How to Create and Register a Global Styles variation - Lesson

[jonathanbossenger]

IMPORTANT

This lesson plan belongs to part of a greater course, Extend a Low Code Block Theme which depends on the completion of Create a Custom Block Theme #1

Please reach out to @jonathanbossenger (Jonathan Bossenger) in the #training team Slack if you would like to help with this lesson plan.

Topic Description

The goal of this lesson is to learn how to create and register a Global Styles variation in a block theme

Objectives

After completing this lesson, participants will be able to:

• Create the required styles directory
• Create a new style variation manually in code
• Create a new style variation by using Create Block Theme

Guidelines

Review the [team guidelines] (https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/guidelines/)

[courtneyr-dev]

WP 6.1 Fluid Typography WordPress/gutenberg#39529

[jonathanbossenger]

I plan to tackle this next week

[westnz]

Review:

Logical and clear instructions!

Should the title not be H1 and the main headings H2? Maybe they are, and I just can't see the difference:

Ensure all sentences have full stops. Also, proofread point 4:

Ensure all sentences have full stops. I think json should be JSON? I see here it is all written in lowercase:

Add full stops :-)

Remove the full stop after 'attribute'

[jonathanbossenger]

Should the title not be H1 and the main headings H2? Maybe they are, and I just can't see the difference:

They actually are, it's the front-end design for headers of Learn WordPress.

Thanks for catching the other items, updated them.

[courtneyr-dev]

WordPress/gutenberg#49014 @jonathanbossenger likely this should be revised at some point to mention viewing them as well from the new location in 6.3

[courtneyr-dev]

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/05/20/whats-new-in-gutenberg-15-8-may-17/#add-revisions-ui-50089

[jonathanbossenger]

Style variations will be covered/updated for the Intermediate Theme Developer learning pathway, so closing in favor of that.