Gutenberg 12.6 Enhances Transforming Blocks, Adds Read More and Post Author Bio Blocks, and Enables Social Icon Labels
Gutenberg 12.6 landed in the WordPress plugin directory yesterday. The update includes several transform-related enhancements and new Read More and Post Author Biography blocks. Users can now also show visible labels via the Social Icons block. Nothing seems to be broken with this release, which is always welcome. Gutenberg has not fundamentally wrecked something I relied on in a long while. There were a few growing pains, but the software has become more stable in the past year. I just wanted to add a note to commend the people working on it every day. As usual, I have a few nit-picks, but this looks like yet another solid release overall. Transforming Blocks Transforming a Tag Cloud to Categories block. Developers went all in on block transforms in Gutenberg 12.6. The following blocks now support switching between one another: Calendar ArchivesCode ParagraphTag Cloud CategoriesGroup Row (via the Variation control) A new mechanism for retaining styles during transforms also landed in this release. It currently supports font size and color options. For example, users can switch between a Heading and Paragraph block, a run-of-the-mill use case, without losing those specific customizations. However, other settings are lost, even when shared across blocks. There…
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