Starter Templates: RTL issues

[emilyaudela]

In some of the starter templates for Gutenboarding, the right-to-left elements are not correct. Please correct the right-to-left layout in these starter templates.

Maywood

1. Starting at URL: https://wordpress.com/new/design/ar
2. Select the Maywood template
3. The heading and first paragraph or the second section is not aligned right in the preview

Alves

1. Starting at URL: https://wordpress.com/new/design/ar
2. Select the Alves template
3. The "About" text block is not right aligned

Stratford

1. Starting at URL: https://wordpress.com/new/design/ar
2. Select the Stratford template
3. The "Services" and "Testimonial" headings should be right aligned.

[andrewserong]

I think some of these are due to missing CSS rules in Varia or the child themes. @ramonjd has a PR for addressing Stratford in Automattic/themes#2551, but I'm wondering if that same change needs to happen higher up the chain in Varia 🤔

[ramonjd]

wondering if that same change needs to happen higher up the chain in Varia

I took a poke around and saw that there is a rebuild-child-themes script in the pub/varia directory. 🤞 we can change it in one place and recompile.

[simison]

I think this would be best handled by theme team since it affects current themes and live sites. @scruffian what do you think?

[scruffian]

Yeah lets make this change in Varia and rebuild the children. Let me know if you need any help with this.

[simison]

@scruffian Yeah, was hoping if Theme-folks could take this whole fix over?

[scruffian]

Ok, added to the backlog. Not sure when we'll get to it...

[danieldudzic]

Hi all!

Thank you for bringing this to the attention of the Theme team.

We have looked at the issue together and were able to replicate it.

We believe that the culprit here are the templates themselves.

The faulty blocks have alignment set via Block settings.

A paragraph aligned to the left should and will display as aligned to the left both in LTR and RTL.

The resolution here is not a CSS fix, but rather the removing of unnecessary alignment settings from the blocks (setting it back to Default).

[simison]

Nice sleuthing @danieldudzi! 👏 @ianstewart can your team review the templates here? See above comment.

[ianstewart]

@simison 👍