Note that we are having a summer break for the bi- weekly Theme Review meeting.
Next review meeting is on July 7 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.
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 meeting twice monthly at Wednesday @ 16:00 UTC
Triage Meeting twice monthly at Wednesday @ 18:00 UTC
Hi everyone! Here’s the eighth 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 one’s coming a day early this week. 🙂
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
Discussion around adding font unit options to the font size selector. 23323
Button 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.: Lighten the DOM in the editor. 23222
Limit display of block patterns if their included blocks are not available. 23275
PR to adjust max-width setting for reusable blocks. 22632
PR for adding color controls to the list block. 21387
PR to change CSSCSSCSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. specificity of default font-size rules. 22671
Fixes for the issue where custom theme colors don’t work in the editor after Gutenberg 7.9.1. 22356
Add a way to filterFilterFilters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. CSS classes for blocks using PHPPHPPHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php.23223
Block-based Themes
Discussion about the support of shortcodes in block-based theme templates. 23626
Discussing the use of conditional logic in experimental-theme.json22324
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 pluginPluginA 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.
HTMLHTMLHTML 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 CSS not present/inconsistent for FSE Blocks 22759
Discussion about presets for line-height, padding and margin. 23111
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 releaseReleaseA release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software.. Project Overview
There will be a new standing weekly meeting beginning 8 July in #core slack specific to the Navigation block and screen
Allow wide/full alignment in the full-site editor. 23488
Rename “Template Part” to “Section” in the full-site 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.. 23295
Add theme exporter button to the full-site editor. 22922
This post summarizes the latest bi-weekly 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 meeting (agenda, slack transcript). This meeting was held in the #themereviewSlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, 12:00 PM EDT and was moderated by @kjellr.
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/ Update
Gutenberg 8.4 has been released. This is the second-last releaseReleaseA release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software. before WordPress 5.5. The full-site editor now includes an “export theme” option. This will download all of the block templates and template-parts that you’ve created or edited in the full-site editor. It’s really useful for creating block-based themes. This can eliminate a lot of copying and pasting when created block-based themes.
Export Tool in Gutenberg 8.4
Issues for Comments
The following issues are open for comments. If you’re looking to contribute to the next generation of theme creation, this is a good place to provide input.
Issue 23324 Conditional logic within experimental-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.. This arose from a discussion in a previous meeting.
Issue 22759HTMLHTMLHTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. output of all the full-site editing blocks (this is particularly useful for themes to cut down on CSSCSSCSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site.).
Issue 23228 Feature requests for the site title block.
The team agreed the existing documentation is adequate to allow users to get started testing and experimenting with Full Site Editing for Block-based themes.
Some improvements could be:
to add a list of available features and the development of the status of those items.
adding a getting started section to the experimental-theme.json docs
it is not clear how to include a template part in a template or if it is not templates and parts that are saved will be used if you switch themes.
how to create and edit templates needs to reflect the new export theme button. At should also note that it is recommend that you can edit things directly in the full-site editor.
include when exporting what to do with the post IDs that are created
the wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=wp_template screens, there should also be a note that those don’t reflect any templates that are bundled with the actual theme.
the the “Theme Blocks” section could list currently available FSE blocks but this will need to be updated. Everyone working in #core-editor should be notified to make sure PRs involving blocks for block-based themes are tagged in the repo.
Status updates for 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 Theme efforts 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/:
Features and fixes in Gutenberg v8.4
In-progress issues and PRs to keep an eye on
Discussion topic: How can we improve documentation for Block-based Themes?
Q&A / Open Floor
We need a volunteer to post notes this week!
As always, if you have any topics or demos you’d like to see in future meetings, please share below.
