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A library of 57 Designed Patterns and 371 Core Patterns and 495 variations. Core Patterns are native block layouts with no plugin requirement. Adaptive patterns inherit your block theme’s colours, fonts and spacing. Keep your existing theme and add layouts that fit your site. Designed Patterns are finished compositions with their own look and optional behaviour. They use the included companion plugin, while their text, images and links remain editable WordPress blocks.

Core Patterns do. Adaptive patterns inherit your block theme’s colours, fonts and spacing. Keep your existing theme and add layouts that fit your site. You do not need to install a Pattern Paste theme. Designed Patterns let you keep their original appearance or choose Use my theme before copying.

An adaptive pattern states no colour and no font of its own. Where it needs a colour it references your theme's own preset, with fallbacks behind it so it can never resolve to nothing. So the same pasted section is navy in one theme and cream in another, in that theme's typeface, at that theme's spacing, when the theme provides the matching presets. Missing colour presets fall back to WordPress defaults, which may need adjusting to match your palette.

Styled variations can keep their own colours or type; check the labels before copying. See how we test for our WordPress checks and their limits.

Yes. Designed Patterns begin with a considered palette and type treatment. Keep that appearance, or choose Use my theme before copying. Core Patterns inherit your theme's colours and type.

A complete second markup file for the same Core Pattern, in a different finish such as a darker colourway or a tighter layout. You copy the variation instead of the base, never as well as it. Each one is a real file that goes through every check, which is why they can be trusted rather than generated on the fly.

A supported block theme of your choice, or one you build here in a few minutes. The theme tool is free to use and needs no account: set 8 colour roles, pick two families out of 14, set one spacing step, and see a block theme WordPress installs. It runs the same contrast audit we run over the patterns, and it will not build the theme until every colour pair passes, so a theme it gives you is one every pattern in the library is legible in. Downloading the theme is part of the subscription, like copying a paid pattern.

Switching a theme on there also re-skins every preview on this site, so you can read the whole catalogue in your own design system before you buy anything. Your theme is kept in your browser; a free account keeps 2 in the cloud, a subscription keeps up to 10.

Choose a Core Pattern or Designed Pattern, open its page and press Copy pattern. Install the companion plugin before copying a Designed Pattern. In the WordPress editor, click into an empty paragraph and paste. Change the words, images and links with normal block controls. Core Patterns are fully native layouts. Designed Patterns keep their composition protected until you choose Unlock layout.

7.0 to 7.1. Every pattern is parsed and rendered on both ends of that range before it ships, because block markup that is valid in one version can be marked invalid in another and WordPress says nothing about it until a buyer opens the editor.

You can keep your existing supported block theme. You do not need our theme or the theme tool. Adaptive patterns inherit its colours, fonts and spacing through WordPress styles and presets. Themes with different colour preset names can fall back to WordPress defaults, so you may need to adjust the colours. This is not a promise of automatic matching in every theme.

Requires a block theme on WordPress 7.0 to 7.1. Classic themes and page builders are outside our supported setup. Adaptive patterns use the block theme’s colour, spacing and typography presets; styled variations declare their own colours or type.

Yes. Static photo blocks include the same WordPress photographs you see in the preview, with public image URLs that stay in the copied markup. You can replace them in the block editor. Pasting a URL does not upload the file into your Media Library.

Query patterns use featured images from your own posts. Video examples still need your own clip. Image sources and any exceptions are listed on our image credits page.

A Core Pattern adds block markup and nothing else. It ships no JavaScript, stylesheet or webfont. A Designed Pattern uses the companion plugin for its composition and optional behaviour. The plugin loads a section's assets only where that section appears, and the content remains complete when JavaScript or motion is unavailable.

Yes. Every pattern and the plugin can be used on unlimited sites, yours or clients'. Unlimited covers your own sites and the sites you build for clients; an account may not be pooled or resold between unrelated businesses. What you cannot do is redistribute the sections themselves inside a theme, template or kit you sell. The terms set the line out.

Only for Designed Patterns. Their cards and pages say Needs plugin and link to the install notes. Core Patterns are native blocks with nothing to install, though the plugin puts them in the block inserter too.

