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The Latest Posts Block, Query Loop Block & Alternatives

Blog posts are usually displayed on a WordPress website either on the homepage or on a separate blog page if that’s been specified in the site’s setttings. WordPress also creates archive pages for categories and tags.

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Building a Homepage with GenerateBlocks

This article sits alongside another one, “Building My “Standard” Demo Site“, as I thought it was worth going into more detail about the homepage of my Standard demo website.

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Experimenting with WordPress Image Sizes

As a general rule, it’s a good idea to keep images as small as possible because loading large images will slow a site down.

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Creating a Mood Board with Canva & Coolors

Some time ago I wrote an article called “Creating a Mood Board with Milanote“. I really liked Milanote, but if you use it to make a mood board you do need to find some images to start with.

In this article I want to try some different free online tools so, just for fun, I’m going to create a mood board for a fictional tea room.

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A Simple Page Layout With GenerateBlocks

About 10 months ago I wrote a blog post, “A Simple Page Layout with the WordPress Block Editor”, as an exercise to compare using just the block editor versus using the block editor plus one of a couple of plugins; Stackable and Kadence Blocks.

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Building Static Websites Using WordPress

Recently, in one of the Facebook groups I belong to, someone asked a question about how to make WordPress more secure.

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Sketching a Website Page Layout with Excalidraw

Previously, I’ve written a blog post about how I used Milanote to create a mood board. I’ve also used Milanote for mind mapping. Today I came across another free online tool, thanks to the Speckyboy Design Magazine Facebook page.

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A Look at Some WordPress Photo Gallery Plugins

For this article, I experimented with a few different gallery and slideshow plugins:

  • FooGallery
  • GT3 Photo Gallery
  • Smart Slider 3
  • The Advanced Gallery block from the Kadence Blocks plugin.
  • Meow Gallery

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Creating a Mood Board with Milanote

Recently, I came across milanote.com which seemed to be a good tool for creating a mood board or style guide.

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GeneratePress theme
GenerateBlocks plugin
Kadence Blocks plugin
Hungry Jpeg for graphic design resources
Design Cuts for digital design assets
Pixabay for free photos and illustrations
Deposit Photos for stock photos
Raw Pixel for stock photos and design resources
Canva - online design and publishing tool
Milanote - online tool for organising ideas into visual boards

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