Title: Pattern Builder
Author: Twenty Bellows
Published: <strong>29. ágúst, 2025</strong>
Last modified: 16. september, 2026

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# Pattern Builder

 Höfundur: [Twenty Bellows](https://profiles.wordpress.org/twentybellows/)

[Sækja](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/pattern-builder.2.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://is.wordpress.org/plugins/pattern-builder/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://is.wordpress.org/plugins/pattern-builder/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://is.wordpress.org/plugins/pattern-builder/#installation)
 * [Development](https://is.wordpress.org/plugins/pattern-builder/#developers)

 [Aðstoð](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pattern-builder/)

## Lýsing

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.

#### Key Features

**Pattern Management Made Easy**
 * **Unified Interface** – Manage both theme patterns
and user-created patterns in one place * **Visual Editor** – Create patterns using
the familiar WordPress block editor * **Live Preview** – See your patterns in action
before saving

**Powerful Organization**
 * **Categories** – Organize patterns by category for 
easy discovery * **Advanced Search** – Find patterns quickly with powerful filtering
options * **Tags & Keywords** – Add metadata to make patterns discoverable * **Sync
Status** – Manage synced and unsynced patterns effortlessly

**Your Patterns, on Every Site**
 * **Collections** – Keep patterns on patternbuilderwp.
com in collections: a private Personal for yourself, private collections of your
own on Pro, and the curated collections Twenty Bellows and partner studios publish***
Install a whole collection** – Save any directory collection to a site in one action,
as theme patterns or user patterns, images included * **Agents welcome** – An agent
connected to your site can browse, install and upload through your account, and 
never holds a cloud credential

**Developer-Friendly**
 * **Export to Theme** – Convert user patterns to theme files
with proper formatting * **Asset Management** – Automatically handles pattern images
and media * **Block Bindings** – Bind a pattern’s blocks to post meta, ACF fields
or any registered binding source, or leave them for whoever places the pattern to
fill in

#### Use Cases

**For Theme Developers**
 * Create and manage theme patterns visually * Export patterns
with proper formatting * Organize patterns by category * Test patterns before deployment

**For Site Builders**
 * Build custom patterns without coding * Reuse patterns across
multiple pages * Carry patterns between sites * Maintain pattern library

**For Agencies**
 * Create pattern libraries for clients * Standardize design systems*
Speed up development workflow * Maintain brand consistency

### External services

Everything local works without an account and without sending anything anywhere.
Three services are involved only when you choose to use them:

**patternbuilderwp.com** — the cloud library and its directory of curated collections,
and the account behind them. When you sign in or create an account from Appearance
Pattern Builder, your email and password are relayed once, server-side, to patternbuilderwp.
com; only the returned access token is stored, on this site, for your WordPress 
user. Browsing the Uploaded and Directory tabs, managing your collections, uploading
patterns and installing patterns or whole collections, starting a password reset,
and confirming a purchase all talk to patternbuilderwp.com through this site. Pattern
Builder is the only way to install anything from patternbuilderwp.com: the website
shows collections and sends people here. Anonymous usage reporting, if you allow
it, goes there too (see below). Terms: https://patternbuilderwp.com/terms/ — Privacy:
https://patternbuilderwp.com/privacy/

**Freemius** — the checkout for Pattern Builder Pro. Choosing Go Pro loads Freemius’s
checkout script (https://checkout.freemius.com/js/v1/) on the Pattern Builder screen
and opens their checkout; nothing from Freemius loads anywhere else or before that
click. Terms: https://freemius.com/terms/ — Privacy: https://freemius.com/privacy/

**Google Fonts, through WordPress.org** — installing a font. Adding a font family(
from the pattern authoring tools, or by an agent using the add-font ability) fetches
the list of available families from WordPress.org (https://s.w.org/), which is the
same list WordPress core’s own Manage Fonts screen uses, and then downloads the 
font files you chose from Google’s font server (https://fonts.gstatic.com/). The
files are saved to your site and served from it, so your visitors’ browsers never
request anything from Google. No request is made until you install a font. Google
Fonts terms: https://developers.google.com/fonts/terms — Privacy: https://policies.
google.com/privacy

#### Usage reporting (opt-in)

The first time the pattern browser opens on a site, it asks once whether Pattern
Builder may report anonymous usage, with Allow and No thanks buttons. Nothing is
sent unless an administrator chooses Allow, and the choice can be changed on the
same screen at any time. What is sent when allowed: which features are used (the
browser opened, a pattern created, the community browsed, an upload or download)
and the environment — WordPress, PHP and plugin versions, locale, active theme, 
multisite, and environment type — under a random install id. What is never sent:
the site’s address or name, pattern content, or anything about the site’s visitors.

