Block themes meeting Notes — Nov 3

Location: #themereview, the full transcript begins here.

Facilitated by @mikachan

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 Updates

• This issue discusses the possibility of a 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.-compatible approach to starter content: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/35680
• An ongoing issue about adding outer padding support to the flow layout: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/35919. It would be great if themers could provide some feedback here.
• Template Part Focus Mode will be introduced in 11.9: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/33926
  • More information here: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/11/02/core-editor-improvement-introducing-template-part-focus-mode/

Themes team representative nominations

Friday, November 5 2021 is the deadline to nominate themes team representatives. You can read more and nominate someone here: https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2021/10/27/nominations-call-for-the-themes-team-representatives/

Open Floor

There was a nice conversation around Full Site editing, designing block themes, and sharing resources beginning here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RP4Y3K/p1635956395106000

Some questions that were asked:

• Can you create Gutenberg theme from scratch without templates?
• How can I design my theme if I create all the default folders and files?
• Can I use CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. in the editor?
• With FSE, is there a need to build custom themes the old way?
• Do ACF work with FSE?

Thanks everyone for participating, please comment if there’s something you would like to add.

#block-based-meeting, #block-based-themes