WordPress 6.4 Support

[spencerfinnell]

Hello @johngodley, first of all, thank you for all of your great work on this project -- it's immensely helpful.

I'm wondering about your plans for supporting multiple versions of WordPress when the lock/unlock needs to be updated for each major WordPress version?

WordPress/gutenberg#49784

Changing it to support 6.4 will break 6.3, etc.

FYI -- that change seemed all that was needed for testing the latest Gutenberg nightly (in my usage).

[johngodley]

It's difficult enough supporting one version and there are no plans to support more!

[spencerfinnell]

So the plan is always the latest official major release of WordPress?

[spencerfinnell]

Draft PR #239 has my findings for 6.4 support.

[johngodley]

Unfortunately it's not that straightforward. This project is only tested against specific versions of Gutenberg libraries, and the recommendation (if you are using it on a WP site) is to use the Gutenberg plugin that matches those versions.

The mapping between the plugin and the version of Gutenberg built into WordPress is not simple, and I can't say which version it will work with. Often the built-in version won't work as it's a few months older and doesn't provide the functions that this project relies on. Right now the version in WordPress is much newer.

[spencerfinnell]

Right. I know it's a jumble.

I had been using the isolated editor with WordPress 6.3 (no Gutenberg plugin), then installed Gutenberg nightly and the changes in the PR were all I found that were needed to support it -- previously there were a lot more incompatibilities. 🤷🏻

Feel free to close both the issue and PR if they aren't relevant to the planned update process.

[spencerfinnell]

Implemented via #245