### Development

Pattern Builder is open source and welcomes contributions. Visit our [GitHub repository](https://github.com/Twenty-Bellows/pattern-builder)
to:

### Credits

Pattern Builder is developed and maintained by [Twenty Bellows](https://twentybellows.com).

## Uppsetning

#### From WordPress Admin

 1. Navigate to Plugins > Add New
 2. Search for „Pattern Builder“
 3. Click „Install Now“ and then „Activate“
 4. Navigate to Appearance > Pattern Builder to start creating patterns

#### Manual Installation

 1. Download the plugin zip file
 2. Navigate to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin
 3. Choose the downloaded file and click „Install Now“
 4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
 5. Navigate to Appearance > Pattern Builder to start creating patterns

#### For Developers

 1. Clone the repository: `git clone https://github.com/Twenty-Bellows/pattern-builder.
    git`
 2. Install dependencies: `npm install && composer install`
 3. Build assets: `npm run build`
 4. Start development environment: `npm run start`
 5. Watch for changes: `npm run watch`

## SOS

### Can I use this with any theme?

Yes! Pattern Builder works with any WordPress theme that supports the block editor.
It’s especially powerful when used with block themes.

### Can I manage existing theme patterns?

Yes, Pattern Builder provides a unified interface to manage both theme patterns (
PHP files in your theme’s patterns directory) and user-created patterns stored in
the database.

### Does it work with Advanced Custom Fields?

Yes, and with no code to write. Choose a post type in the Pattern Bindings panel
and the ACF fields attached to it are offered alongside that post type’s own custom
fields. One ACF setting has to be on first: open the field, and under Presentation
switch on „Allow Access to Value in Editor UI“. ACF leaves that off for any field
created since its 6.3.6, and a field without it renders nothing wherever it is bound,
so Pattern Builder does not offer one until it is on.

### Can I bind a block to my own data?

Yes. Anything registered as post meta with show_in_rest is offered automatically.
For data of your own, register a block binding source: WordPress resolves the value
from your PHP callback, and registering the same source in the editor with a getFieldsList
puts your fields in the panel.

## Umsagnir

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### 󠀁[Really well thought out!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-well-thought-out-2/)󠁿

 [Fusion](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fusion/) 29. ágúst, 2025

As a designer, I have struggled a little bit with Gutenberg since its release, but
this is finally the missing link that lets me work within the UI instead of needing
to write code to create reusable patterns. Love it 🫶

 [ Skoða 1 umsögn ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pattern-builder/reviews/)

## Þátttakendur & höfundar

“Pattern Builder&#8221 er opinn hugbúnaður. Eftirfarandi aðilar hafa lagt sitt af
mörkum við smíði þessarar viðbótar.

Höfundar

 *   [ Twenty Bellows ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/twentybellows/)
 *   [ Jason Crist ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pbking/)

[Translate “Pattern Builder” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/pattern-builder)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pattern-builder/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/pattern-builder/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/pattern-builder/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/pattern-builder/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Breytingarsaga

#### 2.1.1

 * Editing a theme pattern no longer discards the rest of its file header: the @
   package block a theme carries, or a note written beside it, is kept exactly as
   it was and can be edited in the Pattern Metadata panel
 * A pattern file that runs PHP is now recognised and never written over. Reading
   one runs it, so saving would have replaced the code with the output of a single
   run; the pattern still lists, opens and previews, and the editor says why it 
   cannot be saved
 * Patterns built around the Content block now preview as themselves instead of 
   drawing the site’s home page inside the pattern, and open in the editor instead
   of reporting that the block cannot be rendered inside itself
 * The plugin’s version constant is reported correctly again. It had fallen a release
   behind, which left the 2.1.0 upgrade step unrun and pattern previews serving 
   what they had drawn before the update

