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WordPress Content Blocks: Working with Themes

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Overview

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Learn how to add support for Gutenberg, the new block editor in WordPress 5.0, to both new and older WordPress themes and customize and extend new block styles.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Theme integration with WordPress content blocks
  • How this course works
1. Theme Development Setup
  • Block unit test data
  • How themes without block support work
  • Declare support for default styles
  • Declare support for block editor styles
2. Adding Block Editor Support in Themes
  • Add support for wide alignments
  • Add styles for wide alignments
  • Add support for theme-specific colors
  • Add styles for theme-specific colors
  • Disable custom color option
  • Add support for font sizes
  • Add styles for font sizes
  • Disable custom font sizes
  • Add support for responsive embeds
3. Customizing and Extending Block Styles
  • Extending block styles
  • Style variations
  • Add new style variations
  • Add styles to style variations
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Morten Rand-Hendriksen

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