Block-based Themes Meeting Agenda for April 15

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We are a group of volunteers who review and approve themes submitted to be included in the official WordPress Theme directory.

We do license, security, and code quality reviews.

We help build and maintain default themes.

The primary focus of the team is to help theme authors transition to 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.-based themes.

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We have code packages for themes available for use on Github and Packagist

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Meetings:

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Agenda

Welcome

Status updates for 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.-based Theme efforts in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/:

Many blocks now have gradient support
Line height & font size support for the heading + paragraph blocks.
New default block patterns: Two column hero, Numbered features, and “It’s Time”.
Inserter iterations
Global Styles

Discussion: Tips, Questions, and Answers about getting started with block-based themes.

Discuss the possibility of alternating meeting times

The main discussion topic this week will be any tips for getting started building block based themes. If you have any questions or tips you’d like to bring to the group, please do!

As always, if you have any topics or demos you’d like to see in future meetings, please share below.

We also need a volunteer to take notes!

Kjell Reigstad 2:21 pm on April 15, 2020

I’ll also include some time to discuss this ticket from @mrwweb:

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/21439

It was raised for yesterday’s meeting, but the group decided to discuss it today instead.