This issue captures ongoing work for Navigation project.

Here are some suggested guiding principles for work on this project.

This isn't a tracking Issue for a specific WordPress release. Rather it is somewhere to track the high level issues that need to be addressed for Navigation within the Editor as a whole.

This Issue is based on an assessment of user feedback and community defined goals for the wider Navigation system.

Bugs should be reported with the [Type] Bug label and added directly to the Navigation Project Board.

High Priority

The following Issues are considered essential to the next iteration of block-based navigation menus.

Managing and editing menus

• Navigation Block: develop a content-only representation #65699
• NavigationLink: make the URL dynamic for links to Posts #18345
• Make it easier to create new Pages directly from Navigation block #66923
• Allow selecting from all available Pages when adding to Navigation block #66925
• Allow selecting draft Pages using the Link UI  #29395
• Utilise dataviews to improve Navigation Menu management in the Editor #65828
• Provide more choice when manually creating a new Navigation Menu #56245
• Improve ability to find and insert link to Homepage within Link UI within Nav block #50171
• Better communicate which Menu is being used by the Navigation block #68177
• Dropping menu items on top of menu item should create a submenu #67821
• Consider Bulk Add Mode for Navigation #50831
• Improve relevance and ordering of search results in Link UI and Navigation block #38121
• Navigation Focus Mode: Ability to access/edit Navigation Post items in isolation #37950

Styling & Customisation

• Ability to style current menu item #42299
• Improve Navigation block color controls #44712
• Improve theme.json support for Navigation block #39052
• Allow Submenus in Navigation Overlay to respect "Toggle on Click"  #44346
• Navigation Submenus should have better vertical display options #70832
• core/navigation-submenu: Cannot override styles via theme.json #70320
• Home link block doesn't use current-menu-item class when on front page #34770

Responsive (inc. Mobile Overlay)

• Ability to customise Navigation block "mobile" overlay  #39142
• Customise and control the Navigation block at different screen sizes ("responsive") #49156
• Allow Submenus in Navigation Overlay to respect "Toggle on Click"  #44346

Foundational work

• Nav block use slug to reference Navigation Menu #45512
• Find "most suitable" Navigation Menu fallback based on Nav block insertion location context #56247
• Improve fallback behaviour
• Improve Navigation block tests #44920
• Improve Navigation block loading speed #49155
• Refactor Navigation block render function to be open for extension #52470

Normal Priority

The following issues are "nice to haves" but are unable to be considered for the next iteration of the block.

• Navigation block overlay does not close when using anchor # custom links #71322
• Navigation: Make 'Manage menus' button link to site-editor.php?postType=wp_navigation #62257
• Add ability to style and/or use a custom icon for responsive menu  #37930
• Add Post Type Archive variation to core/navigation-link block #31452
• Navigation on Browse Mode: Add pages #50580
• Communicate sync'd nature of Navigation blocks #49158
• Nav block accessibility improvements #38786
• Only allow a Classic Menu to be imported once (avoid duplication) #43856
• Add 'categories block' to a menu item in the 'navigation block'. Automattic/wp-calypso#65012
• Automatically insert a Page List block on insertion of Submenu block #42598
• Tidy and refactor Navigation block codebase #44921
• Auto-inserting Blocks #39439 - ability to programmatically insert blocks at run time
• Introduce "Browser" and surface main navigation UI #36667
• Navigation Block: Toolbar overlaps with submenu links when opening sidebar or using smaller viewport #40382
• Navigation block: Delay creating entities until changes are saved #40050
• Home link block doesn't use current-menu-item class when on front page #34770
• Enable Login/out block in the Navigation block #38512
• Navigation: Loading the fallback creates multiple wp_navigation CPTs #46194
• Allow selecting the default core/navigation-link variant in the core/navigation block #50982

Backlog

The following are issues we are aware of which may be addressed in the future.

• Need a way to produce menus with custom markup structure #56090
• [Block] Navigation: Long Menu Titles do not break-word in order to wrap within Columns block #52298
• Ability to save Nav blocks locally without creating a wp_navigation post. #38278
• Change the navigation menu add block button tooltip #39602
• Home Link: Allow setting as icon-only #31688
• Nav block/editor - can't save a post-format  #31348
• Navigation block: Hide more than N items #27131
• Only show one + at a time on link adding #34962
• Navigation Block: Make it clearer how to delete a Link Block without a link #30116
• Navigation block: Add support for separators between menu items. #23293
• Make the 'Insert Before' / 'Insert After' options work for block lists that don't allow the default block type #23603
• Improve experience of using social icons in the navigation block #35261
• Navigation block: Hide more than N items #27131
• Spacer markup could be more flexible #33018
• Navigation block: Make it easier to add a spacer block #41010
• Navigation block: Make nested menus fully customizable (Megamenus) #23745
• Navigation block: allow extending the list of allowed inner blocks #31387
• List block: allow transformation of text links lists into navigation blocks #31733
• Avoid automated behaviours in the Navigation block when in preview mode #45887