Block Transforms

[mrwweb]

It would be great to support both transforming from and to other blocks. I'd love to hear what people expect for this.

Transform From

My initial thought for this is that a Heading and Paragraph could both be transformed to become the accordion title.

A more advanced transform would involve a multi-block selection that starts with a heading being transformed into the accordion title and contents.

Transform To

I'm less certain on the best approach here. In some ways, an accordion best maps to a Group block containing both the Accordion title as a heading followed by all the contents. Alternately, I could just see the accordion "releasing" all its contents to a Heading (from the title) and all the contents into the editor body or accordion's parent container. However, I don't think WordPress really has a paradigm for this except for "Ungroup". I don't know if it's possible to match that behavior or not.

[mrwweb]

During user testing, one person suggested their expected behavior would be akin to ungrouping a group block where the heading becomes a heading and the content is "released" into the body.

They added that they would love the ability to select multiple blocks starting with a heading to convert it into an accordion. Being able to convert a heading to an accordion would be a helpful enough first step.