Gutenberg 14.2 Improves Writing Flow, Adds Kerning Controls for Headings in Global Styles – WP Tavern

Gutenberg 14.2 brings some necessary adjustments to the writing circulate within the block editor that simplify the expertise and take away pointless obtrusions.

One small however vital change is that the sibling and line inserters have been updated to make use of a extra pure animation impact with a barely elevated delay to reduce unintended triggers. This launch additionally improves collection of a number of blocks, making it smoother and extra constant.

One of the vital impactful enhancements to the writing circulate is that the editor now hides all floating block UI whereas the person is typing. Gutenberg engineer Michal Czaplinski demonstrated these updates in a video:

Model 14.2 provides help for kerning controls within the International Kinds panel, making it potential for customers to regulate the letter spacing with dwell preview within the editor. Gutenberg contributor Robert Anderson, who submitted the PR for this function, advocated for getting it into the upcoming 6.1 launch.

“It isn’t technically a ‘bug’ (extra ‘lacking performance’) but it surely (together with #44067) does make world kinds really feel much less damaged,” Anderson mentioned. 15 days in the past the function was cherry-picked and added to the wp/6.1 department to have it included within the subsequent launch.

Just a few different notable enhancements in model 14.2 embody the next:

• New Calendar block settings for including the background, hyperlink, and textual content shade
• “Banners” and “Footers” added to dam sample classes
• Autocompletion for hyperlinks is now obtainable in any block utilizing the [[ shortcut to trigger it in the editor

Gutenberg developers also discovered that they recently introduced a bug when improving the List block to use inner blocks, where it would re-render for each level of nesting. Fixing this problem brought significant performance gains for the initial load of the editor. This improvement has also been cherry-picked for inclusion in the upcoming WordPress 6.1 release.