A tutorial on how to create block variations

[bph]

Discussed in https://github.com/WordPress/developer-blog-content/discussions/154

^{Originally posted by **ndiego** July 30, 2023} This needs a catchy title, but the article would cover: - What are block variations - How to create block variations - Why you would want to use block variations for your own projects - 3-4 real-world examples of block variations Currently, there isn't a dedicated Dev Blog article on block variations. This article would serve as a foundational piece of content. Future articles could explore more sophisticated implementations of variations while referring back to this article for the basics.

[ndiego]

The draft of this article is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hPgTs4qpcwGqiSQ_2wFqjm3_xP2gHZp7ZGXvaVRh6G0/edit

[ndiego]

Thanks @juanmaguitar, @justintadlock, and @mburridge for the first review.

[rmartinezduque]

This looks great, @ndiego! I've left some minor suggestions that (I think) might improve its readability and clarity in some sentences. Feel free to accept or reject them as you see fit :)

Why you would want to use block variations for your own projects.

I see that throughout the article/examples, this point is implied and briefly mentioned in the introduction, but I think it's perhaps the least explicit. It would be great to reiterate some advantages of block variations in the closing paragraphs.

[juanmaguitar]

Thanks @rmartinezduque for your review! 🙏

[ndiego]

Thanks @rmartinezduque!

[ndiego]

Pre-publishing checklist:

• [x] Post Title and subheaders in Sentence case
• [x] Are Category or Categories selected?
• [x] Are Tags identified?
• [x] Is there an explicit Excerpt? (not optional)
• [x] Do all images have an alt-text?
• [ ] Props added?
• [x] 🙌 Publish! 📗 🎉

Post-publishing checklist

• [x] add Props for reviews to #props channel in WP Slack
• [x] close the issue with a comment to link to the published post
• [x] close the accompanying discussion with link to the publish post.

[ndiego]

Published article: https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/08/an-introduction-to-block-variations/