Block-based Themes Meeting Agenda for February 5

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Below is the agenda for the first Block-based Themes meeting. The goal of this initial meeting is to get everyone on the same page about early full-site editing work 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/, so that we can understand how it may effect themes in the future.

Time: Wednesday, February 5th 2020, 16:00 UTC
Channel: #themereview

Agenda

Welcome, review the meeting purpose
Overview of early 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 theme efforts in Gutenberg:
- Block-based themes summary from @jffng
- Global Styles summary from @karmatosed
Questions on these topics
Propose topics for future meetings

There will be a period at the end of the meeting for folks to discuss how this meeting can be most useful. If you have any topics, demos, or questions you’d like to see discussed at a subsequent meeting, please share below!

Towfiq I. 6:53 pm on February 3, 2020

In the theme review guideline, its specified that themes cannot register custom blocks. And since, there are not enough coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. blocks to create a whole page including headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes./footer, I am not sure how a theme can be “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 theme”.

Is there any plans on allowing themes with Custom Blocks in the repo?
- Kjell Reigstad 7:53 pm on February 3, 2020
  
  In the theme review guideline, its specified that themes cannot register custom blocks. And since, there are not enough coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. blocks to create a whole page including headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes./footer, I am not sure how a theme can be “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 theme”.
  
  Is there any plans on allowing themes with Custom Blocks in the repo?
  
  I can’t answer your second question (though I believe the answer is no). But I will say that one of the discussion topics I’d like to address at some point is: “What blocks are missing from Core that will be required for full-site editing?”
  
  There are already numerous blocks in the works, but we’ll need more:
  
  Site Title Block (Already merged)
  Site Description Block (Already merged)
  Post Excerpt Block (Already merged)
  Post Content & Title Blocks (Already merged)
  Post Author Block (Already merged)
  Post Date Block (Already merged)
  Featured Image Block
  Post Tags Block
  Post (or Query) Block
  Comments Count Block
  Comments Block