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Gutenberg + Themes: Week of June 15, 2020

Hi everyone! Here’s the sixth 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

  • Button Block: Legacy buttons don’t appear center-aligned by default 23291
  • Button Block: Reduce unnecessary specificity. 23246
  • Button Block: Lighten the DOM in the editor. 23222
  • Limit display of block patterns if their included blocks are not available. 23275 
  • PR to adjust max-width setting for reusable blocks. 22632
  • PR for adding color controls to the list block. 21387
  • PR to change CSS specificity of default font-size rules. 22671
  • Fixes for the issue where custom theme colors don’t work in the editor after Gutenberg 7.9.1. 22356
  • An attempt to remove some of the extra canvas padding in the editor (almost ready to merge). 22213

Block-based Themes

  • Potential issue where HTML file updates are not updating in the full site editor.
  • Tracking issue for Template Tags in Full Site Editing 22724 
  • Syncing theme templates to the block editor in all contexts: 22469
  • Figuring out a way to handle inline dynamic content in theme templates. 21932

FSE Blocks

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

  • Latest Posts Block: HTML/CSS output not consistent. 22759
  • Latest Posts Block: Last element has incorrect right margin. 22911
  • FSE blocks are missing classnames on the front end. 21903
  • Site Title: Add support settings for colors, fonts, and line height. 23007

Global Styles

  • Discussion about presets for line-height, padding and margin. 23111
  • Recap and next steps for Global Styles. 22296
  • 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

  • New padding control to cover block. (21492, 23041)
  • New link color control to paragraph, heading, group, columns, and media-text blocks. (22722, 23025, 23049)

Block-based Themes

  • Fixing a bug when themes provided index.html but no front-page.html. 22954

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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