Resolves #7457.

Proposed Changes

Add a Publish lessons toggle to the pre-publish panel. When enabled, any lessons associated with the course are published when the course is published.

Screenshot 2024-03-13 at 2 45 42 PM

Testing Instructions

Create a course with some lessons
Click the Publish button.
On the pre-publish panel, ensure Publish lessons is selected.
Click the Publish button.
Check that the lessons are published.
Create another course with some lessons.
Click the Publish button.
On the pre-publish panel, deselect the Publish lessons toggle.
Check that the lessons are NOT published.
Switch the course back to Draft status.
Check that the Publish lessons toggle is still deselected.
Select Publish lessons.
Click the Publish button.
Check that the lessons are published.
Check that the Sensei icon for opening the Course Settings is still the Sensei green color.

Known Issue

The first time the course is viewed on the frontend, the following notice appears:

Screenshot 2024-03-13 at 2 37 45 PM

@renatho I know you did some work on notices not that long ago, including adding this one. Do you know of a simple way to solve this? If not, then I think I'll leave this as a known issue since the notice goes away on a refresh.

Pre-Merge Checklist

[x] PR title and description contain sufficient detail and accurately describe the changes
[x] Acceptance criteria is met
[ ] Decisions are publicly documented
[x] Adheres to coding standards (PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML)
[x] All strings are translatable (without concatenation, handles plurals)
[x] Follows our naming conventions (P6rkRX-4oA-p2)
[x] Hooks (p6rkRX-1uS-p2) and functions are documented
[x] New UIs are responsive and use a mobile-first approach
[x] New UIs match the designs
[x] Different user privileges (admin, teacher, subscriber) are tested as appropriate
[ ] Legacy courses (course without blocks) are tested
[x] Code is tested on the minimum supported PHP and WordPress versions
[x] User interface changes have been tested on the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari
[x] "Needs Documentation" label is added if this change requires updates to documentation
[ ] Known issues are created as new GitHub issues

Mar 12 '24 20:03 donnapep

WordPress Dependencies Report

The github-action-wordpress-dependencies-report action has detected some script changes between the commit 2c5b426ed3b0ae258baf3e074814522e5678d66e and trunk. Please review and confirm the following are correct before merging.

Script Handle	Added Dependencies	Total Size	Size Diff
`js/admin/course-edit.js`		10.2 kB	-13 B ( -0.13% ⬇️ )
`setup-wizard/index.js`		16.7 kB	+5 B ( +0.03% 🔼 )
`home/index.js`		21.1 kB	+8 B ( +0.04% 🔼 )
`blocks/single-page.js`		15.8 kB	+7 B ( +0.05% 🔼 )
`blocks/single-course.js`		29.1 kB	+8 B ( +0.03% 🔼 )
`blocks/single-lesson.js`		8.05 kB	+1 B ( +0.02% 🔼 )
`blocks/lesson-action-blocks.js`		13.6 kB	+8 B ( +0.06% 🔼 )
`blocks/global-blocks.js`		20.5 kB	+7 B ( +0.04% 🔼 )
`blocks/quiz/index.js`		31.2 kB	+9 B ( +0.03% 🔼 )
`blocks/shared.js`		14 kB	-2 B ( -0.02% ⬇️ )
`blocks/core-pattern-polyfill/core-pattern-polyfill.js`		5.02 kB	-2 B ( -0.04% ⬇️ )
`admin/course-pre-publish-panel/index.js`	`react`, `wp-components`, `wp-core-data`, `wp-edit-post`, `wp-element`, `wp-i18n`, `wp-plugins`, `wp-polyfill`	4.87 kB	+4.87 kB ( +100% 🔼 )
`admin/editor-wizard/index.js`		13 kB	+8 B ( +0.07% 🔼 )
`course-theme/blocks/index.js`		13.9 kB	+4 B ( +0.03% 🔼 )

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Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 35.89744% with 25 lines in your changes are missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 51.93%. Comparing base (9c9bcae) to head (2c5b426). Report is 24 commits behind head on trunk.

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