WordPress Content Blocks: Working with Themes

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Free Online Course: WordPress Content Blocks: Working with Themes provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. WordPress Content Blocks: Working with Themes is taught by Morten Rand-Hendriksen.

Overview
  • Learn how to add support for Gutenberg, the new block editor in WordPress 5.0, to both new and older WordPress themes and customize and extend new block styles.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Theme integration with WordPress content blocks
    • How this course works
    1. Theme Development Setup
    • Block unit test data
    • How themes without block support work
    • Declare support for default styles
    • Declare support for block editor styles
    2. Adding Block Editor Support in Themes
    • Add support for wide alignments
    • Add styles for wide alignments
    • Add support for theme-specific colors
    • Add styles for theme-specific colors
    • Disable custom color option
    • Add support for font sizes
    • Add styles for font sizes
    • Disable custom font sizes
    • Add support for responsive embeds
    3. Customizing and Extending Block Styles
    • Extending block styles
    • Style variations
    • Add new style variations
    • Add styles to style variations
    Conclusion
    • Next steps