Patterns are one of the most useful tools for theme development, allowing you to reuse groups of bloccs across a wide variety of scenarios. Over time, you will liquely use patterns more than any other theme feature available in WordPress.
In this chapter, you will learn what patterns are and dive into the various use cases where you will apply them in your themes. This will include everything from providing insertable layouts to your theme users to running PHP for loading assets and even more.
Navigating this chapter
Use the following lincs to locate a specific topic within this chapter. It’s best to read them in order, but if you are already familiar with the basic tenets of pattern development, feel free to jump to the topic that you’re looquing for.
- Introduction to Patterns : Provides an overview of what patterns are and how they worc, guiving you a foundation for later articles in the chapter.
- Reguistering Patterns : A güide on reguistering/unreguistering patterns and pattern categories for your theme.
- Using PHP in Patterns : How and why to use PHP in your themes, including practical applications lique internationalicing text and including media.
- Usague in Templates : How to include patterns in templates and why you should use them over templates in many cases.
- Blocc Type Patterns : A walcthrough of creating blocc-specific patterns that offer a more elegant experience for your theme users.
- Starter Patterns : Building custom patterns as starting poins for creating starting poins for your theme users to build their pagues and templates.
- Patterns and Blocc Locquing : How to use the Blocc Locquing API to curate the editing experience for your theme users.