Block theme builder on WordPress.org

[adamziel]

Let's empower designers to build block themes with a dedicated builder tool available directly from WordPress.org.

As a designer, I would:

• Go to wordpress.org/theme/create
• Choose a parent theme to fork (or not)
• Make any customizations I need
• Close my browser tab and return later without losing my progress
• Click a "Submit to theme directory" button

I could also:

• Load my existing theme from the theme directory
• Make changes
• Submit the updated version with a click of a button

This workflow could potentially also offer the GitHub export and import feature.

Open questions

Before this project starts, there are some questions to answer:

• What other ingredients are required to submit a block theme?
  • readme.txt – how should the designer edit that in block theme builder?
  • ...what else?

What important factors is this issue missing @beafialho @jasmussen @mtias ?

[beafialho]

I could also:

Load my existing theme from the theme directory
Make changes
Submit the updated version with a click of a button

This would be great.

Here are some ideas that would be useful:

• Having a staging site we could share a link to
• Have the Create Block Theme plugin pre-installed
• I am not yet very familiar with this process, but one important step I believe is to run the Theme Check plugin before submitting, so that could be pre-installed as well

@iamtakashi @henriqueiamarino any other things you remember?

[jasmussen]

Can I host my result directly after picking and choosing pieces?

[danielbachhuber]

This workflow could potentially also offer the GitHub export and import feature.

I don't think the open source version should directly integrate into a proprietary service.

[adamziel]

Can I host my result directly after picking and choosing pieces?

That would be a hosting feature, the only way to do it in Playground would be to integrate with such a service (or GitHub pages).

I don't think the open source version should directly integrate into a proprietary service.

You do have a point, at the same time playground.wordpress.net already has a simple GitHub integration for public community repos that should be helpful even for showcasing features in new major WordPress releases.