Category: Themes
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Block-Based Template Parts: A Happy Medium Between Classic and Block Themes
I was one of the early adopters of the block editor as a developer. Despite the flak that the Gutenberg plugin was catching before it…
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Designing Style Variations for Twenty Twenty-Three: The Good, the Bad, and Everything Else
Since the release of Twenty Ten, the WordPress community has gotten a new default theme almost every year. This has allowed the platform to amass…
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Layouts and Wide Alignments in WordPress: Then, Now, and Upcoming Changes
For most of WordPress’ history, the platform accepted a single layout width, defined by the active theme’s global $content_width variable. Theme authors were required to…
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New kind of default theme, pattern preview in the theme directory and so much more – Weekend Edition 224
Howdy, This week, there was a lot going on. It started with a great conversation on the DoTheWoo podcast, and ended on a high note…
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99 Block Themes, Block Templates and Gutenberg Nightly at 120k downloads — Weekend Edition 223
Howdy, Next week will be an exciting week, and somehow, I have quite a few events on my calendar. Most exciting is, of course, our…
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Videos: Zero to Block Theme Parts 1 – 5
Daisy Olsen and Sarah Snow conducted a series of Social Learning discussions on building a block theme. This is an intermediate-level series geared toward beginning…
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Preliminary Road Map for 6.0, Block Theme Creator, Developer Hours — Weekend Edition #201
Block Plugins, DIY Site Owners, Full-Site Editing, Themes, Updates, Using Gutenberg, Weekend EditionHowdy, What a week this was! It was probably the biggest release for the project. Yes, even bigger than WordPress 5.0. Now all areas of…
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Designing Block-based Child Themes, Plugin Machine, WooCommerce Blocks and more – Weekend Edition 191
Howdy, howdy! How was your week in the WordPress ecosystem? I hope got to enjoy the creative energy around the Gutenberg project, despite encountering the…
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Discussion: Going from Creating classic themes to Building block themes
On October 7th, 2021, I had the privilege to host an amazing panel with Ellen Bauer, Andres Noren and Carolina Nymark on a Live Q…
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Go/NoGo WordPress 5.9, Pattern Palooza and Popover – Weekend Edition 189
Howdy, It was a very busy week of meetings, news and live streams. The buzz around the next major WordPress version keeps everyone excited and…