A confession: I’m one of the people that regularly get ‘called out’ on this sub. I use page-builders & plugins, and I still have the ‘classic editor’ plugin enabled on some sites. I do make a conscious effort to use as few plugins as possible but client demands and general scheduling often mean that the ‘path of least resistance’ is also the ‘path that makes most sense at the time’. It would be difficult, for various reasons, to make a business case for the kind of changes I’d need to make to legacy projects to move them away from the builders they’re based on.
I’m TRYING to ‘do better’ for current/future projects but every time I start getting into Gutenberg I find stumbling blocks; for example, my ‘go-to’ builder has a ‘posts’ module I can drop anywhere (visually) filter by category, and selectively hide/show meta elements, among other features. I can’t find a similar function in the standard blocks and adding additional blocks just seems like a new version of adding plugins? ‘Just learn to code’ is an option and I’m more than willing to get my hands dirty in that regard but it’s time consuming and frustrating and I’m not, unfortunately, young. I have successfully modified other peoples code in the past (Lots of cloning/sandboxing/trial-and-error!) so I’m not completely hopeless, IMHO. I’m going to try Bricks but it sort of seems like going down the page-builder route again? i.e. becoming dependent on a ‘bolted-on’ system?
I’m spending as much time as possible practicising offline but I’m particularly looking for resources and advice on things like building templates for custom post types and really just getting started with Gutenberg in general. I know there’s a ton of stuff out there but a lot of it is from people who are trying to sell their own stuff – which is 100% fine by me! – but I’m asking here to try to get some unbiased advice from this knowledgeable community. Hate/dunk if you want to waste your time/energy. My clients are happy, I’m still getting new business and I never claim to be anything I’m not. Thanks for ‘listening’.
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Honestly, the best ressource for building themes / templates and plugins for WordPress, is the official documentation. It’s short, concise, and usually comes with a example or two. Paired with some google-fu, and you’ll be churning out some basic WordPress themes rather fast.
Anything more advanced, requires more advanced code knowledge (whether it be front-end or back-end).