#### 2.1.0

 * Pattern Bindings: bind a block’s value to any registered source, not pattern 
   overrides alone — a post type’s custom fields, Advanced Custom Fields, or a source
   a plugin registers — picked per attribute from the fields that post type really
   offers
 * Cloud collections: sign in to a free patternbuilderwp.com account from Appearance
   Pattern Builder and keep your patterns in a private Personal collection, on every
   site you connect; Pro adds private collections of your own
 * The Directory tab browses curated collections; save one pattern or a whole collection
   to this site, with the design tokens it needs, and the Uploaded tab manages your
   own collections
 * A page pattern travels with the patterns it references, uploading and installing
   them alongside it, and a copy records the pattern it came from
 * Images and fonts for patterns: find what the site has, add a file, draw a placeholder,
   or install a self-hosted font family, and get back the exact reference to use
 * Agents: seven cloud abilities, an ability that extends the theme’s design tokens,
   create and update checks that refuse invalid markup by name, and authoring guides
   checked against WordPress 7.1
 * Accounts: stronger passwords, email confirmation, a password reset from the connect
   panel, and Go Pro through Freemius’s checkout on the Pattern Builder screen
 * Opt-in anonymous usage reporting, asked once, never on by default

#### 2.0.0

 * Complete architectural overhaul: theme pattern files are now the single source
   of truth — no more database mirror posts, no more custom post type rows, and 
   no more interception of the /wp/v2/blocks REST API
 * New pattern browser under Appearance  Pattern Builder; every pattern opens in
   the WordPress editor itself — user patterns in the Site Editor, theme patterns
   in the core editor bound straight to the pattern file
 * Theme patterns are now real REST entities (string IDs, like core templates) at/
   pattern-builder/v1/patterns, editable in the post editor in place
 * Synced theme patterns now work through the core/pattern block’s content attribute(
   the same mechanism as the Synced Patterns for Themes plugin 2.0) — inserted copies
   stay linked to the pattern file with per-instance overrides, and no post ID is
   involved anywhere
 * Full pattern metadata management: title, description, categories, keywords, block
   types, post types, template types, viewport width, inserter visibility, and synced
   status all round-trip through the pattern file header
 * Viewport Width is now preserved when editing patterns (previously lost on save)
 * Parent theme patterns are now included (previously only the child theme was scanned)
 * The block inserter now respects each theme pattern’s own Inserter header (previously
   all theme patterns were hidden)
 * Pattern Bindings panel for naming override slots directly in the editor
 * Works alongside Synced Patterns for Themes 2.0: when both are active the companion
   provides the pattern runtime and Pattern Builder adds the editing tools
 * Automatic one-time migration: wp:block references to the old mirror posts are
   rewritten to wp:pattern references, mirror posts are removed, and the old capabilities
   are cleaned up
 * Fixed unauthenticated pattern deletion and unauthenticated edit-context reads(
   the old REST interception layer is gone entirely)
 * Performance: no database writes on page load (the old per-request pattern mirroring
   is gone)
 * Requires WordPress 6.8 and PHP 7.4

#### 1.0.4

 * Fixed issue where it prevented Post Types with custom metadata from saving

#### 1.0.3

 * Fixed saving media for theme patterns
 * Fixed broken unit tests
 * Simplified code and removed unnecssary logic

#### 1.0.2

 * Documentation changes
 * API Hardening and security improvements
 * Namespace and prefix changes to prevent potential conflicts with other tools

#### 1.0.1

 * Fixed compatibility issues with WordPress 6.8
 * Improved pattern export functionality
 * Enhanced error handling

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release
 * Pattern creation and editing
 * Theme pattern management
 * Export to theme functionality
 * Categories and tags support
 * Visual and code editor modes
 * Pattern preview
 * Asset management

## Tækni

 *  Version **2.1.1**
 *  Last updated **2 dagar síðan**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.1.1**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pattern-builder/)
 * Tags
 * [block patterns](https://is.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/block-patterns/)[block-editor](https://is.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/block-editor/)
   [design](https://is.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/design/)[gutenberg](https://is.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gutenberg/)
   [patterns](https://is.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/patterns/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://is.wordpress.org/plugins/pattern-builder/advanced/)

## Einkunnir

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## Höfundar

 *   [ Twenty Bellows ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/twentybellows/)
 *   [ Jason Crist ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pbking/)

## Aðstoð

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