WordPress 5.8 has now launched with built-in support for the Pattern Directory. The directory has been seeded with a selection of beautiful and useful patterns contributed by designers from the community.

Try it out by finding a pattern. FilterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. by category to see patterns using images, headers, or buttons. Favorite a few with the ❤️ button. Click “Copy” or “Copy pattern” to get the pattern, and paste the blocks into a post on your WordPress site.

We’ve reached our first milestone of the Pattern Directory, launching it with a fixed set of curated patterns. Work is now beginning on the next milestone, which will enable patterns to be submitted by anyone, similar to the Theme and PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Directories. You can follow and contribute to that work on GitHub.

Other ways you can contribute to the Pattern Directory right now: translation, posting and testing issues, and discussing in the Biweekly Meta Team chat.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the project’s progress this far: @aaroncampbell, @akirk, @andrewserong, @annezazu, @audrasjb, @bph, @coreymckrill, @dd32, @dingo_d, @dryanpress, @dufresnesteven, @enej, @iandunn, @ipstenu, @javiarce, @joen, @julesaus, @louislaugesen, @mamaduka, @matveb, @michael-arestad, @nao, @nextdoorpanda, @ntsekouras, @ocean90, @poena, @psmits1567, @ramonopoly, @ryelle, @shaunandrews, @swissspidy, @tellyworth, @timothyblynjacobs, @tobifjellner, @vladytimy, @yuliyan, and everyone who worked to get these patterns translated so quickly 🌏 🌎 🌍.

Special thanks to the designers who collaborated on a set of high-quality blockBlock Block 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. patterns for the release of the directory: @anariel-design, @beafialho, @bgardner, @cavalierlife, @chrislema, @circlecube, @critterverse, @greenshady, @jameskoster, @jcasabona, @karmatosed, @kellychoffman, @kjellr, @laxmariappan, @mahvash-fatima, @melchoyce, @richtabor, @schutzsmith, @tajim, @webmandesign, @wetah

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