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    Full Site Editing, Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

    Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Theme JSON and Styling

    Jacob Martella

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    September 3, 2022

    So 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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    Full Site Editing, Web Development, WordPress

    How to make the navigation menu creation experience better in your WordPress block theme

    Jacob Martella

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    August 31, 2022

    Creating 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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  • Block Theme Intro and Design
    Full Site Editing, Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

    Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Intro and Design

    Jacob Martella

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    August 25, 2022

    In 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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  • photo of a computer screen showing code for a WordPress full site editing theme
    Full Site Editing, Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

    My experience creating a full site editing theme for the WordPress theme directory

    Jacob Martella

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    July 19, 2022

    In 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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    Trips

    Reflecting on a trip to New Mexico

    Jacob Martella

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    July 13, 2022

    This 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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    Life

    New Year's resolutions for this year

    Jacob Martella

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    January 3, 2020

    It’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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  • The WP Rig homepage on a laptop screen
    Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

    Developing with WP Rig

    Jacob Martella

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    December 30, 2019

    If 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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    CSS, Web Development

    How to preload your CSS and why you should

    Jacob Martella

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    February 13, 2019

    You’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?

    Continue Reading: How to preload your CSS and why you should
  • Person sitting on floor typing on a laptop
    Web Development

    The value of open source

    Jacob Martella

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    January 23, 2019

    What’s the value in using and contributing to an open source project? Well beyond the price, it’s really quite remarkable.

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  • Person looking at laptop showing Gutenberg editor with custom ACF block
    Block Editor, PHP, Web Development, WordPress

    Creating Gutenberg blocks with Advanced Custom Fields

    Jacob Martella

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    January 16, 2019

    Playing with Gutenberg can be fun. But creating blocks in JavaScript can be tough. But ACF will be giving developers help in the future.

    Continue Reading: Creating Gutenberg blocks with Advanced Custom Fields
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    Life

    My New Year’s Resolutions for 2019

    Jacob Martella

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    January 2, 2019

    Ah, yes. The calendar has flipped to 2019. And now we all set goals for ourselves that we might keep for two weeks. But it’s still a fun exercise. So here are my resolutions for 2019.

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    Life

    An update into life headed into 2019

    Jacob Martella

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    December 31, 2018

    It’s been a while since I’ve written anything, so here’s a brief update about the last month or so of 2018 and what’s coming in 2019.

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