# Skills for authoring themes and blocks

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/skills-for-authoring-themes-and-blocks/401629
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** theme-guides, blocks, skills
**Created:** [27 april 2026 om 17:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/skills-for-authoring-themes-and-blocks/401629 "2026-04-27T17:39:44Z")
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### Author: ![manuel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/manuel/32/468169_2.png) [@manuel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/manuel)
#### Post date: [1 mei 2026 om 09:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/skills-for-authoring-themes-and-blocks/401629/6 "2026-05-01T09:48:40Z")

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Having some actual fun with this 😜 … As other AI design tools it’s really performant for quickly prototyping ideas that would have been too costly to sketch out manually.

Asked for a very brutalist style editorial homepage, with highly unconventional content featured from the community. Got this layout, which indeed has some pretty nice ideas for featured blocks. Most funnily, it named the theme _Newspaper from Hell_ 😄

 ![Screenshot 2026-05-01 at 11-02-58 Discourse](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/8/b/a8b49e496cecf89487f1fa4b01b1220909aac1d4.png)  
 ![Screenshot 2026-05-01 at 11-03-14 Discourse](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/c/3/0c376ef8f7772cfdfef1000a526c2263379a7b61.png)

Then asked for something I always wanted to explore, a Japanese-style portal homepage with dense blocks, pastel colors, lots of small animations.. Love this initial take:

 ![Screenshot 2026-05-01 at 10-54-54 Discourse](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/5/d/75d92890e4bc82a97491f28238f2dd213806f99a.png)

And more fun when it’s all moving 🎏 [Theme Creator](https://discourse.theme-creator.io/theme/manuel/community-plaza)

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