Pattern Editing: Allow block click-through overlays in contentOnly mode#75160
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Something that I noticed is that the click-through overlay in the nav block doesn't work in the Footer for Twenty Twenty Five (maybe for other themes too). The same problem exists in WordPress 6.9, so it's nothing new and unrelated to this change. Kapture.2026-02-03.at.13.34.36.mp4 |
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Keeping this a draft until there's some clarification on the issue - #71757 (comment). |
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Thanks Dan. Noting this PR is on my radar as I believe the interaction to ensure the top level block is selected is important. Appreciate you raising it. |
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What?
Fixes #71757
Alternative to #72248
Allows click-through overlays on blocks in contentOnly mode.
Why?
See #72248, apparently this is important for the navigation block.
If it's important for the navigation block then it's also probably important for other blocks that support the overlay and are interactive in patterns. I'm not sure that there needs to be a special case for navigation.
How?
The original reason for disabling overlays in contentOnly was to fix an issue with the Post Content block when page editing with Show Template mode on (#51259 is the original issue). Users are supposed to be able to click straight through to children of the post content.
In this PR I'm proposing revising the way that fix (#51780) was implemented. Instead it applies
"__experimentalDisableBlockOverlay": trueto the post content block, which retains the desired behavior in #51780.Next it reverts some of the change in #51780 to allow overlays again for enabled or contentOnly blocks.
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Kapture.2026-02-03.at.13.25.39.mp4