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The WordPress block editor: blocks, patterns and full site editing.
WooCommerce
Product blocks are not a nicer wrapper around the old shortcodes. They query differently, render differently and extend differently, and that last difference is what catches stores out at checkout.
Themes
Every setting a theme adds is a setting stored in that theme's own options, and lost the day you switch. Option count is a measure of lock-in as much as of flexibility.
Themes
Beginner sites do not fail because the theme was ugly. They fail because the beginner could not undo something. Judge candidates on recoverability, not on how the demo looks.
Themes
News is the rare niche where the theme really is doing the heavy lifting, because the templates are the product. The trap is letting it own the homepage curation as well.
Themes
For a public-sector site, accessibility is a legal obligation and the site will outlive the contractor who built it. Both facts rule out almost everything marketed as a government theme.
Themes
A church site serves a stranger deciding whether to come on Sunday and a member looking for last week's sermon. The theme that handles both is the one that owns neither the sermons nor the giving.
WordPress Tutorials
Copying blocks moves the content but loses the template, featured image and custom fields. Use a duplication plugin, a code snippet or a reusable pattern depending on what you actually need.
WooCommerce
One shortcode covers nearly every product listing: pick attributes for category, count, columns and ordering. Blocks do the same visually, and both have their place.
WordPress Tutorials
Switching back takes one plugin. Whether you should is a different question — the classic editor is maintained on a deadline, and block content does not survive the trip unchanged.
Block Themes
Block themes look similar in screenshots and differ enormously in how much they constrain you. Judge them on theme.json depth, pattern quality and maintenance — not on the demo.
WordPress Tutorials
Every paragraph, image and button is a block with its own settings. Once you understand the block, the list view and patterns, the rest of the editor stops feeling arbitrary.
Block Themes
A working block theme needs four files. Build it from scratch, define the design system in theme.json, then let the Site Editor and the Create Block Theme plugin do the repetitive work.