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@ThemeShaper

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How to add typographic fonts to WordPress block themes themeshaper.com/2022/11/28/h…
How to add typographic fonts to WordPress block themes

How to add typographic fonts to WordPress block themes

The easy and compliant way that every theme developer should know.

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Block Theme Building Tips themeshaper.com/2022/02/28/b…
Block Theme Building Tips

Block Theme Building Tips

When building block themes there is often more than one way to achieve the same thing. It’s often not clear which of these options is preferable. Below I outline some tips and guidelines that…

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Create A Blockbase Child Theme themeshaper.com/2021/11/17/c…
Create A Blockbase Child Theme

Create A Blockbase Child Theme

We have been working on a plugin to help you create a Blockbase child theme. The idea is that you can use the existing tools to make changes to a Blockbase theme, and then export a bundle of templa…

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What are universal themes and why do we need them? themeshaper.com/2021/10/06/u…
Universal Themes

Universal Themes

Since our last post about Universal Themes we have fleshed out this idea and are using it to build all our themes. The Problem WordPress is introducing the Full Site Editor and with it new ways to …

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Sharing some resources for block theme development ahead of WordPress 5.8. What resources have been helpful for you to explore block themes? Share in the post comments so we can all learn together. themeshaper.com/2021/07/13/r…
Resources for block theme development

Resources for block theme development

With WordPress 5.8 launching on July 20th, it seems like a great time to round up some resources to help theme authors prepare for the future. By now, you’ve probably heard about block themes and t…

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Universal Themes: Customization themeshaper.com/2021/07/12/u…
Universal Themes: Customization

Universal Themes: Customization

Making Global Styles and the Customizer work together

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Theme patterns for the Site Editor themeshaper.com/2021/06/25/t…

Theme patterns for the Site Editor

Learn how to use Template Part and Query Loop patterns to provide users with more design options.

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Universal themes: Some ideas themeshaper.com/2021/06/23/u…
Universal themes: Some ideas

Universal themes: Some ideas

With the Full Site Editing project well underway, theme developers need to be thinking about what the future holds for themes.  Why block themes? To take advantage of the Site Editor, themes n…

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Using Blockbase for a Theme Experiment themeshaper.com/2021/06/07/u…
Using Blockbase for a theme experiment

Using Blockbase for a theme experiment

A glitchy theme, built with Blockbase.

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Blockbase: A parent theme for block themes themeshaper.com/2021/05/27/b…
Blockbase: A parent theme for block themes

Blockbase: A parent theme for block themes

Phase 2 of Gutenberg introduces Full Site Editing to WordPress; to make this possible, we need a new way of building themes – using blocks. How do block themes work? Block themes use template…

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Getting Started with Block Themes: Patterns themeshaper.com/2021/01/11/g…
Getting Started with Block Themes: Patterns

Getting Started with Block Themes: Patterns

Block Patterns, or simply patterns, enable theme developers to create custom blocks that are compositions of blocks provided by the standard block library, and if desired, with additional design fl…

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Getting Started with Block Themes: Global Styles themeshaper.com/2021/01/08/g…

Getting Started with Block Themes: Global Styles

Global Styles is a new mechanism for a theme to define a site’s styles. An important goal of Global Styles is to make it easier for users to change how their site looks without having to know…

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Getting Started with Block Themes: Templates themeshaper.com/2020/12/18/g…
Getting Started with Block Themes: Templates

Getting Started with Block Themes: Templates

Full Site Editing provides a new and exciting way to build themes, compared to how we created themes in the past. If you are new to this, there’s nothing to worry about, it’s simply a different way…

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Getting Started with Block Themes themeshaper.com/2020/12/09/g…

Getting Started with Block Themes

The rationale With Full Site Editing on the horizon for WordPress, Theme creators need to start to learn how to make themes in a different way. Full Site Editing is sea change in the way that theme…

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Creating a Block-based Landing Page Theme themeshaper.com/2020/11/06/c…

Creating a Block-based Landing Page Theme

Kjell Reigstad details how to build a single-page block-based theme.

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Introducing Seedlet themeshaper.com/2020/08/31/i…
Introducing Seedlet

Introducing Seedlet

A typography-led theme, built for the future of block-based theming.

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Use these fresh, open source font pairings in your next theme 🎨 themeshaper.com/2020/06/22/u…

Open source font pairings for your next theme

Mel Choyce discusses and highlights GPL-compatible fonts.

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Designing Themes with Gutenberg Blocks and Sketch themeshaper.com/2018/03/07/d…
Designing Themes with Gutenberg Blocks and Sketch

Designing Themes with Gutenberg Blocks and Sketch

Follow Kjell Reigstad’s process as he explores designing a block-driven theme with Sketch, for the Gutenberg era.

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Adding Block Patterns to Your Theme themeshaper.com/2020/04/08/a…
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Exploring Global Styles themeshaper.com/2020/03/20/e…
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