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Getting Started with Block Themes: Templates
Full Site Editing provides a new and exciting way to build themes, compared to how we created themes in the past. If you are new to this, there’s nothing to worry about, it’s simply a different way to create themes, leveraging the existing template hierarchy we all know and love. A block-based theme can be…
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Getting Started with Block Themes
The rationale With Full Site Editing on the horizon for WordPress, Theme creators need to start to learn how to make themes in a different way. Full Site Editing is sea change in the way that themes work. When Themes were first added to WordPress, they were simple; just a few template files and some…
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Creating a Block-based Landing Page Theme
Kjell Reigstad details how to build a single-page block-based theme.
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Open source font pairings for your next theme
Mel Choyce discusses and highlights GPL-compatible fonts.
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Adding Block Patterns to Your Theme
Block patterns are unique, predefined combinations of blocks you can use and tweak to create stunningly designed sections of your website.
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Exploring Global Styles
Note: The code samples here are out of date. Please be sure to check out the block editor documentation for the latest on how to implement Global Styles. Global Styles is an aspect of full site editing that will have a major impact on theme development. To further my understanding of this feature, I explored…
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Creating a Block-based Theme Using Block Templates
This post outlines the steps I took to create a block-based theme version of Twenty Twenty. Thanks to Kjell Reigstad for helping develop the theme and write this post. There’s been a lot of conversation around how theme development changes as Full Site Editing using Gutenberg becomes a reality. Block templates are an experimental feature…
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A schema for Gutenberg blocks
At Jetpack we recently created a new Gutenberg block which displays “Related Posts”. This block is similar in content to the “Latest Posts” block in WordPress.org; it’s just a list of posts. The difference is the way the posts are displayed: There are plans afoot to update the “Latest Posts” block, so that it contains…
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