Preparing for a wedding can be significant, especially if you plan to create a website for your event. Creating a wedding website is the perfect way to share information, organize gift registries, curate photos, and document your big day. Of… Continue Reading →
A website is seldom built overnight. That’s why a coming soon page can be the perfect placeholder to greet your website’s visitors while it’s still being developed. Some coming soon WordPress themes provide other perks as well, such as enabling… Continue Reading →
If you run a travel agency, own a hotel, or like to blog about your globe-trotting experiences, you need to know the best WordPress travel themes for your website. As a business owner, you’ll want to build a high-quality website… Continue Reading →
Starting a new business venture is no easy feat – especially if you don’t have a solid website to capture leads, guide new customers to your doorstep, or sell products and services directly. Many multipurpose and business themes are available… Continue Reading →
Transcript [00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in… Continue Reading →
Hello everyone The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion. Date: May 30, 2023 Time: 15:00 UTC Location: #themereview channel Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda Agenda Prepared by: @kafleg Meeting facilitator – @kafleg Notes taker – @kafleg Full transcript – #themereview channel… Continue Reading →
Whether you need a photo-heavy website as a designer or blogger or want to feature photography on a client’s website, portfolios are often the best means of doing that. There are image gallery plugins and portfolio plugins available that can… Continue Reading →
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The themes team meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. This week we have a special meeting. We could not host a meeting last week so we want to do it this week. This month’s second meeting is on the 30th… Continue Reading →
WordPress is a great platform for building a website for realtors and real estate agencies. All required features are readily available, and many themes have the features already built in. But, the vast number of themes can make finding the… Continue Reading →
On May 25, 2023, a Hallway Hangout was held to discuss ways to curate the Editor experience in WordPress, building block themes, and challenges you might encounter when building with blocks for clients. 40 community members attended, including facilitators @ndiego… Continue Reading →
WordPress’ Performance Team has published a summary of a core performance analysis they completed in order to identify and prioritize areas for improvement. As part of this process, contributors created a methodology with a standard set of tools that can… Continue Reading →
There are plenty of niche-specific WordPress themes out there. You can easily find themes dedicated to specific topics like education, travel, and more if needed. But what if you want something a little more flexible? That’s where knowing and finding… Continue Reading →
The potential value of a creative professional’s portfolio is beyond doubt. For that value to be realized, however, it’s vitally important that your portfolio displays your work beautifully and stands out as an extraordinary project in and of itself. Fortunately,… Continue Reading →
Shufflehound made a big splash in March when it released Lemmony, a free WordPress block theme with more than 30 patterns. This was the company’s first block theme on WordPress.org and it is already active on more than 1,000 websites…. Continue Reading →
Next week, @greenshady and I will host a casual conversation about building block themes for clients and ways you can curate the Editor experience in WordPress. We will also discuss common challenges and pain points, review existing solutions, and hopefully… Continue Reading →
On April 4, there was a proposal to overhaul the WordPress Theme Handbook that would bring the documentation more up to date, create a new structure, and be more inviting to first-time theme creators. Since then, the Themes Team has… Continue Reading →
WordPress is approaching its 20th anniversary, and for the majority of those years, contributors have cranked out a new default theme. Even though the structure and supported features of default themes have drastically changed over the years, contributors are still… Continue Reading →
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Themeum, a WordPress theme and plugin company founded in 2013, has acquired the Kirki Customizer Framework plugin from its former developer, David Vongries. In April 2023, Vongries announced he was sunsetting the product and discontinuing development. He put the plugin up for… Continue Reading →
The WordPress Themes Directory is now hosting more than 300 block themes, a milestone for the dedicated theme developers who have persevered through the growing pains and evolution of block theming. WP Engine is one of the newest theme authors… Continue Reading →
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The themes team meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. This month’s second meeting is on the 9th of May. The meeting takes place in the #themereview channel on WordPress Slack and you need an account to participate. Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, May 09, 2023, 15:00 UTC Along with… Continue Reading →
WordPress’ Themes Team has released a new block theme called Stacks as part of the Community Themes initiative proposed earlier this year. The goal is to bring together representatives of the team to build block themes year round, the same… Continue Reading →
The first WordPress community theme is now live in the Themes Directory. It’s called Stacks. This theme is designed specifically to create slide decks that can be used as a presentation: The “Stacks” pattern can be included on any page… Continue Reading →
Hello everyone The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on March 25, 2023. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC. This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. The meeting agenda prepared by – @kafleg Meeting facilitator – @kafleg Notes… Continue Reading →
WordPress developer Mike McAlister has launched Ollie, his first block theme, into public beta. McAlister, whose theme company Array Themes was acquired by WP Engine in 2018, along with the Atomic Blocks plugin, recently departed from his role at the… Continue Reading →
The themes team meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. This month’s second meeting is on the 25th of April. The meeting takes place in the #themereview channel on WordPress Slack and you need an account to participate. Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 15:00 UTC Along with… Continue Reading →
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Hello everyone. The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on April 11, 2023. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC. This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. The meeting agenda prepared by – @kafleg Meeting facilitator – @kafleg Notes… Continue Reading →
