Pattern Builder
Pattern Builder transforms how you work with WordPress block patterns, providing a comprehensive solution for creating, managing, and organizing patterns right from your WordPress admin.
Key Features
Pattern Management Made Easy
* Unified Interface – Manage both theme patterns and user-created patterns in one place
* Visual Editor – Create patterns using the familiar WordPress block editor
* Live Preview – See your patterns in action before saving
Powerful Organization
* Categories – Organize patterns by category for easy discovery
* Advanced Search – Find patterns quickly with powerful filtering options
* Tags & Keywords – Add metadata to make patterns discoverable
* Sync Status – Manage synced and unsynced patterns effortlessly
Your Patterns, on Every Site
* Collections – Keep patterns on patternbuilderwp.com in collections: a private Personal for yourself, private collections of your own on Pro, and the curated collections Twenty Bellows and partner studios publish
* Install a whole collection – Save any directory collection to a site in one action, as theme patterns or user patterns, images included
* Agents welcome – An agent connected to your site can browse, install and upload through your account, and never holds a cloud credential
Developer-Friendly
* Export to Theme – Convert user patterns to theme files with proper formatting
* Asset Management – Automatically handles pattern images and media
* Block Bindings – Bind a pattern’s blocks to post meta, ACF fields or any registered binding source, or leave them for whoever places the pattern to fill in
Use Cases
For Theme Developers
* Create and manage theme patterns visually
* Export patterns with proper formatting
* Organize patterns by category
* Test patterns before deployment
For Site Builders
* Build custom patterns without coding
* Reuse patterns across multiple pages
* Carry patterns between sites
* Maintain pattern library
For Agencies
* Create pattern libraries for clients
* Standardize design systems
* Speed up development workflow
* Maintain brand consistency
External services
Everything local works without an account and without sending anything anywhere. Three services are involved only when you choose to use them:
patternbuilderwp.com — the cloud library and its directory of curated collections, and the account behind them. When you sign in or create an account from Appearance Pattern Builder, your email and password are relayed once, server-side, to patternbuilderwp.com; only the returned access token is stored, on this site, for your WordPress user. Browsing the Uploaded and Directory tabs, managing your collections, uploading patterns and installing patterns or whole collections, starting a password reset, and confirming a purchase all talk to patternbuilderwp.com through this site. Pattern Builder is the only way to install anything from patternbuilderwp.com: the website shows collections and sends people here. Anonymous usage reporting, if you allow it, goes there too (see below). Terms: https://patternbuilderwp.com/terms/ — Privacy: https://patternbuilderwp.com/privacy/
Freemius — the checkout for Pattern Builder Pro. Choosing Go Pro loads Freemius’s checkout script (https://checkout.freemius.com/js/v1/) on the Pattern Builder screen and opens their checkout; nothing from Freemius loads anywhere else or before that click. Terms: https://freemius.com/terms/ — Privacy: https://freemius.com/privacy/
Google Fonts, through WordPress.org — installing a font. Adding a font family (from the pattern authoring tools, or by an agent using the add-font ability) fetches the list of available families from WordPress.org (https://s.w.org/), which is the same list WordPress core’s own Manage Fonts screen uses, and then downloads the font files you chose from Google’s font server (https://fonts.gstatic.com/). The files are saved to your site and served from it, so your visitors’ browsers never request anything from Google. No request is made until you install a font. Google Fonts terms: https://developers.google.com/fonts/terms — Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Usage reporting (opt-in)
The first time the pattern browser opens on a site, it asks once whether Pattern Builder may report anonymous usage, with Allow and No thanks buttons. Nothing is sent unless an administrator chooses Allow, and the choice can be changed on the same screen at any time. What is sent when allowed: which features are used (the browser opened, a pattern created, the community browsed, an upload or download) and the environment — WordPress, PHP and plugin versions, locale, active theme, multisite, and environment type — under a random install id. What is never sent: the site’s address or name, pattern content, or anything about the site’s visitors.
Development
Pattern Builder is open source and welcomes contributions. Visit our GitHub repository to:
Credits
Pattern Builder is developed and maintained by Twenty Bellows.