How to Use Block Filters and Hooks to Modify Block Behavior in Themes
A practical guide for block theme developers on using PHP and JavaScript block filters to modify render output, adjust block metadata, extend blocks with custom…
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Twenty Twenty-Seven Is Coming: What Commercial Block Theme Authors Need to Know Now
The WordPress core team has announced the Twenty Twenty-Seven default theme. For commercial block theme authors, a new default theme is never just cosmetic — it…
How to Create Custom Block Styles That Extend the WordPress Design System
Learn how to create custom block styles in WordPress. Covers registering styles with PHP and JS, styling with CSS and theme.json, removing defaults, and buildin…
How to Use Style Variations in Block Themes to Offer Multiple Design Presets
Learn how to create style variation JSON files for WordPress block themes, override colors, typography, and spacing per variation, preview designs in the Site E…
How to Design Accessible Color Systems in Block Themes That Pass WCAG Standards
A complete guide to building WCAG-compliant color palettes in block themes: contrast ratios, semantic color naming in theme.json, dark mode style variations, an…
How to Implement a Consistent Spacing System in theme.json for Balanced Layouts
Learn how to implement a complete spacing system in theme.json for WordPress block themes. Covers spacingSizes presets, fluid spacing with CSS clamp(), block ga…
Fluid Typography in Block Themes: The Complete CSS Clamp Guide
Learn how to build a viewport-responsive fluid typography scale in WordPress block themes using CSS clamp() and theme.json. Covers the slope-intercept formula, …
Full Site Editing in 2026: What’s Finally Worth Using (And What’s Still Broken)
An honest 2026 assessment of WordPress Full Site Editing — what is production-ready, what has improved, what is still broken, and a project-type decision framew…
What shadcn/ui Gets Right That WordPress Block Themes Should Copy
shadcn/ui hit 110K GitHub stars by solving design system problems with clean principles — tokens first, semantic naming, owned implementations, composition over…
Block Themes vs Classic Themes vs Elementor: The Honest 2026 Comparison
Block themes, classic themes, and Elementor compared honestly for 2026 — real trade-offs on performance, WooCommerce, client editing, and long-term lock-in to h…
Pattern Overrides in WordPress 7.0: What Block Theme Developers Need to Know
A developer’s guide to pattern overrides in WordPress 7.0 — how partial syncing works, which blocks support overrides, the binding syntax, and what change…
theme.json Deep Dive: Every Global Setting and Style Explained
A complete reference guide to theme.json in WordPress block themes — covering every settings property, styles object, CSS custom property naming, per-block over…