Jason Crist

Twenty Bellows

<p>Pattern Builder transforms how you work with WordPress block patterns, providing a comprehensive solution for creating, managing, and organizing patterns right from your WordPress admin.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<p><strong>Pattern Management Made Easy</strong><br />
* <strong>Unified Interface</strong> – Manage both theme patterns and user-created patterns in one place<br />
* <strong>Visual Editor</strong> – Create patterns using the familiar WordPress block editor<br />
* <strong>Code Editor</strong> – Edit pattern markup directly with syntax validation<br />
* <strong>Live Preview</strong> – See your patterns in action before saving</p>
<p><strong>Powerful Organization</strong><br />
* <strong>Categories</strong> – Organize patterns by category for easy discovery<br />
* <strong>Advanced Search</strong> – Find patterns quickly with powerful filtering options<br />
* <strong>Tags & Keywords</strong> – Add metadata to make patterns discoverable<br />
* <strong>Sync Status</strong> – Manage synced and unsynced patterns effortlessly</p>
<p><strong>Developer-Friendly</strong><br />
* <strong>Export to Theme</strong> – Convert user patterns to theme files with proper formatting<br />
* <strong>Asset Management</strong> – Automatically handles pattern images and media<br />
* <strong>Block Bindings</strong> – Advanced pattern configuration with block bindings support</p>
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
<p><strong>For Theme Developers</strong><br />
* Create and manage theme patterns visually<br />
* Export patterns with proper formatting<br />
* Organize patterns by category<br />
* Test patterns before deployment</p>
<p><strong>For Site Builders</strong><br />
* Build custom patterns without coding<br />
* Reuse patterns across multiple pages<br />
* Share patterns between sites<br />
* Maintain pattern library</p>
<p><strong>For Agencies</strong><br />
* Create pattern libraries for clients<br />
* Standardize design systems<br />
* Speed up development workflow<br />
* Maintain brand consistency</p>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p>Pattern Builder is open source and welcomes contributions. Visit our <a href="https://github.com/Twenty-Bellows/pattern-builder" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a> to:</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Pattern Builder is developed and maintained by <a href="https://twentybellows.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Twenty Bellows</a>.</p>


Pattern Builder

Manage Block Patterns Like a Pro - Create, edit, and organize WordPress block patterns directly in your admin area with a powerful, intuitive interfac …

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.

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