Hi everyone,

I’m currently trying to improve my workflow for building WordPress websites for clients, and I’m curious how professionals and agencies actually handle this.

I mainly use WordPress and I’m currently looking at Kadence Blocks.

What I’m struggling with is the actual workflow.

Let’s say I have a custom design for a client. Do you really build every section manually in Gutenberg/Kadence, adjusting containers, columns, spacing, padding, typography, responsive settings, etc.?

That feels like a lot of clicking, especially when AI can generate HTML and CSS for an entire design very quickly.

At the same time, I don’t want to build the whole website as one huge custom HTML block, because I want the WordPress backend to stay clean and maintainable. Ideally, the client or another developer should still be able to edit content later without digging through HTML.

So I’m wondering how experienced WordPress developers handle this:

Do you build everything with blocks?
Do you have your own library of reusable sections and patterns?
Do you combine Gutenberg/Kadence with custom CSS and code?
Do you let AI/Codex generate parts of the site?
And how do you handle more complex sections, like event listings, custom cards, filters, etc. without spending hours recreating everything manually with blocks?

I’m basically trying to find a good workflow that is fast for me as the developer, but still results in a clean and maintainable WordPress site for the client.

Would love to hear how agencies and freelancers actually do this in practice.

Hi everyone,

I’m currently trying to improve my workflow for building WordPress websites for clients, and I’m curious how professionals and agencies actually handle this.

I mainly use WordPress and I’m currently looking at Kadence Blocks.

What I’m struggling with is the actual workflow.

Let’s say I have a custom design for a client. Do you really build every section manually in Gutenberg/Kadence, adjusting containers, columns, spacing, padding, typography, responsive settings, etc.?

That feels like a lot of clicking, especially when AI can generate HTML and CSS for an entire design very quickly.

At the same time, I don’t want to build the whole website as one huge custom HTML block, because I want the WordPress backend to stay clean and maintainable. Ideally, the client or another developer should still be able to edit content later without digging through HTML.

So I’m wondering how experienced WordPress developers handle this:

Do you build everything with blocks?
Do you have your own library of reusable sections and patterns?
Do you combine Gutenberg/Kadence with custom CSS and code?
Do you let AI/Codex generate parts of the site?
And how do you handle more complex sections, like event listings, custom cards, filters, etc. without spending hours recreating everything manually with blocks?

I’m basically trying to find a good workflow that is fast for me as the developer, but still results in a clean and maintainable WordPress site for the client.

Would love to hear how agencies and freelancers actually do this in practice.