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 JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML., what’s coming to 5.8, a few individual blocks (Query Loop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop., Featured Image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts., etc), responsive controls, and various explorations Herb has done including building a few block Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. plugins. Of those, we went through the following links that I recommend spending time reviewing too:
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.
#fse-hallway-hangout, #fse-outreach-program, #full-site-editing
