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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 are Styles?

In simple terms, Styles, set styling across the entire site. They can be accessed from the Site Editor but impact the entire range of your content. Within the Site Editor, there is a section under the Styles icon that contains a number of sections:

  • Typography: You can manage the typography settings, from text to links and much more.
  • Colors: Here, you will find custom and global palettes and even gradients.
  • Layout: This allows you to control the structure of your entire site.
  • Blocks: You can adjust each block-specific setting.

We are going to be exploring this interface in more depth together later in this chapter. This is just an overview of what Styles are. Now, let’s move on and discover why we need Styles.

Why do we need Styles?

The first question probably should be what do Styles solve and why do they exist?

One of the big issues with themes we talked about previously was having to know complex code to do simple things...

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