Tracking: Layout Design Tools Consistency

[aaronrobertshaw]

Overview

This issue details the current state of layout block support or design tool adoption across all blocks and tasks required to fill any gaps. Overall design tool consistency efforts are being tracked via the parent issue: #43241.

Legend

Value	Description
✅	Feature has been adopted and is displayed as a default control
✅ (Optional)	Feature has been adopted but is an optional control
⚠	There is a bug or issue with this block support feature's adoption
❌	Feature has been explicitly opted out of
<PR#>	Links to PR adopting the feature for this block
-	Feature has not explicitly been adopted/omitted
🛠	Implemented via an ad hoc / bespoke control
🚧	Work is in progress towards adopting this feature (no PR yet)

Block Support Adoption

Note: Deprecated blocks have been omitted from this table. e.g. Comment Author Avatar, Post Comment & Text Columns.

Block	Layout
Archives	-
Audio	-
Avatar	-
Button	-
Buttons	✅
Calendar	-
Categories	-
Code	-
Column	✅
Columns	✅
Comment Author Avatar	-
Comment Author Name	-
Comment Content	-
Comment Date	-
Comment Edit Link	-
Comment Reply Link	-
Comment Template	-
Comments	-
Comments Pagination	✅
Comments Pagination Next	-
Comments Pagination Numbers	-
Comments Pagination Previous	-
Comments Title	-
Cover	-
Details	✅
Embed	-
File	-
Footnotes	-
Gallery	✅
Group	✅
Heading	-
Home Link - Navigation	-
HTML	-
Image	-
Latest Comments	-
Latest Posts	-
List	-
List Item	-
Login/logout	-
Media & Text	-
More (Read More)	-
Navigation	✅
Navigation Link	-
Navigation Submenu	-
Next Page (Page Break)	-
Page List	-
Paragraph	-
Post Author	-
Post Author Biography	-
Post Author Name	-
Post Comment	-
Post Comments Count	-
Post Comments Form	-
Post Comments Link	-
Post Content	✅
Post Date	-
Post Excerpt	-
Post Featured Image	-
Post Navigation Link	-
Post Template	✅
Post Terms	-
Post Title	-
Preformatted	-
Pullquote	-
Query	✅
Query No Results	-
Query Pagination	✅
Query Pagination Next	-
Query Pagination Numbers	-
Query Pagination Previous	-
Query Title	-
Quote	-
Read More	-
RSS	-
Search	-
Separator	-
Site Logo	-
Site Tagline	-
Site Title	-
Social Link	-
Social Links	✅
Spacer	-
Table	-
Table of Contents	-
Tag Cloud	-
Term Description	-
Time To Read	-
Text Columns	-
Verse	-
Video	-

Block Support Eligibility

To be eligible for the Layout support, blocks must be containers for other blocks. For example, if the block uses useInnerBlocksProps then it is a likely candidate for benefiting from the layout support. The blocks that appear to use this hook are below.

Note that the Layout block support currently supports blocks where the inner blocks wrapper is also the outer wrapper for the block's markup. Blocks (such as Cover and Media & Text) where the inner blocks wrapper is nested will require additional work, or updated logic for the Layout support in order to work properly. More details in the Cover block layout support issue (#43140).

Block	Layout	Extra info
Buttons	✅
Column	✅
Columns	✅
Comment Template	-
Comments	-
Comments Pagination	✅	⚠ No spacing controls
Cover	✅	Tracking issue for implementing Layout support - PR
Details	✅
Gallery	✅	🛠 Uses ad-hoc gap, global styles gap not supported
Group	✅
List (v2)	-
List Item	-
Media & Text	-
Navigation	✅
Navigation Submenu	-
Post Comment	-
Post Content	✅	⚠ No spacing controls
Post Template	✅	⚠ Ad hoc Grid / List layout type switcher
Query	✅	⚠ No spacing controls
Query No Results	-
Query Pagination	✅	⚠ No spacing controls
Quote	✅
Social Links	✅
Template Part	-

[aaronrobertshaw]

An overall update on progress towards design tools consistency has been added to the primary tracking issue, including our goals for WordPress 6.1.

[t-hamano]

Since the Text Columns block was included in the list, I removed it.

[t-hamano]

Update: I have added the Footnotes and Details blocks to the list.

[tellthemachines]

Related: #57272