James Koster

Here's a simple design that would enable a user to toggle the template into view whilst editing a post or page:  Re-labelling the "Preview" button to "View" seems sensible...

I think it would be perfectly reasonable to try this without the animation to begin with. I may be entirely unfounded in my assumption that keeping visual track of the...

Gotcha. It may be worth ideating on a more generic loading state, as the template itself would need to be fully loaded before an animation like above could be executed.

I would agree that we probably don't need it _yet_. But I still see a use case for composing a post with the template visible around it. Essentially a preview...

I think this feature could also be a solution for https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29821. When you go to edit the page that is set to display latest posts, the layout toggle could be...

In https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/39281 the idea of a layout toggle came up again. https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/846565/170048479-e215dff1-8b94-46b0-a09a-4923fdcff662.mp4

@spencerfinnell I don't know that we necessarily want to engage template editing mode, since it may be that content is locked there in the future. This issue is more about...

I agree this is important, and while the solution suggested in this PR can work I'm thinking it might be better to concentrate on the site editor, particularly issues like...

Nice, this is working fairly well. A couple of observations: We need a way to handle non-text content like images. In the example above it should be possible to swap...

> As an unformed thought is to not show any child blocks in list view when locked I think this is worth a try, possibly in conjunction with not providing...