Gutenberg + Themes: Week of Dec 5

This is the 75th 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/. Here are some highlights from the last week:

Update Color Picker UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing.

The existing UI for selecting a color can become unwieldy due to multiple duplicated color palettes being stacked. #37067 updates the color picker to improve this situation.

Alternative approach to global padding

The discussion to add a global padding to your site, that still allows some items to be full-width, is on-going. The current idea for solving this is here, and there are some issues / drawbacks with the approach that will take more consideration.

Opt into 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. styles via 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.

Most theme supports can be now set in theme.json. There is an issue to allow wp-block-styles to also be opted into via theme.json: #37255

#37262 reported an issue about the behavior of global link styles, with styles of block’s that contain links (e.g. the Post Title, Post Date, Post Categories). The global link styles are currently always taking precedence over the theme.json and block styles.

Overview Issues

  • Default Theme (Twenty Twenty Two): Overview of Gutenberg issues: #75
  • GS: The Global Styles Interface #34574  
  • 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.: Post Comments LoopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. Block: Tracking issue #34994 
  • FSE: Site Editing block placeholders #35501
  • FSE: Templates list screen overview #36597
  • DT: Typography Tools: Tracking defaults for blocks #35604
  • Tracking: ToolsPanel Follow Ups #36165 

General Resources:

Thanks @pbking for helping to compile this week’s update. Please comment if there’s something you’d like to highlight!

Abbreviation key:

DT: Design Tools

FSE: Full Site Editing

GS: Global Styles

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