Changelog

1.1.0

• Add blocks “slash” autocomplete—shortcut to continue adding new block without leaving the keyboard.
• Add ability to remove an image from a gallery from within the block (selecting image).
• Add option to open a created link in a new window.
• Support and bootstrap server-registered block attribute schemas.
• Improve accessibility of add-new-category form.
• Documentation gets an updated design and content improvements.
• Adjust column width calculation in gallery block to properly respect column count.
• Move pending review control together with sticky toggle at the bottom.
• Add caption styling for video block.
• Allow removing a “classic text” block with backspaces.
• Allow Button block to show placeholder text.
• Drop the deprecated button-secondary class name.
• Fix link dialog not showing in Safari when caret is in the middle of the word.
• Fix adding new categories and position newly added term at the top.
• Fix the resetting of drop-zone states after dropping a file.
• Fix embed saving “undefined” text when URL is not set.
• Fix placeholder styling on Text when background color is set.
• Update Composer + PHPCS.
• Rename default block handlers.
• Update code syntax tabs in docutron.
• Link to plugin download and github repo from docutron.
• Added block API document.
• Add “Edit and Save” document.

1.0.0

• Restored keyboard navigation with more robust implementation, addressing previous browser issues.
• Added drag and drop for media with pointer to create new blocks.
• Merged paragraph and cover text blocks (includes the colors and font size options).
• Reworked color palette picker with a “clear” and a “custom color” option.
• Further improvements to inline pasting and fixing errant empty blocks.
• Added thumbnail size selector to image blocks.
• Added support for url input and align and edit buttons to audio block.
• Persist the state of the sidebar across page refresh.
• Persist state of sidebar panels on page refresh.
• Persist editor mode on page refresh.
• New withAPIData higher-order component for making it easier to manage data needs.
• Preserve unknown block and remove “freeform” comment delimiters (unrecognized HTML is handled without comment delimiters).
• Show “add new term” in hierarchical taxonomies (including categories).
• Show tooltip only after mouseover delay.
• Show post formats only if the post type supports them.
• Added align and edit buttons to video block.
• Preload data in withApiData to improve perceived performance.
• Improve accessibility of sidebar modes.
• Allow changing cover-image settings before uploading an image.
• Improve validation leniency around non-meaningful differences.
• Take into account capabilities for publishing action.
• Update author selector to show only users capable of authoring posts.
• Normalize pasted blockquote contents.
• Refactored featured image, page attributes to use withApiData
• Added a fix to avoid cloning nodes by passing pasted HTML string.
• Added a fix to avoid re-encoding on encoded posts.
• Fixed resetting the focus config when block already selected.
• Allowing adding of plain text after insert link at the end of a paragraph.
• Update to latest TinyMCE version.
• Show only users capable of authoring posts.
• Add submit for review to publish for contributor.
• Delete or backspace in an empty “classic text” block now removes it.
• Check for type in block transformations logic.
• Fixed drop-down menu issue on classic text.
• Added filter to allow post types to disable “edit in gutenberg” links.
• Made UrlInput and UrlInputButton available as reusable components.
• Use wordpress/a11y package instead of global.
• Added npm5 package-lock.
• We welcome all your feedback and contributions on the project repository, or ping us in #core-editor. Follow the “gutenberg” tag for past updates.

0.9.0

• Added ability to change font-size in cover text using slider and number input.
• Added support for custom anchors (ids) on blocks, allowing to link directly to a section of the post.
• Updated pull-quote design.
• Created custom color palette component with “clear” option and “custom color” option. (And better markup and accessibility.)
• Improve pasting: recognizing more elements, adding tests, stripping non-semantic markup, etc.
• Improve gallery visual design and fix cropping in Safari.
• Allow selecting a heading block from the table-of-contents panel directly.
• Make toolbar slide horizontally for mobile.
• Improve range-input control with a number input.
• Fix pasting problems (handling of block attributes).
• More stripping of unhandled elements during paste.
• Show post format selector only for posts.
• Display nicer URLs when editing links.
• More compact save indicator.
• Disabled arrow key navigation between blocks as we refine implementation.
• Removed blank target from “view post” in notices.
• Fix empty links still rendering ont he front-end.
• Fix shadow on inline toolbars.
• Fix problem with inserting pull-quotes.
• Fix drag and drop on image block.
• Removed warning when publishing.
• Don’t provide version for vendor scripts.
• Clean category code in block registration.
• Added history and resources docs.

