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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon Automattic

Feature Request: Add Blueprint or Site template to build new website faster

Open faisalahammad opened this issue 1 year ago • 5 comments

What

When building a new website, it's great to have a blueprint or template option where I can set my preferred configuration, theme, and plugins.

Why

It'll help me build a new website faster without manually installing or configuring my desired setup one by one.

Screenshot:

Blueprint@2x

How

No response

faisalahammad avatar May 26 '24 16:05 faisalahammad

Thanks, @faisalahammad, for adding that. Could you share more about your use case?

  • How many templates would you usually have in your setup? What plugins or themes would you include?
  • Would you expect always to use the latest WordPress when you create a site from the template, or would you prefer to lock the template to a particular WordPress version?

wojtekn avatar May 27 '24 07:05 wojtekn

You're welcome, @wojtekn.

  1. I'll need 3-4 blueprints/templates. Since I work at a Form plugin company, I'll need to include Ninja Forms, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms, and all of their add-ons in a template so I can create a new site without installing them manually.
  2. It depends, and there are no strict rules to stick with an older version of WordPress or use the latest version. If necessary, I can always update the WordPress Core from the blueprint/template.

faisalahammad avatar Jul 16 '24 16:07 faisalahammad

Adding a suggestion from @danielbachhuber

It would be nice if you could studio://blueprint.json someone into Studio with a Blueprint

matt-west avatar Sep 05 '24 08:09 matt-west

Adding some context: The screenshot in the original issue description is from the Local app.

candy02058912 avatar Sep 13 '24 03:09 candy02058912

To build new sites faster, we could offer users the option of starting with a site from the Blueprints Gallery. The user could select an existing Blueprint from the Gallery, which could either create the site immediately or open the Blueprint in a text area, making it easy to customize the Blueprint.

We could also have a Blueprints folder within the Studio folder and show Blueprints from that folder on top of the list of available Blueprints. Users could manually add Blueprints to that folder, or save their existing site configurations to the folder.

Playground's Blueprint Gallery

As an example, Playground already offers something similar. Image

bgrgicak avatar Jan 07 '25 10:01 bgrgicak

Just a quick follow-up here. Work is underway to support Playground blueprints from within Studio. 🎉

ndiego avatar Aug 11 '25 00:08 ndiego

Just a quick follow-up here. Work is underway to support Playground blueprints from within Studio. 🎉

Great. In my opinion this is the most important missing feature of Studio. Any thoughts on when we can expect this? Weeks, months or year?

endresol avatar Aug 11 '25 19:08 endresol

Great. In my opinion this is the most important missing feature of Studio. Any thoughts on when we can expect this? Weeks, months or year?

A few weeks!

ndiego avatar Aug 11 '25 19:08 ndiego

We've added support for Blueprints in 1.6.0 🥳

https://github.com/Automattic/studio/releases/tag/v1.6.0

wojtekn avatar Oct 30 '25 12:10 wojtekn