Hi everyone! Here’s the ninth 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
- 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
- Add a tutorial about how to build a block-based theme. 23732
- 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 editor. 23532
FSE Blocks
A set of blocks are available with the Gutenberg plugin to enable building templates in FSE.
- Add a site description block. 23788
- HTML and CSS not present/inconsistent for FSE Blocks. 22759
- Suggestion for Site Title styling options. 23228
- Group block is missing alignment options in the full-site editor. 23431
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
- There is a new standing weekly meeting in #core slack specific to the Navigation block and screen. The first meeting was Wednesday July 8th.
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 Logo Block. 18811
- Expand and update Block-based Themes documentation page. 23750
- Link to theme-experiments repo in block-based theme documentation. 23748
- References to “Section” in the full-site editor were changed back to “Template Part” 23765
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!