From the moment I opened my first theme shop back in 2008 to the present day as someone who merely tinkers, my plan has always been to build a single theme in the mold of CSS Zen Garden. This was a…

One of the best features of WordPress Full Site Editing (FSE) is the theme.json file. It can be used to easily add styles to your […]

In the lingo of the WordPress block editor, presets are the set of values that are shown to users in different style categories: colors, duotone values, font sizes, gradients. Presets are an import…

Course Content Expand All Introduction Welcome & How to use the course What is full site editing? Preparations All about blocks Bonus -How to stay up to date Block grammar basics Block attributes New full site editing blocks Custom block styles Experimental: Introduction to block… Continue reading Full site editing for theme developers

Book sales section from a custom theme. It was about a year ago. I was happily designing a theme for aspiring novelists. I wanted to get ahead of the competition and market a theme specifically to …

With some careful planning, I think we could safely introduce block dependencies into themes. Here's what I'm thinking.

A detailed walkthrough of how I develop custom WordPress themes, including custom blocks, archive pages, and modular templates.

Before WordPress 5.0 arrived I came across a few premium WordPress themes already advertising that they were ‘Gutenberg-ready’ or ‘Gutenberg-compatible’. Huh. But how could a theme not be compatible with… Read more

Twenty Nineteen is the brand new WordPress 5.0 default theme and it's all about Gutenberg. Check out what's new in theme development with Gutenberg.

Block templates are one of my favorite new features in Gutenberg. You can specify a list of blocks that automatically appear in the content editor, customize their attributes, and lock the template.

Listen to this article: There’s no better time to start exploring how each of our WordPress themes will interface with Gutenberg. So to help folks level-up their themes to support the new WordPress block editor, I built the Block Unit Test WordPress plugin. Testing every core block within Gutenberg — and every variation of every […]

ThemeBeans founder Rich Tabor has released a new plugin called Block Unit Test for Gutenberg that helps theme authors test their themes for Gutenberg-readiness. It is similar to the Theme Unit Test…

With Gutenberg getting close to being ready for a beta release and ultimately being merged into core WP, its API and patterns are at a level mature enough that theme authors (and theme shops!) can start planning

While working on my Gutenberg Development Course, one of the hardest things I found to research was how to add block templates to your WordPress theme or plugin. Block templates are a way to have c…