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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

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introducing Blocks, helps us learn what a block is and what are WordPress design tools. Readers will go on to learn the history and background.

Chapter 2, Block Design Tools, builds on the previous chapter, taking the knowledge of the design tools and moving into understanding each category.

Chapter 3, Block Styles, explores what block styles are and how to use the existing ones.

Chapter 4, Block and Styles Wrap-Up, concludes our section on blocks and ends with combining everything we have learned so far. It will include the design tools and also provide some tips along the way.

Chapter 5, Understanding Block Patterns, begins our journey with patterns. It will take the reader by the hand and begin by sharing what patterns are and their power.

Chapter 6, Discovering and Creating Block Patterns, guides the reader through discovering how to create patterns and then share them. It is a very practical chapter focused on walking through each step.

Chapter 7, Discovering the WordPress Pattern Directory, focuses on the WordPress Pattern Directory, which is a free resource of patterns, available for anyone. The reader will learn how to find a pattern, add it to their content, and be able to use it. This chapter will unlock a world of possibilities for them.

Chapter 8, Wrapping Up Patterns, ends the journey around patterns and looks to inspire with some creative ones. Looking beyond simple patterns and how even they might be art, it encourages the reader to explore and unleash their creativity.

Chapter 9, An Introduction to Site Editing, takes the reader through the concept of WordPress site editing. This introduction itself should inspire the reader to create their own templates.

Chapter 10, Discovering and Creating Template Parts, takes the reader through understanding what template parts are and how they are different from templates. They will be able to learn how to use them fully.

Chapter 11, Discovering and Creating Templates, talks about what templates are and how to use them in the editor and full site editing experience. Through examples, they will be guided and shown how to use, edit, and manage.

Chapter 12, Templates Wrap-Up, delves a little more into how you can, by knowing the template hierarchy, unlock some pretty cool aspects of templates, from creating one just for single posts to truly custom experiences.

Chapter 13, Understanding How Themes Have Changed, takes the reader through a brief history to understand why themes have changed and how we got here, and why. It also shared some inspiring samples.

Chapter 14, Discovering Styles, delves into styles and why, in the recent times, they are central to WordPress styling and themes. They unlock powerful styling for which you would need to know CSS beforehand.

Chapter 15, Discovering WordPress Block Themes, explores the concept called block themes and what this means. From there, they will learn how to use and find these new themes – truly unlock their power to take advantage of all the new styling possibilities.

Chapter 16, Wrapping Up Themes, closes the book, and the topic of themes will be wrapped up – showing the reader how inspiring themes can be. This will leave the reader hopeful for the future of WordPress styling, excited and optimistic about all the possibilities.

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