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Gutenberg + Themes: Week of July 20, 2020

Hi everyone! Here’s the eleventh weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in Gutenberg. 

Since conversations are ongoing, some of the issues & PRs mentioned 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

  • Clarification of link-color documentation. 24056
  • Discussion about moving away from editor-provided inline styles. 23893

Block-based Themes

  • Do not render post content block if context matches current post. 24010
  • Editor sticking & whitespace problems. 24009
  • 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

FSE Blocks

A set of blocks are available with the Gutenberg plugin to enable building templates in FSE.

  • Site title block not saving properly. 24003
  • Adding style attributes to the comment count block. 24167
  • Adding style attributes to the comment form block. 24162
  • Add a post categories block. 24091
  • Add color support to the post content block. 24014
  • Disable post content block when editing content. 24006
  • Template Part block deletes on rename. 24000

Global Styles

  • Tracking and consolidating style attributes for blocks. 22700 
  • Make theme.json cross-platform (web & mobile). 24165
  • Change text colors depending on the background. 24166

Navigation

  • This board tracks Navigation Screen and Navigation Block issues that are important for the WordPress 5.5 release. Project Overview

Merged:

FSE Blocks

  • Add style support to the post comments block. 24080
  • Add style support to the post excerpt block. 23945

General Resources:

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

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