0.8.0

• New Categories Block (based on existing widget).
• New Text Columns Block (initial exploration of text-only multiple columns).
• New Video Block.
• New Shortcode Block.
• New Audio Block.
• Added resizing handlers to Image Block.
• Added direct image upload button to Image Block and Gallery Block.
• Give option to transform a block to Classic when it encounters problems.
• Give option to Overwrite changes on a block detected as invalid.
• Added “link to” option in galleries.
• Added support for custom taxonomies.
• Added post formats selector to post settings.
• Added keywords support (aliases) to various blocks to improve search discovery.
• Significant improvements to the way attributes are specified in the Block API and its clarity (handles defaults and types).
• Added Tooltip component displaying aria-labels from buttons.
• Removed stats tracking code.
• Updated design document.
• Capture and recover from block rendering runtime errors.
• Handle enter when focusing on outer boundary of a block.
• Reduce galleries json attributes data to a minimum.
• Added caption styles to the front-end for images and embeds.
• Added missing front-end alignment classes for table and cover-text blocks.
• Only reset blocks on initial load to prevent state fluctuations.
• Improve calculation of dirty state by making a diff against saved post.
• Improve visual weight of toolbar by reducing its silhouette.
• Improve rendering of galleries on the front-end.
• Improve Cover Image placeholder visual presentation.
• Improve front-end display of quotes.
• Improve responsive design of galleries on the front-end.
• Allow previewing new posts that are yet to be saved.
• Reset scrolling position within inserter when switching tabs.
• Refactor popover to render at root of document.
• Refactor withFocusReturn to handle accessibility better in more contexts.
• Prevent overlap between multi-selection and within-block selection.
• Clear save notices when triggering a new save.
• Disable “preview” button if post is not saveable.
• Renamed blocks.query to blocks.source for clarity and updated documentation.
• Rearrange block stylesheets to reflect display and editor styles.
• Use @wordpress dependencies consistently.
• Added validation checks for specifying a block’s category.
• Fix problems with quote initialization and list transformation.
• Fix issue where Cover Image was being considered invalid after edits.
• Fix errors in editable coming from Table block commands.
• Fix error in latest posts block when date is not set for a post.
• Fix issue with active color in ColorPalette component.
• Prevent class=false serialization issue in covert-text.
• Treat range control value as numeric.
• Added warning when using Editable and passing non-array values.
• Show block switcher above link input.
• Updated rememo dependency.
• Start consuming from separate @wordpress dependencies.
• Fix problem with inserting new galleries.
• Fix issue with embeds and missing captions.
• Added outreach section to docs.

0.7.1

• Address problem with the freeform block and Jetpack’s contact form.

