The Gutenberg project has ushered in a new era for WordPress theme development, opening up many new opportunities, but also creating new challenges as well.

In the good old days of WordPress, things were simple. You had your theme, you had your content, and sometimes some custom fields.

Things aren’t so simple anymore.

One particular challenge is how the line between content and layout has been blurred so much that it might not even be there at all. Nothing exemplifies this quite as much as the humble post thumbnail.

Join us as we take a deep dive into the WordPress template structure as we try to untangle the layout from the content, and find a solution to the Post Thumbnail Paradox.

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