Maggie Cabrera 1:45 pm on May 4, 2021
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Block-based Themes Meeting Agenda: May 5, 2021

Below is the agenda for this week’s Block-based Themes meeting.

Time: Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 10:00 AM EST

Channel: #themereview

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 theme updates 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/
  • TT1 Blocks update
  • Continued discussion: Bridging the gap between existing themes and block-based themes
  • Open Floor / Q&A

Please comment if you have any additional topics you’d like to see discussed!

+make.wordpress.org/core/ #agenda #meeting

Maggie Cabrera 4:01 pm on April 30, 2021
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Gutenberg + Themes: Week of Apr 26, 2021

Hello! This is the 47nd 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/.  

Please weigh in on the tickets below — your feedback is crucial and appreciated.

Issues / Discussions & PRs

  • FSEFSE Short for Full Site Editing, a project for the Gutenberg plugin and the editor where a full page layout is created using only blocks.: 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. 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. needs size settings 31323
  • FSE: Inconsistent Pattern Insertion between Page Editor and Site Editor 31251
  • FSE: Post Title: deleting the block crashes the parent group block 31115
  • FSE: opening templates and template parts for post listing 31114
  • FSE: Page template: Show template parts 31090
  • FSE: Split theme.css styles loading 31239
  • FSE: Add disable FSE theme support flag 30760
  • FSE: Fix template loading order for child themes when no explicit template exists 31336
  • Themes: Presets used in patterns: register them as user presets? 31124
  • Themes: Fix: Allow post comment button to inherit button & global styles automatically 31338
  • Themes: (Optionally) rendering classic navigation data source in Navigation Block 30852

Merged/Fixed

  • FSE: Template part – add patterns placeholder selection. 31155
  • FSE: A11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility): Constrain tabbing inside them multi-entity save panel 31136
  • FSE: Verify if php template exists for a hybrid/universal theme with a block-based parent 31123
  • FSE: Add a StyleProvider to support CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site.-in-JS components inside iframes. 31010
  • Themes: Only split block styles loading for block themes 31309
  • Themes: [Fix] Inlined coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. block styles should not override user-added inline styles 31268
  • Hook maybe_inline_styles in the footer 31072

Overview Issues:

  • FSE: Page template: Overview/enhancements 31097

General Resources:

Thanks @pbking and @kjellr for your help with this week’s summary. Please comment if there’s something you’d like to highlight 🙂

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Kelly Choyce-Dwan 2:16 pm on April 28, 2021
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X-post: Block Pattern Directory Update

X-post from +make.wordpress.org/meta: Block Pattern Directory Update

Kjell Reigstad 1:40 pm on April 23, 2021
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Gutenberg + Themes: Week of Apr 19, 2021

Hello! This is the 46th 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/.  

Please weigh in on the tickets below — your feedback is crucial and appreciated.

Issues / Discussions & PRs

  • FSEFSE Short for Full Site Editing, a project for the Gutenberg plugin and the editor where a full page layout is created using only blocks.: Verify if php template exists for a hybrid/universal theme with a 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 parent 31123
  • Presets used in patterns: register them as user presets? 31124
  • (Optionally) rendering classic navigation data source in Navigation Block 30852
  • FSE: Add Disable FSE support flag. 30760
  • FSE: New milestone — Full Site Editing Gradual Adoption 30662
  • FSE: Finalizing the name and menu item placement proposal 29630
  • FSE Blocks: Add wrapper and align options to the Query block. 30804

Merged/Fixed

  • Hook maybe_inline_styles in the footer 31072
  • Global Styles: Make the config resilient to changes to safecss_filter_attr() 30888
  • Template part block – fix PHPPHP PHP (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. notice for placeholder block. 30928

General Resources:

Thanks to @pbking for compiling this week’s update. Please comment if there’s something else you’d like to highlight! 🙂

#gutenberg-themes-roundup

Carolina Nymark 1:14 am on April 22, 2021
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Removing blockers for block themes

This post is a proposal for how the themes team can continue reducing the theme directory requirements.

The problem: Blocked theme uploads

When a theme is uploaded to the directory, the files are checked by the Theme Check 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. If a theme fails some checks, the upload process is halted.
The checks in the plugin were created for classic themes, and some checks prevent 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. themes from being submitted to the theme directory without help from an admin.

Parts of full site editing are planned to be included in WordPress 5.8, and to make sure that end-users can test different full site editing themes, it needs to be easier to submit these themes to the theme directory.

Goals

This process has two short term goals:

  • Allow submission of themes that has support full site editing
  • Remove low impact requirements for all theme formats

Proposed solution

The first step is removing or reducing the severity level of some checks in the Theme Check plugin.

Examples:

  • CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. classes (Already in progress)
  • Tags and categories
  • Post navigation, pagination
  • Comments

Secondly, a flag needs to be created in the plugin to allow other checks to run selectively depending on the theme format. To do this, the plugin needs to be able to determine if the theme is a full site editing theme or not.
Related issues:
https://github.com/WordPress/theme-check/issues/297
https://github.com/WordPress/theme-check/pull/280

Once the plugin is updated, related pages on WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ also needs to be updated to match this:
https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/required/theme-check-plugin/
https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/required/

The changes to the uploader also need to be combined with a call for full site editing themes, encouraging designers and theme authors to submit their themes.

If we need to discuss specific requirements in more detail, this can be done on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ or during team meetings.

Proposed deadline

The planned release date of WordPress 5.8 is July 20, 2021. Considering the current review time, at the latest, the date for allowing full site editing themes in the directory would be June 20, 2021.

How to get involved

Initially, work will happen in the Theme Check GitHub repository and anyone is welcome to contribute. If you would like to hold a scrub and work on issues with other contributors, you are welcome to schedule one and host it in the #themereview SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel.

Feedback

If you have any feedback on the proposed solution and deadline or other suggestions for how the team can work to remove the blocker, please comment below.

Thank you @kafleg and @aristath for reviewing this post.

#full-site-editing, #theme-check