Block-based Meeting Notes — January 6

Channel: #themereview
Facilitated by @kjellr

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/ + Themes Highlights

Work on the “Archive Title” block is in progress. This (combined with the recent query 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. updates) will make archive pages very close to complete.
This PR would add a border radius control to the search block.

The theme was recently renamed from “Twenty Twenty-One Blocks”, to avoid confusion with the original Twenty Twenty-One theme.
Progress in the repository’s project board is ongoing. There’s a growing list of blocker issues being migrated over to Gutenberg. @scruffian reiterated the prioritization of logging Gutenberg issues versus fixing them directly for now, so that the 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. team can get a clear view of all the outstanding tasks.
Progress on preparing the theme for its theme repository submission is happening in this issue.
There’s a related discussion around whether or not the theme should have additional code to fully support comments at this point.

@richtabor asked about the minimum Gutenberg version required for using TT1 Blocks. @kjellr want sure of the minimum required version, but suggested that since FSE is still under heavy development, anything other than the latest version might have breaking changes.
@richtabor asked if TT1 Blocks will work without 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. Once FSE functionality is merged into coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. it will, but for now block based themes all require the plugin.