From cf3088d506f55fa521eefff50102490d020119b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noah Allen <noahtallen@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 16:59:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Set navigation mode on editor mount

---
 packages/edit-site/src/components/editor/index.js | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/edit-site/src/components/editor/index.js b/packages/edit-site/src/components/editor/index.js
index 041af86150bba..80fc9a4359334 100644
--- a/packages/edit-site/src/components/editor/index.js
+++ b/packages/edit-site/src/components/editor/index.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /**
  * WordPress dependencies
  */
-import { useState, useMemo, useCallback } from '@wordpress/element';
+import { useState, useMemo, useCallback, useEffect } from '@wordpress/element';
 import { useSelect, useDispatch } from '@wordpress/data';
 import {
 	SlotFillProvider,
@@ -101,6 +101,13 @@ function Editor() {
 	const { editEntityRecord } = useDispatch( 'core' );
 	const { setPage } = useDispatch( 'core/edit-site' );
 
+	const { setNavigationMode } = useDispatch( 'core/block-editor' );
+
+	// Set editor to navigation mode on component mount.
+	useEffect( () => {
+		setNavigationMode( true );
+	}, [ true ] );
+
 	const inlineStyles = useResizeCanvas( deviceType );
 
 	const [