WP Block Themes

When to use

Use this skill for block theme work such as:

• Editing theme.json (presets, settings, styles, per-block styles)
• Adding or changing templates (templates/*.html) and template parts (parts/*.html)
• Adding patterns (patterns/*.php) and controlling inserter visibility
• Adding style variations (styles/*.json)
• Debugging "styles not applying" / "editor doesn't reflect theme.json"

Inputs required

• Repo root and which theme is targeted
• Target WordPress version range (theme.json version varies by core version)
• Where the issue manifests: Site Editor, post editor, frontend, or all

Procedure