0.7.0

• Hide placeholders on focus—reduces visual distractions while writing.
• Add PostAuthor dropdown to the UI.
• Add theme support for customized color palettes and a shared component (applies to cover text and button blocks).
• Add theme support for wide images.
• Report on missing headings in the document outline feature.
• Update block validation to make it less prone to over-eagerness with trivial changes (like whitespace and new lines).
• Attempt to create an embed block automatically when pasting URL on a single line.
• Save post before previewing.
• Improve operations with “lists”, enter on empty item creates new paragraph block, handling backspace, etc.
• Don’t serialize attributes that match default attributes.
• Order link suggestions by relevance.
• Order embeds for easier discoverability.
• Added “keywords” property for searching blocks with aliases.
• Added responsive styles for Table block in the front end.
• Set default list type to be unordered list.
• Improve accessibility of UrlInput component.
• Improve accessibility and keyboard interaction of DropdownMenu.
• Improve Popover component and use for PostVisibility.
• Added higher order component for managing spoken messages.
• Localize schema for WP API, avoiding initialization delay if schema is present.
• Do not expose editor.settings to block authors.
• Do not remove tables on pasting.
• Consolidate block server-side files with client ones in the same directory.
• Removed array of paragraphs structure from text block.
• Trim whitespace when searching for blocks.
• Document, test, and refactor DropdownMenu component.
• Use separate mousetrap instance per component instance.
• Add npm organization scope to WordPress dependencies.
• Expand utilities around fixture regeneration.
• Renamed “Text” to “Paragraph”.
• Fix multi-selection “delete” functionality.
• Fix text color inline style.
• Fix issue caused by changes with React build process.
• Fix splitting editable without child nodes.
• Use addQueryArgs in oEmbed proxy url.
• Update dashicons with new icons.
• Clarify enqueuing block assets functions.
• Added code coverage information to docs.
• Document how to create new docs.
• Add example of add_theme_support in docs.
• Added opt-in mechanism for learning what blocks are being added to the content.

0.6.0

• Split paragraphs on enter—we have been exploring different behaviours here.
• Added grid layout option for latest posts with columns slider control.
• Show internal posts / pages results when creating links.
• Added “Cover Text” block with background, text color, and full-width options.
• Autosaving drafts.
• Added “Read More” block.
• Added color options to the button block.
• Added mechanism for validating and protecting blocks that may have suffered unrecognized edits.
• Add patterns plugin for text formatting shortcuts: create lists by adding * at the beginning of a text line, use # to create headings, and backticks for code.
• Implement initial support for Cmd/Ctrl+Z (undo) and Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Z (redo).
• Improve pasting experience from outside editors by transforming content before converting to blocks.
• Improve gallery creation flow by opening into “gallery” mode from placeholder.
• Added page attributes with menu order setting.
• Use two distinct icons for quote style variations.
• Created KeyboardShortcuts component to handle keyboard events.
• Add support for custom icons (non dashicons) on blocks.
• Initialize new posts with auto-draft to match behaviour of existing editor.
• Don’t display “save” button for published posts.
• Added ability to set a block as “use once” only (example: “read more” block).
• Hide gallery display settings in media modal.
• Simplify “cover image” markup and resolve conflict state in demo.
• Introduce PHP classes for interacting with block types.
• Announce block search results to assistive technologies.
• Reveal “continue writing” shortcuts on focus.
• Update document.title when the post title changes.
• Added focus styles to several elements in the UI.
• Added external-link component to handle links opening in new tabs or windows.
• Improve responsive video on embed previews.
• Improve “speak” messages for tag suggestions.
• Make sure newly created blocks are marked as valid.
• Preserve valid state during transformations.
• Allow tabbing away from table.
• Improve display of focused panel titles.
• Adjust padding and margins across various design elements for consistency and normalization.
• Fix pasting freeform content.
• Fix proper propagation of updated block attributes.
• Fix parsing and serialization of multi-paragraph pullquotes.
• Fix a case where toggling pending preview would consider post as saved.
• Fix positioning of block mover on full-width blocks.
• Fix line height regression in quote styles.
• Fix IE11 with polyfill for fetch method.
• Fix case where blocks are created with isTyping and it never clears.
• Fix block warning display in IE11.
• Polish inspector visual design.
• Prevent unhandled actions from returning new state reference.
• Prevent unintentionally clearing link input value.
• Added focus styles to switch toggle components.
• Avoid navigating outside the editor with arrow keys.
• Add short description to Verse block.
• Initialize demo content only for new demo posts.
• Improve insert link accessibility.
• Improve version compare checks for plugin compatibility.
• Clean up obsolete poststoshowattribute in LatestPosts block.
• Consolidate addQueryArgs usage.
• Add unit tests to inserter.
• Update fixtures with latest modifications and ensure all end in newlines.
• Added codecov for code coverage.
• Clean up JSDoc comments.
• Link to new docs within main readme.

