Editor: Remove Navigation Areas

Navigation area were merged as part of full site editing and the new navigation block. This functionality is experimental and not currently used in WordPress core, so should be removed.

Props noisysocks, spacedmonkey, get_dave, zieladam.
Fixes #54506.


Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@52272


git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@51864 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd

wp-admin/site-editor.php

@@ -99,17 +99,8 @@ static function( $classes ) {
 		'/wp/v2/global-styles/' . $active_global_styles_id . '?context=edit',
 		'/wp/v2/global-styles/' . $active_global_styles_id,
 		'/wp/v2/themes/' . $active_theme . '/global-styles',
-		'/wp/v2/block-navigation-areas?context=edit',
 	);
 
-	$areas        = get_option( 'wp_navigation_areas', array() );
-	$active_areas = array_intersect_key( $areas, get_navigation_areas() );
-	foreach ( $active_areas as $post_id ) {
-		if ( $post_id ) {
-			$preload_paths[] = add_query_arg( 'context', 'edit', rest_get_route_for_post( $post_id ) );
-		}
-	}
-
 	block_editor_rest_api_preload( $preload_paths, $block_editor_context );
 
 	wp_add_inline_script(

wp-includes/blocks/index.php

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 require ABSPATH . WPINC . '/blocks/latest-posts.php';
 require ABSPATH . WPINC . '/blocks/legacy-widget.php';
 require ABSPATH . WPINC . '/blocks/loginout.php';
-require ABSPATH . WPINC . '/blocks/navigation-area.php';
 require ABSPATH . WPINC . '/blocks/navigation-link.php';
 require ABSPATH . WPINC . '/blocks/navigation-submenu.php';
 require ABSPATH . WPINC . '/blocks/navigation.php';

wp-includes/blocks/navigation.php

@@ -183,14 +183,6 @@ function render_block_core_navigation( $attributes, $content, $block ) {
 		$inner_blocks            = new WP_Block_List( $parsed_blocks, $attributes );
 	}
 
-	if ( ! empty( $block->context['navigationArea'] ) ) {
-		$area    = $block->context['navigationArea'];
-		$mapping = get_option( 'wp_navigation_areas', array() );
-		if ( ! empty( $mapping[ $area ] ) ) {
-			$attributes['navigationMenuId'] = $mapping[ $area ];
-		}
-	}
-
 	// Load inner blocks from the navigation post.
 	if ( array_key_exists( 'navigationMenuId', $attributes ) ) {
 		$navigation_post = get_post( $attributes['navigationMenuId'] );

wp-includes/default-filters.php

@@ -681,8 +681,4 @@
 add_action( 'wp_footer', 'the_block_template_skip_link' );
 add_action( 'setup_theme', 'wp_enable_block_templates' );
 
-// Navigation areas.
-add_action( 'setup_theme', '_wp_register_default_navigation_areas' );
-add_action( 'switch_theme', '_wp_migrate_menu_to_navigation_post', 99, 3 );
-
 unset( $filter, $action );

wp-includes/rest-api.php

@@ -349,10 +349,6 @@ function create_initial_rest_routes() {
 	// Menu Locations.
 	$controller = new WP_REST_Menu_Locations_Controller();
 	$controller->register_routes();
-
-	// Block Navigation Areas
-	$controller = new WP_REST_Block_Navigation_Areas_Controller();
-	$controller->register_routes();
 }
 
 /**