Global styles: allow override to work when Gutenberg plugin is active

[pkevan]

Fixes #8636

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[merkushin]

@pkevan is it ready for testing and review?
Are there any testing instructions?

[pkevan]

@pkevan is it ready for testing and review?

Yes, it can be ready - I was going to attempt to see some numbers on how many users might be affected by fixing this, since they could be currently using the inherited color palettes.

Are there any testing instructions?

It can be tested with any child theme of blockbase on an environment where Gutenberg plugin is activated - with the patch applied and the theme.json of the child theme updated to include "optOutOfParentStyleVariations": "true", in the custom section.

[merkushin]

@pkevan

Perhaps a silly question: how can I use it in my sandbox (a different repo is used there)?
Meanwhile, I'm looking for an answer in docs.

[pkevan]

@pkevan

Perhaps a silly question: how can I use it in my sandbox (a different repo is used there)? Meanwhile, I'm looking for an answer in docs.

No such thing as a silly question 😄

Locally, the requests to the variations REST API endpoint on the same domain, but when testing via a Simple site, you would need to sandbox requests to public-api also.

[MaggieCabrera]

I applied this change to my sandbox and tested Jackson and I still see the variations from Blockbase. Do we need to do anything else to test this?

We will be archiving this repo soon (TM) in favor of the enterprise repo and I was trying to get this merged but it seems it's not there yet, or I'm missing out how to test it!

[pkevan]

I applied this change to my sandbox and tested Jackson and I still see the variations from Blockbase. Do we need to do anything else to test this?

Strange - did you sandbox public-api also?

It works as expected when I change to the Jackson theme when sandboxed for me.

[MaggieCabrera]

It was my public api not being sandboxed on FF :D this works as intended

[pkevan]

Thanks @MaggieCabrera!