Gutenberg 13.7 Expands Custom Template Capabilities, Adds Estimated Reading Time to Info Panel – WP Tavern

Gutenberg 13.7 was launched this week with main updates to full-site modifying (FSE) capabilities that expand custom template creation. Customers can now create templates for customized taxonomies, particular phrases, and single classes and tags. The replace additionally consists of the power to create templates for particular pages.

Clicking on “Add New” template and choosing Class will launch a brand new modal the place customers can choose a particular class:

In a separate writeup concerning the expanded customized template capabilities, Automattic-sponsored contributor Justin Tadlock gave a walkthrough of the template creation course of and summarized the continued work on this arm of FSE options.

“There are tons of use instances for some of these templates, solely restricted by what their creators need to construct,” Tadlock stated. “For instance, a consumer may need to present a grid of posts for a particular ‘pictures’ class however not change the default checklist type for others. A restaurant proprietor may take away the positioning’s default sidebar on the ‘menu’ web page to let photographs of the dishes take middle stage.”

All of those additions put extra management of the CMS into customers’ fingers than they’ve ever had within the earlier days of WordPress. Making a customized template for a taxonomy or for a particular web page would have been a activity for which most customers would have wanted to rent a developer. Now anybody can create customized templates with only a few clicks contained in the Website Editor.

Class customization can be the topic of the latest round of the FSE Program’s testing, closing on August 1. The check focuses on guiding customers via exploration of the overall Class template and the brand new template picker design launched in Gutenberg 13.6. Every testing name comes with a structured strategy to discover beta options together with particular inquiries to reply in the course of the course of. It’s primarily a guided strategy to contribute to WordPress that permits folks of all talents to form the consumer expertise with their suggestions.

Gutenberg 13.7 additionally introduces a brand new “Time to read” depend that customers will discover within the data panel on the high of the editor. It estimates the time to learn for pages, posts, and customized publish varieties.

Gutenberg’s block locking characteristic already affords fairly a little bit of granular management, however this launch expands these capabilities to permit for locking all of the blocks inside a container (Group, Cowl, and Column blocks) with one click on.

Different notable enhancements in 13.7 embrace the next:

• Updates modal design for Preferences display and different screens to scale back noise, add background blur, and make design extra constant – PR #40781
• Provides “Use featured picture” to Add and Media Library choices within the placeholder for a brand new Cowl block – PR #41722
• Provides textual content ornament help to publish title block – PR #42328

This launch consists of 167 PRs because of contributions from 58 folks. For a full breakdown of all of the adjustments and bug fixes, take a look at the total changelog within the release post.