For general information about themes, see the support article What is a theme?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n How do this impact widgets and widget areas?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead of widgets, a block theme relies on blocks. This means that you can place blocks anywhere you might have previously wanted widgets to appear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How does this impact the Customizer?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Customizer<\/a> is not available in block themes unless you are using a plugin or theme that requires it to be activated. This is because you can make the same changes you might make with the Customizer with blocks. For example, there are now blocks for the site title, tagline, and site logo. You can also select colors for your website in the Styles<\/a> setting by going to Administration Screen<\/strong> > Appearance<\/strong> > Editor (beta). <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You can find block themes in the WordPress theme directory<\/a> by selecting Block Themes<\/strong> in the toolbar. This automatically takes you to a filtered view of all themes with Full Site Editing functionality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For general information about how to get new themes, see the support article Get new themes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After activating a block theme, more tools and features will be available to you including the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Using these options you can create the desired look and feel of your site without switching themes as often. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Block themes were introduced in WordPress since the 5.9 release. If you like exploring new things, enjoy building content with the block editor<\/a> and like to have full control over all parts of your site, block themes are a great solution for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’re comfortable doing so, it might help to set up a test site<\/a> to try out a block theme first to see if it will work for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Block themes are built for the newer functionality in WordPress and allow you to use blocks to edit all parts of your site, including easier ways to quickly customize everything from your background colors to font sizes for all Heading blocks etc. Comparatively, classic themes are built with PHP templates, functions.php and more that include features like Widgets, a dedicated Menus section, the Customizer, and more. Classic themes do not work with the Site Editor<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As of WordPress 5.9, block themes are now a part of the WordPress ecosystem as a new type of theme built with and for blocks. What is a block theme? A block theme is a theme that uses blocks for all parts of a site, including navigation menus, header, content, and site footer. These themes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false},"category":[81,80],"class_list":["post-15113575","helphub_article","type-helphub_article","status-publish","hentry","category-appearance","category-customization"],"revision_note":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/15113575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/helphub_article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15113575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/15113575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16356736,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/15113575\/revisions\/16356736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15113575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category?post=15113575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How to find block themes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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