Low-code format
Build and edit real code, guided step by step.
12 topics
From fundamentals to a complete client-ready build.
≈ 40 hours
Practical, project-based learning time.
Intermediate
For people who already deliver real WordPress work.
HTML / CSS basics
The only prerequisite — no React or PHP needed to start.
Gutenberg & FSE development course
Watch a full lesson before you enrol
What you’ll be able to do
The results you walk away with
Turn a finished graphic design into a complete, working block-based site.
Set up a site-wide design system in theme.json, so styling stays consistent everywhere.
Hand clients an editor they can use safely — layout, brand and structure stay protected.
Do more with native blocks and cut avoidable page-builder and plugin dependencies.
Pick the right custom-block approach (core, native, dynamic or ACF) for each requirement.
Build product and shop layouts with WooCommerce blocks.
Modernise existing PHP-theme projects with a hybrid setup instead of rebuilding them.
Reuse your own patterns and starter system to deliver future projects faster.
Keep builds fast and accessibility-conscious, on a foundation ready for AI-assisted workflows.
Leave with a repeatable delivery method you can standardise across clients.
What you’ll build
A real project — from graphic design to finished site
You don’t build toy demos. You take a supplied graphic design and turn it into a complete, maintainable block-based website — the exact workflow you’ll use on real client projects.
Before — the design
After — the built site
A repeatable delivery method
What modern Gutenberg development actually looks like
01. Define the system
Use theme.json to establish colours, typography, spacing, layout widths and the design options available to editors.
02. Build reusable patterns
Turn heroes, calls to action, case studies, pricing sections and content layouts into components your team can reuse.
03. Add only what the project needs
Use core blocks where they fit. Create native, dynamic or ACF blocks when the content model requires something specific.
04. Deliver the whole experience
Plan the frontend, editor experience, performance, accessibility, maintenance and handoff as one connected system.
From one-off builds to a delivery system
One-off WordPress workflow
Rebuild each layout by hand.
Depend on a large plugin stack.
Fight global CSS overrides.
Expose a full page builder.
Keep clients dependent on the developer.
Solve the same problems repeatedly.
Gutenberg development workflow
Start with reusable patterns and components.
Use core capabilities and targeted extensions.
Define design tokens and rules in theme.json.
Deliver a curated editing experience.
Enable safe, structured content updates.
Build reusable development assets.
A development system, not another builder
Stop choosing between developer control and client freedom.
Gutenberg gives you a native framework for blocks, templates, patterns and design rules. You decide what stays locked, what remains editable and how the whole system scales.
Native by default
Build on the WordPress stack instead of making every project dependent on a third-party page builder.
Flexible, not fragile
Give editors the options they need while protecting the layout, brand and content structure they should not change.
Built to scale
Use the same principles for a focused brochure site, a content-heavy platform or an agency starter system.
The hidden cost of “quick” builds
The site shipped. Now the maintenance bill begins.
Every site depends on a different stack of plugins.
Clients need help with routine content changes.
Layouts are rebuilt from scratch on every project.
Brand consistency disappears inside the editor.
Builder licences become a permanent project dependency.
A fast handoff turns into years of support overhead.
Gutenberg development puts each responsibility in the right layer — content, design, functionality and editorial control.
Build something you can keep using
Finish the course with a complete development asset in your hands.
You are not downloading another generic template or block pack. You build the system throughout the programme, understand every important decision behind it and leave with a flexible foundation you can adapt to different client projects.
Build it step by step
Move from architecture and theme.json to patterns, templates and project delivery. The asset grows with your understanding, so it never becomes a black box.
Learn from guided examples
Use practical samples, reusable patterns and reference solutions to see how the concepts work. Keep what fits, change what does not and learn why each choice matters.
Experiment in a safe sandbox
Try settings, code changes and editor behaviour in a dedicated sandbox environment. Break things, compare approaches and test ideas without putting a live project at risk.
Take it into real projects
Finish with your own maintainable starting system: something you understand, can version, extend and reshape for future freelance or agency work.
Built for people who deliver real WordPress work
An advanced yet junior-friendly, low-code Gutenberg and FSE development course for those who want to understand and shape the underlying WordPress system.
Freelance developers
Create a reusable foundation, reduce avoidable plugin dependencies and deliver a better editing experience without rebuilding the same solutions for every client.
Agency teams
Standardise project setup, share patterns and design rules across the team, and build a delivery model that is easier to estimate, hand over and maintain.
Classic-theme developers
Connect your existing PHP theme knowledge with block themes, theme.json, patterns and hybrid architectures without discarding what you already know.
Technical designers, marketers and site owners
If you are comfortable with HTML and CSS, learn to turn visual concepts and campaign requirements into structured pages — and manage a flexible business site without relying on an expensive builder subscription.
Why this matters when you freelance
Move beyond implementation
You are not just assembling pages. You are designing a content system around the client’s real publishing workflow.
Build your own reusable IP
Your patterns, blocks and starter architecture make future projects more efficient without forcing every client into the same design.
Reduce avoidable dependencies
Use native capabilities first, then add targeted tools where they solve a genuine requirement.
Deliver a better handoff
Give clients an editor shaped around their content, not a wall of controls they are afraid to touch.
Strengthen your positioning
Sell a maintainable publishing system rather than competing as another person who “builds WordPress websites”.
Stay aligned with the platform
Learn the native architecture that new WordPress editing and collaboration features are built around.
Honestly, this course is not for everyone
A quick gut-check before you buy — better to know now than to feel misled later.
This is probably the wrong fit if…
You want a pure no-code, drag-and-drop builder and never want to touch code.
You’re a complete beginner with no HTML or CSS yet — start with the fundamentals first.
You want a done-for-you theme to install without understanding how it works.
