Gutenberg + Themes: Week of May 11, 2020

Welcome to the Themes team!

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.

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

If this sounds interesting, read more about the team here. Check out our guide for new reviewers.

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:

Note that we are having a summer break for the bi- weekly Theme Review meeting.

Next review meeting is on August 4 17:00 UTC.

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

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Triage Meeting twice monthly at Wednesday @ 18:00 UTC

#gutenberg-themes-roundup

Hi everyone! As discussed in last week’s block-based themes meeting, we’ll be trying out weekly posts that aim to improve awareness, communication, and collaboration between theme folks and those working on 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/. It can be hard to stay up to date with changes and discussions, so hopefully this can serve as a quick reference each week.

Many of these issues and PRs are still open. Please weigh in to discuss solutions — your voice and feedback are welcome!

In progress / Discussions:

General

An attempt to remove some of the extra canvas padding in the editor. 22213
A conceptual discussion about removing all default margins for blocks in the editor. 22208
Issues with custom colors in editor styles after Gutenberg 7.9.1. 21931 (Followup PR in 22356)
Discussion about clearer classnames for blocks that have custom backgrounds. 21439
Discussion around adding grids 20000

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Figuring out a way to handle inline dynamic content in theme templates. 21932
Discussion around 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 block features for template parts. 20997
Work is happening on bringing feature parity between the FSE blocks and existing blocks. 21087
Discussion around adding a button (perhaps just in the 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) for exporting a theme directly from the full-site editor. 19260
FSE blocks are missing classnames on the front end. 22097
Featured ImageFeatured image A 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. block appears broken in the editor. 22081

Global Styles

Recap and next steps for Global Styles. 22296
Exploring a way to manage theme CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. for Global Styles. 20290
Discussing the shape of the theme config file. 22291 21538 21490

Merged:

General

Reduced specificity base block margins. 22051
Group blocks now have zero top/bottom margins by default. 22209
Better alignment between the front end and editor markup for the Cover block. 22348
Improvements to font size specificity in the editor. 21969
Centered blocks now clear floats by default. 21608
The default inserter now correctly inherits paragraph font styles. 21725
The top and bottom margin from individual column blocks has been removed. 22018
In case you missed it, button issues from Gutenberg 7.9.1 were reverted in version 8.0. 21923 21816
Unset the “inherit” for link colors. 22160

Block-based Themes

The first version of a query block has been merged in. 22199
The gray background in the full-site editor has been fixed for themes that did not declare editor styling. 22182
The author block includes new options. 19894

General Resources:

Testing Explorations

Evergreen resources

Thanks to @itsjusteileen, @jffng, and @joen for help pulling this post together. This is the first of many, so please let us know if it was helpful in the comments!