BlockMeister

Benny

<p>With BlockMeister creating custom block patterns becomes easy. The patterns can be designed just like you design a blog post or a page with the block editor.<br />
You can assign any (custom) category or keywords. By doing so, your patterns are categorized in a way that makes sense to your users and keywords make it easier to find a pattern. Your custom patterns will be available from the block patterns tab in the inserter panel.</p>
<p><strong>Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Visual design custom block patterns using the pattern builder</li>
<li>Or create a custom pattern from one or more selected blocks in the post editor</li>
<li>Import patterns made/shared by trusted Pro users [new in 3.0]</li>
<li>Assign your patterns to one or more categories</li>
<li>Optionally add any keywords (makes them easy to find in the block inserter)</li>
<li>Create custom pattern categories</li>
<li>Set a viewport width to optimize the scaled width of the preview in the block inserter</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Pro Features</strong><br />
If you would like even more features like: group locking, cloning, activating or deactivating individual patterns, exporting, importing, controlling which core/third party pattern sets are allowed to load, setting block styles and more, please check out our premium versions here:<br />
<a href="https://wpblockmeister.com/#info-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Professional Version</a></p>
<h3>Getting Started</h3>
<ol>
<li>Locate and click on the ‘<strong>Block Patterns</strong>‘ menu item in the sidebar admin menu.</li>
<li>Click on the ‘<strong>Add New</strong>‘ button.</li>
<li>Give your pattern a name.</li>
<li>Start writing or choose any blocks you want to be part of your pattern.</li>
<li>Publish the pattern</li>
<li>Go to a test page and locate your pattern in the Block Inserter under the pattern tab and click on it.</li>
<li>The block pattern will now be added to your page. All contained blocks are now independent of the original pattern and can be edited as any regular block.</li>
</ol>


BlockMeister – Block Pattern Builder

Visually create custom block patterns. No coding skills needed! Categorize them easily and use keywords for easy discoverability.

WP Engine

Ryan Kienstra

Jen Baumann

Phil Johnston

Michael Day

Mike McAlister

<p><em>Note: Pattern Manager is currently in beta.</em></p>
<p>When you design beautiful block patterns for your theme, Pattern Manager by WP Engine will automatically push them into PHP files for you, every time you save. With a dedicated studio to design and build block patterns you can 10x your ability to work effectively with theme patterns.</p>
<h3>Who should use Pattern Manager by WP Engine</h3>
<p>Pattern Manager is designed to be used by theme developers and is not intended to create patterns on production sites. Please review our <a href="#faq-header" rel="nofollow ugc">FAQ</a> below.</p>
<h3>Key Features of Pattern Manager by WP Engine</h3>
<ul>
<li>A dedicated place to build and design Block Patterns.</li>
<li>Save (and generate) pattern files directly to disk in your theme (no exporting needed).</li>
<li>Patterns available come from your theme on the disk, allowing for easy collaboration with git.</li>
<li>Images used in patterns are auto-copied into your theme and referenced in the PHP pattern file.</li>
<li>No more copying and pasting code to files.</li>
<li>No more copying and pasting images to your theme.</li>
<li>Browse all your patterns by their preview thumbnails.</li>
<li>Create patterns and edit them later.</li>
<li>Easy discovery and use of hidden WordPress core pattern features.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Things you can do with Pattern Manager:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create a pattern with a click.</li>
<li>Duplicate a pattern.</li>
<li>Delete a pattern.</li>
<li>Rename a pattern.</li>
<li>Utilize hidden WordPress core pattern features.</li>
<li>Save a pattern to a php file in your theme.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Hidden WP core pattern features you can unlock with Pattern Manager:</h3>
<ul>
<li>When a user makes a new page or post, auto-show a modal with your patterns, available to be used.</li>
<li>Make your pattern available in the block inserter, or choose to hide it from the inserter.</li>
<li>Allow users to transform any block into your pattern.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Upon every “save” of a pattern, Pattern Manager will do the following:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create/update the pattern PHP file on your disk, in your theme.</li>
<li>Find and replace all local image urls with the correct PHP tag.</li>
<li>Find and copy all image files used into your theme.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Additional Features</h3>
<h3>The Pattern Block: Put patterns inside patterns.</h3>
<p>Once you’ve built a lot of patterns, it makes sense to quickly combine them in various ways to make full-page patterns. An example of this might be a “Home Page” or “Landing Page” pattern that includes a call-to-action area, features area, testimonials, links, and more. Instead of re-creating each of those patterns inside your “Home Page” pattern, you can simply re-use them with the “Pattern Block”.</p>
<p>Here’s an example of how you’d make that “Full Page” pattern:<br />
 * Step 1: In Pattern Manager, click “Create New Pattern”.<br />
 * Step 2: Add the “Pattern Block” (note: this block is exclusively available in the Pattern Manager editor).<br />
 * Step 3: Choose a pattern you’ve already made (like testimonials, features, call-to-actions, etc).<br />
 * Step 4. Once inserted, repeat steps 2-3 until you have a “Full Page” pattern you like.</p>
<p>The best part about using the “Pattern Block” is maintaining your patterns. If you ever need to make a change to a pattern, you can update it in one place and it will be updated anywhere you used the Pattern Block, dynamically.</p>
<p>When one of your theme’s users inserts that “Full Page” pattern, because it’s using WordPress core’s pattern block, WordPress will automatically pull the separate patterns together into the Block Editor, ready for them to modify, just like any other pattern.</p>
<h3>Docs & Repo</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://developer.wpengine.com/pattern-manager/" rel="nofollow ugc">User and developer docs</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/studiopress/pattern-manager/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repo</a></li>
</ul>


Pattern Manager

Manage your theme's pattern PHP files the easy way, with Pattern Manager by WP Engine.

BlockMeister – Block Pattern Builder vs Pattern Manager