Title: WP_Block_Templates_Registry::get_instance
Published: November 13, 2024
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# WP_Block_Templates_Registry::get_instance(): 󠀁[WP_Block_Templates_Registry](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_block_templates_registry/)󠁿

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_block_templates_registry/get_instance/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_block_templates_registry/get_instance/?output_format=md#return)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_block_templates_registry/get_instance/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_block_templates_registry/get_instance/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_block_templates_registry/get_instance/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Utility method to retrieve the main instance of the class.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_block_templates_registry/get_instance/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

The instance will be created if it does not exist yet.

## 󠀁[Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_block_templates_registry/get_instance/?output_format=md#return)󠁿

 [WP_Block_Templates_Registry](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_block_templates_registry/)
The main instance.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_block_templates_registry/get_instance/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    public static function get_instance() {
    	if ( null === self::$instance ) {
    		self::$instance = new self();
    	}

    	return self::$instance;
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/class-wp-block-templates-registry.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/class-wp-block-templates-registry.php#L244)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/class-wp-block-templates-registry.php#L244-L250)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_block_templates_registry/get_instance/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [unregister_block_template()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/unregister_block_template/)`wp-includes/block-template.php` |

Unregister a block template.

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| [register_block_template()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/register_block_template/)`wp-includes/block-template.php` |

Register a block template.

  | 
| [get_block_file_template()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_block_file_template/)`wp-includes/block-template-utils.php` |

Retrieves a unified template object based on a theme file or plugin registration.

  | 
| [_build_block_template_result_from_file()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/_build_block_template_result_from_file/)`wp-includes/block-template-utils.php` |

Builds a unified template object based on a theme file.

  | 
| [_build_block_template_result_from_post()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/_build_block_template_result_from_post/)`wp-includes/block-template-utils.php` |

Builds a unified template object based a post Object.

  | 
| [WP_REST_Templates_Controller::prepare_item_for_response()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_rest_templates_controller/prepare_item_for_response/)`wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-templates-controller.php` |

Prepare a single template output for response

  | 
| [get_block_templates()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_block_templates/)`wp-includes/block-template-utils.php` |

Retrieves a list of unified template objects based on a query.

  |

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_block_templates_registry/get_instance/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [6.7.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/6.7.0/) | Introduced. |

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