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    How I Create Block Themes

    Jacob Martella

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    February 28, 2024

    Block themes are still a relatively new thing in WordPress. And theme developers are still finding the sweet spot in how they create block themes for this new site editor world. So if you’re learning how to build block themes for WordPress, here’s the process I’ve been using to create themes for the Crosswinds Framework.

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  • Block Theme - Uploading it to the Directory
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    Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Uploading it to the Theme Directory

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    October 13, 2022

    We are now basically done with creating our WordPress block theme! All that’s left is to give it a few more tests, bundle it up and submit it to the WordPress theme directory for review. So in today’s video we’ll do just that. And I’ll give just a few pointers for how to make your…

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  • Block Theme - Theme Style Variations
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    Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating Theme Style Variations

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    October 6, 2022

    We’re almost done with creating our full site editing theme. But before we get it ready to submit to the WordPress theme directory, we first need to add one more thing: style variations. Style variations allow theme developers to quickly create variations of their themes with different colors, fonts and other elements. We used to…

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  • Block Theme - Archive and 404 templates
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    Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating the Archive and 404 Templates

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    September 29, 2022

    Next up in our path to building a new WordPress block theme, we need to create our archive template and our 404 template. And believe it or not, both of these will take us almost no time to build. So join me as we start to wrap up building Semplice Monospazio and learn how you…

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  • Block Themes Page and Post Templates
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    Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating the Page and Post Templates

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    September 22, 2022

    So we’re continuing on with creating our new block theme, Semplice Monospazio. So far we have set up the theme.json file, created various block patterns and built out a few template parts. In today’s video we’re moving on to create our page and post templates. We’ll create simple templates for each at first, before moving…

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  • Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating Block Patterns
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    Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating Block Patterns

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    September 8, 2022

    So 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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    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
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    Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Intro and Design

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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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