Ben Dwyer 12:27 pm on April 6, 2022  

Gutenberg + Themes: Week of April 4th, 2022

Hello! This is the 78th 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/ coinciding with the 12.9 release.

The 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. locking UIUI UI 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.

The new block locking UI gives themes the ability to lock some blocks. When a block is locked, users are either unable to move it, remove it, or both. This is particularly useful for site level blocks like which are necessary for themes to work as expected, for example Post Content and Query blocks.

New template types

Theme builders are now you are able to create a templates for many different types of pages on their site including CategoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging., Author, TaxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. Date, TagTag Tag is one of the pre-defined taxonomies in WordPress. Users can add tags to their WordPress posts along with categories. However, while a category may cover a broad range of topics, tags are smaller in scope and focused to specific topics. Think of them as keywords used for topics discussed in a particular post. and Attachment pages. This brings more aspects of the template hierarchy to the UI, so that theme builders can create their designs with writing code.

Theme exporting

The exporting features in the Site Editor now includes all theme files alongside the modified templates and parts. This means you can now build a theme in the Site Editor, and export it for use elsewhere, with your edits included.

Patterns

Patterns can now be shipped with your theme without needing any PHP.  Create a new directory called patterns at the root of the theme, and add your patterns as HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. files. You can create patterns in the block editor, switch to the code editor and copy the code into a new HTML file.

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Benachi 3:53 pm on March 22, 2022
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – March 22, 2022

Hello everyone. The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on March 22, 2022. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.

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

1. Weekly updates

The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. Here is the theme statistic for the past 7 days. The most current stats can be found here.

  • 374 tickets were opened
  • 367 tickets were closed:
    • 352 tickets were made live.
      • 19 new Themes were made live.
      • 333 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 15 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Number of reviewers: 4

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: 
3 block themes are live in the past 7 days.
Currently, 2 Block themes are under reviewing.

2. Open Floor

@shivashankerbhatta asked whether themes are allowed to have a carousel or slider using the query block. We discussed that themes are not permitted to have custom blocks as users lose their inputs when switching the themes. Features such as carousel or slider should be done by plugins. 

#meeting-notes, #themes-team

KafleG 3:34 am on March 21, 2022
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Themes team meeting agenda for March 22, 2022

The themes team conducts a meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. This month second meeting is on 22nd of March.

The meeting takes place in the #themereview channel on the WordPress 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/. and you need an account to participate.

Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, March 22 2022, 15:00 UTC

Along with the fixed agendas, we have an open floor at the end where you can ask or share anything related to themes.

We encourage all members and anyone interested to attend. You can also add your agenda in the comment section below.

Meeting agenda

  1. Weekly updates
  2. Open floor

1. Weekly Updates

Current statistics can be found on: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ 

Themes TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket graph: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticketgraph

Check regular weekly updates here.

Also check,

2. Open floor

We will discuss everything related to themes. Attendees can ask or share themes-related things.

Please comment in the comment box below if you have anything to bring up during the open floor.

#meeting-agenda, #themes-team

pbking 6:34 pm on March 18, 2022  

Gutenberg + Themes: Week of March 14th, 2022

Hello! This is the 77th 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/ coinciding with the 12.8 release.

New features:

Webfonts APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.: Font Configuration via 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.

#37140 adds support for a Webfonts API allowing themes to express configuration of the fonts to load using only theme.json!  This is pretty exciting.  It’s just a beginning; tooling still needs to be built around this so that it’s easier to manage from the interface but this is a strong step toward the (very tricky) concept of Font management for themes.

Included in the Zip: Global Styles and More

#39048 adds the theme.json to the resources exported from the Full Site Editor.  This is a step closer to having a fully operational theme exported from the 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..  (Note: how that might work is being discussed… see below!)

#39173 takes that even further and adds an index.php and style.css file as well.

Pattern Registration with theme.json

With #38323 we can now register 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//patterns to a theme via theme.json.  This documentation helps clarify a bit.

Discussions:

Export what?

How do we build themes exclusively with the FSE?  This tracking issue explores what we need to do to get there.

An abstraction too far?

The abstract property appearanceTools in theme.json might not be the right approach. It’s convenient but potentially confusing.  Discussion started in 39586.

Semantic Abstractions?

The Standardization of Colors (among other things) has been discussed quite a bit but we still have no standardized resolution.  39372 opens a discussion regarding standardizing more of that in theme.json.   39371 does the same but for standardized spacing names and 39370 for typography.  Please add your voice!

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Tellyworth 5:42 am on March 16, 2022
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X-post: Coming soon: Block Pattern Directory Submissions

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