Editor settings sidebar: Featured image missing grey placeholder box

[autumnfjeld]

The same issue reported in gutenberg WordPress/gutenberg#30904

We should probably try to implement a core first solution (in which case we could close this ticket and work on the GB issue). Ian's suggestion is a nice one, though quite wordy to put all that text in the sidebar. What about a pop-up guide?

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Write a post (do not include a Featured image)
2. Click on publish
3. Scroll down to Featured Image in the side menu'
4. See that the "Set featured image" block is missing

THE EDITOR SETTINGS SIDEBAR :

THE SIDEBAR AFRER CLICKING PUBLISH

What I expected to happen

The UI for the Featured Image section of the sidebar should be the same in the two scenarios pictured above.

SUGGESTION

Under the grey box, let's a support link to featured image docs:

"Learn about feature images"

This should match the style of other links in the sidebar. For example:

[arthur791004]

The UI for the Featured Image section of the sidebar should be the same in the two scenarios pictured above.

Working this one on ampproject/amp-wp#6563

[p-jackson]

There seems to be two problems described in this issue description:

1. The grey "set featured image" button is missing in the pre-publish panel
2. We should explain what a featured is and why it's important.

I think it makes sense to continue discussion about (2) in the GB repo WordPress/gutenberg#30904

(1) is fixed by ampproject/amp-wp#6563 which has been released in v2.1.4
The amp plugin on atomic sites has been updated to 2.1.4 because I think atomic updates automatically. However simple sites are still running 2.0.5. The last update to 2.0.5 looked pretty involved p58i-9pG-p2. We will need to kick off the process of getting the version updated on simple sites.

I'd say this is no longer a size small 😓

[arthur791004]

Yeah, I only deal with the first one. Oh, I don't know how to update the version for simple sites 😞 Learned and let me take a look for that posts.

[p-jackson]

ampproject/amp-wp#6563 has addressed issue (1), but for the fix to appear on WordPress.com we need to release the AMP plugin. See: pdgK6S-5M-p2

[autumnfjeld]

Work has been done on D66398-code: Update AMP from 2.0.5 to 2.1.4, but we'd like to pass this to the mobile web team, left a request here p1642575120002400-slack-C02DJJ0CLQN.
See more in P2 post: pdgK6S-5M-p2

[p-jackson]

Just to add my 2c: D66398-code is a proof of concept, feel free to progress this in whatever way makes sense.