Hi everyone! Here’s the tenth weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in Gutenberg. Now that we’ve been through about two months of these updates, we’d really love to hear whether they’ve been helpful or not for you. Please feel free to leave any thoughts or suggestions in the comments below.
We have a great new resource to feature this week! @poena contributed an excellent tutorial on creating your first block-based theme. You can find that in the block-editor handbook here:
Since conversations are ongoing, some of the issues & PRs mentioned below were also present in previous weeks. We’ve tried to put brand new ones at the top of each of the bulleted lists.
Please weigh in on the tickets below — your voice and feedback are welcome!
In progress / Discussions:
General
- Discussion about moving away from editor-provided inline styles. 23893
- Custom gradients cannot be edited if there are no explicit stops specified. 23501
- Gradient stops should be allowed to fully overlap in the gradient UI. 23816
- Discussion around adding font unit options to the font size selector. 23323
Block-based Themes
- Discussion about the support of shortcodes in block-based theme templates. 23626
- Discussing the use of conditional logic in
experimental-theme.json. 22324 - Tracking issue for Template Tags in Full Site Editing. 22724
- Add Template lock to templates created in the editor. 23532
Global Styles
- Tracking and consolidating style attributes for blocks. 22700
Navigation
- This board tracks Navigation Screen and Navigation Block issues that are important for the WordPress 5.5 release. Project Overview
Merged:
General
- Fixes for the issue where custom theme colors don’t work in the editor after Gutenberg 7.9.1. 22356
- Fix centered legacy buttons. 23381
- Add a default line height rule to the post title. 23656
Block-based Themes
- Add a site description block. 23788
- Add a site logo bock. 18811
- Refresh to the block-based themes documentation. 23750
General Resources:
- GitHub Issues: Full Site Editing
- GitHub Issues: Themes
- Block-based Themes Reference
- Experimental-Themes.json
- Using the Block Editor for Theme Parts
- Printing navigation-block HTML from a legacy menu in themes
Thanks to @itsjusteileen, @jffng, and @joen for help pulling this post together. Please let us know if it was helpful in the comments!