Twenty Twenty-Two: Allow customizing (top) padding through inspector controls

[Bernhard Reiter]

The Twenty Twenty-Two (TT2) theme currently sets a fixed padding-top for the Post Comments block: ​https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwentytwo/blob/27054dbcb95f5d72cd943a0f3318c3ad97599f85/theme.json#L230-L236

This makes sense in the context of where that block is used in the theme's templates; however, it limits the block's usefulness when the user wants to customize the theme by moving the block elsewhere, since it always comes with that hard-wired top padding.

To remediate this, I'd suggest making the block's padding customizable through Inspector Controls (I believe Gutenberg has controls for block padding now?)

Alternatively, the padding could be removed, and a spacer block could be used instead (with its height set accordingly). The downside of this approach is that we can't set its height to a relative value like --wp--custom--spacing--small; we'd have to assign a fixed value to it instead. Furthermore, this would basically revert ​https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwentytwo/pull/127.

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This ticket is based on ​this discussion on a somewhat related GB issue.

[karmatosed]

I am a little reluctant to remove anything would cause theme changes after the release and have someone need to learn. My feeling right now is this is a lower priority and would be a close with maybe later, we know that our focus for default themes is on bugs right now. If this isn't desirable we can always resolve though with adding a spacer block - I just am cautious with changing the template now.

@bernhard-reiter I would be interested in your feelings on this now.

[karmatosed]

For now, I am going to close this as it has waited for feedback. We can always come back to things. Thank you everyone.