The incredible @briancoords has recorded an 8 minute video demonstrating

WordPress Playground, Blueprints and 6.6 Beta
https://youtu.be/a1Q24FwfDcA

He managed to make me want to explore the WordPress Playground, and at the same time he explained the changes in the content editor I was puzzled about: under the hood the JS of the site editor is loaded!

And I signed up for his 7 Tools series although I'm not really a developer.

#WordPress #Playground #BlockEditor #SiteEditor

WordPress Playground Blueprints and 6.6 Beta

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@pmmueller Thanks for sharing and I'm glad you got something out of it. There'a some other big changes in WordPress 6.6 and one of these days I’ll try to cover those as well.

@briancoords Thanx a lot for all your stuff, and I‘m looking forward to the videos.

But I have a question right away 😇:

You mentioned that the command palette now works in the content editor, which is great.

But I still find cmd + k a weird choice as a shortcut.

It seems that if there is a cursor it invokes the link input field, if not it‘s the command palette.

Which is utterly confusing.

Do you happen to know why cmd + k was chosen?

Are there plans to merge the two?

@pmmueller there were similar discussions around the keyboard shortcut and what the name would be. Ultimately I think it came down to what is more commonly used- and command K is very popular for this type of tool. But yeah it’s a bummer because WP has been using that for linking text for years.

It's discussed in Issue 51737:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/51737

Current state of affairs in WP 6.6: If cmd + k invokes the link control, pressing cmd + k again will call the command palette.

But I do like the keyboard shortcuts page listing cmd + k twice ...

Command Palette: Global command shortcut conflicts with existing shortcut · Issue #51737 · WordPress/gutenberg

Description On Rich Text, there is a shortcut that converts the selected text into a link, but it conflicts with the global menu shortcut (command center) because they have the exact same key combi...

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