Block Patterns are becoming a requested feature. With the advent of Gutenberg, the blank canvas has become a bit more frightening. Rather than just worrying about content, now people also worry about page layout. While it's easy to wrangle with Gutenberg, the blank canvas leaves more questions than answers.

Adding a feature to include Block Patterns would be ideal!

Themes would be able to register block patterns. With this in mind, this feature could potentially eliminate all support questions of "How do I make it look like the demo?" 😱

Questions:

1. Should Gutenberg include some default block patterns?
2. Which UX flow for this system works best? (a couple examples below)

UX Example – Overlay

Prototype

UX Example – Sidebar

Prototype

cc: @epiqueras @youknowriad I'm not sure if this relates to some of the content areas and CPT work you've been doing.

Todo:

• Design a list of default patterns to embed in Gutenberg.
• Build an MVP UI that allows inserting these patterns (potentially just a sidebar plugin).
• Update the block inserter to show both blocks and patterns according to the last designs.

Potentially outside the scope of this issue but still part of the same project

• Build a way to create, save and edit patterns.
• Build a block patterns repository on wp.org.
• Allow installing patterns from the repository.