Tutorial: Adding Starter Page and Template Patterns

[justintadlock]

Discussed in #180

^{Originally posted by justintadlock December 12, 2023}
Currently, there is little documentation for adding Starter Page Patterns and Starter Template Patterns. There are plans to add docs for these in the Theme Handbook: WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker#816 But it will likely be a bit before those are written and published.

In the meantime, it'd be great to introduce them here on the Dev Blog. The Twenty Twenty-Four theme also includes some starter patterns, so it might mean a good chance to show off what the theme is capable of too.

Starter Page Patterns are patterns that appear when creating a new page (can also be used for any post type), allowing the user to choose a pattern to start from.

Starter Template Patterns are patterns that are available when a user creates a new template of that type in the Site Editor.

It's possible that we could even split this into two separate tutorials.

[justintadlock]

Working on this one here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RnXXIh6F_P9HDUbgM1eHn6iEOzyC45ou6uPxBZHD0_A/edit?usp=sharing

[justintadlock]

This one is drafted and ready for reviews: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RnXXIh6F_P9HDUbgM1eHn6iEOzyC45ou6uPxBZHD0_A/edit?usp=sharing

[marybaum]

On it!

[bph]

I am through with my review and my questions. Great post!

[marybaum]

Done!

[justintadlock]

Thanks, @bph and @marybaum!!!

[justintadlock]

Social copy:

Want to know how Twenty Twenty-Four shows a "Choose a pattern" modal when adding a new page? It's actually a built-in WordPress feature that you can use in your themes. Find out how in this tutorial from the Developer Blog:

https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/01/31/adding-starter-patterns-to-your-wordpress-themes/

[bph]

scheduled on social for 2/29