Gutenberg 12.5 Introduces Global Styles Variations, Preserves Adjacent Button Styling, and Adds Alpha Transparency to Color Pickers
Gutenberg 12.5 landed in the WordPress plugin directory earlier today. I have already been excited about at least one new enhancement, global styles variations. However, this is a beefy update with several developer and user-centric features. With WordPress 5.9 now out into the wild, it looks like all hands are back on deck as we gear up for 6.0’s release in May. Last week, I covered the early roadmap, and some of the items from that list are already in this latest Gutenberg update in some shape or fashion. Global Styles Variations Switching between theme style variations. Theme authors can now create multiple theme.json variations and place them into their theme’s /styles folder. Then, users can switch between the various presets to something that suits them best. The new feature promises to be one of the highlights of the WordPress 6.0 release, and the default Twenty Twenty-Two theme will eventually ship multiple variations of its own. I dove into the feature in more detail in a post last week. Gutenberg project lead Matías Ventura expanded on this in the comments: Getting this early in the cycle so we can iron out the experience and mechanics. I expect it to be…
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