Hi everyone! Here’s the fifth 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
- Simplify the Quote block’s editor markup to better match the front end. 22803
- 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. 22213
Block-based Themes
- 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.
- HTML/CSS output not consistent. 22759
- Last element in “Latest Posts” block has wrong 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
- 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)
- Experimental version of rich image editing tools. (21024, 22870)
- Remove padding inheritance on lists in editor-styles (23080)
Block-based Themes
- Add alignment and heading level support to the post title block. 22872
- Add more customization options to the Author block. 22877
- PR to add an “Export Theme” button to the Full Site Editor in the plugin. 22922
Global Styles
- A new iteration of `experimental-theme.json`, complete with draft documentation. 20290 (Documentation)
General Resources:
Thanks to @itsjusteileen, @joen, and @kjellr for help pulling this post together. Please let us know if it was helpful in the comments!