Description

This is an idea to work with this PR: https://href.li/?https://github.com/Automattic/themes/pull/4369

This is just a light wrapper around the WordPress function dynamic_sidebar so that we can display widget areas in block themes. I noticed that there's already similar code inside the edit-widgets package but I couldn't work out how to implement it.

This doesn't yet work in the editor - the purpose of the PR is really just to get feedback on the idea and see if there's a better way to achieve the same thing.

How has this been tested?

• Add this to a post: <!-- wp:sidebar-widget-area {"id":"sidebar-1"} /-->
• Switch to a theme that supports sidebars (e.g. Seedlet)
• Add some content to the sidebar in the Widgets section
• Confirm that the content shows on the front end.

Types of changes

New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

Checklist:

• My code is tested.
• My code follows the WordPress code style.
• My code follows the accessibility standards.
• I've tested my changes with keyboard and screen readers.
• My code has proper inline documentation.
• I've included developer documentation if appropriate.
• I've updated all React Native files affected by any refactorings/renamings in this PR (please manually search all *.native.js files for terms that need renaming or removal).