# Doc Pop’s News Drop: Is “the End of WordPress Themes” In Sight?
**Date:** 2019-10-09
**Author:** Dan Maby
**Categories:** Accessibility & Standards, Gutenberg, WordPress
> Doc Pop’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. In this episode of News Drop we talk with Ben Gillbanks, a WordPress theme designer, about how Gutenberg and content blocks could spell out the …
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Doc Pop’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you.

In this episode of News Drop we talk with Ben Gillbanks, a WordPress theme designer, about how Gutenberg and content blocks could spell out the end of the WordPress themes business.

Read Ben’s excellent article, “The End Of WordPress Themes Is In Site”, [here](https://www.binarymoon.co.uk/2019/09/the-end-of-wordpress-themes-is-in-sight/).

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