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:
- GitHub Issues: Full Site Editing
- GitHub Issues: Themes
- Block-based Themes Reference
- Block-based Themes Tutorial
- Experimental-Themes.json
- Using the Block Editor for Theme Parts
- Printing navigation-block HTML from a legacy menu in themes
Thanks to @jffng, @joen, and @kjell for help pulling this post together. Please let us know if it was helpful in the comments!