Query Patterns: Followup Fixes

[kjellr]

Following up from #84, there are a few query patterns that require followup:

Default Posts

• There's no current way to enforce a responsive square shape for featured images. ([Post Featured Image]: Allow cropping and/or constraining to a certain ratio gutenberg#35524) Edit: Not coming for 5.9.

Simple Blog Posts

• The margin set on the post titles does not appear correct on the front-end. (Post Title Block: Custom margin applied to Headings does is not reflected in the front-end gutenberg#35522)

Image grid posts

• Post date is supposed to be stacked. This would be solved by the addition of a flex-wrap option. (Flex Layout: Allow control over flex-wrap gutenberg#35525)
• Post date can not be formatted into the "11.11.2021" format as originally designed. (More flexibility of date formats in Post Date block gutenberg#34762)

Large post titles

• Post date can not be formatted into the "Nov 11" format as originally designed. (More flexibility of date formats in Post Date block gutenberg#34762)

Irregular posts grid

• Since this requires use of multiple query blocks, it cannot include post pagination.

[carolinan]

For the post dates, this pull request could use more reviews WordPress/gutenberg#35864

[carolinan]

@kjellr I really like the irregular posts design. I think it can be kept without pagination. If that's not an option, it can't be done without one query and custom CSS.

On the front the sticky posts are repeated in every column.
Pattern added to a post, front view:

here I replaced the query on index with the pattern:

I messed up the width here. Chances are other users will do the same. Not sure how users can be guided.

Gutenberg issue for sticky posts: WordPress/gutenberg#35322 (comment)

[kjellr]

There's no current way to enforce a responsive square shape for featured images. ([Post Featured Image]: Allow cropping and/or constraining to a certain ratio gutenberg#35524)

This one doesn't look likely for 5.9 since it would be a new feature and it's past the feature freeze. Going to cross it out for now.

Since this requires use of multiple query blocks, it cannot include post pagination.

I'm a little torn on this one. I think the two options are:

• Do nothing.
• Trim down the number of posts so that this acts more as a "featured posts" layout and less like a page of posts.

Any thoughts/preferences?

[kjellr]

I'm going to close this one and just leave that last pattern as is for the time being. We can always re-adjust if we get more design tools down the line. 👍