Hello! This is the 45th 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.: Add Disable FSE support flag. 30760
• FSE: Setting gradient as background does not match site editor view. 30768
• FSE: What should replace the Theme Editor? 30695
• FSE: New milestone — Full Site Editing Gradual Adoption 30662
• FSE: Post Comments & Post Comments Form 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.: Provide HTML5 markup by default 30502
• FSE: Discussion on Editor Styles Wrapper Padding for block themes 30545
• FSE: Add post classes in the loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. 30497
• FSE: Update customize link from Appearance menu for block themes 30643
• FSE: Finalizing the name and menu item placement proposal 29630
• FSE Blocks: Add wrapper and align options to the Query block. 30804

Merged/Fixed

• FSE: Term Description block: Don’t output if there’s no description 30564
• FSE: Fix template hierarchy fallbacks. 30599
• Allow creating block templates in existing themes. 30438

General Resources:

• Full Site Editing Milestones 
• GitHub Issues: Full Site Editing
• GitHub  Issues: Themes
• Block-based Themes Reference
• Block-based Themes Tutorial
• Experimental-Themes.json
• Using the Block Editor for Theme Parts
• Printing navigation-block HTML from a legacy menu in themes

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

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