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Category: Gutenberg

  • Zooming in and out of style management in WordPress

    As you may know, the “Global Styles” feature is coming to WordPress, and will enable users to control a variety of visual design options from their Dashboard. I’ve been exploring what folks might see if they were to access this feature from the Appearance menu. It’s a tricky problem to solve because users need intuitive…

  • Modes in the site editor

    Site editor tasks typically vary from post editor tasks. Instead of the freeform writing that occurs when one is drafting a post, it more likely to find yourself traversing different areas and different layers of the document when making adjustments to a template. Over the last few weeks we’ve been experimenting with ways to make…

  • Configuring home page settings in the editor

    Today I shared an exploration on how we might enable users to configure the home / posts page settings while editing a page. It was a long one, so for the full details I refer you to the comment on github. In short, the complexities associated with these simple-looking settings are quite vast. The home…

  • Zooming in and out of templates

    In recent design work around site editing concepts such as isolated template part editing and the template mosaic view this idea of exposing the surface behind the canvas has come up: It’s a simple but powerful idea that enables us to build on this concept of zooming in and out of different editor views. Here’s an exploration…

  • Exploring ways to improve the clarity of block states on the canvas and the list view

    Once we made the the block “List View” in the Site Editor is persistent, some awkward interactions between block states between canvas / list view revealed themselves. The full details of this issue can be found in this issue on github. Here’s an initial take on how we might bring the design treatment of these…