Title as a block

[ellatrix]

This is more of a proof of concept at the moment. There are still some issues to be solved.

Benefits:

• The title becomes optional and filled as you need it.
• The title does not have to be at the top. Some people may see that as a bad thing, but I think this is actually kind of cool. People can be more creative in their layout. E.g. the can add a short intro or something before the title, or maybe a future block that contains post meta. In that way it goes more into the realm of the Customizer.
• Permalink moves to the sidebar, as you should be able to edit it without having a title.
• It becomes part of the table of contents. I event added the error class when other headings are added before the title.
• We can use an editable component and surface formatting in titles. Currently you'd have to write the HTML in the textarea.
• MarkDown shortcut!
• Can be added to the block switcher the user can change some text or a heading to the title.
• Maybe we should even integrate it with the heading block? [ Title | H2 | H3 | H4 ]?

Issues:

• We need to convert current titles, and they shouldn't pop up twice for non-Gutenberg themes.

A middle way could be fixing it at the top (for now), but I like the idea of it being a full block.

[ellatrix]

Cc @melchoyce.

[ellatrix]

Other point: a cover image should be able to act as the title?

[ellatrix]

Maybe the title even just becomes a value for listing the document somewhere, much like the except, which may or may not be part of the post/document.

[aduth]

The title does not have to be at the top. Some people may see that as a bad thing, but I think this is actually kind of cool. People can be more creative in their layout. E.g. the can add a short intro or something before the title, or maybe a future block that contains post meta. In that way it goes more into the realm of the Customizer.

Wouldn't most themes not be able to support these layouts, since the_title and the_content are distinct template tags?

[melchoyce]

Love the idea of having a cover image take the place of a title!

[ellatrix]

@aduth Yeah, that's what I meant with

We need to convert current titles, and they shouldn't pop up twice for non-Gutenberg themes.

The idea is that the_title etc. would go away.

[westonruter]

Should not the content of this block get source'd from title post field instead of the content field?

[StaggerLeee]

I could almost swear by my left hand yesterday I saw Link option for Title block. Giving me option to edit Link (Slug, or whatever. Only link option, no other toolbar icons.).

And now I cannot reproduce it, after refresh no more. Some glitch, bug, cannot be sure now. It is Demo Post, I did now add anything to it.

PS: I see now, it is a feature not a glitch. Glitch is that I cannot invoke it in Gutenberg Demo Post. Unless I open it via Posts - Gutenberg menu item. Ok, Beta phase, so not so important now.

[aduth]

Note with #2172, these need to be updated to prefix the dependencies with @wordpress/. You will need to perform a rebase against the latest version of master and apply your changes:

git fetch origin
git rebase origin/master

[aduth]

Note with #2172, these need to be updated to prefix the dependencies with @wordpress/. You will need to perform a rebase against the latest version of master and apply your changes:

git fetch origin
git rebase origin/master

[youknowriad]

@iseulde Do you think we should close this and revisit as part of the Template Editor in the customization focus?

[ellatrix]

I don't mind closing for now, but I do think it would be interesting to have a movable title.

[danielbachhuber]

👍 I think this is an interesting idea too, although it runs into some re-world implementation challenges.