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WordPress 5.9 was released recently shipping with Full Site Editing (FSE), which enables using blocks to create the layout for any page in the website (as was already possible to write posts via the WordPress editor). Slowly but surely, blocks are becoming the main user interface for creating WordPress sites.
However, FSE does not fully help us configure WordPress sites. While it already does provide global settings via theme.json, that’s mainly for configuring the theme’s visual options, such as fonts, colors and paddings; for a theme or plugin’s invisible settings, usually defined as some entry in the wp_options table, FSE offers no support (yet).
Providing a settings page for our themes and plugins that is fully powered by blocks would provide a compelling user experience. Through it, we could allow our users to input configuration values using components tailored to that type of value, such as calendars to input dates, interactive maps to input location coordinates, sliders to pick a number from within a range (such as WooCommerce’s slider block to filter prices, displayed below), and so on.