WordPress themes with support for the Site Editor are built with blocks and are commonly called block themes or full site editing themes. With the Site Editor, you can edit all parts of your site, change color palettes and typography, and even create new custom templates.
Twenty Twenty-Four
Twenty Twenty-Four is the default theme for WordPress in 2024.
Twenty Twenty-Three
Twenty Twenty-Three is the default theme for WordPress in 2023.
Twenty Twenty-Two
Twenty Twenty-Two is the default theme for WordPress in 2022.
Themes by Anariel Design
Bricksy
Bricky’s best feature is the many custom patterns included in the theme.
Many of the patterns are focused on showcasing your photos in different combinations, but there are also About sections and pricing tables.
Bricksy has nine color variations, including a dark mode, a sidebar page template, and a team template.
The theme needs extra setup steps when you install it since you need to replace the images and text on the home page and footer with your own content.
– Well supported, works with WooCommerce, and receives frequent updates.
Themes by Anders Norén
Tove
Tove is an adorably cute theme that will make your visitors smile and feel welcome.
This full site editing theme has light pastel colors and design elements with heavy drop shadows.
– This theme does not receive frequent updates and is suitable if you do not need to use the latest version of the Gutenberg plugin
Poe
Poe is an overall well-designed theme, and I particularly like the font choice and the spacing, as well as the simplicity of the archive page and the different optional header and footer designs.
This full site editing theme has nine style variations with different fonts and color combinations. My personal favorite is the default style with its black background, white text, and yellow accent.
Beaumont
Beaumont is simply stunning and a great choice for a personal website.
The theme has many style variations with different color schemes, including three dark versions. You can also choose from several font families.
Beaumont includes template parts with different blog designs, and you can use them to change your blog or archive pages.
Abisko
Abisko is a clean and professional-looking theme with eye-catching large typography and well-placed vertical text elements.
The default color scheme is black and white, but there are six theme style variations, including blue, black, yellow, and beige backgrounds. The theme also includes a large number of block patterns.
One of my favorite aspects of Abisko is how well it adjusts to different browser widths and device sizes.
Hideo
Another stunning design from Anders with a vertical menu and several theme style variations in soft colors. Hideo has a large selection of block patterns for presenting images, call to actions, and card-like layouts.
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Themes by Automattic
Blockbase
Blockbase is the parent- and starter theme from the Automattic theme’s team.
I would best describe it as a practical theme that is well-supported with frequent updates. On its own, it does not have that many styling options.
– The big caveat with this theme is that it supports WordPress 5.8, which means it is not built with the newest standards and features.
The theme has three custom page templates: Blank, header, and footer only, and footer only.
Blockbase includes several block patterns, but only for the footer and header.
-The patterns can be difficult to discover because some are placed in a category called Blockbase, and others are placed in a category called Header.
Quadrat
I have picked Quadrat because I love its color scheme and its use of shapes.
Quadrat is a child theme of Blockbase.
Videomaker
Videomaker is a theme that showcases how you can use block patterns for a specific niche. In this case, video creation.
Videomaker has a dark background and light text, and large font sizes.
Skatepark
Skatepark screams a strong personality that wants to be noticed: Mainly because of the opinionated neon green color scheme.
This theme has expressive large typography and thick lines across the design. It also uses a small number of animations, notably for social links.
Rainfall
Rainfall is both striking and simplistic and is lifted by the choice of colors and the typography.
This is a great theme for publishing your texts. The theme includes patterns for both text-based content and images.
Themes by Brian Gardner
Powder
Powder is a minimalist, high quality starter theme that you can extend with child themes or edit directly in the Site Editor.
Frost
Frost is a starter theme by Brian Gardner and WP Engine.
Themes by Brainstorm Force
Spectra One
Spectra One is a companion theme to the block plugin Spectra (formerly Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg).
(While the theme developer recommends the plugin, the plugin is not required for creating a basic website with the theme ).
