Gutenberg + Themes: Week of July 9, 2021 – DocsWP

Hello! This is the 56th weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in Gutenberg.

This week includes a few items specific to the upcoming release of WordPress 5.8. As always, please weigh in on the tickets below — your feedback is crucial and appreciated.

Issues / Discussions & PRs

Theme.json call for testing is still going on until the 14th! https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/06/24/call-for-testing-thrive-with-theme-json/
GS: Request: expose theme.json layout presets in global styles #33184
Themes: Standardizing required theme CSS Variables #33180
Themes: Latest Posts excerpt length not working #33027
Themes: Option to disable default block styles #32051
Themes: Post Meta: Allow meta onto one line #33268
Global Styles: Consider supporting gap #32366
Global Styles: Try a simple navigation #33064
Blocks: Ensure bundled query patterns inherit correct layout settings #30506
Group Block: Add a ‘display horizontal’ option #24473
Editor: Reduce specificity of reset & classic styles #32659
i18n: Add pattern block #33217
i18n: Add a block to allow strings in template files to be translated #33192

Merged/Fixed/Announced

Themes: Update documentation for link color in WordPress 5.8 #33162
GS: Allow themes to provide empty values for color.duotone and spacing.units #33280
GS: missing link color on style properties to css var mapping. #33150
GS: Preset variables not being user on the site editor. #33149
GS: Update theme.json docs for WordPress 5.8 #33131
GS: Cover against non existing styles #33127
Blocks: RSS Block: Update block styles #33294
Blocks: Latest posts: Remove grey color for dark themes #33325
Blocks: Tag Cloud: Remove editor style so editor matches frontend #33289

Overview Issues

Updated scope for site editing projects #33094

General Resources:

Thanks, @scruffian, and @mikachan for your help with this week’s summary. Please comment if there’s something you’d like to highlight 🙂#gutenberg-themes-roundup