Hallway Hangout: Discussion on Full Site Editing Issues/PRs/Designs (30 July)

This is a summary of a Hallway Hangout that was wrangled in the #fse-outreach-experiment channel as part of the FSE Outreach Program. Thank you to everyone who joined in!

Attendance: @bobbingwide @poena @jcasabona @richtabor @desrosj @paulbigai

Video Recording:

Topics Covered:

• Happy birthday to @bobbingwide! Thanks for hanging with us for part of your special day.
• Before recording, we talked a bit about various courses people are working on/have worked on related to FSE and the difficulty in keeping things up to date while so much is changing.
• We started the call chatting about a TT1 blocks and global styles bug that Joe found. He’ll pass along the details. With the launch of 5.8, it’s been harder it seems to replicate problems and their sources.
• We talked about various theme related topics including how to handle theme switches, different ways to set color options (particularly for patterns), a creative solution for having responsive font sizes (and later a PR exploring next steps to make this happen), and what else still requires custom CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site..
• Rich shared that he just converted his site’s theme to a blockBlock 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. theme and we briefly went over his recent post on block templates. He also shared how he made older color slugs still work with new sequential ones while working with Ana on a recent block theme.
• Once more, we talked through having a dedicated place for global settings/styles.
• We went through the recent PRs on flex layout which led to a discussion around general confusion in setting layouts, including with template parts.
• We checked out the site editor mosaic view designs and very recent PR to implement some of the functionality.
• We discussed the difference between patterns, templates, template parts, and reusable blocks, including going over a discussion about having starter page templates/patterns.
• Herb shared some struggles with a combination of the new widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. screen and configuring multiple block.jsons. Rich shared this plugin that has multiple as an example to review.
• Carolina gave a final plug after the recording stopped for anyone who might have any ideas about how best to solve this reported dark mode problem.

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