Gutenberg + Themes: Week of Aug 24, 2020 – DocsWP

Hello! This is the 16th weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in Gutenberg.

An important issue to highlight this week is this one that contains a proposal for offering a migration path for theme templates to block-based templates. It’s already generated some good discussion, and resulted in a followup issue, which I’ll list right here too:

PHP Theme Template Compatibility Proposal. 24803
Follow up: Have Gutenberg fall back to PHP templates if a block-based template does not exist. 24834

Please weigh in on the tickets below — your voice and feedback are welcome!

In progress / Discussions:

General:

Enable custom units by default. 24873
Outline button does not apply custom text color. 24625
Allow arbitrary widths for columns. 24711
Convert all front-end pixel values to rem. 24523
Consider the use of the prefers-color-scheme media query in Gutenberg + Themes. 24368
Avoid using Gutenberg’s $grid-unit variables in the front end. 24432

Block-based Themes

Have Gutenberg provide fallback block-based templates by default. 24883
Articulate requirements for porting existing themes. 24313
How to sync edits from theme to site editor. 22469
Improve template part visibility and enable browse mode. 24252
Discussing the “Hero/Cover Block” pattern for headers. 24634

FSE Blocks

A set of blocks are available with the Gutenberg plugin to enable building templates in FSE.

Allow using featured image as background for the Group block. 24660

Global Styles

Global styles affecting non-FSE themes. 24326
Tracking and consolidating style attributes for blocks. 22700
Make theme.json cross-platform (web & mobile). 24165

Merged:

Make site title a link. 24725

Overview Issues:

Full Site Editing Milestones. 24551
Template Tags in Full Site Editing. 22724

General Resources:

Thanks to @itsjusteileen, @jffng, and @joen for help pulling this post together. Please let us know if it was helpful in the comments!

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