It is not always a vertical column on the side. This can come in handy when you need to define the typography settings for a whole section, like a sidebar Sidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. Typography was added to the Group/Row blocks. This allows you to have even more options to customize the layout to your liking. This new gap setting is also available in the Row variation (added in Gutenberg 11.5), except that the gap is added horizontally instead of vertically.

The Group block can now use the new Gap support, which adds the ability to choose the distance between the children items of the block. Group block: gap support & typography support Spacer block: custom unitsĬustom units can now be used to configure the Spacer block: More controls to customizeīlocks keep getting more powerful and this release is no exception. However, work on the Comments Query Loop blocks has not finished yet: more improvements are in the works. With the release of these two blocks, we conclude all the planned inner blocks for the Comments Query Loop. They display links to navigate the comments forward and backward when not all of the comments are shown on the current page. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. 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.

They are the counterparts of the Next Page, and Previous Page blocks of the Query Loop, but built for the Comments Query Loop Loop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Comments pagination: Next and Previous blocksĬontinuing with the work that has been done on the Comments Query Loop blocks in previous Gutenberg releases, the Comments Next Page and Comments Previous Page blocks have been released. It’s usually a square box that appears next to the user’s name. More atomic author-related blocks will follow in the future, like Author Avatar Avatar An avatar is an image or illustration that specifically refers to a character that represents an online user. This means you will have extra options to customize the author name to your liking. 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.Īs part of an effort to split the Post Author block into separate blocks to allow for even more layout options, the Author Name block has been released. Author Name block Block 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. We have three brand new blocks at our disposal.

Restrict Navigation Menu creation for non-admin users.

Set your site icon using the Site Logo block.

Group block: gap support & typography support.

Comments pagination: Next and Previous blocks.

However, it still has many important contributions, which is an excellent reminder of WordPress’ contributor diversity. This release contains fewer contributions than usual due to the holiday season that took place in some parts of the world in the last two weeks. Gutenberg 12.3 has just been released and is available to download, making it the first Gutenberg release of 2022! As a reminder, here’s an overview of different ways to keep up with Gutenberg and the Full Site Editing project. …” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag ) are published following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, discovering new features included in each release. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc.

The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. “What’s new in Gutenberg Gutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress.

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