{"id":34963,"date":"2025-08-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhblog.dream.press\/blog\/?p=34963"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:32:15","slug":"wordpress-block-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-dev.dreamhost.com\/blog\/wordpress-block-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"22 WordPress Block Themes Perfect for Full Site Editing [2026]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Full site editing (FSE) themes, or block themes, give you complete design control over your headers, footers, and even page layouts. This flexibility technically means you could install any theme and achieve similar results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why do we need more than one theme?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theme designers know it\u2019s difficult to build a site from scratch. They package premade, persona-specific layouts, blocks, and styles to help you get a head start when building a new website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are 22 professionally designed block themes, each tested by thousands of users and updated in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quick Refresher on What Block Themes and Full Site Editing Are<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

WordPress introduced the Block Editor<\/a> in 2019. Now, instead of typing into a blank box, you could build pages by dragging and dropping visual blocks: text blocks, image blocks, and button blocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve coded a website in HTML and CSS, a classic editor feels quite similar. In contrast, the block editor is a modern page builder and nearly eliminates the need for WordPress page builders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Block themes use Full Site Editing (FSE)<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> introduced in 2021<\/a>. FSE lets you design your entire website<\/a>: headers, footers, and navigation using the same drag-and-drop approach of the block editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can also create complete header layouts from scratch or swap your existing layout with one of the predesigned ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can also create one section on a page and copy it to other pages without having to work with code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FSE can take about a week to feel comfortable with, even for people who have been using WordPress for almost a decade. So, expect a slight learning curve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But once it clicks, going back to regular themes will feel like going back to a previous generation of web design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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