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    Plugin Development, Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

    What I Learned from Building the Crosswinds Framework

    Jacob Martella

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    January 24, 2024

    I spent over nine months last year building the Crosswinds Framework, a combination of a WordPress block theme, WordPress block plugin and a suite of child themes built for specific niches. Here’s what I learned while building the Framework.

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  • Screenshots of the homepages from the Crosswinds Framework child theme demo sites
    Full Site Editing, Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

    How I Built the Crosswinds Framework

    Jacob Martella

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    January 17, 2024

    The vast majority of my freelance time in 2023 was spent building the Crosswinds Framework, a WordPress project that includes a blocks plugin, a base block theme and a suite of child themes built for specific niches. Here’s how I built the Crosswinds Framework.

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    Web Development, WordPress

    My WordPress Origin Story

    Jacob Martella

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    August 15, 2023

    With WordCamp US coming up, now is about as good of a time as any to talk about my WordPress journey to where I am today.

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  • Block Theme - Uploading it to the Directory
    Full Site Editing, Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

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

    Jacob Martella

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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
    Full Site Editing, Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

    Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating Theme Style Variations

    Jacob Martella

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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
    Full Site Editing, Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

    Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating the Archive and 404 Templates

    Jacob Martella

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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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  • Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating Block Patterns
    Full Site Editing, Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

    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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  • Block Theme Theme.json file
    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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  • 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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    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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