Friday, May 14th at 14UTC, a group of folks working on block-based themes will have a virtual hallway hangout to chat about “Universal Themes” — a theme that aims to work in either classic (customizer) or FSE contexts. It’s an open invite and you can RSVP by replying to this post or messaging me (@jffng) in the WordPress slack channel 🙂
While the format and agenda is loose, the goal is to have an open conversation about the idea of “Universal Themes”, and talk about some theme code. Some topics and use cases that could be interesting to discuss:
- How production themes can take advantage of new tools coming in 5.8.
- Handling customizations (color, site logo, title, tagline, etc) in FSE or classic contexts.
- Using block template parts in php templates to render as much of the theme as possible.
- Supporting multiple navigation editing pathways with consideration for the navigation block and new navigation editor.
- Using theme.json to render most of the theme’s style opinions.
Please stop by and say hello if you’re interested and available! It will also be recorded and posted as a comment here afterwards.