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   ## 󠀁[Snippet: Conditionally unregister patterns](https://developer.wordpress.org/news/snippets/conditionally-unregister-patterns/)󠁿
   
 * By [Justin Tadlock](https://profiles.wordpress.org/greenshady/)
 * October 22, 2024
 * Have you ever run into a situation where you needed to unregister a block pattern
   in your theme? There may be many scenarios where you’d do this, but one of my
   primary reasons is to hide the “Your site doesn’t include support for the [Block
   Name] block” message from users when a pattern contains an…

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