Themes

Themes Team representative Ari Stathopoulos is now officially the first theme author to have a theme in the directory that … Continue reading Q: First FSE WordPress Theme Now Live →

Mel Choyce-Dwan, the Default Theme Design Lead for WordPress 5.6, kick-started 10 tickets around two months ago that would bring … Continue reading Past Twenty* WordPress Themes To Get New Block Patterns →

Starter content. It was a grand idea, one of those big dreams of WordPress. It was the new kid on … Continue reading The Future of Starter Content: WordPress Themes Need a Modern Onboarding and Importing Tool →

The new block-based navigation screen is once again delayed after it was originally slated for WordPress 5.5 and then put … Continue reading Navigation Screen Sidelined for WordPress 5.6, Full-Site Editing Edges Closer to Public Beta →

Gutenberg 9.1 made a backward-incompatible change to its theme.json file (experimental-theme.json while full-site editing is under the experimental flag). This … Continue reading Kick off Block-Based WordPress Theme Development With the Theme.json Creator →

Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness … Continue reading First Look at Twenty Twenty-One, WordPress’s Upcoming Default Theme →

In August, following the suspension of the popular Astra theme, WordPress Meta contributors opened a ticket to add a new … Continue reading WordPress Themes Directory Adds New “Delist” Status for Non-Compliant Themes →

On August 26, Automattic launched a new theme titled Seedlet that focused on integrating with the WordPress block editor. A … Continue reading Exploring Seedlet, Automattic’s Block-First WordPress Theme →

MotoPress, a theme and plugin shop in operation since 2013, has acquired the Gutenix WordPress theme and its commercial ZeGuten … Continue reading MotoPress Acquires Gutenix WordPress Theme →

A couple of years ago, Morten Rand-Hendriksen launched WP Rig for WordPress. The goal was to bring a modern starter … Continue reading WP Rig Starter Theme Project Looking for New Maintainers →

For months, I have eagerly awaited the official release of WordPress 5.5, an update that promised to put the long-awaited … Continue reading Exploring the First Block Patterns to Land in the WordPress Theme Directory →