A lot of theme developers have outright ignored Gutenberg cause it doesn’t give users enough ability to do more templating and full site editing—but they fail to see that it’s getting closer every day.

We ended up bypassing block patterns (for now) because we built our own templates modal window. Plenty of enhancements to the blocks api has made it possible to have what amounts to mostly full site editing outside the navigation system and widgets for footers and sidebars.

For me, that’s good enough with the help of customizer.

We made our own blocks plugin and templating because patterns and the like didn’t exist when we started. It works with most of the default Wordpress themes going back to 2019 and our own themes, one of which is already on the theme repo.

I’d be interested to see why more theme developers aren’t implementing more of the newer block api features. They’ve really come a long way. Our next plugin release is using the blockpreview component and animations. It’s miles easier to use for our clients.

My guess is developers are all too hung up on elementor and other page builders despite their shortcomings...