Learn WordPress block themes and
Full Site Editing

Tutorials, guides, and developer resources for modern WordPress theme development

What is full site editing?

Site editing is a set of WordPress features that help us build and edit all parts of our website using blocks: Site Editor, global styles, block themes, patterns, and theme.json.

Fullsiteediting.com is an educational resource for learning about the features.

Site Editor

Use the Site Editor to create and manage your website’s pages, templates, menus, patterns, and template parts. You can also update your 404 page, archives, and search result pages in the Site Editor.

Global, site-wide styles

You can change the website’s colors and update typography settings like font family and font size from the Styles sidebar in the Site Editor. You can choose default block colors and create custom color palettes. There are also news ways to add custom CSS to the site and the blocks.

Block themes

With block themes, you use blocks and block patterns to create entire pages and websites.
Everything you see on a page is a block. You can customize your pages using new site blocks, including Site title, logo, navigation, post title, comment form, featured image, date, categories, and tags.

Generate your own block theme

Theme.json, the new configuration file

Theme developers can use theme.json to configure settings such as enabling or disabling options for spacing, borders. gradients, or shadows. They can add default styles for blocks and HTML elements, as well as variations, for example one design with a light background and one with a dark background.