Gutenberg Block Search should use plugin short description

[dd32]

Currently the Block Searching displays blocks with a truncated description field, while the WordPress.org API provides a short_description output specifically for that.

The attached PR simply switches it to using the shorter description field which is more relevant for the limited display space of blocks.

Since this has been merged to core, and the change is in PHP I think this is supposed to be submitted here rather than directly to the Gutenberg repo which also contains this class?

Use the short description field for block searches

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/51212

[TimothyBlynJacobs]

Yeah AFAIK the workflow is to make the change here, then it could be backported to Gutenberg since they have a polyfill of the endpoint for 5.4 users.

[desrosj]

Moving this to 5.6.

It looks like the test test_prepare_item in tests/phpunit/tests/rest-api/rest-block-directory-controller.php needs to be updated, since the expected description should be the short_description now. Otherwise this is working great in manual testing.

[ryelle]

I approved the PR but I don't think that's showing up here. Patch is working, and the updated tests are passing 👍🏻

[hellofromTonya]

​PR 610 includes update in unit test.

[helen]

In 49559:

Editor: Display short description from block directory in results.

Props dd32, ryelle.
Fixes #51212.

Merged in ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/2a7d1e2394400f468203d4eefa9d60d0525c7f59