Install it before you paste a Designed Pattern. Pasting first leaves the editable content in place, but its designed composition and optional behaviour cannot run until the plugin is active.

From your account, under Themes & downloads. It is one .zip: upload it under Plugins → Add New Plugin → Upload Plugin, press Activate, and that is the install finished. It comes with both plans at no extra cost, with updates and support on unlimited sites. Unlimited covers your own sites and the sites you build for clients; an account may not be pooled or resold between unrelated businesses. On Core it holds Core Patterns and Styled looks; on Everything it holds every Designed Pattern too.

It is not on wordpress.org, so it will not turn up in the Plugins search. Updates come from us instead: copy your account licence key and paste it into Settings → Pattern Paste on the site, then press Activate licence. WordPress registers its address and offers updates normally. Without a connection, installed content keeps working; updates and adding new paid designs need active access.

The install notes walk through it with every menu named.

Not on a page a visitor loads. There is no licence check in the rendering path, so nothing about your subscription can change a published page and no request leaves your server when somebody views a section.

It contacts us when you activate or check a licence and when WordPress checks for updates. If you enable the optional section library, browsing refreshes its catalogue and selecting a design downloads a local copy. Free sections need no activation. Installed content keeps working if your access ends or our service cannot be reached.

Designed Pattern content uses native WordPress blocks and familiar editor controls. You can preview each section before you take it.

A Designed Pattern loses its designed composition and optional behaviour. The content inside stays on the page as a plain stack: your headings, your text and your images, still readable, still in the right order. Nothing you typed lives inside a plugin attribute, which is why it survives.

The same is true if your access lapses: every site where it is already installed keeps working and rendering. What ends is updates, support and new paid downloads.

A block's contract is frozen from the day it ships: its name, its settings, its slots. A fix to how it renders reaches every page you have published, which is the entire reason behaviour lives in a plugin instead of in pasted markup. A redesign that would change the contract ships as a new block, never as an edit to the one in your posts.

Two yearly plans. Core, £49 a year, covers every active Core Pattern, Styled look and variation, the plugin and every theme download, plus whatever ships next. Everything, £99 a year, adds every Designed Pattern. Both are for unlimited sites. Unlimited covers your own sites and the sites you build for clients; an account may not be pooled or resold between unrelated businesses. Not for you? Tell us within 14 days of a payment and we refund you. After that, cancelling stops the next renewal and access runs to the end of the year you have paid for. Prices are in pounds and are the full price in the UK, the US and eleven other countries; elsewhere the checkout adds your local VAT or sales tax. The terms name every country. Expiry never changes a page you already built.

Nothing. A section you pasted is content in your own database; expiry never changes a rendered page and there is no term that lets us reach one. Access to paid section and theme downloads, plugin updates and support ends. The plugin keeps working wherever it is installed. The free collection remains available without a subscription.

62 patterns are permanently free, and their variations, except the Styled looks. Copy them without an account and use them in your own block theme. They remain free after a trial or subscription ends.

Yes. Every Core Pattern page carries a WordPress-rendered preview you can resize and view in the available themes. Every Designed Pattern page previews its original appearance, the Use my theme treatment, responsive sizes and optional motion before you copy.

Our verification workflow renders patterns in real WordPress in Twenty Twenty-Five and Twenty Twenty-Four, and then measures: every colour pair for contrast against the resolved value, every width for overflow and tap targets, every block through WordPress's own parser for validity, and the whole page for silent notices.

Reading block markup cannot tell you whether it works. Every way this can fail in WordPress fails silently: no warning, no console message, nothing in the editor. So we render the page and read what the browser actually painted. Read how we test patterns for the checks, examples and limits.

Because a custom block is a dependency you inherit. Core blocks are in every WordPress, they are maintained by the project, they survive our disappearance, and a client editing the page a year later sees controls they already know.

24: navigation, heroes, features, pricing, FAQs, footers and the rest. The library is browsed by section, and each pattern belongs to exactly one.

Tell us at [email protected] and include the pattern, your WordPress version and your theme. A pattern that does not render the way its own preview shows is our bug and we will fix it.

No. We support the patterns rendering correctly in a standards-following block theme. Adapting your site's design, debugging other plugins or building pages for you is not something we take on.