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The WordPress block editor: blocks, patterns and full site editing.
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.
Block Themes
Block themes replace PHP templates with HTML block markup and move styling into theme.json, so the whole site is editable visually. Here is what changes in practice.
Troubleshooting
The Site Editor needs a block theme, a reachable REST API and working JavaScript. Missing menu item, endless spinner and blank screen each point at a different one of the three.
Website Tools
Identify a public WordPress theme from source code, stylesheet metadata and browser developer tools—and understand why detectors sometimes return no result.
WordPress Tutorials
Customize WordPress safely using the Site Editor, Customizer, theme settings, custom CSS or a child theme without losing work during updates.