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The Future Of Universal Themes
Blockbase was created as a “universal” parent theme. The aim of universal themes was to help us the transition from Classic themes to Block themes, while the Site Editor was still in development. Blockbase was instrumental in helping us make this transition. Universal themes inevitably make some compromises to make it possible to customize them…
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New header and footer patterns
In Blockbase 2.0.12 we made some changes to headers and footers work. Blockbase now provides multiple header and footer patterns. These can be included in templates using the new Pattern block in Gutenberg. This change enables all Blockbase child themes to use the same naming conventions for header and footer template parts, i.e. parts/header.html and…
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Blockbase v2 – Changes to font families
Blockbase v2 contains a breaking change from this PR. This modifies the way that fonts work, which should make it easier for child themes to implement their own fonts. In Blockbase v1, changing the fonts in a child theme had a few limitations: The blocks that implemented “body” and “heading” font families were fixed. For…