Last year, I updated the build tool for this blog’s theme. I upgraded from Gulp version 4 to version 5. After I finished, I worked as usual thinking nothing of it. That was until, out of the blue, after uploading a zipped copy of the theme to my remote WordPress server, my font files were […]
A couple of months ago, while upgrading Mixin’ Styles- GB, I decided I wanted the build process line up with WordPress standards. It is a block theme, after all. The way I set up the previous build, I wasn’t able to work on files that would automatically be minified, as I saved separate .min files. […]
In this short tutorial, we will add an element to an existing layout that sticks to the top of the page, as long as it is within a parent element. An example file is provided if you wish to follow along.
This tutorial follows a previous tutorial Adding Google Fonts to a WordPress Block Theme Without a Plugin. But it can be viewed as standalone. Within, we will add a new font to an example version of the Mixin’ Styles- GB theme. Then, we will put the font to use in the theme, making adjustments along […]
Starting from WordPress 6.5 and onwards, the Site Editor allows users to upload Google fonts to your website. In this video tutorial, follow along with me as we replace two hard-coded fonts in Mixin’ Styles- GB with their Google font equivalents. We will explore how to add these fonts specifically to your theme, not your […]
After a long hiatus, I started to update Mixin’ Styles- GB, fixing double borders on navigation menus and other CSS issues. My next step will be to get the theme’s custom fonts through WordPress’s built in font manager. I am putting together a future video tutorial for this.
