Gutenberg + Themes: Week of Oct 5, 2020

Hello! This is the 22st weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in Gutenberg.

If you’re curious about the state of block-based theming, check out this post about the forecast for the next few months.

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

In progress / Discussions:

General:

Columns Block: Add single column option. 25867
Color presets sometimes display differently between editor and frontend. 25889
Add border radius control to the search block. 25791
Load only styles for existing blocks on the front end. 25742
Discussion: Should Gutenberg allow the use of a single-column columns block? 24711

Block-based Themes

Full-site Editor: Try loading content in an iFrame. 25775
Template part has a double wrapper. 25610
Add content-width option to theme.json. 25160

FSE Blocks

A set of blocks are available with the Gutenberg plugin to enable building templates in FSE.

Discussion about multi-column layouts in query blocks. 25462
Discuss how to allow the query block to inherit the global query. 25377
Consider not adding a self-link to the site-title block on the homepage. 25307
Allow using featured image as background for the Group block. 24660

Global Styles

PR adding font family option to Global Styles. 24868
PR adding font-weight option to Global Styles. 24978

Merged:

General

Heading Block: Allow wide and full alignments. 25917

FSE Blocks

Add CPT support in the Query block. 25903

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

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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