Did you know that since WordPress 6.5 that you can add drop shadows to several blocks? A drop shadow can be used with the Button, Image, Column and Columns blocks. But, you can also use it with other blocks, which we will use for the examples here.
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As part of ongoing new features and maintenance of Mixin’ Styles- GB, I rolled out a new major update.
If you were using this theme before, you may be thinking ‘What’s so major about it.’ The theme still looks the same.
It indeed does, but the difference is the underlying way it is presented. In the older versions of the theme, the cards that hold the theme’s content had hard coded CSS. In other words, you either couldn’t change the colors or it wasn’t very obvious that you could.
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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 the way.
We will also fix the font file names and paths from the previous tutorial.
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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 WordPress install.
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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.
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