Changelog

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.