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Gutenberg + Themes: Week of June 22, 2020

Hi everyone! Here’s the seventh 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

  • Hexadecimal colors in gradient presets break the block preview. 23361
  • Discussion around adding font unit options to the font size selector. 23323
  • 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
  • Add a way to filter CSS classes for blocks using PHP 23223

Block-based Themes

  • Consider renaming experimental-theme.json documentation to “Global Styles” 23307
  • Discussing the use of conditional logic in experimental-theme.json 22324
  • Issue where HTML file updates are not being reflected in the full site editor. 23106
  • Tracking issue for Template Tags in Full Site Editing 22724 
  • Template Part: Improve insertion flow 22395

FSE Blocks

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

  • 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
  • Add a Site Logo Block 18811

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

  • Allow block attributes to be modified while multiple blocks are selected. 22470
  • Add image editing. 23349
  • Enable block directory. 23389
  • Add additional top margin to the post title. 23447
  • Fix a bug with color saturation in the color pick. 23272
  • Add hexadecimal support to gradient presets. 23363
  • Button Block: Fix for legacy button alignments. 23381
  • Button Block: Reduce unnecessary specificity. 23246
  • Removal of extra canvas padding in the editor. 22213

Block-based Themes

  • Clarification to wp-block-styles documentation. 23359

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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