Themes

One of my favorite activities each week is to peruse the latest themes to land in the WordPress theme directory. … Continue reading Recreating the Music Artist WordPress Theme Homepage With the Block Editor →

Earlier today, the WordPress theme directory welcomed its fourth block-based theme. Built by UXL Themes, Hansen is one of the … Continue reading Build a Full WordPress Site via Block Patterns With the Hansen Theme →

Today, GT Basic became the second theme from GermanThemes to go live in the WordPress theme directory. Like the company’s … Continue reading GermanThemes Releases Block-Ready GT Basic WordPress Theme With Custom Patterns →

Earlier today, the Phoenix theme was merged into the WordPress Theme Experiments repository on GitHub. Like all themes in the … Continue reading Phoenix, a Block-Based WordPress Theme With a Sidebar →

Perhaps the fates have stepped in to prove a point. After I wrote a 2,000-word piece on the lack of … Continue reading Design Lab Releases Artpop, a Block-Ready WordPress Theme →

Empt Lite, the latest theme by Rough Pixels, landed in the WordPress theme directory today. Like most of the company’s … Continue reading Rough Pixels Releases Empt Lite, a Block-Supported Freemium WordPress Theme →

Automation. It is one of those dreams in the minds of many reviewers from the Themes Team. If there was … Continue reading Call for Feedback on Theme Review Action, a New Automated WordPress Theme Testing Project →

The WordPress.org theme directory is becoming little more than a crippleware distributor. I suppose it was inevitable given its reach, … Continue reading Upsells, Barriers, and the End/Beginning of the Quality $free Themes Era →

On Monday, Automattic announced its Blank Canvas theme on WordPress.com. The goal is to allow end-users to build single-page websites, … Continue reading Automattic Launches the Blank Canvas WordPress Theme for Building Single-Page Websites →

Around 2010, child theming had finally caught its stride. Bigger theme shops were starting to take note, and some were … Continue reading A Multi-Theme System, the Decade-Long Wait for Grandchild Themes, and Themeless Templates →

I would like to ask, what is the best way to learn to create WordPress themes from scratch? I would … Continue reading Ask the Bartender: How to Build WordPress Themes from Scratch? →