The following is a screenshot of the current homepage. It was in decent enough shape to share with friends over Twitter in two.
#Singlebox theme wordpress cracked#
So, I cracked open my code editor and created a new theme project. Regardless, I was back awake at 3:30am on Sunday morning, tired but unable to catch those much-needed Z’s. Perhaps I had so many projects and things going on that my mind could not shut them out. I got four, maybe five, hours of solid sleep between Friday and Saturday night. Plus, I consider programming/development to be the art of solving problems. This is not to say that there were no hiccups along the way, but we hear about those enough. When I set aside years of modern tooling and a workflow built around them, what I found was a beautifully-simple theming system that pays homage to WordPress’s roots but is flexible enough to extend for advanced builds. The first step was to check my ego at the door. However, maybe - just maybe - I could get back to the building blocks of the web.Ĭould I spin up a WordPress theme without a complex web of dependencies spanning over 900 projects in my /node_modules folder?Ĭould I create something without dutifully pulling in my base PHP scripts via Composer?Ĭould I, you know, just build a WordPress theme?
Technically, it is impossible to forget everything I know without incurring some sort of amnesia. And forget everything I thought I knew building on top of the modern web. I needed to reacquaint myself with those foundational elements of plain ol’ HTML, CSS, and PHP. The only way I could do that was to go back to the beginning. With WordPress 5.9 and a more stable block-theming system just mere days ahead, it was time to give it another shot. Needless to say, I could never find the motivation to pick it back up. I knew things could change with the unstable foundation of alpha-level software, but it was still deflating.
#Singlebox theme wordpress free#
I spent months building a new project last year in my precious free time only to have Gutenberg plugin updates wipe out my progress weeks later. One of the problems is that block-based theming has burned me before. However, seeing the Themes Team approve a similar block theme, Miniblock OOAK, by Carolina Nymark meant that the rules were now lax enough to possibly put something like this out into the world. A recent question to the Ask the Bartender column about compact-and-cozy themes got my creative juices flowing again. Kjell Reigstad’s two-column landing page experiment from October 2020 first triggered it. Inspiration for this theme came from a few other people and projects. However, another part of me wanted to see how block theming has progressed from a developer perspective. In part, I just wanted to do this for fun. For months, I have considered building a single-page profile/card theme, and I finally sat down and put in the work over the weekend. I have had a block theme idea rattling around in my brain for a while.
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