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Introducing Wei, a minimalistic block theme with gobs of creativity
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Updated Jun 30, 2022
Introducing Wei. Tell your story and share your thoughts with a minimal WordPress block theme, inspired by pure simplicity. Embracing clean type, beautifully bold color schemes, and color-matched featured images, Wei puts your words first — in a delightful and creative fashion. Wei is a stripped down, minimalistic block theme with a single column layout. […]
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How to add style variations to WordPress Block Themes
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Updated Sep 2, 2022
What are style variations? Style variations are a new feature of block themes, recently landing in WordPress 6.0. They’re just one part of the new era of WordPress theming that we’re looking at, with the introduction of Full Site Editing.
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Meet Wabi, a WordPress block theme for writers and publishers
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Updated Jun 14, 2022
Share your authentic self with Wabi, a WordPress block theme designed to help you tell your story best. Wabi foregrounds the simplistic design language of storytelling through clean lines, beautiful typography and a dynamic accent color system — making it a brilliant theme for writers and publishers.
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Building WordPress Block Themes with the New Pattern Block
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Updated Oct 12, 2022
I’ve long been a huge fan of block patterns. So much that I see patterns becoming the primary method most of us lay out pages within the block editor — cue Extendify. And with the recent release of Gutenberg, and upcoming release of WordPress 5.9, patterns are getting a lot of attention. There are a number […]
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Standardizing Theme.json Color Slugs in WordPress Block Themes
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Updated Dec 5, 2022
EDIT: I’ve updated this post to replace background and foreground color slugs, with base and contrast respectfully — as these are the color slugs recommended moving forward. This is part one, of three, in a series on standardizing how we build this next generation of WordPress block themes to accompany the Full Site Editing effort. […]
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Standardizing Theme.json Font Sizes in WordPress Block Themes
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Updated Nov 28, 2022
This is part two, of three, in a series on standardizing how we build this next generation of WordPress block themes to accompany the Full Site Editing effort.
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Standardizing Theme.json Site Spacing in WordPress Block Themes
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Updated Nov 28, 2022
EDIT: I’ve updated this post to use the new spacing preset values provided in WordPress 6.1. This is part three, of three, in a series on standardizing how we build this next generation of WordPress block themes to accompany the Full Site Editing effort.
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The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Block Templates
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Updated Feb 18, 2022
In this era of WordPress Block Themes, there are a number of familiar — yet very new — areas of theming that we need to get up to date with. One of those is the concept of block templates. You see, themes have been able to provide templates for quite a while, but block templates […]
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A Primer on Full Site Editing for WordPress Theme Developers
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Updated Feb 18, 2022
The next big shift for WordPress, nearly as monumental as the block editor itself, is a concept known as full site editing. Full site editing (FSE) is very much still experimental, but the concepts are clearly in view. Imagine being able to change your site’s header, footer, single, and even archive templates, with minimal effort-all […]
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Gutenberg Patterns: The Future of Page Building in WordPress
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Updated Feb 18, 2022While the block editor absolutely leveled-up the WordPress publishing experience, building beautiful web pages is still quite a challenge. It’s like we’re handing folks the International Space Station LEGO set — without any sort of help to build it. Sure, the cleverest master builders will likely figure it out, but what about everyone else — […]