WordPress Styling with Blocks, Patterns, Templates, and Themes: Explore WordPress styling with step-by-step guidance, practical examples, and tips - Softcover

Lister, Tammie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1804618500 ISBN 13: 9781804618509

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

Embrace WordPress to unlock creative possibilities, discovering new design tools and patterns, elevating your website's aesthetics.

Key Features

• Explore WordPress pattern directory for free patterns, create captivating designs with less coding
• Learn to use design tools effectively, stay updated on their evolution, and find tools for third-party blocks
• Master block styles by grasping their concept, application, and seamless theme integration

Book Description

Experience a WordPress styling revolution like never before as you embark on an electrifying journey through the evolution of WordPress styling, discovering a treasure trove of code-free features and embracing the future of WordPress with full site editing and block design tools at your fingertips.

Get ready to harness the power of numerous cutting-edge features. Encounter Gutenberg, the pioneering editing experience, and become a master of design tools, patterns, and full site editing, enabling you to shape impactful websites that reflect your distinct vision and creativity. Dive into the core of WordPress styling, comprehending the rationales and terminology underpinning each element. Unleash its complete potential through enlightening examples, culminating in the capacity to effortlessly forge your dream website, customized entirely to your preferences.

By the end, you'll be equipped to effortlessly create your dream website, tailored entirely to your preferences.

What you will learn

• Acquire skills in block recognition, CSS-free customization, historical decision understanding, and identifying supported block design tools
• Recognize the significance of global styles in modern WordPress themes
• Locate sources for block themes and kickstart personal creations
• Explore discovering, creating, sharing editor patterns, and integrating them into themes
• Comprehend the WordPress Pattern Directory, locate and add patterns
• Learn effective use of design tools, their availability, and implementation

Who This Book Is For

Whether you're a non-coder or a hobbyist, this book serves as your essential guide to exploring and unleashing creative potential through the latest styling options in WordPress. No prior knowledge is assumed―each step is carefully guided to help you maximize the potential of the latest version. Beginning with a no-code approach, we'll progressively introduce coding concepts.

Table of Contents

1. WordPress design tools
2. Block design tools
3. Block styles
4. Block styling wrap-up
5. Understanding block patterns
6. Discovering and creating block patterns
7. Discovering the WordPress Pattern Directory
8. Patterns wrap-up
9. An introduction to full site editing
10. Discovering and creating template parts
11. Discovering and creating templates
12. Templates wrap-up
13. Understanding how themes have changed
14. Discovering Global styles
15. Discovering WordPress block themes
16. Themes wrap-up

About this title

About the Author

Tammie Lister is a designer with nearly two decades of experience and a hybrid background between psychology, coding, design and art. She has been involved in the WordPress project for many years and is a core committer, having contributed to many default themes, contributed to many teams from themes to core, and been a design lead for phase one of the new editor called Gutenberg. She has worked across various industries, focusing on open source and startups. She has spoken, taught and educated worldwide on empowering yourself using these tools, regardless of your background.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1804618500
• ISBN 13: 9781804618509
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270