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Getting Started with Block Themes: Patterns

Getting Started with Block Themes: Patterns

Jack Lenox, Posted on January 11, 2021

Block Patterns, or simply patterns, enable theme developers to create custom blocks that are compositions of blocks provided by the standard block library, and if … Continue reading “Getting Started with Block Themes: Patterns”

Getting Started with Block Themes: Global Styles

Getting Started with Block Themes: Global Styles

Jason Crist, Posted on January 8, 2021January 11, 2021

Global Styles is a new mechanism for a theme to define a site’s styles. An important goal of Global Styles is to make it easier … Continue reading “Getting Started with Block Themes: Global Styles”

Getting Started with Block Themes: Templates

Getting Started with Block Themes: Templates

Ernesto Méndez, Posted on December 18, 2020January 11, 2021

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 … Continue reading “Getting Started with Block Themes: Templates”

Getting Started with Block Themes

Getting Started with Block Themes

Ben Dwyer, Posted on December 9, 2020January 11, 2021

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 … Continue reading “Getting Started with Block Themes”

Creating a Block-based Landing Page Theme

Creating a Block-based Landing Page Theme

Kjell Reigstad, Posted on November 6, 2020

Kjell Reigstad details how to build a single-page block-based theme.

Introducing Seedlet

Introducing Seedlet

Kjell Reigstad, Posted on August 31, 2020August 31, 2020

A typography-led theme, built for the future of block-based theming.

Open source font pairings for your next theme

Open source font pairings for your next theme

Mel Choyce, Posted on June 22, 2020June 26, 2020

Mel Choyce discusses and highlights GPL-compatible fonts.

Adding Block Patterns to Your Theme

Adding Block Patterns to Your Theme

Mel Choyce, Posted on April 8, 2020June 22, 2020

Block patterns are unique, predefined combinations of blocks you can use and tweak to create stunningly designed sections of your website.

Exploring Global Styles

Exploring Global Styles

Kjell Reigstad, Posted on March 20, 2020June 24, 2020

Note: The code samples here are out of date.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 … Continue reading “Exploring Global Styles”

Creating a Block-based Theme Using Block Templates

Creating a Block-based Theme Using Block Templates

Jeff Ong, Posted on January 21, 2020June 11, 2020

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 … Continue reading “Creating a Block-based Theme Using Block Templates”

Customizing Gutenberg blocks with block styles

Customizing Gutenberg blocks with block styles

Kjell Reigstad, Posted on February 15, 2019June 11, 2020

Block styles are a simple way to get started with Gutenberg development: With a few lines of CSS, you can build something that feels like a whole new custom block.

A schema for Gutenberg blocks

Ben Dwyer, Posted on January 29, 2019January 29, 2019

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 … Continue reading “A schema for Gutenberg blocks”

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