The theme has five style variations and several patterns. Most patterns are for site footers, but there is enough variation to create a great-looking website.
Spectra’s HTML templates are fully built using block patterns and template parts. I found the theme surprisingly lightweight for a Brainstorm Force product, and it follows most of the best practices for block themes, like not including any extra CSS or JavaScript.
Themes by Catch Themes
Catch FSE
Catch FSE is a dark theme with custom gradient accents and graphics.
The theme adds many different page, post, and archive templates that make it easy for you to customize the optional sidebars.
It also includes a light color scheme with light grey and pale purple accents.
Axton
Axton is described as a minimalist portfolio theme with light and dark style variations.
This is a theme with beautiful typography that makes good use of your post’s featured images. The contrasting lines that separate different parts of the website feel modest and elegant.
– The contrast between the default background color and the secondary color, for example, in the themes footer menu, is too low for my liking, but you can update the color palette easily.
ArtsyLens
ArtsyLens is a high quality theme both in terms of design, code, and easy of use.
This theme is easy to set up and is suitable for displaying photos, illustrations or other media.
Themes by Jegstudio
Zeever
Renovater
Jegstudio has a set of free themes based on the same concept: A basic theme with one custom homepage template, ready to be edited.
One of the things I test for is how easy it is to setup the theme to make it look like the demo or screenshot.
-With these business oriented full site editing themes, all you need to do is go to the WordPress Site Editor and start filling out your business information: Adress, opening hours, call to actions, services etc.
With full site editing, you edit and save the texts on the page directly without having to fill out theme options.
Themes by Rich Tabor
Wabi
What lifts Wabi is the attention to detail, typography and spacing between the elements on your page.
In this full site editing theme, the social media links are placed in the header right next to your site title, before your main navigation menu and search.
Wabi uses a unique custom setting that adds individual colors to the header area of your posts, without making changes to block styles.
It also has 3 style variations including dark mode.
Themes by ThemeIsle
Raft
Raft is a popular block theme with a custom front page and a varied selection of block patterns. The patterns include galleries, columns, call to action, FAQ, a team section, and pricing tables.
The theme has eleven optional style variations: Most of the variations have a beige or grey background with different font families (serif or sans serif fonts), but there are also two black designs, a green, purple, and blue design.
This theme is suitable if you need a block theme that you can use with WordPress version 6.0.
The templates and patterns have a lot of dummy content, so the theme requires some set-up.
Raft is also built to be extended with the Otter blocks plugin.
Themes by YITH
YITH Wonder
The most popular block theme besides the bundled themes, with 30k installs (November 2023).
Jace
I have created Jace to showcase the features of full site editing.
Jace is an accessibility-ready theme and the only block theme in the official theme directory that has been reviewed for accessibility by the WordPress.org themes team (July 2022).
You can use the theme for blogging, for your portfolio, business, or store.
To use the e-commerce features, you need to install both WooCommerce and WooCommerce blocks. It is also recommended to install Gutenberg and Contact Form 7.
The theme has over 60 patterns + all patterns from the WordPress pattern directory.
Please view the demo to see examples of the patterns and block styles.
Jace includes an optional light color scheme, blog layouts, about pages, contact pages, sticky header, social sharing, full-screen headers, buttons, and list styles.
If you like this theme, please leave a review on WordPress.org ⭐❤️
Miniblock OOAK
I created Miniblock OOAK as a proof of concept for true one-page block themes, where you edit your front page in the site editor.
One page, all the blocks.
If all you need is one fully customizable page, it does not get simpler than this.
Perfect for promoting your work-from-home small business, hobby, or craft, or as a contact page. Perhaps your passion project is creating one-of-a-kind custom plushies?
The theme listings on this page are not sponsored.
I am updating the list over time, because I want to include themes that are up to date.
I have hand picked the themes based on testing and word of mouth. All themes have been created by developers and designers who have been “early adopters” and has helped improve full site editing by sharing their themes.
If you have created a theme that you would like me to test and feature, let me know.
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