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Gutenberg + Themes: Week of June 29, 2020

Hi everyone! Here’s the eighth weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in Gutenberg. This one’s coming a day early this week. 🙂

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
  • 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

  • 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 
  • Sync edits from theme to site editor 22469
  • 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.

  • 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
  • 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 will be a new standing weekly meeting beginning 8 July in #core slack specific to the Navigation block and screen

Merged:

General

  • Fix centered legacy button blocks. 23381
  • Clarify the wp-block-styles documentation. 23359

Block-based Themes

  • Allow wide/full alignment in the full-site editor. 23488
  • Rename “Template Part” to “Section” in the full-site editor UI. 23295
  • Add theme exporter button to the full-site editor. 22922 
  • Template Part: Improve insertion flow 22395
  • Fix for issue where HTML file updates are not being reflected in the full site editor. 23591

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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