Do I understand correctly that this scope does not include a plan for allowing block themes to work without Gutenberg even in 5.9?
And I mean block themes not "site editor".

They will work once the remaining infrastructure pieces and dependencies (missing blocks) are included even without the theme editor.

The theme editor is what WordPress calls the built in file editor in the WordPress admin area,. Please help me understand what part that editor plays in whether or not a block theme/ full site editing theme can be activated.

Sorry, I was using "theme editor" to mean "site editor" in the above (the block editor that is able to edit all templates of a theme). The current built in file editor would still be there for any kind of theme, though it remains to be seen if it's de-emphasized in the block theme case given you still hace access to all files, provided it's not mixing php files with html templates.

Update: broke design tools into its sub-tracking issue at #33447.

Update: added "focused template part" mode as a separate item under Template Editor #33926.

Update: added "A lighter Navigation Block Experience" as a complement to the existing Navigation Block Tracking Issue #34041

Update: added "The Global Styles Interface" to the styling milestone #34574.

Hi, Is there a plan for category pages etc to be fully editable with blocks like any other page? This would be brilliant for woocommerce. There are some hacky ways round it at the moment, using redirects to replace category pages with normal pages etc, or using canonical url and linking from the menu, but it feels like a huge seo risk to start messing with my site structure this way. I'm wondering how much more research and effort i should put into this, with the way wordpress is going maybe this will be resolved in a year or so?

@gingerling with block themes you'd indeed be able to edit category templates, either globally, or for a specific category:

@gingerling with block themes you'd indeed be able to edit category templates, either globally, or for a specific category:

Sounds great. Forgive my ignorance, is this available now? Or is this in the works? Is there a roadmap with expected release if so? Thanks for your help!

@gingerling the above is available in the Gutenberg plugin paired with a block theme. It's currently targeted for inclusion in WP 5.9.

@gingerling the above is available in the Gutenberg plugin paired with a block theme. It's currently targeted for inclusion in WP 5.9.

Thank you this is great, I'm planning now to wait for this feature rather than work around it. I'm hoping to be able to work on testing for storefront if it will be incorporating this block theme approach. Really impressed with wordpress development speed and direction right now.

Hi @mtias so I'm set up with a test site with 5.9-beta3 and twenty-22 theme, but can't seem to work out how to edit category pages.

I can see that there is a template for Archives and I can make general design edits there, but I was hoping to find that the content of each category can be edited with the block editor. My aim is to make my category pages closer to a landing page, choosing individual woocommerce products, texts and images to display at the top for each category page.

Could you point me in the right direction? Thanks!

[I worked out how to make and name a new template I think, thinking I should apply the new template to the category and made a separate template for each category, but can't work out how to apply it][

Hi @gingerling! This is not the best spot to ask these kinds of questions as this is meant to be a tracking issue that contributors across the project can come to and see the latest update on the full site editing project. If you're interested in using these features and have similar questions though, I highly recommend joining the FSE Outreach Program: https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/full-site-editing-outreach-experiment/ You'll find other folks like yourself exploring features, learning how things work, and giving feedback. This might mean creating new issues or pointing folks to currently open ones to share additional insights. I run the program and you can find me on WordPress.org slack with the same username here (@annezazu). I hope to see you there and always welcome questions. 🥳

To address this question for now though, what you found is what's planned for 5.9. You aren't the only one who wants more granular control over each category template though. You can chime in on this issue with your use case as the intent is to expand upon the foundation that 5.9 sets to include more of these options: #37407

I can see that there is a template for Archives and I can make general design edits there, but I was hoping to find that the content of each category can be edited with the block editor. My aim is to make my category pages closer to a landing page, choosing individual woocommerce products, texts and images to display at the top for each category page.

Could you point me in the right direction? Thanks!

@gingerling You might want to have a look at this if you are interested in Woo templates for block themes

Thanks all, I joined the slack channel and after talking there, created this feature request: #37746

Update: added tracking issues for the comment related blocks.

Update: added "gradual adoption" section and "blocks" section.

Removing as completed: #29733, #33926, #20331, #34041, #30910, #35521.

Completed:

• #34574