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WordPress Styling with Blocks, Patterns, Templates, and Themes

By : Tammie Lister
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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

Discovering Styles

The previous chapter looked at the history of themes. We discovered why themes needed to change and how they have changed. We began to learn about classic and block themes, discovering new terminology along the way.

Now, we are going to move along with unlocking the power of styling through a concept known as Global Styles. It’s worth noting that during the time of writing this book, the interface and concept was changed to Styles rather than Global Styles. We will from this point refer to Global Styles as Styles; however, a lot of documentation will refer to it as Global Styles.

In this chapter, we will discover the following together:

  • What are Styles?
  • A walkthrough of the Styles interface
  • Style variations
  • Discovering the Style Book

Styles within the Site Editor unlock powerful interfaces where, previously, you would have had to know either CSS or a particular interface. Let’s now discover together what they are and...