#wordpress 2022-06-04

2022-06-04 UTC
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[tw2113_Slack_] just don't ask him to do anything with blocks/React 😉
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GWG I think I should, I just really don't want to.
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[hollie] Collecting some data tonight on what it looks like to build a WordPress theme. This is still well beyond my skills - but I just joined Team Treehouse, so hopefully I'll be able to build my dream theme someday. Anyway, I noticed there are some graphical theme builders for which you don't need to learn code. The wants-to-tinker-with-everything part of my brain is really turned off by that, but I am curious about one thing; if you
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[hollie] build a theme using this method, do you own the theme you just put together in their graphical thingamajig? Or does the software/site with which you built it, own the theme?
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GWG You'd own it, but it wouldn't work without their stuff
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[hollie] <shudders>
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[chrisaldrich] [hollie] if you're a beginning programmer, like *many* of us here, you might appreciate _Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog_ by Thord Daniel Hedengren. He decomposes WordPress and themes into chunks in a way that makes them understandable (and most importantly copyable, changeable, and extendable). You might find more fun and experimentation in a book like this than slogging through some of the more dry manuals on PHP
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[chrisaldrich] and CSS. (It is all pre-Gutenberg.)
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[hollie] Thanks for the recommendation, I just ordered it. Someone on Mastodon recommended _Professional_ _WordPress:_ _Design_ _and_ _Development,_ so now I'll have a couple to start with.
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