Description: Rich Tabor's blog on WordPress, design, and blocks. Rich is a multidisciplinary maker specializing in the intersection of product, design and engineering. Making WordPress.
Twitter WordPress GitHub About Search Style groups of blocks in one click with colorways Dec 7, 2022 ·
Consistency. That’s the name of the game when it comes to designing a website. And having a way to design, and apply, like-styling to whole sets of blocks is a huge step towards publishing pages with consistency and speed. So I explored an idea I’m calling Colorways — a “simple mode” for stylizing page content.
Last week I challenged myself to take one pattern, from one theme, and morph it multiple times — only using the design controls block editor. It’s kind of like CSS Zen Garden, but without CSS — just out-of-the-box WordPress block design tooling. One theme. One pattern. Seven ways. No additional blocks, nor custom CSS between scenes — just designing…