You’re after a quick “install these 10 plugins” shortcut rather than a repeatable method.
Still sounds like you? Then you’re exactly who this course is built for.
Why agencies are moving towards a block-first workflow
Standardise delivery
Give the team one shared approach to components, naming, design rules and project setup.
Ship with less repetition
Reuse proven patterns and foundations while keeping each client’s visual identity distinct.
Make support predictable
Maintain a consistent architecture instead of supporting a different builder stack on every site.
This is more than a technical upgrade. It is a repeatable production model for your entire WordPress practice.
Why this matters in 2026
Gutenberg is not standing still. The platform has taken a major leap forward.
WordPress 7.0 arrived in May with foundational AI and design capabilities. The summer 7.1 cycle is moving responsive styling, interactive states, icons and structured content forward again. Understanding the block system now means learning the layer where WordPress is actively investing.
AI is becoming platform infrastructure
WordPress 7.0 introduced a provider-agnostic AI Client, centralized Connectors and client-side Abilities. Plugins can expose typed, permission-aware actions that AI tools and automated workflows can discover and use.
Custom icons are becoming first-class assets
WordPress 7.0 added a native Icon block. The Icons API taking shape for 7.1 adds searchable collections and a path toward registering custom icons — a major step for brand systems that need consistent, editable visual assets.
Responsive and interactive styling is moving into the editor
The 7.1 beta cycle brings responsive styles to Global Styles and individual blocks, custom breakpoints in theme.json, and standardized hover and focus states. More design-system behaviour can live in WordPress instead of scattered CSS overrides.
Structured content is a stronger foundation for AI workflows
Blocks, patterns and registered abilities give tools predictable structures to work with. WordPress 7.1 also moves toward editable nested content inside the HTML block, making AI-generated markup easier to bring back into an editor-controlled workflow.
A good WordPress build does not let clients change everything. It lets them handle everything they are responsible for.
Your instructor
Hi, I’m Emese Pócsik
Frontend developer, WordPress expert and educator with nearly 20 years of building business sites for small and medium companies — and teaching web development since 2016. I’ve freelanced for Hungarian and international agencies, including nine years with a Canada-based marketing agency, on everything from simple portfolios to webshops with thousands of products.
I’m still an active developer — so every pattern and tool in this course grows out of real client needs (“What if the client asks for…?”) turned into clean, flexible, maintainable solutions you can actually use.
P.S. Emese really does have three E’s — valid syntax, not a bug, just a Hungarian feature.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Gutenberg a page builder?
Not in the traditional sense. Gutenberg is WordPress’s block-based content and site-editing system. You build layouts by nesting structured blocks, patterns and templates, while the theme defines the available design rules. That makes it a development foundation as well as an editing interface.
What is Full Site Editing (FSE), and why does it matter?
Full Site Editing lets you edit your entire site — header, footer, blog archives, 404 pages and templates — using blocks in a visual interface. It replaces many theme-specific options and shortcodes with one unified, block-based system, and the course shows you how to build on it deliberately.
Will Gutenberg replace Elementor and other page builders?
Not on every project. Gutenberg can replace many external builders on focused, content-led sites. Complex animation, specialised dynamic layouts or an established client workflow may still justify another tool. The course helps you make that architectural choice deliberately instead of by habit.
Do I need to know React?
No React or advanced PHP knowledge is required to begin. You do need basic HTML and CSS, confidence working with website files and a willingness to read and edit code. Modern JavaScript and React become relevant later if you choose to build advanced native or interactive blocks.
Do I receive a ready-made theme or block pack?
No generic finished package is handed to you as a black box. You build your own reusable development asset throughout the course. Guided examples, patterns and reference solutions help you move faster, while the sandbox gives you a safe place to test and understand every part before using it in client work.
Can I use ACF with Gutenberg?
Yes. Many professional workflows use Gutenberg for page structure and ACF for structured fields or faster custom-block development. The course covers when each approach is the right one, so you can combine them deliberately.
Can I use Gutenberg with a classic PHP theme architecture?
Yes. The course covers hybrid architecture, where you keep PHP templates such as header.php and footer.php while editors use Gutenberg in clearly defined content areas. You can adopt block-based development without rebuilding every project as a full block theme.
Does Gutenberg automatically make a site faster?
No. Native blocks give you a strong foundation for a leaner build, but performance still depends on the theme, block quality, images, hosting and the rest of the plugin stack. The course focuses on the choices that keep a block-based build light.
Why is a block-based site easier to evolve later?
Because design and structure live in reusable blocks, patterns and templates, not scattered custom code. That makes redesigns, new landing pages and layout changes faster, less risky and more consistent over the lifetime of the site.
Am I locked into Gutenberg if I start with it?
No. Gutenberg content is still HTML under the hood, stored in your database. While block markup is WordPress-specific, you can always export content, migrate to other systems or restyle it with a different theme later.
What kind of AI features are coming to WordPress?
The platform is adding an AI-friendly core layer that makes it easier to integrate AI for content generation, media handling, suggestions and, increasingly, layout or pattern recommendations directly in the editor. The course explains why structured, block-based content is the foundation these features rely on.
Why learn it now?
Because WordPress is building its current editing, collaboration and content-management direction around the block system. The longer you postpone it, the wider the gap becomes between a legacy workflow and the platform itself.
Launch offer — limited introductory price
Start building your Gutenberg system today
Launch price for early students · One-time payment · Lifetime access · No recurring subscription fees
This course includes
Lifetime access — with free updates as WordPress evolves.
All course patterns, blocks and starter files to download and reuse.
A dedicated sandbox environment to experiment safely.
Guided examples and reference solutions for every topic.
The complete project: from a graphic design to a finished block-based site.
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