Posts tagged WordPress

Exploring the Block Editor’s Drop Shadows

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.

Mixin’ Styles- GB’s New “Card” Style

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 […]

Video Tutorial- Adding Fonts to WordPress With Create Block Theme

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 […]

Moving your Development Theme Outside of WordPress- Part 2

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.

Video Tutorial Series- WordPress Style Variations

So, I know in the last post I promised an update would be coming soon for Mixin’ Styles- GB. This update will involve adding Style Variations to the theme. However, I thought further that this would be a good opportunity for a YouTube theme series documenting the creation of a purple and yellow style variation.