DataViews component

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This document keeps track of all the work and tasks to build a powerful DataViews component capable of rendering all kind of lists of data in WordPress Admin and beyond: from Post Lists, taxonomies, patterns, templates...

DataViews is based on a Fields abstraction and support searching, filtering, reordering fields, multiple layouts, pagination and more.

See also issues and PRs tagged with the [Feature] Data Views label.

DataViews component

• Support defining actions per row. #55096
• Add support for reordering fields. #63414
• Implement a new layout (or view type): Grid/Gallery.
• Iterations on the grid layout: #56643
• Implement the list layout. #56746
• List View Iterations #56983 #57116 #57578 #57523 #56602 #57649 #56746
• Keyboard navigation: potentially use arrow up/down to navigate through the list. #57895 #59637
• Iterations on search and filtering #55905 #60696 #63152
• Bulk actions #55098 #63193 #63150
• Field registration API
• Pagination #55095 #55937 #55164 #63675
• View config iterations #63195 #63872
• Implement custom views.
• Support density #60630 #66312
• Support different fields formats #60284 #60083
• Accessibility iterations #56396 #56853 #56441 #57341 #56001 #57978 #58977
• Some Bug fixes #56154 #60708 #60709
• Performance #63151
• Unify Layouts config #67391
• Visualize page hierarchy in table/list layout (Hierarchy support for dataviews) #55957
• Next steps for search and filtering #55100
• General polish #60847 #59832 #65234 #63719 [DataViews: make actions column sticky in table layout so they are visible #65086)(https://github.com/DataViews: make actions column sticky in table layout so they are visible #65086)

Next Steps

• Implement a group by field. #57967
• Persisting view configs #57860 #57669
• Custom views next steps (admin menu placement, visibility, persistence) #56205
• Allow injecting extra configuration options for view: For instance the possibility to switch the rendering mode (template-locked/post-only)

Lower priority

• Kanban Layout #57024
• Custom field creation, maybe ? #55102
• Table summary footer #57270
• Support aspect ratio configuration #60891
• Support right click #59608
• Support column alignments #66623
• Support pinning columns #64679
• Contextual order control #65831
• Better keyboard accessibility #56330 #56328