It is October 2021 and I am testing the WordPress full site editing capabilities with Gutenberg. As of this writing, this is only available via the Gutenberg plugin until WordPress 5.9 is released in a few months. I had cloned the Theme Experiments repo directly in my test site’s theme folder. The cool thing is
I cannot believe how long it has been since I took a look at this article. I originally posted this very simple procedure to combine Bootstrap with Underscores.me to create a very plain and simple WordPress theme on September 5th, 2016. We are now almost three years later and the process is very much the
I was having an issue for the last day trying to understand why my responsive menu for my custom WordPress theme using an Underscores.me template was not allowing the navigation items to display vertically above one another. I do want the menu to display horizontally when on larger screens. I researched W3Schools.com and took apart
Quick development can be accomplished by using Bootstrap with the Underscores framework. Underscores.me is a vanilla, “no styles included”, framework for starting your developent of a WordPress theme. I use Bootstrap to provide the styling functionality. In order to get started, we first need to get the two working together. Check out my post in combining
Research Similar Sites In order to better understand how you compare, research similar sites to see what might be missing that you could capitalize on for your readers. Not every site should have the same information, and each should offer up some useful bit of information that might not be found somewhere else. Your readers
Topic List When we first start our blogs, for the most part we still do not know what we really want to talk about. Planning ideas on topics should really happen prior to starting the blog or well in the beginning stages. It is far too easy to get into a state of confusion and
Identify your user This is not an easy step. The user of your website is not likely going to be the “Ideal” user you are thinking about, and most of all YOU are not the example of the user that will likely use or find your site. While it is easy to design based upon
Local development server I have tried various ways of creating a local development environment for me to test my website ideas, most of which seemed highly technical and took me days of research. I don’t have the time to learn all the aspects of setting up a server, and I am always looking for new
Theme Development Overview Practicing theme development over the last two years for a couple websites has been exciting and difficult at various times. These themes were designed for a specific purpose and not well tuned to be used out in the wild. In the process of creating the themes I researched for days (months) for useful sites that
Note: this is an older post. I have since created a newer post that might be of better explanation. Visit my newer Simple Theme Using Underscores and Bootstrap Remejy Simple Blue The theme I am creating is going to be a simple blue theme that will utilize Underscores.me and Bootstrap. I created a few themes