0.5.0

• New tabs mode for the sidebar to switch between post settings and block inspector.
• Implement recent blocks display.
• Mobile implementation of block mover, settings, and delete actions.
• Search through all tabs on the inserter and hide tabs.
• New documentation app to serve all tutorials, faqs, docs, etc.
• Enable ability to add custom classes to blocks (via inspector).
• Add ability to drag-and-drop on image block placeholders to upload images.
• Add “table of contents” document outline for headings (with empty heading validation).
• Refactor tests to use Jest API.
• New block: Verse (intended for poetry, respecting whitespace).
• Avoid showing UI when typing and starting a new paragraph (text block).
• Display warning message when navigating away from the editor with unsaved changes.
• Use old editor as “freeform”.
• Improve PHP parser compatibility with different server configurations (“mbstring” extension and PCRE settings).
• Improve PostVisibility markup and accessibility.
• Add shortcuts to manage indents and levels in List block.
• Add alignment options to latest posts block.
• Add focus styles for quick tags buttons in text mode.
• Add way to report PHP parsing performance.
• Add labels and roles to UrlInput.
• Add ability to set custom placeholders for text and headings as attributes.
• Show error message when trashing action fails.
• Pass content to dynamic block render functions in PHP.
• Fix various z-index issues and clarify reasonings.
• Fix DropdownMenu arrows navigation and add missing aria-label.
• Update sandboxed iframe size calculations.
• Export inspector controls component under wp.blocks.
• Adjust Travis JS builds to improve task allocation.
• Fix warnings during tests.
• Fix caret jumping when switching formatting in Editable.
• Explicitly define prop-types as dependency.
• Update list of supported browsers for consistency with core.

0.4.0

• Initial FAQ (in progress).
• API for handling pasted content. (Aim is to have specific handling for converting Word, Markdown, Google Docs to native WordPress blocks.)
• Added support for linking to a url on image blocks.
• Navigation between blocks using arrow keys.
• Added alternate Table block with TinyMCE functionality for adding/removing rows/cells, etc. Retired previous one.
• Parse more/noteaser comment tokens from core.
• Re-engineer the approach for rendering embed frames.
• First pass at adding aria-labels to blocks list.
• Setting up Jest for better testing environment.
• Improve performance of server-side parsing.
• Update blocks documentation with latest API functions and clearer examples.
• Use fixed position for notices.
• Make inline mode the default for Editable.
• Add actions for plugins to register frontend and editor assets.
• Supress gallery settings sidebar on media library when editing gallery.
• Validate save and edit render when registering a block.
• Prevent media library modal from opening when loading placeholders.
• Update to sidebar design and behaviour on mobile.
• Improve font-size in inserter and latest posts block.
• Improve rendering of button block in the front end.
• Add aria-label to edit image button.
• Add aria-label to embed input url input.
• Use pointer cursor for tabs in inserter.
• Update design docs with regard to selected/unselected states.
• Improve generation of wp-block-* classes for consistency.
• Select first cell of table block when initializing.
• Fix wide and full alignment on the front-end when images have no caption.
• Fix initial state of freeform block.
• Fix ability to navigate to resource on link viewer.
• Fix clearing floats on inserter.
• Fix loading of images in library.
• Fix auto-focusing on table block being too agressive.
• Clean double reference to pegjs in dependencies.
• Include messages to ease debugging parser.
• Check for exact match for serialized content in parser tests.
• Add allow-presentation to fix issue with sandboxed iframe in Chrome.
• Declare use of classnames module consistently.
• Add translation to embed title.
• Add missing text domains and adjust PHPCS to warn about them.
• Added template for creating new issues including mentions of version number.

