How To
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Creating a custom homepage for a block theme can be challenging to some, even for some WordPress seasoned users. Here I lay out the detailed steps to create them which I previously gave when I help in a WordPress.com forum. First, create a Front Page template for your static page…
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A simple feature that effortlessly adding coolness to a site is a vertical-orientation text. Apparently, text orientation has been supported since Gutenberg 16.2 and thus has since been included in WordPress 6.4. But this feature is theme-dependent, but thankfully, Twenty Twenty-Four theme has supported it. For a block theme that…
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For this WordPress project, I take on the perspective of a website builder, not a theme builder, which I’ve previously written about in this post. This means I build my work on top of a certain theme, and make some necessary style customization along the way. The customization will be…
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WordPress 6.3 has just been released. This particular release is special, because it marks the completion of Phase 2: Customization in WordPress development. However, it certainly doesn’t mean that the customization work has stopped and finished. On the contrary the refinement work will still continue, but it will not be…
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I started exploring block themes building using Carolina Nymark’s No-Code theme generator as a starting point, and then built upon it in the Site Editor. I appreciated the generator’s simple setting options, which didn’t overwhelm me with too many choices, as I am still learning the many elements of theme.json.…
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In block themes, there are two ways to set a homepage: one is by creating a template specifically for it, and the other is by creating a static page and setting it up as Homepage under the Reading options. The table below summarizes these methods. Create Set in Template Used…
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In this post, I will show you how easy it is to create a child theme of a block theme, compared to creating a child theme of a classic theme, which requires PHP coding knowledge. The theme that I am going to customize is the beautiful Poe theme created by…
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Generally there are two methods to register a pattern: manually or automatically. Manual registration requires us to create the pattern and register it in the functions.php file, while automatic registration consists in creating a separate pattern file and place it under the patterns theme’s folder e.g. patterns/name-of-pattern.php. However, it is…