Improvements to Site Title Block

[priethor]

High Priority (target WP 5.8)

• Whole title styling options:
  • Bold, Italic (Add additional text formatting options to the site title block #31734)
  • Letter-spacing (Add Letter-spacing and enable this for site title and site tagline #31118)
  • Margin (depends on Dimension Tools and Controls #28356, fixed in Add margin block support to Site Title #31728)
  • Padding
  • Font-size and line-height Site Title: A few styling option ideas #23228, Site Title: Add text decoration and text transform controls #29622
• Make the Site Title icon more understandable Feedback: The meaning of the Site Title block icon is not obvious #30233
• Add option not to link to the site home in the frontend Site title: Add option to toggle home link #31540
• Normalize toolbar as explained in Adjust borders on block-level controls in the Toolbar #25983 (PR: [Block Library - Site Title]: Normalize the toolbar #30999)

Low Priority

• Full feature parity with Heading Block, with fine-grained styling options that require rich text Add rich text to the site title block #27830 Feedback: Site block text options are inconsistent #30727
• Add a link to the block description instructions to go to the described location. Site Title: Add a link to the block description instructions to go to the described location. #30871
• Ability to prepend/append text to the title, clarify consequences of changing the site title Site Title block: Ability to prepend/append text to the title, clarify consequences of changing the site title #30730
• Encourage users to make proper semantic decisions [Site Title Block] Encourage users to make proper semantic decisions  #29644

[mtias]

Full feature parity with Heading Block, with fine-grained styling options that require rich text

I don't think this can be achieved without some significant changes that could be considered breaking ones for the site title.

[kjellr]

The Site Title block is also missing Bold and Italic options. These seem expected, considering the block's similarity to the Heading block. Would it be possible to add these to the list?

Site Title Block	Heading Block

[priethor]

Thanks, added them to the list.

However, the site title is expected to be plain text, whereas enabling core/bold and core/italic styles in the Site Title block's RichText generates HTML markup, which would require significant changes as commented above or seen recently with the Post Title block. A solution for this would be to enable Bold and Italic formatting as block attributes applying to the whole title.

Would that make sense in the context of the patterns you are working on, @kjellr ?

[kjellr]

Yeah, that makes sense technically. Adding them as block attributes to start with might be fine, but I do think it would be worth figuring out a way around that eventually. From a user's perspective, they just want the title to be bold — and they'll be looking for those controls in the same place they look for them for other blocks.

[carolinan]

Margin has been added with #31728

[youknowriad]

Let's continue improving the blocks but I'm removing this from the 5.8 board as we're passed the feature freeze date. Bug fixes can continue to land though and important iterations (case by case) can be considered.

[priethor]

Let's close this issue as most of the high-priority items are already covered and this is not a focus anymore.