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 blockBlockBlock 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.
Hello! This is the 34th weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/.
Before we begin, I’d like to note that the experimental, blockBlockBlock 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 version of the Twenty Twenty-One theme (named TT1 Blocks) is now live in the theme repository:
Development is ongoing, alongside the full-site editing work in Gutenberg. Please test, contribute, and help build this and other themes in the WordPress Theme Experiments GitHub repository.
Now onto our usual updates! Please weigh in on the tickets below — your voice and feedback are welcome.
Issues / Discussions:
Improve editor UIUIUI 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. on dark backgrounds. 28200
Blocks: Refactor Gallery Block as a wrapper around Image Blocks. 25940
Blocks: Add support for border configuration via theme.jsonJSONJSON, 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.. 28049
FSEFSEShort for Full Site Editing, a project for the Gutenberg plugin and the editor where a full page layout is created using only blocks.: Updates to theme.json. 28163
Query and LoopLoopThe 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: 24762
Hello and Happy New Year! This is the 33rd weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/.
Please weigh in on the tickets below — your voice and feedback are welcome!
Issues / Discussions:
FSEFSEShort for Full Site Editing, a project for the Gutenberg plugin and the editor where a full page layout is created using only blocks.: BlockBlockBlock 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 without a comments file trigger a depreciation warning. 28045
FSE: Themes located in a subdirectory do not load template parts. 28022
FSE: Template parts need to inherit the query context. 28011
FSE: Inline custom block styles are not visible in the site editor. 27962
FSE: Rethink exporting block themes and styles. 27941
FSE Blocks: Post ExcerptExcerptAn excerpt is the description of the blog post or page that will by default show on the blog archive page, in search results (SERPs), and on social media. With an SEO plugin, the excerpt may also be in that plugin’s metabox. Block: Fix incorrect quotes for the class attribute in the wrapper. 27895
Query and LoopLoopThe 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: 24762
Hello! This is the 32nd weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/. This is the last update of 2020! We’re going to pause for the holidays, and resume the first week of January.
Please weigh in on the tickets below — your voice and feedback are welcome!
Issues / Discussions:
Blocks: Headings blockBlockBlock 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.: add support for font weight. 27639
Blocks: File Block: Turn the button into a button block. 27760
Blocks: Navigation Block: Fix the text color for links. 26698
Blocks: Headings Block: Add support for font weight. 27639
FSEFSEShort for Full Site Editing, a project for the Gutenberg plugin and the editor where a full page layout is created using only blocks.: Discussion about improvements to block-styles loading. 27671
FSE: Allow support for custom templates in block-based themes. 27778
FSE: Load content in an iFrameiframeiFrame 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
FSE: Consider adding block-editor class to the site editor. 27724
FSE Blocks: Support wide/full alignments for the Query block container. 27589
FSE Blocks: Allow Post Featured ImageFeatured imageA 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. blocks to have a consistent height. 27620
FSE Blocks: Comments Form: Convert button into a button block. 27740
Global Styles: Change the behaviour of the reset button 27483
Blocks: RSS Block: Add border-box CSSCSSCSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site.. 27767
Query and LoopLoopThe 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: 24762
Hello! This is the 31st weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/.
Please weigh in on the tickets below — your voice and feedback are welcome!
Issues / Discussions:
Blocks: Headings blockBlockBlock 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.: add support for font weight. 27639
Blocks: Allow paragraphs to use CSSCSSCSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. columns. 27118
FSEFSEShort for Full Site Editing, a project for the Gutenberg plugin and the editor where a full page layout is created using only blocks.: Semantic Template Parts 27337
FSE: Load content in an iFrameiframeiFrame 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
FSE: Allow responsive styles in theme.jsonJSONJSON, 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.. 27107
FSE Blocks: Support wide/full alignments for the Query block container. 27589
FSE Blocks: Allow Post Featured ImageFeatured imageA 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. blocks to have a consistent height. 27620
Query and LoopLoopThe 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: 24762
Hello! This is the 30th weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/.
Please weigh in on the tickets below — your voice and feedback are welcome!
Issues / Discussions:
Blocks: Fix the text color for links in the Navigation blockBlockBlock 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.. 26698
Blocks: Allow paragraphs to use CSSCSSCSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. columns. 27118
Blocks: Modify hover/focus/active states for blocks. 27075
FSEFSEShort for Full Site Editing, a project for the Gutenberg plugin and the editor where a full page layout is created using only blocks.: Semantic Template Parts 27337
FSE: Load content in an iFrameiframeiFrame 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
FSE: Allow themes to enqueue stylesheets in theme.jsonJSONJSON, 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.26902
FSE: Provide alignment styles for the front end. 26633
Blocks: Video Block: Let the video fill the container. 27328
FSE: Reveal block boundaries on hover in the Site Editor 27271
FSE: Load block patterns in the Site Editor. 27497
FSE Blocks: TagTagTag is one of the pre-defined taxonomies in WordPress. Users can add tags to their WordPress posts along with categories. However, while a category may cover a broad range of topics, tags are smaller in scope and focused to specific topics. Think of them as keywords used for topics discussed in a particular post. Cloud block: Adjust styles for the different block alignments 27342
Query and LoopLoopThe 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: 24762