Customizing Theme.json Color Options in Block Themes

Posted by Tinjure WPon January 18, 2022January 21, 2022 Full Site Editing

Note: This post is part of leaning efforts to get familiarize and practice using full site editing (FSE) interface to customize block themes. This learning post is still in active development and updated regularly.

In a previous post on Global Styles and Global Settings (theme.json), I deep-dived into block theme.json file, global styling features in block themes or blocks is very complex. Because fonts and colors plays so important role in any theme, their preference and offers a unique user experience.

While working with one of my work-in-progress block themes, I spent way lot more time trying to fix the link and hover colors and still couldn’t get it done. This is an attempt to learn to customize colors in the theme. Jason deeply so that it can be used handily next time around.

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Useful Front End Tools

Louis Lazards in a CSS-Tricks article Hottests Front-end Tools of 2021 lists 60 hottest front-end tools, that he reportedly monitored every week throughout the previous year. I found the following useful for for my day-to-day use and thought to book mark it for future use. Continue reading →

Child Themes for Block-based Themes with an Alternate theme.json File

Posted by Tinjure WPon December 19, 2021January 21, 2022 Full Site Editing

Note: This post is part 2 of 2-part leaning series to understand and create child themes of block-based themes using full site editing (FSE) features. This learning post is still in active development and updated regularly. In a previous post, how building child themes in block themes are evolving was discussed briefly. Since support for child-themes was […]

Understanding FSE Query Loop Block

Posted by Tinjure WPon December 6, 2021January 16, 2022 Full Site Editing

Note: This post is part 2 of leaning efforts to get familiarize and practice using full site editing (FSE) interface to customize block themes. This learning post is still in active development and updated regularly. Gutenberg Query Loop (QL)block is described to be one of the most important blocks of the Gutenberg block. This blocks […]

Creating a Child Theme Using Create Blockbase Theme Plugin

Posted by Tinjure WPon November 18, 2021November 28, 2021 Full Site Editing

Note: This post is part 1 of 2-part leaning series to understand and create child themes of block-based themes using full site editing (FSE) features. This learning post is still in active development and updated regularly. The development of block themes has upended the current theme development landscape with much different HTML markup based templating […]

Creating Overlapping Media Text Block

Posted by Tinjure WPon November 11, 2021November 12, 2021 Full Site Editing

Note: This post is part 1 of leaning efforts to get familiarize full site editing (FSE) interface to customize block themes. This learning post is still in active development and updated regularly. Recently I came across another interesting short video and blog posts from Jamie Marsland on how to create overlapping column with block editor. […]