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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

Summary

The Site Editor is a truly powerful tool, and we’re only just starting to discover it in this chapter. As we begin to learn about each piece that goes together to create a site, from template parts to templates and even styles – we will start to unlock more and more of the potential together.

Let’s recap what we now can do after exploring together:

  • We discovered together what is site editing and why it’s useful to have within WordPress.
  • We learned about the interface differences and the new features there.
  • We found out about some new blocks that help in creating site-specific content.
  • We discovered design tools that also help with site editing.

This is all great foundational knowledge for us to start looking at each piece of the site that goes together. We’re moving up past the block, past patterns, and into template parts first. Then we’re going together to look at templates in this chapter – to...