Zero to Block Theme Series #3: theme.json Continued - Styles

Welcome to the third session of Zero to Block Theme: Foundations

What this series is about:

Have you ever wondered how themes are developed?

Or, have you ever ventured into the backend of your WordPress website and wondered just what, exactly, you were looking at?

Finally, have you ever wanted to learn the very basics of WordPress block theme development ?

If so, this intermediate learn-up series is for you!

1st Week
Last week’s session covered setting up your first local installation of WordPress, finding your way into WordPress’ actual core files, creating a child theme, and changing a color using theme.json.

2nd Week
Now that you’re able to find all the files that make up a WordPress theme, we’ll discuss at a high level the primary parts of a block theme, including index.php, style.css, functions.php, parts, templates, and, most excitingly, theme.json.

This session will provide a high-level overview of the most important parts of your theme, then dig into theme.json so that you can start experimenting with this feature immediately. It will also be recorded.

If you were unable to attend the previous sessions #1 (Foundations) and #2 (Intro to theme.json) and are a beginner to WordPress development work, we recommend watching the recordings (~1 hour each) before attending this social learning space. For the time being, the recording of last week's session can be found here:

Session 1: https://youtu.be/ntT1GT6Yr3w
Session 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjSZOJZspe0

The sessions build foundational knowledge, so we highly recommend watching both of the previous ones ahead of time.