Gutenberg Limitations for Nwaneri Portfolio theme

[jffng]

Overview

Working on a portfolio block-based theme (#2), I am coming across issues implementing the design as presented. I'm keeping track of those issues here so I don't forget to investigate it further in the Gutenberg repository or open up enhancement issues there.

Add the post date
I came across an instance where I wanted to be able to add the post date via a block:

There's no way to do so via Gutenberg core blocks to my knowledge.

This was added as of Gutenberg 7.3.

Add the comments for a single post
There is the Latest Comments block, but they are not respective / specific to the post that you're adding the block to:

Being partially addressed by WordPress/gutenberg#19953 and WordPress/gutenberg#19954

Opened WordPress/gutenberg#20054

Post Date block does not accept additional classes via the block inspector

Hopefully being addressed by WordPress/gutenberg#19697

There is no block for post tags or categories

Addressed by WordPress/gutenberg#19580

The controls for how the Latest Posts block is displayed are limited e.g. no control over column width

Addressed by query and Post block WordPress/gutenberg#15623

Can't style the Social Links block to be text driven because there is no text within the link, it's an SVG

[kjellr]

I'm going to close this one for now since we're moving this repo over to automattic/themes, but the issue will still be readable here for posterity.