Jeff Ong 5:12 pm on November 3, 2021
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Block themes meeting Notes — Nov 3

Location: #themereview, the full transcript begins here.

Facilitated by @mikachan

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/ + Themes Updates

Themes team representative nominations

Friday, November 5 2021 is the deadline to nominate themes team representatives. You can read more and nominate someone here: https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2021/10/27/nominations-call-for-the-themes-team-representatives/

Open Floor

There was a nice conversation around Full Site editing, designing block themes, and sharing resources beginning here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RP4Y3K/p1635956395106000

Some questions that were asked:

  • Can you create Gutenberg theme from scratch without templates?
  • How can I design my theme if I create all the default folders and files?
  • Can I use CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. in the editor?
  • With FSE, is there a need to build custom themes the old way?
  • Do ACF work with FSE?

Thanks everyone for participating, please comment if there’s something you would like to add.

#block-based-meeting, #block-based-themes

Sarah Norris 3:42 pm on November 2, 2021
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Block-based Themes Meeting Agenda: November 3, 2021

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

Time: Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 04:00 PM GMT

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/
  • Reminder about the Nominations Call for themes team representatives
  • Open Floor / Q&A

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

+make.wordpress.org/core/ #agenda #meeting #block-based-meeting

scruffian 1:59 pm on November 1, 2021
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Gutenberg + Themes: Week of October 25th, 2021

Hello! This is the 70th 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. Apologies for the delaying in posting.

Active Issues / Discussions & PRs

  • Themes: Series of bugs and shortcomings faced during 5.9 go/no go prep #35662
  • Themes: [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] Consider an 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.-compatible approach to starter content #35680
  • Themes: [Quote, Pullquote Blocks] Allow 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. customizations of the citation fields #35735
  • Themes: CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. Custom Properties on BODY lead to DOM inheritance issues #35840
  • Themes: Allow themes to opt-in to font-smoothing via theme.json #35934 
  • FSE: Add outer padding support to the flow layout #35919
  •  Themes: Block editor: pass assets through block_editor_settings_all #35950
  • Themes: Draft: Try out variables substitutions in block templates #36059
  •  Themes: Block Themes: Starter Content #36074
  • FSE: Add fallback handling for plugins or themes using 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. #35877
  • FSE: Update and align template descriptions #36000
  • GS: Fix presets data for themes that do not provide any preset #36054
  • DT: Font Family Support: Fix skip serialization check #36073
  • FSE: Ensure the Customizer is available for plugins or theme options when using a FSE theme #35874
  • FSE: Lock entire FSE templates and template parts #36008
  • DT: Allow block markup to modify blockGap values #35778
  • DT: Flex Layout: Allow control over vertical alignment of children #35849   

Merged/Fixed/Announced

  • GS: Lower the specificity of border & padding styles for the outline block style in the button block #35968
  • DT: Navigation: Force text decoration styles on nav item in editor #35859
  • GS: Remove the duplicated title in background, text and link views in Global Styles #35583
  • DT: Border Radius Control: Add fallback px unit and add utils tests #35786

Overview Issues

  • Default Theme (Twenty Twenty Two): Overview of Gutenberg issues: #75
  • GS: The Global Styles Interface #34574  
  • FSE: 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. Block: Tracking issue #34994 
  • FSE: Site Editing block placeholders #35501
  • DT: Typography Tools: Tracking defaults for blocks #35604

General Resources:

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

#gutenberg-themes-roundup

KafleG 11:33 am on October 27, 2021  

Nominations Call for the themes team representatives

The Themes team is looking for team representatives. It’s time to nominate team representatives. We would like to request you to comment in the below comment section about your nomination. Based on the nominations, 2 themes team representatives will be elected.

What are Team Reps?

Team reps are responsible for communicating on behalf of the team. 

In the WordPress open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project, each team has on average one or two reps (i.e. an abbreviation for team representative).  

Read here to know more about team reps.

Responsibilities:

  • They represent the team
  • Communication with other teams 
  • Post weekly updates 
  • Mentor theme reviewers 
  • Transfer themes, suspend or delist theme (if necessary)
  • Conduct team meetings, write meeting agendas and meeting notes 
  • Guide theme authors and reply to their questions 
  • Regularly check themes team email and follow-up etc. 

What are the qualifications?

A representative should be an active member of the WordPress Community. Someone reliable and trusted, familiar with WordPress theme development.

How to nominate someone? 

The deadline for nominations is Friday, November 5. 2021.

Nomination text sample: “I would like to nominate @nominee_wp_username”. Or you can also nominate yourself. You can write “I would like to nominate myself”. 

If you get nominated but if you are not ready for the reps, you can decline it as well.

How Will the Election Work?

If we get more than 2 names and can’t decide reps by acceptance, then we will go with the voting like an election. We will write another post with detailed information for the voting process. (if necessary). 

Once the results are done, the new team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts.(s) will be announced in a new blog post. 

If you have any questions, comment below. Happy Nominating!

KafleG 4:07 am on October 27, 2021
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – October 26, 2021

This is the meeting notes from the themes review team discussion, October 26, 2021. 

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

You can read the full transcript on our #themereview channel. This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. Thank you @kafleg for preparing the agenda. 

1. Weekly updates

The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails.

See this week’s updates here in the past 7 days,

  • 290 tickets were opened
  • 312 tickets were closed:
  • 291 tickets were made live.
    • 33 new Themes were made live.
    • 258 Theme updates were made live.
    • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
  • 20 tickets were not-approved.
  • 1 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Number of reviewers: 3

2. Discussion on 5.9 theme issues

With the 5.9 release is fast approaching, we’d like to share a couple of extra focuses on these Twenty Twenty-One theme issues.

There are several other issues that still need resolution. You can review those tickets having patches or submit patches if you can do that.

3. Open floor 

No questions or feedback related to the theme review were discussed during the open floor. 

[Next Steps on Themes and Reviews]

The theme review process is making steady progress towards automation. Here is the latest summary of the Theme tools and requirements recap posted by @poena. 

In case if you missed the ongoing efforts and upcoming changes, here are the links to follow. Feb 24, 2021 – Meeting Notes | Matt Josepha and Theme Team

#meeting-notes, #themereview, #themes-team