Backport Overlay Template Part Area

[get_dave]

This is a placeholder for a backport of the work in this Gutenberg PR

​https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73359

As per this workflow ​https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/trunk/backport-changelog/readme.md

Backport of ​https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/73359

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64334#ticket

## Summary

Backports the changes from Gutenberg PR ​https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/74444 to rename the navigation overlay template part area.

This PR introduces the WP_TEMPLATE_PART_AREA_NAVIGATION_OVERLAY constant to define a dedicated template part area for navigation overlays, providing more specificity than the generic "overlay" naming.

## Changes

• Adds new constant WP_TEMPLATE_PART_AREA_NAVIGATION_OVERLAY with value 'navigation-overlay' in src/wp-includes/block-template-utils.php

## Context

The Gutenberg PR renamed the generic "overlay" template part area to "navigation-overlay" for better clarity and specificity. This backport brings that constant definition to WordPress core.

The backport is minimal since WordPress core only needs the PHP constant definition. The JavaScript changes in the Gutenberg PR are bundled with the block library and will be included when the Gutenberg packages are synced to core.

There is an accompanying PR that was an earlier version of this here: ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/10581

I think we can close this in favour of ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/10692/

Yup closing in favour of ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/10692

This was superseded by ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/10844/changes

[mikachan]

Committed in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/61609, with changes from ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/10844. Closing as fixed.

[audrasjb]

This is worth mentioning in the Field Guide.
Also adding needs-dev-note just in case we can mention it in a more general note.

[wildworks]

It looks like the Dev Note has been published.

​https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/03/04/customisable-navigation-overlays-in-wordpress-7-0/