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The WordPress block editor: blocks, patterns and full site editing.
Troubleshooting
A blank screen, an endless spinner, or a page that will not save almost always traces back to a blocked REST API request or a JavaScript error. Work through causes in order of likelihood rather than guessing.
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Group, Row and Stack are the three container blocks that do most of the layout work in the block editor. Knowing which one to reach for stops layouts from turning into a pile of nested Groups.
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Vertical rhythm in the block editor comes from theme.json, not from each block guessing sensibly. Once you know where the widths and gaps are defined, inconsistent spacing stops being a mystery.
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The site editor, under Appearance, is where a block theme's templates, template parts, styles and patterns all live in one place. It looks like the post editor but edits the frame around your content, not the content itself.
Block Themes
Global styles are the overrides you make in the Styles panel, saved to the database on top of theme.json. They travel with the site, not the theme, which is exactly why they vanish when you look for them after a theme change.
Block Themes
theme.json is one file that defines a block theme's entire design system: which controls editors get, and what those controls output as CSS. Fighting it with hand-written CSS usually means losing a specificity battle you didn't know you'd started.
Block Themes
A template part is a reusable chunk of a block theme, most often the header or footer, that multiple templates pull in. It replaces header.php and footer.php, and it edits like the rest of the site editor rather than like PHP.
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The Navigation block is the block-theme replacement for the classic Menus screen: it stores a menu as its own post and is edited directly inside a template part.
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The Query Loop block is a visual wrapper around WP_Query: configure filters in a settings panel and WordPress runs the query and repeats an inner set of blocks once per result.
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A synced pattern is the current name for a reusable block: one stored post referenced everywhere it appears, so editing any instance edits all of them at once.
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A block pattern is a saved arrangement of blocks that WordPress inserts as an independent copy, not a live reference — the one distinction that explains everything else about patterns.
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A shortcode is a string in your content that WordPress swaps for the return value of a PHP function. Understanding that one sentence explains every shortcode bug you will ever hit.