Block-based Themes Meeting Summary: Sept. 16, 2020


Updates

  • The first iteration of a Global Styles sidebar has been merged: 24250
  • Two in-progress PRs that explore how themes can set font families and font weights via Global Styles. These could use theme author feedback: 24868, 24978
  • There’s been big update to the experimental theme.json documentation.
  • Discussion about specifying content widths in Global Styles: 25160
  • Issue about reverting block templates to their default state: 23421

Discussion

After the updates, the group discussed what sorts of experimental theme demos they’d like to see built to test the capabilities of block-based themes:

  • Themes with a static/fixed sidebar.
  • Magazine-style layouts.
  • Store themes.

@jffng filed an issue on GitHub to track these ideas. Contributors are encouraged to push experiments to the theme experiments repository on GitHub so everyone can learn from them.