[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #49904: Twenty Twenty Theme -- Blog Layout Improvements

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#49904: Twenty Twenty Theme -- Blog Layout Improvements
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 Reporter:  commorancy0   |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement   |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Post Formats  |    Version:
 Severity:  major         |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  template      |
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 **Background**

 I am suitably impressed by the Twenty Twenty theme's support and
 customization, but only to a point. While we can very impressively apply
 layouts to pages from a visual list of templates shown on the "Change
 Layout" screen, I was hoping for that same level of visual layout for the
 template of the blog article post page.

 Instead, what I'm greeted with is no visual layout possibilities of the
 blog's default post page. Other than a dropdown of Default, Cover Template
 and Full Width Template, there seems to be no way to modify the layout of
 the default blog article page. Even then, this dropdown won't even be
 necessary if the posts page can be customized with an overall layout
 template. Yes, I can modify each blog article itself one by one, but only
 within the constraints of the theme. I'm disappointed to find that no
 layout system exists to modify a blog's overall template page. This is
 particularly disappointing since WordPress is supposed to be software
 dedicated to blogging.

 It's great that so much development effort was given to allow many
 customization options for modifying pages, but I'm wondering why this same
 level of customization wasn't given to the blog template page for posts?

 **Enhancement Request**

 I'd like to request the following theme improvement. I'd like to see the
 Twenty Twenty theme allow application of visual page layouts to the
 default blog article template page in similar form to applying layouts to
 actual pages.

 This change will allow us to apply banner images and other decorative
 images around a blog article post like we can on standard pages. We can
 also properly space paragraphs, set colors, customize sizing of H1, H2,
 text and so on through the Default template rather than having to play
 games in Gutenberg using in-line CSS via each individual article OR by
 manually mucking about in the theme's CSS style sheet. Once a template is
 visually configured, the only thing writers need to do is write, not worry
 about a post's overall layout.

 Please consider this addition. If this is not the correct bug reporting
 system to report Twenty Twenty theme improvements, please let me know
 where to post it. If such a way to do what I suggest already exists in
 this theme and I'm missing it somewhere, please let me know that too.

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