Plans for additional theme.json sections

[luisherranz]

Right now, the theme.json has 4 main sections:

• Settings (global, per block, or per element):
  • Define Presets
  • Define Custom CSS properties
  • Show/hide customization options from the user
  • Define Layout sizes
• Styles (global, per block, or per element)
• Custom templates
• Template parts

I wonder if there are other sections on the roadmap or ideas for the theme.json file that have not been implemented yet.

[mtias]

There's a lot of ideas in different stages of development included in #20331. Notably, the idea is that theme.json files could be composed at different layers of the theme hierarchy so it can match a template (archive, home) or an individual page (page-123). The idea is that template parts could also become theme.json objects in their own right, meaning you could overwrite or specify settings for a sidebar (allow a different set of color presets than the rest of the site).

[luisherranz]

Thanks a lot for the response Matías, and sorry for my late answer.

Notably, the idea is that theme.json files could be composed at different layers of the theme hierarchy so it can match a template

Sounds great 🙂

The idea is that template parts could also become theme.json objects in their own right, meaning you could overwrite or specify settings for a sidebar

What about patterns? Maybe with a UI toggle to bypass it and use the installed theme.json.

Also, a question related to what you shared in your comment in the theme.json v2 issue regarding this:

A dark theme could also be conceptualized under that model easily.

Any ideas about how that would work? A theme-dark.json? If so:

• What about multiple templates?
  • single.json -> single-dark.json
  • page-123.json -> page-123-dark.json
  • ...
• Any plans to make that work for arbitrary variables, not only dark mode?
  • theme-blue.json
  • theme-red.json
  • ...

There's a lot of ideas in different stages of development included in #20331.

That's quite a long read taking into account the number of issues linked, so I'll get back to you once I have time to go over that 😄