Gutenberg + Themes: Week of Nov 2, 2020


Hello! This is the 26th weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in Gutenberg. 

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

In progress / Discussions:

  • Polish search block. 26446
  • Wrap code block by default. 26623
  • Discussion: Allow themes to dynamically add CSS class names to the editor wrapper. 26494
  • Discussion: Try a wider vanilla / default column width. 26357
  • Bug: Background Colors assigned as ‘preset’ colors do not render correctly in the editor while in dark mode. 26506
  • Bug: Preset size dropdown includes empty li when only custom font sizes are enabled 26489
  • Bug: Toolbar buttons can inherit the editors text color when active. 26462
  • FSE: Load content in an iFrame. 25775
  • FSE Discussion: Handling of templates and template parts duplicates. 26546
  • FSE Discussion: Provide a way for Gutenberg to provide alignment styles for the front end. 26633
  • FSE Bug: All blocks show up as full width, don’t match the post editor. 26630
  • Suggestion: Box-layout attribute. 26407

Merged:

  • FSE: Add wide and full alignment options to the post/site title blocks. 26601
  • FSE: Automatically enable FSE for block-based themes. 26500
  • FSE: Support other units in font size presets. 26475
  • Improvement to large font size display in the font size dropdown. 26705 
  • Use currentColor for the Quote block’s accents. 26684

Overview Issues:

  • Full Site Editing Milestones. 24551
  • Template Tags in Full Site Editing. 22724 
  • Tracking and consolidating style attributes for blocks. 22700 
  • Missing query block functionality. 24934
  • Query and Loop block tracking: 24762

General Resources:

Thanks to @itsjusteileen, @jffng, @joen, and @scruffian for help pulling this post together. Please let us know if it was helpful in the comments!

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