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WordPress Styling with Blocks, Patterns, Templates, and Themes

You're reading from   WordPress Styling with Blocks, Patterns, Templates, and Themes Explore WordPress styling with step-by-step guidance, practical examples, and tips

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804618509
Length 270 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Styling and Design Tools
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Blocks FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Block Design Tools 4. Chapter 3: Block Styles 5. Chapter 4: Blocks and Styles Wrap-Up 6. Part 2: Block Patterns
7. Chapter 5: Understanding Block Patterns 8. Chapter 6: Discovering and Creating Block Patterns 9. Chapter 7: Discovering the WordPress Pattern Directory 10. Chapter 8: Wrapping Up Patterns 11. Part 3: Template Parts and Templates
12. Chapter 9: An Introduction to Site Editing 13. Chapter 10: Discovering and Creating Template Parts 14. Chapter 11: Discovering and Creating Templates 15. Chapter 12: Templates Wrap-Up 16. Part 4: Themes
17. Chapter 13: Understanding How Themes Have Changed 18. Chapter 14: Discovering Styles 19. Chapter 15: Discovering WordPress Block Themes 20. Chapter 16: Wrapping Up Themes 21. Index 22. A Book That You May Enjoy

Finding and using a pattern

Now that we know about the Pattern Directory, how do we use a pattern from it? There are a few methods. First, let’s see how to search using the filters and getting the patterns for use on our sites.

Using the Pattern Directory itself

Imagine you want to find a gallery pattern. Let’s do that together by finding one that exists within the Pattern Directory:

  1. First, visit the Pattern Directory and filter by Gallery. You should see a number of different Gallery patterns, as shown in this screenshot.
Figure 7.3 – The Gallery patterns

Figure 7.3 – The Gallery patterns

  1. As you can see in the preceding screenshot, each of these patterns has some information displayed, including how many times they have been marked as favorites and a brief description, along with a thumbnail image.
  2. Next, let’s click on the pattern named Three columns with images and text. This pattern has been marked as a favorite more than any other...
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