Classic Themes with Block Patterns in WordPress

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Contact Form 7

As we decided to use WordPress for reasons like content management, communication, and spam protection, we can make use of that functionality. My recent classic theme supports image sizing and alignment classes, as well as everything emitted by Contact Form 7, Complianz GDPR privacy / cookie compliance, Polylang internationalization, and header / footer widgets including the mobile "burger" menu. We may also consider your favorites and popular "must-have" plugins like Yoast and JetPack.

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Sass

For the sake of simplicity, my example setup uses a single-file plugin and puts all styles directly into a single style.css file without using further theme.css or theme.json files, which we might want to use depending on the requirements for customizability. Likewise, SASS / SCSS support can be added if it makes life easier for the developer(s) involved. But as we already use PostCSS to control autoprefixing and cssnano minification, we can also use it to support the latest and even upcoming CSS sytax like native CSS nesting.

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GeneratePress

The most obvious option would be the latest official standard themes, like Twenty Twenty-Three. But the latest official WordPress themes support full-site editing and the new theme engine, providing a lot of end-user options that might get in our way. As an alternative, the popular GeneratePress aims to be a lightweight foundation for theme development, and its optional extension are shipped seperately, like the GenerateBlocks plugin that provides a small collection of lightweight blocks optimized but not limited to be used with GeneratePress or a child theme.

#Wordpress #Office & Productivity #Online Services 14 social mentions

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GenerateBlocks

The most obvious option would be the latest official standard themes, like Twenty Twenty-Three. But the latest official WordPress themes support full-site editing and the new theme engine, providing a lot of end-user options that might get in our way. As an alternative, the popular GeneratePress aims to be a lightweight foundation for theme development, and its optional extension are shipped seperately, like the GenerateBlocks plugin that provides a small collection of lightweight blocks optimized but not limited to be used with GeneratePress or a child theme.

#Website Builder #CMS #Wordpress 2 social mentions

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Elementor

WordPress is celebrating its 20th anniversary and it still powers millions of websites all over the world, so we can say that's an open-source software success story. The "WordPress multiverse" has been fragmented for a long time, due to a multitude of possible combinations of plugins and page builders like Elementor? But efforts to unify mainstream development and obsolete page builders doing full-site editing using the Gutenberg block editor has caused controversy. No-code enthusiasts are happy about the new features, while developers get frustrated about breaking changes and unfinished development rolled out and promoted as the new default as part of the "from blogs to blocks" campaign.

#Website Design #Website Builder #CMS 61 social mentions

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cssnano

For the sake of simplicity, my example setup uses a single-file plugin and puts all styles directly into a single style.css file without using further theme.css or theme.json files, which we might want to use depending on the requirements for customizability. Likewise, SASS / SCSS support can be added if it makes life easier for the developer(s) involved. But as we already use PostCSS to control autoprefixing and cssnano minification, we can also use it to support the latest and even upcoming CSS sytax like native CSS nesting.

#Developer Tools #Design Tools #CSS Framework 4 social mentions