WordPress Gutenberg 13.8 Offers Greater Editing Flexibility

WordPress Gutenberg 13.8 is right here, unpacking additional incremental enhancements to the Gutenberg block editor.

Some of the enhancements are comparatively trivial additions, like including a WhatsApp icon to the Social Icon Block.

But others are extra necessary as a result of they provide template designers the flexibility to offer extra design choices for his or her customers.

Chief amongst these is a brand new function that makes it simpler to see template components and to insert them from the block inserter.

This possibility is aimed toward template designers who can now make it simpler for customers to decide on variations.

According to WordPress:

“Gutenberg 13.8 introduces enhancements for individuals who leverage variations and patterns to offer flexibility for his or her customers.

The particular template half variations are actually out there within the block inserter, making it simple so as to add “Header”, “Footer,” or “Newsletter Subscription” template components to your web site.”

New Template Search Component

Another helpful replace is the addition of search performance that makes it simpler to find and use particular template components.

The performance is described as:

“Adds a brand new search performance to the template components alternative modal.

…It makes it simpler to search out particular template components.”

Border Block Support for Color, Width, and Style

The Image block now helps the total vary of border controls, together with Color, Style, and Width.

Testing of the brand new function went nicely, with one contributor commenting:

“Great work getting this to the end line @aaronrobertshaw! Tested with a number of totally different block and basic themes, and all working properly

Crop instruments are working properly within the editor with and with no customized border

Custom border shade is working properly within the editor and web site editor

Image border in world types works nicely”

Video of New Border Block Control

Improvements to Accessibility

Gutenberg 13.8 ships with cumulative enhancements to accessibility.

Fixes included including tooltips and fixing a mismatch between the seen textual content and the aria-label of the Toggle block inserter button.

These are a few of the enhancements:

BorderControl: Update labelling, tooltips and wrap with fieldset and legend.

Add aria-hidden to question pagination arrows.

Fix labelling and semantics of the paragraph block Left to proper management.

Fix mismatching label and visual textual content on the Toggle block inserter button.

Fix the outline textual content of block movers for horizontal motion.

Replace clickable div components with buttons within the Add template modal.

Improvements to the Code

One enchancment that’ll be welcome to SEOs is the elimination of React fragments from the Block Library.

It’s not a dramatic enchancment. But modifications in the correct course are at all times welcome with regards to code measurement, even one thing as small as this.

Incremental Change Continues

WordPress Gutenberg 13.8 continues to evolve with incremental enhancements, which is the hallmark of most updates to WordPress and the Gutenberg full web site editor.