Kjell Reigstad 5:13 pm on October 9, 2020
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Gutenberg + Themes: Week of Oct 5, 2020

Hello! This is the 22st weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments 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/. 

If you’re curious about the state of 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 theming, check out this post about the forecast for the next few months. 

Please weigh in on the tickets below — your voice and feedback are welcome! 

In progress / Discussions:

General:

  • Columns Block: Add single column option. 25867
  • Color presets sometimes display differently between editor and frontend. 25889
  • Add border radius control to the search block. 25791
  • Load only styles for existing blocks on the front end. 25742
  • Discussion: Should Gutenberg allow the use of a single-column columns block? 24711

Block-based Themes

  • Full-site Editor: Try loading content in an iFrameiframe iFrame is an acronym for an inline frame. An iFrame is used inside a webpage to load another HTML document and render it. This HTML document may also contain JavaScript and/or CSS which is loaded at the time when iframe tag is parsed by the user’s browser.. 25775
  • Template part has a double wrapper. 25610
  • Add content-width option to theme.jsonJSON 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.. 25160

FSEFSE Short for Full Site Editing, a project for the Gutenberg plugin and the editor where a full page layout is created using only blocks. Blocks

A set of blocks are available with the Gutenberg pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party to enable building templates in FSE.

  • Discussion about multi-column layouts in query blocks. 25462
  • Discuss how to allow the query block to inherit the global query. 25377
  • Consider not adding a self-link to the site-title block on the homepage. 25307
  • Allow using featured imageFeatured 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. as background for the Group block. 24660

Global Styles

  • PR adding font family option to Global Styles. 24868
  • PR adding font-weight option to Global Styles. 24978

Merged:

General

  • Heading Block: Allow wide and full alignments. 25917

FSE Blocks

  • Add CPT support in the Query block. 25903

Overview Issues:

  • Full Site Editing Milestones. 24551
  • Template Tags in Full Site Editing. 22724 
  • Tracking and consolidating style attributes for blocks. 22700 
  • Missing query block functionality. 24934

General Resources:

Thanks to @itsjusteileen, @jffng, @joen, and @scruffian for help pulling this post together. Please let us know if it was helpful in the comments!

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