Pattern Previews for Themes in the Directory – Beta

Since WordPress 5.5 it’s been easy for themes to include bundled patterns. That’s proved to be a popular and powerful feature. But there has been no easy way to view the patterns included in a theme without installing it. As a result of those discussions, we have deployed code that adds a “Patterns” section for themes that have registered patterns.

Here is an example of TwentyTwentyTwo:

Clicking on a pattern opens it in the theme:

What’s Next?

This is an early beta. There are plenty of things to improve iteratively. We’ve turned this on so others can see it and