What Happens When Creating and Saving Templates and Template Parts to the Database? - Lesson

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IMPORTANT

This lesson plan belongs to part of a greater course, Extend a Low Code Block Theme which depends on the completion of Create a Custom Block Theme #1

Please reach out to @jonathanbossenger (Jonathan Bossenger) in the #training team Slack if you would like to help with this lesson plan.

Topic Description

The goal of this lesson is to understand where and how the data for the templates and template parts are stored in the database when creating/editing them in the Site Editor.

Objectives

After completing this lesson, participants will be able to:

• Find where templates and template parts are stored in the database
• Understand the underlying entity type the changes are stored as, and in what format these changes are stored
• Understand what changes are saved vs what is kept in the template and template part files

Guidelines

Review the [team guidelines] (https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/guidelines/)

Lesson for Review

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Review checklist

Reviewers: this is not an extensive list, but it would be helpful if you can keep the following questions in mind while reviewing.

1. Are there any spelling/grammar issues or anything that doesn't make sense?
2. Is the content technically correct?
3. Does the layering of information successfully build from lesson to lesson
4. Can you follow the steps outlined in the course
5. Does the lesson contain enough relevant links to documentation (WordPress documentation, or any other relevant documentation)