Gutenberg + Themes: Week of Feb 8, 2021


Hello! This is the 38th 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: Hide page title 28564
  • Themes: Navigation Block – Add support for a dynamic home URL 20542
  • Themes: Button Block – ability to disable Border Radius and Width controls 19796
  • FSE: Experimental-theme.json: Move pageTemplates to settings 28810
  • Blocks: Consider a standardized way to modify hover/focus/active states for blocks 27075
  • FSE: Block group label 26639
  • Blocks: Navigation Block – Create Block Variant for a “Fullscreen” navigation menu 24604
  • Themes: Mitigate CSS inheritance from wp-block auto margins 28878
  • Themes: Allow dynamic blocks to be used in classic themes 28702
  • FSE: Decouple Post Blocks Experiment from Site Editor Experiment 27822
  • FSE: Change the post template visually 28390
  • FSE: Improve loading method for block styles 28358
  • FSE: Query block setup with steps and block patterns 28891
  • FSE: Add skip-link to FSE themes 28946

Merged/fixed:

  • Global Styles: Load page templates via theme.json abstractions 28700
  • Global Styles: Update theme.json shape: 28533
  • FSE: Allow the query block to work on singular pages when inheriting the global query 28351
  • FSE: Add support for custom templates in FSE themes 27778
  • FSE: Load content in iframe 25775
  • Themes: Try darker social links state for dark themes 28838
  • FSE: [New block] Post Navigation Link 28602
  • FSE: Fix template parts loading on frontend 28752
  • FSE: Rename pageTemplates config to customTemplates in theme.json 28830
  • FSE: Add an ‘area’ term for Template Parts 28410

Overview Issues:

  • FSE Blocks: Enabling FSE blocks in classic themes 28744
  • Full Site Editing Milestones. 24551

General Resources:

Thanks to @danieldudzic for pulling this week’s post together! Please let us know if it was helpful in the comments.

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