Improvements to a collection of themes

[annezazu]

What follows are some tasks to improve various themes on WordPress.com. I created this from current known issues pulled from @jordesign recent list. Consider this like a small sprint! @MaggieCabrera @mikachan @beafialho pinging you all as people who might be able to dive in here (no worries if not, just trying to alert folks to efforts).

Tasks

• [Theme] Attar - In Style variations, Theme colors (primary, secondary, tertiary) apply as Black to blocks on pages and posts themes#6963
• Blockbase Themes: Next/Prev Post blocks show arrow when None selected, and out-of-order arrangement with Arrow or Chevron selected #76558
• Tonal Theme: Content overlaps Likes and is not clickable/scrollable themes#7581
• Shawburn: Submenu Hyphens Don't Display on iPhone themes#7756
• Colinear: Customizer colors affect post/page editor element styles on Atomic sites themes#7818
• Outland theme: Theme no longer matches demo apperance themes#7845
• [Bug]: Classic Themes -> Group Block does not show margin and padding options themes#7390
• Classic themes(Publication, Shoreditch): full and wide alignment not working as expected themes#8078
• Update "Supports PHP:" value for all themes themes#7785
• Quadrat and its child themes: Header triangle image looks different in the editor vs frontend themes#5378
• Blockbase & Child themes - WooCommerce quantity field is too small  themes#5761
• Older Classic Themes - Font family not reflected in editor themes#6999
• Marl: Primary and Secondary colors aren't used, causing confusion with Styles themes#8524
• Stewart: Default Page template contains Content block in Query Loop causing issues editing individual pages themes#8547

Hever / Varia (#1 theme and parent theme)

• Varia (and child themes): custom social menu is now outdated themes#8411
• Varia and child themes: Theme overrides photo border color themes#6672
• Varia & Child Themes: Site Logo is not being resized themes#2066
• Hever: Heading Block Broken - Full Width, Centered Text themes#2748
• [Bug]: Hever - Subscribe block not styling correctly themes#6785
• Hever: Homepage button color not updating properly themes#2327
• Hever theme Navigation block: Sub menu background transparent when picking a suggested color themes#5589
• - [ ] Varia children & Page Optimize: Button styling overwritten by inline styles  themes#7309

Independent Publisher 2 (#4 theme)

• Independent Publisher 2: Footer credit is always displayed on AT sites with infinite scroll themes#5169
• Independent Publisher 2: Theme adds unwanted image cropping to RSS feed themes#2754
• Independent Publisher 2: When excerpt present, Read More button disappears themes#3019
• Independent Publisher 2: Submenu items cut off at right margin themes#272
• Illustratr, Toujours, other themes: No margins between Image blocks on live site themes#6611

Tsubaki (#1 Premium Theme)

• Tsubaki: changing 'all' Heading font in Styles does nothing themes#7153

Videomaker (#2 Premium Theme)

• Byrne looks broken in the site editor themes#8379 (this bug effects videomaker)
• Videomaker: Add arrows to Post Navigation themes#4893
• Videomaker: Calendar block doesn't underline dates to show the date has posts  themes#6883

Hevor (#3 Premium Theme)

• [Bug]: The Hevor head template part background color themes#7676
• Hevor: sample author bio is 'hardcoded' in Single Posts template themes#7596

Zoologist (#2 Block theme)

• Zoologist: Secondary color not being applied to header or paragraph block themes#5787
• Zoologist: Footer credit not appearing when using a blank template themes#5008

Cubic

• Cubic: Slideshow blocks shows images zoomed in themes#6581
• - [ ] Cubic - Tiled Gallery Block - Images are stacked instead of tiled themes#7847

[richtabor]

I'm a bit cautious on spending resources on themes currently. I think users would be better served with UI/X improvements atm.

[annezazu]

These were pulled from happiness requests so just being mindful there of these being customer centered issues raised.

[annezazu]

@jordesign and @inaikem after chatting with folks about the issues here, it's hard to get a sense of how impactful these are to fix in terms of helping many users. At this point, can you pull issues from the most popular themes, particularly for paid users, and leave a comment here with them so we can update this issue going forward?

[MaggieCabrera]

@jordesign and @inaikem after chatting with folks about the issues here, it's hard to get a sense of how impactful these are to fix in terms of helping many users. At this point, can you pull issues from the most popular themes, particularly for paid users, and leave a comment here with them so we can update this issue going forward?

also I would add, if the most popular themes are really old ones, I'd prioritize broken experiences over minor bugs

[ianstewart]

All of the above theme issues seem worth fixing, they're all popular enough. For the colinear theme, I might consider delisting it to fix the issue, if it's not a quick fix.

they're all popular enough
being mindful there of these being customer centered issues raised

I ran across a customer using Kubrick on their blog the other day. You can't judge the importance of a theme by age! :)

[jordesign]

Just updated with a bunch more issues that could be looked at - based on highest activated themes.

[MaggieCabrera]

Do we have stats on what themes premium users use the most?

[inaikem]

To my knowledge, we are not able to gather this data from Atomic sites (Business and eCommerce plans for the most part), but I may be wrong, so I asked for confirmation here:

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We can gather premium theme usage, which is gated to certain paid plans, but these would be on lower cost plans than Atomic.

[ianstewart]

@MaggieCabrera we do. I'll ping in slack.

[jordesign]

As a note - my issues were added based on most installed themes from the MC themes tool.