This site, for my local choir, was built using the WordPress Full Site Editing theme Ollie.
A WordPress blog giving advice about visiting the city of Rome and its surroundings.
A simple WordPress website, built with the GeneratePress theme, for an Italian language teacher.
Using google fonts is an easy, and free, way to add some visual interest to a website. Recently, we’ve been advised to host these locally rather than via a connection to google. This is due to concerns about GDPR and also to speed up page loading times.
Dave wanted to be able to share resources and blog posts about informal learning. His new website also provides access to the articles and papers that
Recently, a new feature was introduced to GeneratePress Premium. The documentation says “The Loop Template block element allows you to build your own archive loops using the block editor.”
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.
Standard is a WordPress website that I’ve set up to demonstrate how I use my favourite theme, GeneratePress, with its Premium plugin.
NOTE: This article was originally written in May 2018. Since then, all the themes I looked at have continued to develop, and the new WordPress block editor has been introduced. I’ve added updates throughout the article when I’m aware of them, but these tend to relate to the GeneratePress theme as it’s the one I use myself. That makes this discussion quite biased towards GeneratePress.
I continued to update this article until the end of 2020 but now I have a newer article about building a website with GeneratePress and I would suggest you refer to that instead: ‘Building My “Standard” Demo Site’.
For a more recent overview of some of the themes discussed in this article see the WP Tuts YouTube video “Discover the BEST Free WordPress Themes in 2023!“
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