I have experience creating “classic” themes from scratch. In the few hours of research I’ve done so far on block themes, I’m not quite sure if I’m understanding. Let me describe my initial impression:
**Initial impression**: Block theming is focused on the creation of blocks in order to provide an easier user experience for the client/end-user in the WordPress admin. This will allow them to insert and place blocks as they choose in their custom themes.
**After a few hours of reading and watching:**
* How do you create custom blocks?
* Are we expected to use the admin in order to create custom blocks?
* So many tutorials I’ve seen don’t actually address how to write code in order to create blocks. It’s all in the admin. Is this the intended or ideal process?
* I finally found some documentation on how to create blocks through code but it why does it seem like you’re not expected to?
* Am I right to suggest that creating blocks seems absurdly cumbersome? Keep in mind that I’m fine writing a lot of PHP for a custom, classic, theme.
**Conclusion**: Do I have a misunderstanding of what it means to create a custom Block based theme?
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