block-editor.

Block based WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Editor

The bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. fixing work is in progress, every week a big set of issues is solved.

Task Coordination

@aristath

This week’s highlights:

  • Needs discussion/opinions/Review: Working on allowing more than 1 block-styles per-block (#32510). Will help with blocks that need to load styles from other blocks (example: comment-form loads button styles) and will also allow pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party & theme-authors to style individual blocks more efficiently.
  • Needs review: Allow decimals in spacing controls when using units like em, rem etc – #32692
  • Merged: Did for theme.css the same we did for style.css a few months ago to increase performance and load styles when a block gets rendered on the front (#31239)
  • Merged: Fixed a performance issue with the latest-posts block when there are many users in the database (#32620)
  • Backported commits from Gutenberg to wp-coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.
  • Lots of PR reviews

Next week: Continue working on performance improvements, styles & scripts loading, PR reviews, and any bugs that come my way

@getdave

  • Finally merged the addition of rich previews when previewing external URLs in the link UIUI User interface (rich text only at the moment). https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/31464
  • Helping out with Widgets screen bug fixes.
  • Continued to beaver away on the Navigatoin Editor foundational issues.

@paaljoachim

Is focusing on fixing Reusable block features.
At the moment focusing on adding a lock to the toolbar. A PR has been created here that could use some feedback: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/32710.

@mamaduka

  • Fixed “cover block exists” check for Image Block.
  • Worked on logic to hide settings from the “Options” menu in Widget editor on small screens.
  • Helping with new Widget Screen issues.
  • Helping with PR reviews.

@jorgefilipecosta

During the last week the main focus was the theme.json/global styles changes. For the next week: will help ship the theme.json dev notedev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include: a description of the change; the decision that led to this change a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase.; Review PR’s that are pending review; Fix some bugs where he was pinged, and plans on restarting the work to advance the global styles UI. Will also help to ship the new enhancements to our locking API.

@andraganescu

Is focused on advancing the text based tasks around the widgets project (docs, dev note etc).

Open floor

Transforms vs convert API

@get_dave brought the following topic:

I’ve followed up on the `transform` vs `convert` API discussion with x2 options/suggestions for how we could come to a decision.

It’s not a huge problem, but it would be nice to see us unify around a single API for this action. Indeed `convert` has been “experimental” for over 2 years.

I believe this needs guidance from the Core team.

Adding that there are two options:

  1. Deprecate transform in favour of convert
  2. Augment the argument signature of transform and ditch convert.

On the issue @talldanwp referred that he is in favor of deprecating transform in favor of convert. During the chat and then in a comment in the issue @youknowriad said @talldanwp thoughts sound reasonable.

Dot in the Publish/Update button

@bobbingwide asked:

What happened to the dot in the Publish/Update button?
It’s still there when I edit a reusable block. https://sneak-peek.me/2021/06/16/what-does-the-dot-next-to-update-mean/

@jorgefilipecosta said the best path forward would be to have an issue where this issue could be discussed. @paaljoachim created the issue.

Click through vs lock for some blocks

@paaljoachim said:

I think we need a way to figure out if a block should have a click through or/and also a lock. Reusable block could really use a lock similar to the edit button in WP 5.6.

@joen said:

I worry that a lock icon and toolbar action will not be an obvious affordance for editing the contents, or help indicate why this block is any different from the surrounding blocks which you can click and edit. I think some of Jays designs from the previous ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. have potential.

This is a UXUX User experience decision and the discussion will continue on the issues and related PR’s.

#block-editor, #chats, #core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #gutenberg, #meeting-notes-2

Ajit Bohra 11:23 am on June 14, 2021
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Editor chat summary: Thursday, 10 June 2021

Moved to Thursday 10th June because of WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. EU.

This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting (agenda, slack transcript), held in the #core-editor 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, on Wednesday, June 10, 2021, 14:00 UTC.

Thank you to all of the contributors who tested the BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. releases and gave feedback. Testing for bugs is a critical part of polishing every release and a great way to contribute to WordPress.

