Gutenberg + Themes: Week of September 27, 2021 – DocsWP

Hello! This is the 67th 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

DT: theme.json can’t have comments #35099
DT: Navigation Block: add block gap support #35277
DT: Block Supports: Switch dimensions inspector controls slot to bubble virtually #34725
DT: Columns block: Enable blockGap and vertical margin support #34630
GS: Implicit Text, Hover, Focus Colors as Part of Color Palette #34717
GS: Refactor how the Global Styles access and sets data #35264
GS: Global Styles: fix presets that use a callback to validate user data #35255
GS: Consider loading user styles after theme styles #34141
FSE: Post Comments Pagination Previous block #35009
FSE: Post Comments Pagination Numbers block #35010
FSE: Post Comments Query Loop block #34996
FSE: Navigation Block: save data to a custom post type #34612
Themes: theme.json: whether or not to allow targeting settings that are specific to the block #35114
Themes: Adding special user defined settings to theme.json #34755

Merged/Fixed/Announced

DT: Fix native BlockAlignmentControl #35191
GS: simplify code that deals with user data for clarity #35248
GS: Polish global styles preview. #35244
GS: Add Padding to the root level of global styles #35241
GS: simplify how we register preset metadata #35228
GS: Block gap: Only render CSS variable if corresponding theme setting is enabled #35209
GS: Update the rules to hide/show blocks in the global styles sidebar #35178
GS: Extract the color palette to its own global styles screen #35109
Themes: Add duotone theme.json styles support #34667

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