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If you’re new to WordPress, you need to decide if you want to build your site using self-hosted WordPress or hosted on WordPress.com. Next, you need to choose a theme which determines the look and feel of your site. WordPress themes are collections of files that specify the layout, spacing, typography, colours and interactivity of […]
Twenty Twenty-Four theme is the latest in a series of default WordPress themes. This theme shipped with the release of WordPress 6.4 on November 7, 2023. Twenty Twenty-Four is a block theme, meaning that it is composed of blocks and the whole of your site is editable. The theme has proved popular, with over half […]
WordPress’ block editor has now been on the scene for two and a half years. It has brought about new opportunities to design pages as opposed to just adding text and images to them. But learning the various blocks and how to put them together can still be quite a slow and frustrating process. You […]
There are a variety of tools to test your WordPress website’s accessibility. The problem is that many of them require a live web page to check. And if you’re trying to get accessibility right, you most likely want to test your work before showing it to the world. If you want to check a post […]
Are you using the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg)? Great! Now with the various blocks you have more options for aligning images with text. There are good ways and bad ways to align images and text in WordPress’ Gutenberg editor. I’m going to show you the options and the pitfalls. This post assumes you know how […]
With version 5, the block editor – aka Gutenberg – has brought a shift in creating content in WordPress. Gutenberg blocks are now the building bricks of posts and pages. But how many are there, and what do they do? What this post covers Note that in this post I’ve used screenshots of blocks for […]
As WordPress 5.0 launches today, with a new block editor, it seems timely to revisit this presentation I gave at WordCamp Edinburgh 2018 on 17 November. This was the talk description: The new Gutenberg editor is a key part of WordPress 5.0 which is going to change the user experience of WordPress, for better or […]
