This is a summary of a Hallway Hangout that was wrangled in the #fse-outreach-experiment channel as part of the FSE Outreach Program. It ended up just being me and @bobbingwide so I decided to not record and instead have a free flowing chat with Herb that was less structured and more in line with our interests. We chatted for just over an hour!
We mainly chatted about theme.json, what’s coming to 5.8, a few individual blocks (Query Loop, Featured Image, etc), responsive controls, and various explorations Herb has done including building a few block plugins. Of those, we went through the following links that I recommend spending time reviewing too:
- Exploration on having a dedicated space for global options.
- Dimension controls and some relevant tweets related to responsive options.
- Starter page templates/patterns to make it easy for folks to get started quickly with content creation.
- Overlay for reusable blocks and template parts to better visualize these options and ensure the parent block is selected before the nested blocks.
- Themeshaper posts on a parent theme for block themes, ideas about universal themes, resources for block theme development.
Next Steps
I followed up on two issues that we found while chatting: The reset to default option being too close to X for global styles UI and a bug with an empty template name and trying to rename it.