Gutenberg Contributors Explore More Advanced Template Creation
Gutenberg design contributors are exploring how the template creation UI can be updated to expand the types of templates that user can create using the Site Editor. In WordPress 5.9 users can edit any template that a theme includes, but template creation is limited to a few basics: Front pageSinglePageArchiveSearch404Index Many of these basic templates are already in use by FSE themes. Users will only see the option to create templates (from this limited list) that their theme hasn’t already introduced. Opening up template creation to the wider world of WordPress theme templates would enable so much more customization. Contributors are exploring adding the ability to create category, author, tag, attachment, taxonomy, date, CPT (custom post types), templates for a specific post or page, and “general” templates. Automattic designer James Koster shared a short video demonstration of what he imagined the flow for this might look like. “What I felt worked well was separating templates by their specificity,” Koster said. “That is to say: templates that serve a static purpose (404, front-page, *-$slug etc) are grouped together, and templates with a dynamic purpose appear beneath. Video Credit: James Koster “This arrangement elevates the prominence of creating templates for a specific context – which…
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