Why is removeEditorPanel deprecated and is there a new alternative?

[binaryfire]

Hi all

I want to customize the Gutenberg editor for my sites I'm handing over to clients. Eg. remove the 3-dots options dropdown completely, and remove several sections under the "Page" tab in the sidebar. Actually ideally, I'd like to remove the "Page" tab completely.

I've done a lot of searching but haven't found any solutions. Is there a way I can do this? The only thing I've found that does some of this is removeEditorPanel but that seems to be deprecated now - does that mean it will stop working at some point?

Thanks

[ALJ]

Hi @binaryfire, I can't answer your bigger question of adjusting the Page tab, but as to the removeEditorPanel deprecation: that can be found in PR57012. In that PR, removeEditorPanel seems to have been added to core/editor. Check it out at https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guides/data/data-core-editor/#removeeditorpanel (notice that one is not deprecated) and see if that gives you what you need.

[binaryfire]

@ALJ Ah that explains it. Great to see it's still supported. Thanks!