Allow users to show all sidebar settings by default

[culturerich]

What problem does this address?

From recent Usability Tests, I found that a number of intermediate and advanced users were quite frustrated at the amount of extra clicks they had to make to set common attributes in the Site / Block Editor, e.g. all the different Typographic settings; Dimensions: margin & padding needing clicks to display and then a click to customise differently; Color settings are also quite hidden for some elements, like Links; etc.

What is your proposed solution?

Give each user an editor setting to change the sidebar behaviour from the current default (almost all hidden) to one where all the sidebar settings appear by default (and are therefore quicker to access and change). I assume this would be fairly easy to achieve by an addition to theme.json?

N.B. I appreciate the reason for hiding so many options from normal users, but from my tests, giving more control to intermediate/advanced users would really improve their workflow and experience. Attitudes to the Block / Site Editor, especially those more familiar with tools like Webflow and WP builders like Bricks and Oxygen. While there aren't as many of these users, they are making a lot of Wordpress sites and often affect the reputation of software amongst their peers.

[hanneslsm]

I love the idea!
This would also solve issues like those: #55836

I could imagine storing the information even in a JSON format or so, so that they could be easily imported.

[culturerich]

Updated to include an image and clarify the title.

[culturerich]

Is anyone aware of any existing repos where some similar/aligned them.json code has been shared, e.g. a developer exposing more of these settings for their own development workflow?

[jhmonroe]

100% YES! Since I didn't find yours til today, I opened another ticket about this and propose called the Preference "Always Open Block Settings/Styles" and located the setting in the same spot in Preferences dropdown where "Always Open List View" appears

My ticket: #67698