Design

We all knew the landscape of WordPress themes was shifting with the introduction of Gutenberg. What we didn’t know, was by how much.

With the arrival of the anticipated Full Site Editing experience into WordPress 5.9, themes are starting to look very different.

This new class of block-based WordPress themes arguably introduces the biggest change to themes, since well… themes existed. These themes are built entirely with blocks. That is, the headers, footers, blogroll, and page templates — literally every aspect of the theme. If it’s on the page, it’s a block.

This is part one, of three, in a series on standardizing how we build this next generation of WordPress block themes to accompany the Full Site Editing effort. If you like this, read on about standardizing font sizes, and standardizing site spacing. Each of these are what I would consider design foundations of a website, of which should be functionally standardized.

This is part three, of three, in a series on standardizing how we build this next generation of WordPress block themes to accompany the Full Site Editing effort.