Part 2: Personalized Site Design and Theme Blocks

Introduction

The Site Editor empowers you to edit your site cohesively. In Part 1 of this course series, you learned how to use block themes, block patterns and styles. In this course, we are going to delve deeper into theme blocks.

Theme blocks are dynamic, which means they pull in and display various content information on a website, such as post content, query loops, and post comments. In addition to this, certain blocks are essential for presenting the site’s identity, which includes elements like the site logo, site title, and site tagline.

Canvas of block patterns

Are you familiar with and feel confident using theme blocks? If you can’t confidently answer ‘yes’ to this question, this and the next course is for you. 

The last course in the series is titled, Part 3: Advanced Site Design using the Site Editor

At the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Describe what theme blocks are and how they can benefit the user.
  • Create a personalized site design using theme blocks.

Introducing WordPress 6.3

You are encouraged to use a test/sandbox site to apply your newly acquired knowledge and skills during this course.

Are you ready? Let’s go! Enroll in this course by signing in to your WordPress.org account (or creating a WordPress.org account for the first time) and then click on the “Take Course” button below.

Create your testing environment Intro to theme blocks Explore the Navigation block Keep exploring the Navigation block The Query Loop block Utilizing theme blocks to customize how single posts are displayed

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