In the past year or so the Preview button does not automatically open the preview tab anymore, and I need to click another button to do that. Is there a way to skip this dialog?
Topic block-editor previews Wordpress
Category Web
The Preview button and associated functionality is currently undergoing a fair amount of iteration - I would imagine we will see a keyboard shortcut added, along with other options for modifying it's UI down the road.
Interestingly, the old direct-preview button's component is still rendered, but is hidden on a > 600px media query. We can reveal the button again with a little CSS:
.edit-post-header__settings .editor-post-preview {
display: block;
}
I wouldn't rely on this working indefinitely, however.
For now, the most canonical solution would probably be to register a block editor plugin which renders a new <PostPreviewButton> component as a child of a <PinnedItems> slotfill.
It should be noted that doing this directly undermines the UX design for the
<PinnedItems>slotfill and area, which is intended to show buttons for functionality which the user explicitly opts in to. Thus, were this to be distributed in a plugin, it would be a good idea to associate it with a toggleable editor setting.
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