Block variations are missing Global Styles support

[danieldudzic]

What problem does this address?

In WooCommerce Blocks, we are using a number of block variations of core blocks:

• Products (beta) - variation of Query Loop
• Product Title - variation of Post Title
• Product Summary - variation of Post Excerpt

Currently, the only way to apply Global Styles to block variations is to apply them to their core origin block, which leads to a confusing experience.

For example: A user trying to change Gobal Styles for the Product Summary needs to find the Post Excerpt on the list of available blocks and somehow make the connection that changes made to it will also apply to the Product Summary.

Product Title and Product Summary are a good example of why it makes sense to allow for independent styling (They exist in a quite different context from the Post Title and Excerpt, and will tend to have a quite different length, size, surrounding items).

What is your proposed solution?

Add Global Styles support for block variations.

[carolinan]

Another example unrelated to third party variations is the Query title block. The query title shows in the block list in global styles, but archive title and search titles do not.

If you directly insert an archive title or search title in the editor, you may never know that these are variations of the same block which has a different name. This makes it difficult to discover the styling options.

The variations are not searchable. If you enter "archive" in the search input field, only the archives block, calendar and term description shows up, the query title block does not.

Aside: If I enter the word search in the search field, the heading block and site title and site title shows up. That is unexpected because they are unrelated.

[colorful-tones]

Hi folks,
We are only one week away from the Beta 1 cut-off date for WordPress 6.6. This issue hasn’t seen any movement in a while, so we (the editor triage leads of the 6.6 release) have decided to remove it from the WordPress 6.6 Editor Tasks project board.