Gutenberg + Themes: Week of December 13th, 2021 – DocsWP

Hello! This is the 75th weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in Gutenberg. This will be the last weekly update until next year.

Typography supports for group and row blocks

PR #37456 adds typography supports for group and row blocks such as font size, weight, line height, letter spacing, etc

Nameless font sizes

#37410 proposes that a theme shouldn’t need to include a name to define a font size in theme.json, just the slug and the size value should be enough. This PR is a follow-up after #37381 was merged.

Approach to global padding

The discussion around global padding continues and no definite solution has been found in time to make it to 5.9. It has been decided that in the interim Twenty Twenty Two will provide a CSS fix that will cover most of the cases until a better solution is reached in Gutenberg.

Default font sizes renamed

#37381 renames the font sizes by default when a theme doesn’t provide any in theme.json. It’s a follow-up to #37038

Template parts in child themes

There was a bug that was preventing block child themes that didn’t provide an index template from inheriting the parent’s template parts, this has been fixed by #36910

As always, please weigh in on these issues and pull requests — your feedback is crucial and appreciated.

Overview Issues

Default Theme (Twenty Twenty Two): Overview of Gutenberg issues: #75
GS: The Global Styles Interface #34574
FSE: Post Comments Loop Block: Tracking issue #34994
FSE: Site Editing block placeholders #35501
FSE: Templates list screen overview #36597
DT: Typography Tools: Tracking defaults for blocks #35604
Tracking: ToolsPanel Follow Ups #36165

General Resources:

Thanks @scruffian for your help with this week’s summary. Please comment if there’s something you’d like to highlight 🙂

Abbreviation key:

DT: Design Tools

FSE: Full Site Editing

GS: Global Styles

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