Global Settings and Styles

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Learning Objectives

Gives a basic overview of how the theme.json file works in themes with learning pathways to more advanced topics.

The learning objectives are to:

1. Describe the purpose of a WordPress theme's theme.json file.
2. Familiarize yourself with the JSON format and the structure of theme.json.
3. Understand the hierarchy used for loading the setting and style configurations of a website.

Relevant Links

Theme Handbook: Global Settings & Styles Block Editor Handbook: Global Settings & Styles Block Editor Handbook: theme.json Version 2 https://learn.wordpress.org/tutorial/introduction-to-theme-json/ Theme.json lesson plan

Lesson creation checklist

• [x] Gather any relevant links to Support, Docs, or related material
• [x] Description and Objectives finalized
• [x] Lesson created and announced to the team for review
• [x] Lesson reviewed
• [x] Lesson video submitted and published to WPTV
• [ ] Lesson created on Learn.WordPress.org
• [x] Lesson video published to YouTube
• [ ] Lesson on Learn.WordPress.org updated with YouTube video
• [ ] Lesson published to Learn.WordPress.org