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…
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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…
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…
How to Create Custom Block Patterns in WordPress for Reusable Page Sections
Complete developer guide to registering custom block patterns in WordPress with PHP – pattern markup structure, categories, translatable patterns, and bui…
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…
How to Migrate from a Classic Theme to a Block Theme Without Breaking Your Site
A step-by-step guide to migrating from a classic WordPress theme to a block theme safely — covering staging setup, theme.json, template rebuilding, widget migra…
Block Themes vs Elementor in 2026: Which Should You Actually Choose?
Block themes vs Elementor in 2026: a detailed comparison of performance, cost, developer experience, and content lock-in to help you make the right choice for y…
Responsive Design in Block Themes: Fluid Typography and Spacing with theme.json
Learn how to configure fluid typography and spacing in theme.json. Build responsive block themes using CSS clamp(), container queries, and WordPress 6.9 improve…