WordPress Contributors Propose Improving Block Themes’ Visibility in the Directory
WordPress theme authors and contributors from the Themes team are exploring ways to make block themes more prominent on the official directory. These are themes that are specifically tagged with support for full-site editing. Despite WordPress having a block theme for its most recent default theme, authors have been slow to create more. There are currently only 86 themes that support the full range of WordPress site editing capabilities. A meta trac ticket opened five weeks ago proposes giving block themes priority in the directory. Themes Team contributor Sandilya Kafle kicked off the discussion with two ideas: Add a new tab in the theme repository ( Popular, Latest, Block)Change the popular themes algorithm and add 1 block theme in 1 out of 10 popular themes. Proposal to add Block to the menu on the Themes Directory “There might be some other way to encourage block theme authors to contribute more,” Kafle said. “We don’t need this always, but we can try this for at least one year and see how it will go. Block themes need some attention and encouragement. Only very few FSE themes are maintained properly.” The idea received immediate pushback from WordPress contributor Joy Reynolds. “If block…
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