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The Art of Building Block Based WordPress Themes

The next era of theming is WordPress is here. So let’s dive into the creative essence of building a block-based theme that leverages the best of WordPress and Full Site Editing.

We’ll talk about the hierarchy of a block theme, what makes them different, how to leverage the new theme.json design system, and building templates, parts and patterns.

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By Rich Tabor

As a WordPress entrepreneur, designer and developer all wrapped up in one, Rich Tabor is recognized as one of the top leaders in this post-Gutenberg era of WordPress. His ever-precise design chops have topped the 2018 Automattic Design Awards and led him to co-found CoBlocks - a top-notch set of page builder blocks and tools for Gutenberg, ThemeBeans - a premier WordPress theme shop and Iceberg - a markdown editor for Gutenberg.

Rich is currently at Automattic, working towards making the web a better place.