This week we held our bi-weekly block-based themes meeting in the #themereview channel. The conversation starts here.
Gutenberg Theme-related Updates
- Global support was added for a handful of styles including color and typography: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/24298
- Switching core blocks to use relative instead of absolute units e.g. paragraph px to rem: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/24330
- Lots of improvements to core block patterns, along with giving themes the ability to disable them: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/24042
“Keeping up with Gutenberg” was launched, a single place to follow Gutenberg related posts across the make blog universe.
Discussion: porting existing themes to block-based themes
We had a discussion about easing the path for theme authors to make the switch to FSE, by allowing block templates to work with existing php templates. Specifically, the group discussed how template resolution could work, and the challenges that will arise around how the site editor will handle pages that use existing php templates.
The discussion arose from this GitHub issue, and continues there.
Open Floor
- “it is difficult to get an overview of what we are working towards”
- “Is FSE still targeted to being stable, in core, in 5.6? Or stable in Gutenberg at the release of 5.6?”