Gutenberg + Themes: Week of February 14th, 2022 – DocsWP

Hello! This is the 76th roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in Gutenberg.

New features:

Pattern Directory: Allow pattern registration from directory with theme.json

#38232 This PR enables themes to register patterns from the Pattern Directory through theme.json. It checks for a pattern’s top level key that is an array of pattern slugs from the directory.

Contrast Checker: check link color

#38100 adds the contrast checker feature to the link color control.

Fixes:

Site Editor: Remove extra div on post content

#38451 removes an unwanted extra div that the post content block outputs and additional div when being rendered in the Site Editor.

Fix global styles loading logic

#38745 loads global styles using this logic, no matter the WordPress version:

Block theme. Always load in the .
Classic theme that hasn’t opted into loading core assets separately. Load in the .
Classic theme that has opted into loading core assets separately. Load in the .

Duotone: Allow users to specify custom filters

#38442 allows themes to specify their own custom duotone filters.

Search Block: Fix border radius reset

#38478 fixes the reset border functionality.

Documentation updates:

Add a high-level intro to styles in the block editor

#38208 adds a new document to the handbook: a high-level intro to how styles work in the block editor.

Overview Issues

DT: Design Tools Overview #33447

FSE: Building with Patterns #38529

FSE: Updated scope for site editing projects #33094

Open PRs

GS: Fix default duotone preset SVG and style generation #38681

GS: Fix display of color palettes for border panel #38798

General Resources:

Thanks @mmaattiiaass for compiling this week’s update, and @onemaggie helping! 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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