Twenty-Twenty & Radcliffe 2: Set Dimensions on blocks "Columns" "Group"

[ezebecke]

Quick summary

The Dimensions panel doesn't seem available on some themes. Tested on "Twenty Twenty" and “Radcliffe 2". This might be a thing of older themes not supporting it. This GH comment might suggest that.

Steps to reproduce

1- Activate "Twenty Twenty" or “Radcliffe 2"
2- Add a Column block and look for the "Dimensions" panel

What you expected to happen

To be able to edit block with "Dimensions" panel and set padding.

What actually happened

Block show options to change the width only.

Context

4712282-zd

Simple, Atomic or both?

Simple, Atomic

Theme-specific issue?

"Twenty-Twenty" and “Radcliffe 2".

Browser, operating system and other notes

No response

Reproducibility

Consistent

Severity

No response

Available workarounds?

No response

Workaround details

No response

[sajmes]

34087699-hc twenty twenty

[Greatdane]

@Robertght - do you have any more insight on this, please? Is it just newer, block-based enabled theme that have this function?

[mrfoxtalbot]

I have been testing this and it looks like the Padding settings are not being displayed for themes older than Twenty Twenty-One:

Twenty Twenty does not show the padding option:

Twenty Twenty-One shows the padding option:

Twenty Twenty-Two shows the padding option and a border one:

I tested this on WP.com and on a self hosted site with the same results.

I need a second pair of eyes here @Greatdane, @Robertght & @vajrasar: Do we know if these features are only supported for certain themes? It seems unlikely but I could really use a reality check here. Thank you!

[mrfoxtalbot]

After I little digging I was able to confirm that themes have to opt-in to many of the design tools, or opt-in wholesale with appearanceTools: true. This would explain why padding and border are only available on a few themes.

This probably merits a longer discussion but it would be a good idea to enable these design settings in all of Automattic's themes, whenever possible. Is this something in our radar @jeffikus?

[MaggieCabrera]

appearanceTools is a rule you can only apply on themes with a theme.json file, and I believe the last time we tried to add it to a classic theme it had some consequences, I can't remember which ones now! Right now we are adding that to all of our block themes, but haven't looked again into doing it for classic themes. We'd have to revisit that to see if it's feasible now or not.