Author: Jacob Martella
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Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating Block Patterns
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Continue Reading: Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating Block PatternsSo we are continuing on in our efforts to create a WordPress block theme. This time we’re getting starting to create block patterns. If you’re new to block patterns, they are essentially groups of blocks that you can save in a file in your theme or plugin and then quickly add to any post, page,…
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A lunch break taking photos of airplanes
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Continue Reading: A lunch break taking photos of airplanesFounder’s Plaza at DFW international Airport is a great place to watch planes land and take off. I spent a lunch break at the plaza. Here’s what I spotted.
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Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Theme JSON and Styling
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Continue Reading: Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Theme JSON and StylingSo we are continuing on in our efforts to create a WordPress block theme. This time we’re getting started with the theme.json file. This is a pretty powerful tool that does a lot of the styling for us. And it removes a lot of the CSS that us theme developers used to have to write…
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How to make the navigation menu creation experience better in your WordPress block theme
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Continue Reading: How to make the navigation menu creation experience better in your WordPress block themeCreating blocks themes is great and pretty easy. But creating navigation menus is not quite as fun. This one line of code will help you get the old menus screen back to make it easier to manage your menus.
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Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Intro and Design
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Continue Reading: Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Intro and DesignIn this series, I’m going to walk through how I created my first block theme, Semplice Monospazio. In this introductory video, we’re going to walk through the designs I created for the theme and I’ll explain more about what I’m trying to do with this theme.
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My experience creating a full site editing theme for the WordPress theme directory
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Continue Reading: My experience creating a full site editing theme for the WordPress theme directoryIn June 2022, I released my first WordPress block theme to the theme directory for people to use. It was an attempt to really understand what it’s like to create a theme in a full site editing world. Here’s what I learned about that.
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Reflecting on a trip to New Mexico
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Continue Reading: Reflecting on a trip to New MexicoThis summer we took a trip over to New Mexico, and it was probably the best vacation ever. Here’s what all went down in our seven days in the Land of Enchantment.
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New Year's resolutions for this year
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Continue Reading: New Year's resolutions for this yearIt’s a new year and a new decade. As we start 2020, here’s a look back at my resolutions from last year and what i hope to do this year.
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Developing with WP Rig
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Continue Reading: Developing with WP RigIf you’re looking for a great starter theme to build your next WordPress theme on, you might want to check out WP Rig. It’s got everything a developer could want.
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How to preload your CSS and why you should
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Continue Reading: How to preload your CSS and why you shouldYou’re trying speed up the page load time of your website and you’ve tried everything. But it’s still not quick enough. Have you tried preloading your CSS and JavaScript resources?