Gutenberg + Themes: Week of July 6, 2020

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We are a group of volunteers who review and approve themes submitted to be included in the official WordPress Theme directory.

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Code reviews are a great way to learn more about developing themes and improving your own skills.

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Handbooks and review requirements

The team maintains the official Theme Review Requirements, the Theme Unit Test Data, and helps the documentation team with the Theme Developer Handbook.

Coding standards and plugins

We maintain the WPThemeReview Standard for PHP_CodeSniffer, the Theme Sniffer plugin and Theme Check

Code Packages

We have code packages for themes available for use on Github and Packagist

Communication

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Meetings:

Twice monthly at Tuesday @ 17:00 UTC Second Tuesday in the month is open floor and the fourth Tuesday is with a fixed agenda.

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 Themes meeting twice monthly at Wednesday @ 16:00 UTC

Triage Meeting twice monthly at Wednesday @ 18:00 UTC

#gutenberg-themes-roundup

Hi everyone! Here’s the ninth 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/.

Since conversations are ongoing, some of the issues & PRs mentioned were also present in previous weeks. We’ve tried to put brand new ones at the top of each of the bulleted lists.

Please weigh in on the tickets below — your voice and feedback are welcome!

In progress / Discussions:

General

Custom gradients cannot be edited if there are no explicit stops specified. 23501
Gradient stops should be allowed to fully overlap in the gradient 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.. 23816
Discussion around adding font unit options to the font size selector. 23323

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 Themes

Add a tutorial about how to build a block-based theme. 23732
Discussion about the support of shortcodes in block-based theme templates. 23626
Discussing the use of conditional logic in experimental-theme.json. 22324
Tracking issue for Template Tags in Full Site Editing. 22724
Add Template lock to templates created in editor. 23532

FSE Blocks

A set of blocks are available with 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 to enable building templates in FSE.

Add a site description block. 23788
HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. and CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. not present/inconsistent for FSE Blocks. 22759
Suggestion for Site Title styling options. 23228
Group block is missing alignment options in the full-site editor. 23431

Global Styles

Tracking and consolidating style attributes for blocks. 22700

Navigation

This board tracks Navigation Screen and Navigation Block issues that are important for the WordPress 5.5 release. Project Overview
There is a new standing weekly meeting in #core slack specific to the Navigation block and screen. The first meeting was Wednesday July 8th.

Merged:

General

Fixes for the issue where custom theme colors don’t work in the editor after Gutenberg 7.9.1. 22356
Fix centered legacy buttons. 23381
Add a default line height rule to the post title. 23656

Block-based Themes

Add a Site Logo Block. 18811
Expand and update Block-based Themes documentation page. 23750
Link to theme-experiments repo in block-based theme documentation. 23748
References to “Section” in the full-site editor were changed back to “Template Part” 23765

General Resources:

Thanks to @itsjusteileen, @jffng, and @joen for help pulling this post together. Please let us know if it was helpful in the comments!