Block-based Theme Meeting Notes — July 15, 2020

Happened in #themereview, facilitated by @kjellr!

Gutenberg Roundup

• Effort to improve the documentation around block-based themes has been pulled into PRs: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/23750 https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/23748
• @poena wrote an extensive block-based theme tutorial: https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/tutorials/block-based-themes/
• Theme-related features and improvements:
  • Site editor now supports wide/full width
  • Fixes a bug where template parts weren’t showing updates after manual edits to the HTML
  • Gradient preset bug fix
  • New site tagline block
  • New site title block

Open Floor

• Can we submit block-based themes to the themes directory yet?
  • The theme may not pass the themecheck due to experimental-theme.json but maybe an exception can be made?
  • May be good to allow Block-based themes in a little before FSE is merged in Core. This is open to discussion.
• There are some open PRs in theme-experiments that could use review:
  • https://github.com/WordPress/theme-experiments/pull/45
  • https://github.com/WordPress/theme-experiments/pull/44

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