What is Pattern Builder?
The pattern workflow WordPress always needed
Pattern Builder is a free WordPress plugin that makes block patterns first-class: create them, organize them, convert them between theme files and the database — and with a patternbuilderwp.com account, carry them to every site you build.
Manage
Theme patterns and user patterns, unified
Patterns that live as PHP files in your theme and patterns saved in the database appear on one screen, with live previews, categories, and full metadata. Convert either kind into the other — images are moved and rewritten automatically.
Editing always happens in the real WordPress editor. Pattern Builder never invents its own.
Sync to the cloud
A private library that follows you
Connect your patternbuilderwp.com account from inside wp-admin — sign in or sign up without leaving the dashboard. Upload any pattern and it is stored with its images; re-upload after an edit and the cloud copy updates in place.
On any other connected site, download it back — as a theme pattern or a user pattern, your call at download time.
Share and discover
The directory, where you actually work
Make a collection public and its patterns join the community directory, browsable on this site and inside wp-admin. Premium collections curated by Twenty Bellows sit alongside — browsable by everyone, downloadable with Pro.
Everything entering the directory passes automated content checks, and every download is re-sanitized on the way in. Patterns are markup, never code.
Built right
On WordPress standards, all the way down
The real editor
Patterns open in the block editor you already know — entity-powered saves, undo, dirty tracking. No proprietary canvas.
Files stay the truth
Theme patterns remain plain PHP files in your theme — versionable, shippable, yours. Nothing is mirrored into the database behind your back.
Safe by default
Server-side validation on every upload, sanitization on every download, and a connection you can revoke at any time.
Ready when you are.
Install Pattern Builder, connect your account, and your library is everywhere.