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Making more patterns available to the user #128
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Thanks for making this an issue, as we discussed, @MaggieCabrera. Would you prefer that I redesign the patterns on TT4 and TT5 instead of the solution you mentioned in bullet three? I am not familiar with the full scope, but I believe I can complete that within 7-10 days. Thoughts?
Thanks for making this an issue, as we discussed, @MaggieCabrera. Would you prefer that I redesign the patterns on TT4 and TT5 instead of the solution you mentioned in bullet three? I am not familiar with the full scope, but I believe I can complete that within 7-10 days. Thoughts?
I think option 3 would be very unlikely to make it in time for the release of Ipsum, so I would rather if the theme had their own patterns personally. I still will try to explore and prototype a more holistic solution in case new default themes follow the lead of this one, so we can both wok in parallel with the different solutions. Thank you!
Reacted by Henrique Iamarino@MaggieCabrera, I’ve mapped TT4 and TT5’s pattern libraries against what we already cover: deduplicating the concepts the two themes share and dropping what our archive pack covers, I land on about 28 patterns to design, in families:
Blogging kit
- Subscribe and CTA pieces
- Contact
- FAQs
- Statements
- Footers
- Audio/link post formats
Galleries
- Offset gallery
- Photo grid
- Full-screen image
- Video grid
Pages
- Link in bio
- Bio
- Coming soon
- Blog home
Extras
- Membership / subscriber-only section
- Testimonials, reframed as kind words
- Events list
- Vertical header
- A post feed led by the latest story
@henriqueiamarino those sound good to me!
Reacted by Henrique IamarinoHey @MaggieCabrera! The pattern expansion we discussed is ready for you to review. It comes in three parts:
#134 Patterns 1: six patterns (the statements, FAQs, alternating text, coming soon, and the blog home page).
#139 Patterns 2: the other twenty — footers, galleries, post formats, CTAs, pages, events, and a second navigation overlay. It’s stacked on 134 so the diff stays reviewable; it rebases onto trunk the moment part 1 merges.#138 Content width: one line, 600px → 640px. Designing with outer and inner blocks showed the old measure was too tight once a card carries its own padding.
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on Oct 7, 2026 For option 3 I opened WordPress/gutenberg#84507 so feel free to pitch in on that experience
Ipsum is simple by design to be out of the way of the user. This simplicity comes at a cost, since it requires the user to build everything themselves if the default templates are not enough for their needs. Previous default themes include a wide library of patterns that help with this. I have three suggestions, we can pick and chose, combine or do all three:
/cc @henriqueiamarino