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:
  • object type
  • array type: support types other than string for the items #71789
  • Field API: prepare to register 3rd party types #73548
• Formats: introduce the ability to format the display value (dates, number, etc.) and enrich the types. #73154
• Validation:
  • Field API: Validation #71500
  • Field API Validation: signal when optional #74417
• Iterate on async elements. 70834

DataViews

• New Activity layout (e.g., to be used in Global Styles revisions). #72780
• Display data hierarchically #74072
• Table layout
  • Dataviews: Tables without a title field display big gap after checkbox #73727
  • DataViews table layout flickers when interacting with sort/filter/search #74074
  • DataViews: Right-align number fields in table layout. #73365
• Styling
  • DataViews: Improve spacing for primary action buttons #73385
  • DataViewsPicker: Improve appearance when used in a Modal component #72336

DataViewsPicker

• Add a generalised PostPicker component to allow selecting post(s) from a modal #71128
• DataViewsPicker: Improve appearance when used in a Modal component #72336
• Add table layout view to DataViewsPicker. #72914

DataForm

• Validation: display validation messages in layouts other than regular. #72321
• Layouts
  • New Details layout. #72355
  • Panel layout.
    • Dedicated Edit button to open the panel. #73036
• 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

• Make them extensible.
• Pages: author field in edit control is not updated #73462
• Display number of notes in Pages. Display number of notes in Site Editor > Pages #73606

DataForm in content-only controls

• Pattern fields in the inspector panel: use the DataForms API #73261
• Private APIs: remove re-registration check #73610