For a small project, I’ve implemented my first Block Theme (that I finished) using the Create Block Theme plugin. In the PDF with the design, there was a “round button”, which made me wonder on how I would implement it. … Read more →
After writing a blog post in the 24 days before Christmas, I took the month of January off to get some new energy and collect some more and other topics to write about. Since I’m currently preparing for an accessibility … Read more →
My last blog post was back in July. I was not able to keep my usual rate of a new blog post every two weeks. This had many different reasons, some personal and some regarding people I care about. But … Read more →
When I’ve started this project, I had the goal to only use the Site Editor to rebuild the theme. I wanted to see how far I can come without using custom CSS. My final opponent was the header. Just using … Read more →
The header was always the part of the theme, I wasn’t sure I can easily replicate. But with every new Core or Gutenberg version, there have been more options to accomplish what I want to have as an end result. … Read more →
I initially planned to continue with the header, as mentioned in the last blog post, in which we’ve created a sidebar for our theme in the Site Editor using a “Synced Pattern”. But since this has some downsides I wanted … Read more →
Now that we have fonts and colors, we can start with the structure of the theme. Giving a page a clear structure is fundamental to enable it to be responsive later on. Waipoua structure The Waipoua theme is roughly structured … Read more →
Due to some personal topics, wasn’t able to work on the new theme, or write a new blog post for that matter. But now I’m back and will probably speed up a bit and write more frequently than just every … Read more →
After we’ve created the raw theme in the last blog post, it’s time to add some basic things to our theme. To quickly get some similar appearance, let’s start with fonts. My blog is using the default fonts from Waipoua, … Read more →
This will be the start of the blog series for my new blog theme. As mentioned in the previous blog post, the goal is to create a theme that comes as close as possible to the current design, while using … Read more →