I’ll pull one note of solace from Eric those feeling a bit new to this whole topic as well:įinally, block themes do not spell the end for classic themes – at least not for the foreseeable future.
And after reading Eric’s article I feel pretty sure that when I finally have some free-time (and especially once I learn how to make webpages look good ?) I’ll make some great WordPress block themes. I’m happy to hear that the template hierarchy survives, just in the template directory. For precisely that reason I really appreciated this article (from old WPShout friend) Eric Karkovack summarizing the major points of them. While I’ve been comfortable with “classic” themes for almost my whole time in WordPress I was waiting for WordPress 5.9 to understand block themes and how they differ. I’m still very much in learning-more mode when it comes to Block Themes in WordPress. I hope, with Brian, that it will be someday. The block theme world is just not ready to welcome you. I think that’s accurate to the feel for me: classic themes still feel like a much better way to go if you’re a classic HTML+CSS designer.
Overall, Brian’s argument is that the large “middle class” or WordPress development is being crowded out in favor of empowering the low-end of the market who never knew and liked CSS. Block themes basically jump over the ‘sweet spot’ that classic themes occupied: anyone with just a little knowledge of HTML and CSS could be dangerous enough to tweak it. So your options for block themes are either no-code (build templates using existing blocks) or very high-code (build new blocks using React.js and a fairly hefty build process). What’s important here is that any unique or custom HTML you want to include in your theme must be created as a custom block for use in the block editor. He does a great job of situating some recent core-team discussions about styling thinking within a context that me (as an average WordPress developer not really paying attention) can understand.
Templates if you would like to edit one of the Global templates like Single Post, 404, Page, Archive just clicks on the WordPress logo in the upper left-hand corner.Īnd template parts editor for editing and creating global elements/template parts.I really appreciated this article from Brian Coords over at MasterWP. Site Editor, the one we explained in a bit more detail. If you click on Blocks > You can customize the look of specific blocks across the whole site like Button, List, Image, or others.Īlso, there is one extremely useful drag and drop feature to reorder elements on the site, just click the ListView and you can drag up or down any element to reorder appearance.Įditor has three options. Now, you can Apply Styles across the whole website, and are divided into Typography, Colors, and Layout. What was also impossible earlier were the site-wide changes, unless the theme author had some in Customizer or Theme Options. So, it’s getting much easier to get the final result you want. Navigation, Template Part, Header, Footer, Post Author, Next Post, Previous Post, Post Comments, Term Description, and Archive Title can all be easily modified. You have some really useful new theme blocks that you can use to manage the content and look of the site.
You also have the option to edit the footer and change the content and widgets displayed there. To edit the header just click on it pick which header you would like to use and use elements to set what will be inside the header across the whole site. With this feature, you are not editing with Gutenberg one page but the general visual appearance of the website. There is a new theme twenty twenty-two in this WordPress version and it will be active by default, since we were using the Beta version, we had to activate it.Īfter activation you will see the Editor, which is being beta-tested at the moment, click on it to see the new site editor in WordPress. It will be out on the 25th of January and here is what to expect. We have tested 5.9 Beta 3 to give you some information and insights on what to expect and if there is something to be afraid of.
Follow is so much noise around WordPress 5.9 and the very new well known FULL SITE EDITING feature.