One of the most powerful features of WordPress block themes is the ability to create a design system that shapes the aesthetic of your theme. This design system, powered by settings in the theme’s theme.jsontheme.json A configuration file that provides your WordPress theme with CSS styling and settings for how the editor works. file, dictates the design language of blocksBlocks Blocks are content elements that you add to the editor in posts and pages to create content layouts. Each item you add to your post or page is a block., patternsBlock patterns Block Patterns are a collection of pre-designed blocks that you can insert into pages and posts and then customize with your own content., templatesTemplates Templates are designs for pages and can include one or more template parts., and how all of these elements interact with each other.
On top of that, users can customize these styles to make sweeping changes to their site within the WordPress UI. Contrary to classic WordPress themes, block themes aim to be a no-code (or very close to it) experience, empowering the user to design, build, customize, and launch their website with native controls.
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