Gutenberg 13.1 Ships a Batch of Improvements and Implements a New Border Design Component
Gutenberg 13.1 landed in the WordPress plugin directory earlier today. Not quite as heavy on the feature list as its predecessor, the update focuses more on improvements and bug fixes. The highlight of the release is the overhauled border design component. One notable bug that theme authors should watch out for is missing styles in the site editor. When enqueueing stylesheets via wp_enqueue_block_style(), they are noticeably absent. This bug was introduced in Gutenberg 13.0 but has yet to be fixed. It is not an issue in the WordPress 6.0 beta releases and is only present in the plugin. This release also included a couple of block-related changes that I do not dive into later. The Categories block now has a setting for hiding “empty” categories (those without posts). And the duotone button has a new triangle-shaped icon by default, which reverts to its circular shape when a filter has been applied. New Border Controls Adjusting all four borders of a Group block. Gutenberg 13.0 introduced new BorderControl and BoxBorderControl components. These updates were an overhaul of the previous border design tools that users would see in the block inspector. With 13.1, any block that opts into border support will use…
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