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Local Development Setup

Recommended development plugins

Ready to supercharge your block theme development workflow? This video introduces three essential plugins that’ll make building full site editing themes so much easier.

First is the Create Block Theme plugin, a community-maintained tool that’s become indispensable for block theme developers. Originally focused on child themes, it’s now evolved into a comprehensive helper for all aspects of full site editing theme creation.

Query Monitor is your debugging superhero – it catches all those WordPress warnings and shows you exactly what’s happening behind the scenes with your block theme. Whether you’re troubleshooting the site editor or optimizing performance, this plugin provides invaluable insights.

Finally, User Switching makes testing your block theme across different user roles a breeze. This is crucial for full site editing themes since you’ll often want different capabilities for admins versus editors. Instead of constantly logging in and out, just switch users with a single click!

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