Gutenberg + Themes: Week of March 11, 2021


Hello! This is the 41st weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in Gutenberg. 

Please weigh in on the tickets below — your voice and feedback are welcome! 

Issues / Discussions & PRs

  • Themes: Custom controls, block supports, and theme.json 29778
  • Themes: theme.json spec – use block names for settings & block selectors for styles 29773
  • Themes: Dark Theme Support should check for text color 29446
  • Themes: Noto Serif Font Missing in GB 10.0 29177
  • Themes: Last Paragraph block is acting strange 29508
  • Themes: Allow customizing the no-results behavior of the query block 27302
  • Themes: Allow enqueing a webfont if used 29426
  • Themes: Page Break block ( core/nextpage ) not working as expected in Full Site Editing 29484
  • Themes: Use “em” not “px” for @media queries 16911
  • Themes: Gallery: Convert Gallery block to use Image blocks instead of having its own nested image format 25940
  • Themes: Latest Posts: Add support for typography properties 29623
  • Themes: Global Styles: Add CSS vars for root level settings 29714
  • Themes: Global Styles: Form elements 29167
  • Themes: Global styles: Add a global spacing variable 27315
  • FSE Blocks: Add to Global Styles 27122
  • FSE Blocks: Navigation block: Hide more than N items. 27131
  • FSE Blocks: Cover/Columns/Media & Text/Group: Remove margins on inner blocks 29525
  • FSE: Add support for body_class and post_class 29308

Merged/Fixed

  • Themes: Allow customizing the no-results behavior of the query block 29521
  • Themes: Rename load_separate_block_styles to load_separate_block_assets 29703
  • Themes: Reset all WP Admin styles in the wrapper of the editor styles. 29590
  • Themes: Site Title: Add text decoration and text transform controls 29622
  • FSE Blocks: Restore the margins of blocks relying on the figure element 29517 
  • FSE: inline block styles minification issues with calc() 29554
  • FSE: Query title block – Archive Title 29428

Overview Issues

  • Themes: [Discussion] Hybrid themes: Templating hierarchies 29024
  • Themes: Default Colors, Theme Colors, and Custom Colors 29568
  • Themes: Alignments Overview 29506 / 29335 / 6131

General Resources

Thanks to @danieldudzic and @onemaggie for help pulling this post together. Please let us know if it was helpful in the comments! 

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