0.3.0

• Added framework for notices and implemented publishing and saving ones.
• Implemented tabs on the inserter.
• Added text and image quick inserts next to inserter icon at the end of the post.
• Generate front-end styles for core blocks and enqueue them.
• Include generated block classname in edit environment.
• Added “edit image” button to image and cover image blocks.
• Added option to visually crop images in galleries for nicer alignment.
• Added option to disable dimming the background in cover images.
• Added buffer for multi-select flows.
• Added option to display date and to configure number of posts in LatestPosts block.
• Added PHP parser based on PEG.js to unify grammars.
• Split block styles for display so they can be loaded on the theme.
• Auto-focusing for inserter search field.
• Added text formatting to CoverImage block.
• Added toggle option for fixed background in CoverImage.
• Switched to store attributes in unescaped JSON format within the comments.
• Added placeholder for all text blocks.
• Added placeholder text for headings, quotes, etc.
• Added BlockDescription component and applied it to several blocks.
• Implemented sandboxing iframe for embeds.
• Include alignment classes on embeds with wrappers.
• Changed the block name declaration for embeds to be “core-embed/name-of-embed”.
• Simplified and made more robust the rendering of embeds.
• Different fixes for quote blocks (parsing and transformations).
• Improve display of text within cover image.
• Fixed placeholder positioning in several blocks.
• Fixed parsing of HTML block.
• Fixed toolbar calculations on blocks without toolbars.
• Added heading alignments and levels to inspector.
• Added sticky post setting and toggle.
• Added focus styles to inserter search.
• Add design blueprints and principles to the storybook.
• Enhance FormTokenField with accessibility improvements.
• Load word-count module.
• Updated icons for trash button, and Custom HTML.
• Design tweaks for inserter, placeholders, and responsiveness.
• Improvements to sidebar headings and gallery margins.
• Allow deleting selected blocks with “delete” key.
• Return more than 10 categories/tags in post settings.
• Accessibility improvements with FormToggle.
• Fix media button in gallery placeholder.
• Fix sidebar breadcrumb.
• Fix for block-mover when blocks are floated.
• Fixed inserting Freeform block (now classic text).
• Fixed missing keys on inserter.
• Updated drop-cap class implementation.
• Showcasing full-width cover image in demo content.
• Copy fixes on demo content.
• Hide meta-boxes icons for screen readers.
• Handle null values in link attributes.

0.2.0

• Include “paste” as default plugin in Editable.
• Extract block alignment controls as a reusable component.
• Added button to delete a block.
• Added button to open block settings in the inspector.
• New block: Custom HTML (to write your own HTML and preview it).
• New block: Cover Image (with text over image support).
• Rename “Freeform” block to “Classic Text”.
• Added support for pages and custom post types.
• Improve display of “saving” label while saving.
• Drop usage of controls property in favor of components in render.
• Add ability to select all blocks with ctrl/command+A.
• Automatically generate wrapper class for styling blocks.
• Avoid triggering multi-select on right click.
• Improve target of post previewing.
• Use imports instead of accessing the wp global.
• Add block alignment and proper placeholders to pullquote block.
• Wait for wp.api before loading the editor. (Interim solution.)
• Adding several reusable inspector controls.
• Design improvements to floats, switcher, and headings.
• Add width classes on figure wrapper when using captions in images.
• Add image alt attributes.
• Added html generation for photo type embeds.
• Make sure plugin is run on WP 4.8.
• Update revisions button to only show when there are revisions.
• Parsing fixes on do_blocks.
• Avoid being keyboard trapped on editor content.
• Don’t show block toolbars when pressing modifier keys.
• Fix overlapping controls in Button block.
• Fix post-title line height.
• Fix parsing void blocks.
• Fix splitting inline Editable instances with shift+enter.
• Fix transformation between text and list, and quote and list.
• Fix saving new posts by making post-type mandatory.
• Render popovers above all elements.
• Improvements to block deletion using backspace.
• Changing the way block outlines are rendered on hover.
• Updated PHP parser to handle shorthand block syntax, and fix newlines.
• Ability to cancel adding a link from link menu.

0.1.0

• First release of the plugin.