Experimental plugin to store some pattern management features that I'm testing out.
This should not be used in production and features may be changed/removed at any time.
This plugin assumes that you have patterns that you want to manage in a theme. It allows you to create patterns in the Site Editor and then automatically exports them to your theme when you save changes.
The slug convention is [theme-slug]/[pattern-name], so a pattern in TwentyTwentyFour named "Hero" would be "slug":"twentytwentyfour/hero" and saved as twentytwentyfour/patterns/hero.php. For now, the pattern's post_name value is what generates the slug, and those two need to stay matching exactly for the sync connection to exist.
There is no real 'import' yet for pulling in changes or new patterns in the theme back into the Site Editor. This is a one-way sync for now. Also, the plugin exports your pattern metadata to the theme, but it doesn't do anything else with it yet.
Shows the wp_block post edit screen that lists all of your patterns and allows you to edit them. Includes a direct link to edit in the pattern in the Site Editor as well as a 'synced' status to show if the pattern is in sync with the theme (this looks at content only, not other pattern metadata).
When you save a pattern, it will automatically export the pattern to your theme's ./patterns directory.
For now there's just a wp-cli command to grab all patterns in the theme and import them into the database. This is useful for when you're first setting up the plugin and want to get all of your theme's patterns into the database.
wp wpdev block-pattern importTheme Patterns Hidden from Site Editor (DISABLED DUE TO REST API ISSUES)
Patterns in your theme are hidden from the site editor, but patterns in your database continue to show up. While this feels counterintuitive, this is to prevent you from being shown duplicate patterns with the "locked" icon that you can't edit. Once we have a way to import pattern changes back into the database, this will be revisited.
An "Advanced Editing" button at the top of the block editor allows you to quickly toggle the contentOnly lock on and off instead of using the "lock" button. Group blocks can opt into this behavior by checking the "Uses Advanced Editing Lock" toggle in the Advanced Inspector Controls.
Group block variation that is perfect for scaffolding patterns. It is a full-width group block with some padding applied to it, and then an inner "container" group block with an advanced "content locking" toggle that you can use to lock your pattern once it's complete.
This plugin also comes with a custom block that can show you all (or one specific) block patterns on the frontend of your site. Useful for when you want to test how patterns will render on your site.