Does WordPress Need 1,000s of Block Themes in the Era of Full Site Editing?
“I have so many design ideas in my head that I am about to make it my mission to singlehandedly fulfill [Matt Mullenweg’s] vision of 5,000 Full Site Editing #WordPress themes in the directory,” tweeted Brian Gardner earlier today. Daniel Schutzsmith responded: I’m just not seeing the need for more than one theme for FSE as long as I can override the look of it.Would appreciate someone explaining why one theme like @frostwp COULDN’T just be the standard.Making more themes feels like it defeats the concept of FSE altogether. It is not the first time someone asked whether more than one block theme is necessary. In 2019, Rich Tabor proposed adding a base theme to WordPress itself, one upon which others would be built, if at all. Even that was not the first time someone had pondered similar one-theme utopias throughout the platform’s history. Many framework-style parent themes have all made a run for it. Let us assume for a moment that WordPress has reached a state where all themes no longer need custom PHP and CSS code. We are nowhere near that point yet, but we can imagine such a day might be possible in the relatively distant future.…
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