Channel: #themereview
Facilitated by @jffng
Block-based themes related updates in Gutenberg
@kjellr and others compile a weekly list of Gutenberg issues and PRs that are relevant to block-based themes, the most recent is here: https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2021/01/15/gutenberg-themes-week-of-jan-11-2021/
Some highlights:
- This issue summarizes the updates to how theme.json will work, this will impact how themes and themers define styles on a global and per block basis: #28163
- The navigation block has seen some good action and discussion as well with PRs such as #28169 and #27131
- Until recently, block styles were being added to the bottom of the page, this change moves the block styles to the <head> as they should #28319
TT1 Blocks development
TT1 Blocks was added to the themes repository 🎉 https://wordpress.org/themes/tt1-blocks/ This hopefully widens the number of folks that can test and contribute.
Note that development is still happening in Github in theme-experiments: https://github.com/WordPress/theme-experiments/tree/master/tt1-blocks
Discussion: default scope of global styles properties
Global styles will provide a lot of control to the user to change their theme styles via the editor. This issue discusses what controls should be shown by default to users and it could use some more attention from theme designers & developers: #27512
It was suggested that some users may be interested in having access to all the possible options and that could be surfaced via an option to choose “Show all” or “Only Suggested”
It’s also worth exploring an “Apply to all” option for when I make changes to a block – so it updates the global styles for that block.
Another idea that was discussed is the possibility to remember the user’s common behaviours when editing their site / changing styles, to surface their “Most used” controls.
The whole discussion can be read here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RP4Y3K/p1611156891074700
Thanks to everyone for joining! Please leave a comment if you have anything to add that is block-based theme related!