Gutenberg + Themes: Week of October 11th, 2021 – DocsWP

Hello! This is the 69th weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in Gutenberg.

As always, please weigh in on the tickets below — your feedback is crucial and appreciated.

Active Issues / Discussions & PRs

Themes: Allow themes to surface specific patterns from the Patterns Directory #35364
Themes: Duotone filter not rendering in some places #35331
Themes: Custom Templates: Use “title” from the theme.json #35592
FSE: Allow child theme.json to be merged with parent theme.json #35459
FSE: Split Post Author in to separate blocks #35596
GS: Consider a root-level site padding solution that still lets some items go full-width #35607
GS: Webfonts API implementation in theme.json #35591
GS: Social Icons: Preset colors do not stay in sync with Global Styles presets #35480
GS: Components: assess Heading styles in the context of the recent design updates #35464
GS: Theme.json – styles.blocks.core/button.spacing.padding doesn’t apply if button uses Outline style #35438
GS: Add a selection of preset spacing values to supplement/replace custom padding/margin options #35306
GS: Allow switching global styles variations #35619
DT: Layout: top margin overwrites theme.json block CSS when gap support enabled #35411

Themes: Support title in templateParts #35626
Themes: Enable theme supports automatically for FSE theme #35593
Themes: Elements block support: Fix link color rendering on site front end #35446
Themes: Reset margin for all children of flow layouts #35426
GS: Don’t output preset classes for colors defined by the theme #35514

Thanks @mikachan for compiling with this week’s summary. Please comment if there’s something you’d like to highlight 🙂