Themes of the future: the new frontier of Gutenberg block-based themes and theme development

Continue the discussion

Published

January 21, 2021

In the WordPress post Gutenberg world there are fundamental shifts in both user and development workflows, and moving forward that means how we develop themes for will also change. Let’s look at the current status of theme development, how you can get started taking advantage of the core editor right and how we can begin building themes for the future. Specifically, we’ll cover: • How to modify existing themes to take full advantage of the new editor and blocks. • Adding Theme Supports and Block templates to existing themes • What’s the difference between Block Enabled and Block Based Themes • Upcoming enhancements for Full Site Editing and Global Styles and how this will affect theme development.

Rate this:

Event

WordCamp San Antonio 2020 31

Speakers

Eileen Violini 6

Tags

Block Themes 31
Custom Themes 10
Global Styles 9
Gutenberg Block 19
Theme Development 100

Language

English 10559

Download
MP4: Low, Med, High, Original
OGG: Low
Subtitles
Subtitle this video →
Producer