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WordPress Styling with Blocks, Patterns, Templates, and Themes

By : Tammie Lister
Book Image

WordPress Styling with Blocks, Patterns, Templates, and Themes

By: Tammie Lister

Overview of this book

Experience a revolutionary WordPress styling transformation with WordPress Styling with Blocks, Patterns, Templates, and Themes by uncovering a wealth of features that redefine the future of WordPress. This guide introduces you to full-site editing and block design tools that enable you to shape the overall aesthetics and layout of your dream website with unprecedented ease. Get ready to harness the power of diverse cutting-edge features as you delve into this WordPress book, focusing on the Gutenberg editing experience. Guided by examples that demonstrate effortless customization entirely suited to your preferences, you’ll master the design tools, patterns, and full site editing capabilities to shape impactful websites that mirror your distinct vision and creativity. As you immerse yourself in the core of WordPress styling, you’ll understand the rationale and terminology underpinning each element and how to use it to its full potential. By the end of this book, you'll be equipped to build your dream website, reflecting your distinctive style.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Styling and Design Tools
6
Part 2: Block Patterns
11
Part 3: Template Parts and Templates
14
Chapter 11: Discovering and Creating Templates
16
Part 4: Themes
17
Chapter 13: Understanding How Themes Have Changed

Finding inspiration

When considering inspiration for patterns, it’s useful to start thinking about what could or should be turned into a pattern – for instance, something you might want to reuse across multiple areas of the site, or across even multiple sites. Some good examples include testimonials, contact strips, and call-for-action banners.

You can get inspiration from anywhere – think about real sites, the ones you use daily, and the common patterns those have.

One thing you need inspiration for is the images and content for your site. This is where services like Openverse come in handy, offering a portal to easily get resources with licenses that allow free use.

Openverse

Sometimes it’s hard to find that perfect image. You can search using something called Openverse right from your WordPress install. This gives you access to more than 700 million creative works. You can discover more about Openverse here: https://openverse.org/. To access...