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title: I made 720 WordPress theme styles
description: Assembler offers 720 unique theme styles in a single WordPress theme, showcasing unprecedented design flexibility and interoperability with WordPress 6.6.
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last_updated: '2026-04-03T10:28:40.000Z'
date: '2024-06-12T20:10:11.000Z'
author: Rich Tabor
summary: Assembler offers 720 unique theme styles in a single WordPress theme, showcasing unprecedented design flexibility and interoperability with WordPress 6.6.
tags:
  - Themes
  - WordPress
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type: blog
url: /720-themes
canonical: https://richtabor.com/720-themes
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---

Over the last week or so, I made 720 unique theme styles. But here’s the kicker—this is all in a single theme. Wild.

With [Assembler](https://github.com/Automattic/themes/tree/trunk/assembler), you have a whopping 45 color combinations and 16 font sets that can be mixed and matched to generate an incredible 720 unique vibes. And while not _technically_ individual themes, each permutation could very well serve as a unique theme style on its own.

Typically, WordPress themes come with a handful of theme style variations at most. But by leveraging the new capabilities of theme style variations landing in WordPress 6.6, this theme shatters the norm.

Check out this highlight I made, featuring Assembler and a few patterns, expressed across just 7 of the 720 permutations.

No kidding, it took longer to make this visual, than to curate these screenshots of the theme.

WordPress websites have [become more interoperable](/theme-composition/) with content expressed as blocks, and lately more so with style. You can actually take any of these color variations I made for Assembler and apply it to just about any other WordPress theme. There are quirks here and there, but the concept is sound.

This feels like we’ve landed upon a design system across WordPress websites that’s as interoperable as they come.

## Styles and Templates

A WordPress theme consists of two main components: styles and [templates](/block-templates/). Styles dictate the website’s appearance, including colors and typography, while templates determine the content layout.

These days, a WordPress theme is not much more than just that—styles and templates. But the idea that either one of those may eventually be applied to any _other_ theme is powerful.

Styles are already more interoperable than ever, with color/typography variations and [section styles](/shaping-wordpress-001/)—both landing in WordPress 6.6. And perhaps in a future version of WordPress, templates will likely be just as decoupled from a theme (as patterns can be today). You can grab a pattern from the [Pattern Directory](https://wordpress.org/patterns) and generally use it on most WordPress websites. Sure, we need to improve the quality of those patterns, but the spark is there.

## A world of creative potential

With 720 unique styles in just this one theme (which can also be applied to any other theme), and hundreds of free patterns—like on the [Pattern Directory](https://wordpress.org/patterns) and [WordPress.com](https://wordpress.com/patterns)—the possibilities for laying out a beautiful website are nearly endless.

This combination of interoperable styles, patterns, and eventually templates, opens up a world of creative potential for WordPress creators. And I’m here for it. Are you?

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