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/ 10.7 final

Gutenberg 10.7  will be the final release to be included in WordPress 5.8

WordPress 5.8

Tracking Board for WordPress 5.8 Must-Haves

WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Editor Call For Testing

Call for testing the new 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.-based Widgets Editor. Please report your findings on GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ in the Gutenberg repository

Monthly Plan

The monthly update containing the high-level items that Gutenberg contributors are focusing on for June are:

  • Global Styles.
  • Block-based Widget Editor.
  • Navigation block.
  • Full Site Editing.

For detailed plan check out monthly priorities post.

Updates on the key projects

@nosolosw

Global styles and settings

  • Ported to WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and will be part of the WordPress 5.8.
  • Focus now is on polishing and fixing bugs.
  • Following settings & styles are still experimental and only work with the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party:
    • border
    • font-family
    • font-style
    • font-weight
    • text-decoration
    • text-transform

More details and update

@annezazu

Block-Based Widget Editor

  • For widgets, it’s still expected to be opt-out by default via three pathways listed at the end of this post.
  • The team is focused on resolving bugs and triaging reports.
  • In case of big incompatibility issues arise in beta, the plan is to change the screen to opt-in via the theme before 5.8 RC1.
  • It is still a huge help to test as much as you can as this is a big part of wp-adminadmin (and super admin) that’s changing.

Navigation Block

  • It is not likely to be included in 5.8 and efforts have decreased there as a result.
  • For now, folks are still working to resolve the major markup issue and finding a way forward there.

Full Site Editing

  • The focus is mainly on refining various blocks.
  • Currently, bugs are also being resolved around template editing mode. If you’re able to help out, highly recommend helping with the current FSE Outreach Program call for testing and reviewing the upcoming schedule so you can make time to help in the future.
  • If you’re a theme author, any help testing and exploring theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. would be hugely helpful too 
  • As it stands though, keep in mind that “Block-Based Themes do not work in 5.8 directly as-is read the full conversation.

@ntsekouras

Query Block

  • Query LoopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. block renamed to Post Template and Query label changed to Query Loop.
  • Post blocks are now uneditable when inside the Query Loop block.

@mattchowning

Mobile

  • Audio block and floating toolbar fixes.
  • Integration tests for reusable blocks.
  • In Progress: Editor onboarding, Block picker search, Embeds block.
  • ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. Native 0.64.x upgrade coming soon, including the upgrade to React v17.

Task Coordination

Note: Anyone reading this summary outside of the meeting, please drop a comment in the post summary, if you can/want to help with something.

@mikeschroder

  • Updated tests in PR that add the ability to choose the number of tags in the Tag Cloud block.
  • Added PR for making CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. valid for inline images with empty width.

Looking for things to work on that would help with 5.8.

@mamduka

  • Fixed the issue when the user got locked in saving state if the metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. box saving request failed with a 5xx error.
  • Trying to help with remaining Widget Editor issues in the Project board.

@paaljoachim

  • Want to hight light this issue:
    Reusable block: Add a lock to the parent toolbar to protect the inner content from accidental editing.
    It contains similar functionality as to how the edit button worked in Reusable blocks in WP 5.6. An important feature to get back into Reusable blocks. (Btw the fix will likely get backported to WP 5.7.x)

@annezazu

Open Floor

@janwoostendorp

Highlighted https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/31806/ for code review and feedback.

@mkaz

  • In the Docs meeting today, we brought up the suggestion for all teams to create a new docs ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. for any user-facing features that need documentation. One of the hardest parts of creating the user docs is just knowing what is new and/or changing.
  • For examples of what we try to document for user-facing docs see the Block Editor and Blocks documentation.

@desaiuditd

@mamaduka

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Paal Joachim Romdahl 2:21 pm on May 25, 2021
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Editor chat summary: 19 May, 2021

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on Wednesday, May 19, 2021, 04:00 PM GMT+1 in Slack. Moderated by @paaljoachim.

WordPress 5.8

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/ 10.7 is the last pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party version to be included into WordPress 5.8.
Project board.

@youknowriad who is the technical lead for 5.8 gave this reminder on Tuesday on 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/..
“Reminder: It’s feature freeze day (19 May) in Gutenberg, in general that means one of the most stressful days in our release lifecycles. I’ll be milestoning the PRs that I ideally should make it in the RC with “Gutenberg 10.7″ to ensure we all help review and move these forward. All of these might not make it but that will allow us to know where to prioritize our time for today.”

