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wordpress-block-theming

This skill provides guidance for building WordPress block themes using Full Site Editing architecture.

by AutomatticOfficial publisherNot reviewed

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Agents
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, claude.ai and API
License
No license stated
Pin
ea902bdpinned Oct 9, 2026
Context cost
about 4,700 tokenswhen the skill loads
GitHub stars
115on automattic/wordpress-agent-skills
Scripts
None found

What it does

“WordPress Full Site Editing (FSE) theme architecture. Use when generating theme.json, block templates, template parts, patterns, and functions.php for WordPress block themes.”
The author's description, from SKILL.md

Generated summary from the skill's own text

This skill provides guidance for building WordPress block themes using Full Site Editing architecture. It covers theme structure, theme.json configuration, block templates, template parts, patterns, functions.php setup, and CSS styling including animations. Use it when generating complete FSE themes with all required files and configurations.

When to use it

  • Building complete WordPress block themes from scratch
  • Generating theme.json with settings and styles
  • Creating block templates and reusable template parts
  • Adding animations and scroll-triggered reveals to block themes

When not to

  • Building WordPress themes using PHP templates or classic theme patterns
  • Designing WordPress sites that require custom post types or complex plugins
  • Creating themes that need WooCommerce or advanced dynamic functionality

Install

No license stated: install from the publisher's repository, and ask the author before you reuse or share it.

These commands install from the publisher's repository and need no account.

skills CLI

npx skills add automattic/wordpress-agent-skills --skill wordpress-block-theming

Installs from the repository's default branch, which may have changed since the commit we checked.

GitHub CLI 2.90 or later

gh skill install automattic/wordpress-agent-skills wordpress-block-theming@ea902bd8301564fa33e336c34114ab121f24c800

Installs the commit we checked (ea902bd).

Copy by hand

Download the folder at ea902bd and put it in .claude/skills/wordpress-block-theming for Claude Code and in .agents/skills/wordpress-block-theming for Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode.

Skill folder on GitHub at ea902bd

Claude Code plugin

/plugin install build-with-wordpress@claude-plugins-official

The publisher's plugin in Claude's official marketplace. It may hold more than this skill, and we have not pinned it.

Copy for your agent

A prompt for any coding agent. It installs this skill from GitHub at the pinned commit, copies the files as they are, and runs nothing unless you ask.

Prompt

Install the agent skill "wordpress-block-theming" by Automattic.

Source, pinned to commit ea902bd8301564fa33e336c34114ab121f24c800:
https://github.com/automattic/wordpress-agent-skills/tree/ea902bd8301564fa33e336c34114ab121f24c800/claude-cowork/wp-site-creator/skills/wordpress-block-theming

1. Download that folder at exactly this commit. Do not use the default branch.
2. Copy every file unchanged, keeping the folder structure, into .claude/skills/wordpress-block-theming/ for Claude Code and .agents/skills/wordpress-block-theming/ for Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode. Create the folders if they do not exist.
3. Do not edit the files, and do not run any script in the folder unless I ask you to.
4. When you are done, list the files you copied and where you put them.

Its license is restricted or not stated. Show me the license terms from the repository before you copy anything.

Listing and checks: https://www.agentnative.dev/skills/automattic/wordpress-block-theming

SKILL.md at the pin

The license of this skill does not let us show its files here.

View SKILL.md on GitHub at ea902bd

Files

1 file, 19 KB in total. Each file has a sha256 in the pin's manifest; the first 12 characters are shown.

Skill folder on GitHub at ea902bd
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