Since the very beginning, we have attached the permalink function to the title of the post. This had the intention of making it a bit more prominent — particularly for pages — compared to just having it in the sidebar panel.

It was also stated at the beginning that in the future the title would become a block, and thus the permalink function would need to move away. We have also discussed many times the idea of bringing features that used to exist in the document panel closer to more relevant places in the post (featured image being an obvious one).

There's also the cases where the design of a post / page template doesn't include the title for whatever reason. We don't have a clear way of showing that the title is not just visual but also important semantic data (even if a title should not be shown, we don't want users to end up with "(No title)" in their post list.

In this issue I'd like to suggest absorbing the title and permalink flow in the editor header:

This would open a dropdown containing some of the most relevant elements from the "status" panel: permalink, date, visibility, author, delete. It would also give a visible and consistent place for the document title.

In the context of full-site editing we have a "template" dropdown in the top left area showing what the current template you are editing is (single, page, archive, etc). I'd propose exploring a way to combine this so that the relationship is more clear:

And extend it to all the different types of content and templates you might have:

Of course, we need a better way to handle the top-toolbar option, but I'd argue that's already becoming the case with the header growing in functionality and it being able to contain any number of plugin extensions.

Thoughts? Ideas?