Gutenberg + Themes: Week of Nov 23, 2020


Hello! This is the 29th 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:

  • Blocks: Fix the text color for links in the Navigation block. 26698 
  • Blocks: Allow paragraphs to use CSS columns. 27118
  • Blocks: Modify hover/focus/active states for blocks. 27075
  • Blocks: Navigation Block: Dynamic version 27130
  • Blocks: Navigation Block: Hide more than N items. 27131
  • Blocks: Navigation Block: Add space between items. 27132
  • Blocks: Simplify CSS for the code block 27314
  • FSE: Provide a CSS reset. 27116
  • FSE: Allow themes to enqueue stylesheets in theme.json 26902
  • FSE: Allow all Gutenberg theme support options to be defined in theme.json 26901
  • FSE: Provide alignment styles for the front end. 26633
  • FSE: Allow responsive styles in theme.json. 27107
  • FSE: Add preset line height variables in theme.json. 27100
  • FSE: Try adding support for child themes: 27305
  • FSE: Reveal block boundaries on hover in the Site Editor 27271
  • FSE: Site Editor: Revert templates to their original theme-provided files 27208
  • FSE Blocks: Add text decoration control to Site Title. 27114
  • FSE Blocks: Allow post meta blocks to be appear inline. 26899
  • FSE Bocks: Post comments and comment form blocks should include a placeholder and default styles. 26864 26865 26999
  • FSE Blocks: Query block: Allow inheriting the global query arguments 27128
  • Global Styles: Controlling design tools visibility 27295
  • Global Styles: Allow making text flushed left or justified 27300
  • Global styles: Add a global spacing variable 27315
  • Discussion/approved for 5.6: System font for unstyled editor. 26822
  • Discussion: add_editor_style doesn’t support @imported stylesheets. 26963
  • Possible Bug: editor-font-sizes slugs aren’t always as expected. 26940
  • FSE: Provide defaults for font weight/styles on FSE based on the json (27269)

Merged/Fixed:

  • Blocks: Social Links Block: Modify default placeholder. 26953
  • FSE: Template parts are not always loading in the site editor. 27072
  • FSE Blocks: Add grid view to Query block. 27067
  • Blocks: Code Block: Add support for font sizes 27294

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

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