New Global Pattern – Confusion!

Hi Simon,

Have you tried editing that particular pattern in GenerateBlocks > Local Patterns and applying the Global Style classes there?

I’m trying to understand this:

..why is the first instance of the pattern placed on a page inside a purple container that I have managed to name ‘Articles for Hubs’ and when I place another instance of the pattern on any page i do not get that container?

So the container only appeared when first adding the pattern, and upon subsequent additions of the patterns, the container is not appearing. Am I understanding that correctly? If so, that’s definitely not normal behavior. What does the container contain?

Hi there,

It has a purple container because its a Synced Pattern:
https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/reusable-blocks/

When you select a block and choose the option to Create Pattern; WordPress provides the following options:

https://app.screencast.com/pgPzv9o4RfmLC

By default ( and rather annoyingly ) WP checks the Synced option by default.
Which means all instances of that pattern are synced, update one instance and they all update.

If you don’t want a synced pattern, make sure to uncheck the Sync option when you create it.

For any synced patterns, that you want to unsync, select the block, and from its toolbar select the Detach option.

That’s correct. I think the best practice is to turn off the sync to prevent accidentally adding something inside the pattern on a certain page, and then finding out that it’s also updating in other places where we don’t want it to.