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The template editor is now opt-in instead of opt-out for classic themes.
One of the first Full Site Editing tools introduced in WordPress 5.8 is the template editor. The template editor is a special mode available in the post editor that allows you to create, assign, and edit blockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. templates to specific posts and pages.
Theme blocks
Block Templates take over the whole page allowing you to layout and design the entire page in the editor. Note, this does mean your theme’s provided PHPPHPThe web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher template won’t be used when rendering a post or page using a block template.
When creating a block template, you can use any of the blocks you’re already familiar with in the post editor.
Additionally a new set of theme blocks are introduced in WP 5.8 that can be useful when building templates. These theme blocks are:
Site Logo
Site Tagline
Site Title
Query LoopLoopThe Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop.
Post Title
Post Content
Post Date
Post ExcerptExcerptAn excerpt is the description of the blog post or page that will by default show on the blog archive page, in search results (SERPs), and on social media. With an SEO plugin, the excerpt may also be in that plugin’s metabox.
Post Featured ImageFeatured imageA featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts.
Post Categories
Post Tags
Login/out
Page List
Architecture
The templates are saved as a Custom Post TypeCustom Post TypeWordPress can hold and display many different types of content. A single item of such a content is generally called a post, although post is also a specific post type. Custom Post Types gives your site the ability to have templated posts, to simplify the concept. named wp_template. A REST APIREST APIThe REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. end point is also available to fetch these templates.
Default Template
When users create new custom templates, a default template containing the site title, post title and post content is used but theme authors can choose to provide their own styled default custom templates by hooking into the editor settings and providing a `defaultBlockTemplate` as an HTMLHTMLHyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. string or by using a dedicated HTML file.
By default, the template editor is disabled for themes, but themes can choose to enable it with the following line added to their functions.php file.
add_theme_support( 'block-templates' );
Note, that if themes decide to use the newly introduced theme.jsonJSONJSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. file config, they are automatically opted-in into the template editor.