Lesson Plan - Developing blocks for Global Settings & Styles

[courtneyr-dev]

Details

• Topic description: Related to the Theme.json lesson plan, developing plugin blocks to appear in Global Styles might expand upon this. Share how to create blocks that have settings in Global Styles.
• Audience (User, Developer, Contributor, etc.): Developers
• Learning objectives:
• Content type (Course, Tutorial, Online Workshop, or Lesson Plan): Lesson Plan
• WordPress version (optional): 6.1
• Will you be creating this content? (Yes or No):

Related Resources

• https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/how-to-guides/themes/theme-json/

Next steps for SMEs

Please follow the team handbook "Vetting topic ideas" to vet this topic.

Issue update by @bsanevans to match current topic vetting template.

[courtneyr-dev]

This might be a bit granular, but WordPress/gutenberg#38876 relates to Global Styles column borders. See also https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/04/28/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-1-27-april/.

[annezazu]

I was going to try to vet this but I'm a bit confused as to whether it's needed at all as I imagine it's covered by a course like this: https://learn.wordpress.org/course/introduction-to-block-development-build-your-first-custom-block/ @jonathanbossenger do you mind sharing your thoughts? I could see an individual lesson plan specifically around adding global controls, when it's best to, and when it may not make sense to do so.

[courtneyr-dev]

This is a proposal for a lesson plan it seems, not a course. So making a single lesson plan with the intended audience being teachers or meetup organizers presenting the topics, not folks taking the /courses.

[jonathanbossenger]

As @courtneyr-dev points out, we typically have 3 content types on Learn WordPress:

1. Tutorials, short videos where folks can learn something
2. Courses, longer learning experiences that contain both text and video
3. Lesson Plans, that are aimed at teachers who want to teach a specific topic, either at a meetup or in creating a tutorial.

So this is for a lesson plan, which is generally a text version of a tutorial, but also with more content aimed at helping someone teach others about this content.