Editor: Preload REST requests the post editor fetches on mount#11948
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I would appreciate it if you could proceed with this PR and commit it in time for the 7.1 Beta1 release on July 15. |
…rwise fetch post-mount.
Adds four entries to `\$preload_paths` in `wp-admin/edit-form-blocks.php`:
* `/wp/v2/templates/lookup?slug=front-page` — used by the editor's
homepage actions gate (`shouldShowHomepageActions`).
* `/wp/v2/taxonomies?context=edit` — read by the post-taxonomies
sidebar panel; non-paginated endpoint with a small bounded payload.
* `OPTIONS` for the current post-type collection — collection-level
permission probe.
* `/wp/v2/users/{author}?context=view&_fields=id,name` — read by the
post-author panel.
Each of these is captured today as a post-mount network fetch by
Gutenberg's post-editor preload e2e spec; preloading them eliminates
those requests from the boot path.
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Add four entries to the block editor preload paths in `wp-admin/edit-form-blocks.php`: the front-page template lookup, the taxonomies list, the `OPTIONS` permissions request for the post type collection, and, for post types that support it, the post author's display name. The editor previously requested all of these over the network on first load. Developed in #11948. Props ellatrix, mamaduka. Fixes #65636. git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@62749 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
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Add four entries to the block editor preload paths in `wp-admin/edit-form-blocks.php`: the front-page template lookup, the taxonomies list, the `OPTIONS` permissions request for the post type collection, and, for post types that support it, the post author's display name. The editor previously requested all of these over the network on first load. Developed in WordPress/wordpress-develop#11948. Props ellatrix, mamaduka. Fixes #65636. Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@62749 git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@62033 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
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What?
Adds four entries to
$preload_pathsinwp-admin/edit-form-blocks.php:/wp/v2/templates/lookup?slug=front-page: homepage actions (getDefaultTemplateId)/wp/v2/taxonomies?context=edit: taxonomies panelOPTIONSon the current post-type collection:canUserpermission probe/wp/v2/users/{author}?context=view&_fields=id,name: post-author display name (only when the post type supports author)Why?
The post editor fetches all four on first mount. Preloading them serves the data from the inline cache and removes network round-trips from the boot path. Unbounded
per_page=-1queries (comments,wp_pattern_category) are deliberately not preloaded.Gutenberg counterpart
WordPress/gutenberg#78565
Trac ticket
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65636
Testing
Gutenberg's preload spec (
test/e2e/specs/preload/post-editor.spec.js) asserts these URLs no longer fire as post-mount network requests.