Gutenberg + Themes: Week of Feb 1, 2021


Hello! This is the 37th weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in Gutenberg. 

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

Issues / Discussions & PRs:

  • FSE Blocks: Enabling FSE blocks in classic themes 28744
  • Global Styles: Discuss the default scope of each block’s style properties: 27512
  • FSE: Improve loading method for block styles in FSE themes 28358
  • FSE: Load page templates via theme.json 28700
  • FSE Blocks: Navigation block: Hide more than N items. 27131
  • FSE: Hide Homepage title 28564
  • FSE Blocks: Query Block: Consider allowing for an optional semantic wrapper tag 28555
  • FSE: Add a ‘section’ term for Template Parts. 28410
  • FSE: Change the post template visually 28390
  • FSE: Site Editing: Explore how we might set what’s displayed on the front of a site from within the site editor 28341
  • Buttons block radius and outline size change 28514
  • Dropcap behavior 28685

Merged/fixed:

  • FSE: Allow the query block to work on singular pages when inheriting the global query 28351
  • Global Styles: Make custom spacing work with core 28548
  • Global Styles: Update theme.json shape: 28533
  • Global Styles: add support for border config via theme.json 28049
  • Menu item word wrap: 28516
  • Image border radius support: 27667
  • Social Icons, background and color options: 28084
  • Cover: remove 100% height 28455

Overview Issues:

  • Full Site Editing Milestones. 24551
  • Template Tags in Full Site Editing. 22724 
  • Missing query block functionality. 24934
  • Query and Loop block tracking: 24762

General Resources:

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

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