Phase 2 of Gutenberg introduces Full Site Editing to WordPress; to make this possible, we need a new way of building themes – using blocks.
Block themes use templates made entirely of blocks. The layout is configured using a combination of theme.json and CSS. The settings in theme.json are used to generate CSS – this is part of the Global Styles feature. The theme CSS is added after the theme.json CSS and together these rules define the layout for a theme. If you’re just getting started with block themes, this guide should help.
Global Style allows us to set styles for some aspects of the theme, but many common customisations are not yet available. We are actively helping to add more customisations to Global Styles, but in the meantime we have been working on a mechanism to define a lot more theme styles in a custom section of theme.json, until they are available in Global Styles.
The result of this work is a new theme called Blockbase, loosely based on the classic theme Blank Canvas. This block theme attempts to make all the common theme styles configurable in theme.json, and provides the CSS needed to make them work until the blocks themselves support these settings. As more of these configurations are added to Global Styles, we will remove the corresponding CSS from Blockbase.
We are currently using Blockbase as a parent theme for all of our block themes; in time we hope that it won’t be needed. This means that child themes only need to define their settings in a theme.json file, and the parent theme CSS will adjust to these settings. This approach gives us an agreed standard when configuring block styles. It also will make it trivial to move to the Global Styles implementation when that becomes available in core.
Blockbase is intended to be a representation of all the theme style settings that we believe should eventually live in Global Styles and be configurable by users. Some themes need customizations beyond what would be possible with Global Styles. These more unique styles continue to be defined in the theme CSS file.
Style configurations live in the “styles” section of theme.json. Rules can be defined for both “blocks” and “elements”, and these will be interpreted by Global Styles and generate the appropriate CSS.
The theme.json file also contains a section for “custom” configurations, inside the “settings” property. Settings defined in “custom” are output by Global Styles as CSS variables. These variables are used by the theme CSS files to style blocks and other elements.
Child themes of Blockbase are able to redefine these CSS variables by setting different values in its theme.json. The child theme inherits the Blockbase CSS, but with the new CSS variables defined in theme.json.
To avoid a child theme needing to redefine every value in the theme.json file, child themes can create a child-theme.json file and a script will generate a theme.json file, taking the defaults from Blockbase and updating it with the new values from the child theme.
This mechanism will be particularly useful as more customizations are added to Global Styles; in many cases it will only be necessary to update Blockbase itself and rebuild each child theme, to update the theme.json files. You can find out more about this in the theme’s readme file.
Aside from the benefits outlined above, we have also found that this approach to building themes has resulted in a drastic reduction in the amount of code we need to write for both the parent theme and any child themes. As much as possible we rely on the styles that come with Gutenberg, and only add extra rules where necessary. Blockbase CSS is, at the time of writing about 1000 lines of code, whereas Seedlet CSS is over 4000.
As more of these customizations are added to Global Styles, we will be able to remove the corresponding CSS from Blockbase, so we anticipate the size of the theme CSS to reduce over time.
Blockbase is available on the Automattic themes repo. If there is interest from others in using this approach to build themes we can investigate making it available as an npm package for others to use.
This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Gerri Kimber to discuss a bold new biography of D. H. Lawrence, 'the most judged writer of his age'; twenty-odd writers share their formative encounters with nature, including the novelists Maaza Mengiste and Ali Smith; plus, reviews of the television adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s 'The Pursuit of Love' and 'Harm', a new play about loneliness and social media addiction
Burning Man: The ascent of D. H. Lawrence, by Frances Wilson
'Sinister, sublime, exhausting, hungry – formative encounters with the natural world', see the-tls.co.uk
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford, BBC iPlayer
'Harm' by Phoebe Eclair-Powell, the Bush Theatre, London
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Cientistas de várias partes do mundo têm descoberto que psicodélicos como ayahuasca, LSD, psilocibina, MDMA e ibogaína podem auxiliar no tratamento de vários tipos de doenças mentais.
No Brasil, o Instituto do Cérebro da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte efetuou um estudo pioneiro sobre o uso da ayahuasca.
Foi o primeiro estudo randomizado, duplo cego, para avaliar o impacto de um psicodélico no combate à depressão.
A bebida, utilizada na religião do Santo Daime e em vários outros cultos, mostrou resultados promissores. E o melhor: em pessoas resistentes a terapias com antidepressivos tradicionais.
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– Colabore com a Rádio Escafandro e receba recompensas.
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– Mergulhe mais fundo
Pisconautas – Viagens com a ciência psicodélica brasileira (LINK PARA COMPRA)
– Entrevistados do episódio
Escritor e jornalista especializado em ciência e meio-ambiente. Colunista do Jornal Folha de S.Paulo e autor do recém-lançando Psiconautas – Viagens com a ciência psicodélica brasileira (Fósforo, 2021).
Jornalista, historiador, autor de História Social do LSD no Brasil (Elefante, 2020)
Físico, doutor em física aplicada à medicina e biologia pela Universidade de São Paulo de Ribeirão Preto, onde também obteve o título de livre docência e foi professor até 2009. Professor do Instituto do Cérebro da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Atua na área de Neurociências, com ênfase na utilização da imagem funcional por ressonância magnética e eletrocenfalografia na avaliação das bases neurais dos estados alterados de consciência induzidos pelo psicodélico ayahuasca.
Pedagoga, mosaicista e psicóloga especialista no tratamento de pessoas com dependência química.
– Ficha técnica:
Concepção, produção, roteiro, apresentação, sonorização e edição: Tomás Chiaverini
Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama
Mixagem: Vitor Coroa
Trilha incidental: Blue Dots
Advogada criminalista, comentarista política e apresentadora, Gabriela Prioli é uma das grandes difusoras de informação política de qualidade no país. Polarização, discurso de ódio, controle de armas, política de drogas, saúde mental e, claro, engajamento cívico estão entre os temas da conversa com Ilona Szabó para o último episódio desta temporada de Você Pode Mudar o Mundo.
A psicanalista Maria Homem fala sobre luto, perda e a trajetória de Contardo Calligaris, seu companheiro de vida amorosa e intelectual, morto em março.
This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Devoney Looser, Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author of ‘The Making of Jane Austen’, to discuss new research into the Austen family’s ties with slavery; Colin Grant, critic and writer, introduces Writers Mosaic, a new platform for writing and recordings; and Mary Beard considers the Roman love of temple-building and Euripides as reimagined by a poet and a comic-book illustrator.
The Trojan Women: A comic book by Anne Carson and Rosanna Bruno
This episode of The TLS podcast is sponsored by Curtis Brown Creative. Go to www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk to find out more about their creative writing courses. Use code YOURWRITINGSUMMER for £20 off any six-week course.
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Nascida no Pará em 1985, Alessandra Korap, do povo Munduruku, vem lutando pela proteção das terras indígenas e a demarcação desses territórios, denunciando atividades ilegais de garimpo e da indústria madeireira. Ilona Szabó conversa com esta ativista que é uma das maiores vozes na defesa dos povos indígenas, do meio ambiente, dos direitos das mulheres e da democracia brasileira.
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