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.
Tutorials
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.
Building My “Standard” Demo Site
Standard is a WordPress website that I’ve set up to demonstrate how I use my favourite theme, GeneratePress, with its Premium plugin.
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.
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.
Adding and Moving WordPress Blocks
I decided to make a very brief video demonstrating some basic methods used when building a page with the WordPress block editor.
A Simple Page Layout with the WordPress Block Editor
Around 18 months ago, I wrote a blog post, Alternatives to WordPress Page Builders, to see how easy it was to build a page with a specific layout.
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
Adding a Row of Image Links with the WordPress Block Editor
Some time ago, I wrote a blog post giving instructions for adding a row of image links to a WordPress website. The methods I described should still work, but now that the new WordPress block editor (a.k.a. “Gutenberg”) has been released, I would expect it to be easier to carry out this task without using the plugins I had looked at before.
