As I write this the WordPress community is once again changing in the social, and market focused ways. There has been turmoil in it’s development, so the technical changes also keep going.

As a developer who comes from a creative background, I am happy to put more creative tools in front of less technical users. This is a complicated task when the written code is in multiple languages and syntaxes.

The WordPress Full Site Editing experience is not perfect, but it is an attempt which most systems are attempting. Professionally designers and writers are often a part of the QA teams as well as still typically THE initial builders.

Technically this is a simple plugin that will delete the wp_template and wp_template_parts custom post types from the WordPress database. This should require your WordPress installation to reload the “.html” template files located in the theme directory “templates” and “parts” folders. If you are using the WordPress Full SIte Editor, this should revert your site to the design content structure from those files.

This particular plugin will not modify the theme folder files. This should reset many WordPress Full Site Editing themes bac to their default state.

The code is available on Github: https://github.com/ev3rywh3re/fse-clear-templates

The WordPress Full Site Editor