Carolina Nymark 7:04 am on September 27, 2021
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pbking 4:04 pm on September 24, 2021
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Gutenberg + Themes: Week of September 20, 2021

Hello! This is the 66th 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/.

As always, please weigh in on the tickets below — your feedback is crucial and appreciated. A special thanks to @mikachan for compiling this collection.

Active Issues / Discussions & PRs

  • Themes: Post Comments 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. 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.: Tracking issue #34994
  • Themes: Query pagination does not output paged and paged-number body classes #34898
  • Themes: theme.jsonJSON JSON, 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.: support a description value for templateParts #34723
    Themes: Font family: switch from CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. Custom Property to classes #31910
  • 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.: Post Comments Loop Block: Tracking issue #34994
  • GS: CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress./Button .is-style-outline overwrites theme.json padding settings for default button padding #34853
  • GS: Document how to include to a 3rd party typeface in global styles #34752
  • GS: Try: add get_settings_from_theme function to get data from the theme’s theme.json #34843
  • GS: theme.json can’t have comments #35099
  • GS: theme.json: whether or not to allow targeting settings that are specific to the block #35114
  • GS: Implicit Text, Hover, Focus Colors as Part of Color Palette #34717
  • DT: Duotone/Filters: Add option to set on entire gallery #34950
  • DT: Migrate buttons & navigation to flex layout #34872

Merged/Fixed/Announced

  • Themes: Fix block gap added to the block templates skip link #34986
  • FSE: Add basic support for child themes #34354
  • GS: Fix theme supports for themes without theme.json #34955
  • DT: Unit Control: Always display current unit value if valid #34768

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pbking 1:12 pm on September 17, 2021
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Gutenberg + Themes: Week of September 13, 2021

Hello! This is the 65th 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/.

As always, please weigh in on the tickets below — your feedback is crucial and appreciated.

Active Issues / Discussions & PRs

  • GS: theme.jsonJSON JSON, 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.: support a description value for templateParts #34723
  • GS: CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress./Button .is-style-outline overwrites theme.json padding settings for default button padding #34853
  • GS: Document how to include to a 3rd party typeface in global styles #34752
  • GS: Add Support for Named Sections of Color Palettes #34741
  • GS: Implicit Text, Hover, Focus Colors as Part of Color Palette #34717
  • GS: Add duotone theme.json styles support #34667
  • 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.: Migrate buttons & navigation to flex layout #34872
  • FSE: 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. supports: margin/padding controls not showing in the Block Editor when enabled at theme.json settings block level. #34766
  • FSE: Visualise box model properties on the canvas when interacting with spacing controls #34703
  • FSE: Add basic support for child themes #34354
  • Themes: Try: add get_settings_from_theme function to get data from the theme’s theme.json #34843
  • Themes: Experiment with allowing Theme JSON to control Navigation block within the Navigation Editor screen #34784
  • Themes: Query pagination does not output paged and paged-number body classes #34898

Merged/Fixed/Announced

  • Cache global stylesheet keyed by theme #34704
  • Clean theme data when switching themes in the customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. #34540
  • Fix for link color in containers #34689

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Milana Cap 2:39 pm on September 15, 2021
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KafleG 1:40 am on September 15, 2021
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – September 14, 2021

Hello!

This is the meeting notes from the themes review team discussion, September 14, 2021.

Thank you to all the participants and contributors.

The themes team conducts a meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. 

Thank you @kafleg for preparing the agenda. 

1. Weekly updates

[Theme Tickets and HelpScout Updates]

The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. See this week’s updates here in the past 7 days. This stat includes both new and updated tickets.

  • 385 tickets were opened
  • 386 tickets were closed:
  • 375 tickets were made live.
  • 28 new Themes were made live.
  • 374 Theme updates were made live.
  • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 11 tickets were not-approved.
  • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Number of reviewers: 4

[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]

We are continually updating the Theme Check plugin and Theme Review Action for a smoother theme submission process. Here is the current state of the Theme Check plugin and Theme Review Action. 

2. Open floor 

We discussed how some themes have predefined contents on the preview in the theme directory. Themes are allowed to set up the predefined contents using the starter contents. The starter contents help users visualize how the theme supposes to look. 

[Theme upload survey results]

Theme upload survey results and some interesting findings are posted here. Thank you @dd32 for summarizing the results and 256 theme authors who participated in the survey. 

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