Gutenberg 10.7 RC

The release candidate of Gutenberg 10.7.0 can be downloaded here.

Gutenberg 10.6

@vdwijngaert  took charge of releasing Gutenberg plugin 10.6! His very first release of the Gutenberg plugin. Koen also wrote the “What’s new in Gutenberg 10.6?” Make coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. post.

Widgets editor in WordPress 5.8.

A call for testing of the new widgets editor.

Monthly Priorities

May monthly priorities. Along with Key Project updates.

Global Style

Update from @nosolosw

  • The focus getting tasks ready for Gutenberg 10.7. Most have been landed.
    Will start the merge process in core (got an initial PR for this).
  • Shipped this week. 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. supports: margin, duotone, font-family, layout, typography and link color.
    Settings: REST Request for mobile.
  • Ongoing. Block supports: typography, border, add letter-spacing and migrate more blocks to the hooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same. system.
    Theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML.. Show both core & theme colors. Link color not to use CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Custom Property. Core merge. Add settings for all editors.
  • Priorities. Merge process for theme.json APIS in core.

Check out the Github comment for additional details.

Block based WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Editor

Update from @andraganescu

  • The widgets block editor has had a good number of fixes and missing features merged for the Gutenberg 10.7 release. Soon a core patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. for the Widget Editor feature will be worked on.

Navigation Block

Update from @joen and @andraganescu.

Full Site Editing

Mobile

Update from @mattchowning

  • Block picker search almost done, progress on embeds block, ready to ship first iteration of reusable blocks, working hard to finish up ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. Native upgrade.

Refactored gallery block

Update from @glendaviesnz
Regarding incorporating the new Gallery block into Gutenberg plugin 10.7 and WordPress 5.8.
We are waiting on two things in order to be able to make a decision on this:

  • The mobile/native code needs to be brought into line, and there have been some issues to resolve with this in terms of backwards compatibility with old versions of the app. Hopefully by next week we will have a better understanding of the timelines around getting this work finished.
  • We are exploring options for providing backwards compatibility in terms of plugin /theme support with the move from an unordered list format. Hopefully we can get some decisions on this by next week as well.

Task Coordination

@annezazu

@copons

Open Floor

Feedback needed

A comment from @zebulan
Improving the Table of Contents block so it can be re-enabled (it was disabled shortly after merge due to implementation concerns). Following PR needs feedback: ToC block: use static markup and only support core Heading and Page Break blocks.

Adding action hooks into FSE

Question from @bobbingwide
How easy will it be to get some do_action() hooks into FSE template and template part logic, to aid problem determination?
@bernhard-reiter
I have started work on backporting the template resolution logic to Core (currently collecting notes at https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/53176). Did you have any specific hooks you wanted added?
@bobbingwide
Yes. Two new ones which I have currently called rendering_template and ‘rendering_template_part.
Add debug divs to templates with appropriate CSS

Regarding Theme.json

Comment from @bobbingwide
Documentation shows JSON with // comments. People are copy and pasting verbatim and it’s not working. But there’s nothing visual to say theme.json is broken. Just an entry in debug.log
1- Can the documentation be changed?
@nosolosw Added this PR: Make the theme.json examples copy-pasteable. (PR has been merged.)
2- Can the parsing failure be surfaced?
@mcsf
Removing comments from the docs is something we should fix asap. In the future, I expect us to have a semi-official tool for building and validating theme.json files, which would answer the question of parsing failures.

Documentation for block themes

Comment from @daisyo
I have started an issue here to discuss documentation for block themes.
Needs feedback. Discussion: Block Theme Developer Documentation.

Expanding the link control with hooks

Comment from @bula
It would be very beneficial to give developers a hook to extend it.
Is it possible that the link popover could be extended with a block hook?
Link Control: Add more controls.

Regarding failing e2e tests.

Comment from @jffng
Is the recommended process to rebase until the checks pass? Or when is it “safe to merge”?
@aristath
All tests are halted on new PRs, so rebasing etc won’t make a difference… We’ll need to wait for GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ to resolve its issues.

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