Blocks for user Profiles

[bhubbard]

What problem does this address?

An easy way to display a users details on the front of the site.

What is your proposed solution?

Have several blocks to pull a user defaults fields, such as their username, id, bio, social links, etc.

Also a block query loop thru multiple users on the site.

[jordesign]

@bhubbard Would this be different to the 'Author' block? #24952 has some suggested enhancements for that.

[bhubbard]

@jordesign Yes, this should be a little different from the 'Author' block. Although maybe based on that ticket you linked it could be a partial rename of some blocks.

As I believe that ticket discusses breaking up the author block into smaller blocks, like one for gravatar, and this I would agree. Although maybe it should be called 'User Gravatar' block? As a author, just happens to be a user who wrote the content for that post/page/etc. If we are not in a loop, these blocks could have a simple dropdown to choose the user for who we want to display the information.

I see one block being a 'User Query' block which brings to the UI query methods from wp_user_query. This would be a block that lets you create patterns using multiple users, such as showing all users with the same role. You might see this common with a 'team' block pattern, or membership site for example.