Block alignments don't appear in Layout menu when enabled via theme.json

[grahammtbr]

Hey Tom & Co.,

The move of the alignments (alignwide/full) from the inspector control bar to the Layout menu broke support for when alignment theme support is enabled via theme.json (setting: layout).

For further reference here is my issue from last year when this happened the first time, and I'm guessing could be the issue here.

Thanks,
Graham

[onetrev]

I noticed this too today. In my opinion is this is a pretty major issue, I have a lot of sites out there that can now suddenly not access this functionality unless I go back and edit my custom theme functions. This problem was previously fixed a couple of years ago with this pull request.

[fiveoclock]

Also experienced the same problem when using GenerateBlocks with any block theme I tried. Alignwide/Full settings are missing under the Layout section.

[syllie]

+1 Currently building a custom theme, utilizing only theme.json and indeed missing those controls. Mitigating by adding a default WP Group block but this should not be needed.

[onetrev]

Hey @tomusborne just making sure this doesn't get missed in the GenerateBlocks 1.9 release. It's very annoying, but I know is pretty minor. An end user like myself can fix it like so, but it would be nice to not have to do this. 😁

  // HACK: enable full and wide width alignment (needed due to bug in GenerateBlocks 1.8)
  add_theme_support( 'align-wide' );

[tomusborne]

This is tough as I'm not finding a way to know if a block theme has enabled support for the align-x classes.

I'll keep digging.

[tomusborne]

This is fixed in 1.9.0 (almost in public alpha).