Archives: Make the label above the dropdown editable

[carolinan]

What problem does this address?

The archives block has an option to display the result as a dropdown.
When this option is enabled, there is a second option to show a label.
This label can not be edited, it always say "Archives" (This entire block is disabled).

What is your proposed solution?

Make the label editable.

[colinduwe]

I gave this a whirl but got stumped by index.php. Is there a way to check if this is the editor vs. the front end?

[marincarroll]

I gave this a whirl but got stumped by index.php. Is there a way to check if this is the editor vs. the front end?

Why do you need to check for this? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding, but what's in your screenshot looks correct.

[colinduwe]

@marincarroll Ideally the label would be a richtext within the editor rather than a textbox in the sidebar. I did that here: #58856 but I never did find an elegant way to signal to the render callback that it was being called by the editor vs the front end which led to a rather klugy work around. I'd welcome any suggestions for how it might be improved.

[marincarroll]

@marincarroll Ideally the label would be a richtext within the editor rather than a textbox in the sidebar. I did that here: #58856 but I never did find an elegant way to signal to the render callback that it was being called by the editor vs the front end which led to a rather klugy work around. I'd welcome any suggestions for how it might be improved.

Ah, okay, I was wondering the same thing. From what I understand, ServerSideRender is discouraged for new blocks and is being phased out, but looking at wp_get_archives it seems like creating an editor preview would be quite an involved process in this case.

I'm curious if there are plans to replace ServerSideRender in this block, but since that's likely a while off, I personally feel like your current solution is not bad.