DataViews, DataForm, et al. in WordPress 7.0 #73076
Description
Previous iteration: WordPress 6.9.
This is an iteration issue that tracks improvements across DataViews, DataViewsPicker, DataForm, and the Field API planned for WordPress 7.0. It's a live issue: plans and ongoing work will be consolidated as we progress. Subscribe for updates.
Field API
- Types: introduce support for objects and improve array type (support types other than string for the items). #71789
- Formats: introduce the ability to format the display value (dates, number, etc.) and enrich the types. #73154
- Date: #72999
- Validation: min/max, pattern, etc. #71500
- Iterate on async elements. 70834
- Field API: prepare to register 3rd party types #73548
DataViews
- New Activity layout (e.g., to be used in Global Styles revisions). #72780
- Display data hierarchically #8014
- Table layout
- Styling
- DataViews: Improve spacing for primary action buttons #73385
- Make DataViews work better with other containers (modal, etc.): #72336
DataViewsPicker
- Better management of padding styles to make it easier to embed DataViews/DataViewsPicker in multiple places (cards, modals, screens, etc.). #72336
- Add table layout view to DataViewsPicker. #72914
- Add a generalised PostPicker component to allow selecting post(s) from a modal (assess required tasks in DataViewsPicker to implement this) #71128
- Table layout:
DataForm
- Validation: add support in layouts other than regular. #72321
- Layouts
- Enable operation with dynamic list of data. #71789
- Edit components
- Richtext #73180
- Media #72614
- DataForm: allow controls to be set as
disabled#73673
- Fix overflow on panel layout buttons #73707
Screens
Site Editor > Pages, Templates, Pattern
- Pages: author field in edit control is not updated #73462
- Make them extensible.
- Display number of notes in Pages. Display number of notes in Site Editor > Pages #73606
DataForm in content-only controls