WordPress Block Themes are amazing 🔥

[@sergeserge5843]

Totally smashing the like button!!! A tutorial how to create AND display custom fields for free is absolutely riveting!!! 🙏🙏🙏

[@jamiewp]

Thanks Serge 👍💪

[@ShadowVox]

Jamie, your knowledge and insight into the best ways to utilize Wordpress to its fullest extent are greatly appreciated. I've learned so much about WP since subscribing to your channel. Thanks for what you do! Also, I hit that like button. Kitties get treats!

[@jamiewp]

Fabulous , thank you so much. This video took a long time to make , so it's great to hear it was useful.

[@krishnamurmudiploma]

Best channel for the word process explanation because he didn't skip anything important

[@vaughanprint]

Like the new intro promotion for the sponsor. Very snazzy.

[@jamiewp]

Thanks Stephen 😊

[@mr_pip_]

I've seen this tutorial a few times now because my senile pea brain can hardly remember anything and I find it great every time anew.

[@tjsayers5428]

Great tips! I am working with ACF this week; great timing. These tips are going to be super useful. Thanks Jamie.

[@jamiewp]

Cool - that plugin/block to display ACF fields is super useful and getting great reviews 🚀

[@omerta3393]

didn't know about Meta Field block. so easy.

[@jamiewp]

👍

[@goatcheeta]

Very relevant as I am beginning to work with FSE and post layouts. A ton of information in just over 9 minutes!

[@jamiewp]

Thanks for watching Ben - there’s lots of other block theme tuts on my channel 👍

[@dontrez8412]

I just need to sit down and brainstorm how this acf function works. 🤯

[@jamiewp]

👍

[@johncharlesfleming]

Great overview Jamie. The Meta block is cool, but really waiting for native or add-on tool that allows you to use core blocks for display of custom fields and relationships. There are several that are embedded in "larger" toolkits like Toolset, Stackable etc. but they all bring some baggage. There is a core thread talking about how to enable that I've been tracking.

[@jamiewp]

Thanks John, I've been speaking to ACF today and they are planning a native block for ACF 👍

[@KristofBernaert]

what you mean with 'bagage', in case of Toolset (cause I use it) too many bells and whistles or too bloated for the little extra functionality you need?

[@johncharlesfleming]

@@KristofBernaert Each of the tools that support dynamic data are driven by the focus of the core product. They are optimized for their block libraries. As the native blocks have matured, our preference is to use them.

[@PhilipAllison]

Great stuff. I've been trying to figure out something very similar to having different archive pages so this is going to be very helpful.

[@jamiewp]

Fab , that's great to hear Philip

[@FlorentClaude]

Whaou. You've done it in 5 min! Super clear, super essential. My daily food for Months lol. FSE offers so much more than classic themes. Ex : Yesterday my client did edit an FSE archive template !!

[@jamiewp]

Thanks Florent that means so much to me to hear you say that. This video took me 10 hours to make, which probably sounds crazy as it's only 9 mins 😱 Great to hear it was useful. You client editing the template was a good thing right?

[@FlorentClaude]

@@jamiewp yeap it was a feature request. FSE made it easy.

[@jamiewp]

Fantastic 🔥@@FlorentClaude

[@davidsonzed]

Hi Paul, please talk to WordPress core team (I am assuming they are within your reach) and tell them to integrate a better navigation system (header & footer menu) which I feel is the most weaken area of WordPress FSE. Why can they build something similar or better than 'Blocksy', 'Astra', or 'Kadence' header and footer. With a better Header & Footer and a nice animated navigation, WordPress can the most beautiful thing in the 'world'. 😜 Thank you for your invaluable videos. I really love it.

[@jamiewp]

Thank you - although I'm not sure who Paul is ?😬

[@davidsonzed]

@@jamiewp my bad... I mean Jamie. bececause I watch lot of Paul's videos from WP Tuts.

[@jamiewp]

@@davidsonzed hehe I telling Paul, he'll love it!

[@davidsonzed]

@@jamiewp hehehehe.... yeah I sometimes comments on his videos as well.

[@CreateActionLtd]

Excellent video. I think I need to up my WordPress game.

[@jamiewp]

Thank you 😊

[@timmcreynolds2734]

I can see my future - I will be watching this one 12 more times so I can walk through it and then memorize these steps. How do you do it Jamie? Great content is presented in an understandable way. (Even if I have to watch it multiple times) Great stuff.

[@llampp]

My suggestion would be not to memorise every step by heart, instead listen and try to understand the concept. You should be able to do it on your own then.

[@jamiewp]

Thanks so much Tim 👍 - there sure was a lot in this one, and I wanted to make it as concise as possible (which took ages to plan😬 ).

[@SmallBizGeekUK]

The last time I used ACF was about three years ago and it was a bloody nightmare! Would you say ACF is easier to use now with the latest WP core updates compared to how it was in the past?

[@jamiewp]

Works great for me 👍

[@abgportal]

Love it. Thanks as usual!

[@jamiewp]

Thanks for watching 🙏👍

[@jamiewp]

Thanks for watching 🙏👍

[@abgportal]

@@jamiewp do you teach people how to build WordPress systems? I have never understood what you do on the side while you are making these videos.

[@jamiewp]

Yes i run a WordPress business over at pootlepress.com :) @@abgportal

[@visualmodo]

Very good video =D

[@jamiewp]

Thank you

[@webdoze]

Nice one. WordPress Block Themes are nice and let's you customise for free your website. The only problem is that it needs time so everyone to get used with them.

[@jamiewp]

Yes 100% agree - the level of customization is fantastic, but the learning curve is still a little steep.

[@johnsteed9348]

Thanks for this interesting Overview. I have one question, in the last part you show a combination of the query loop function of wordpress and a css grid with your gutenberg pro plugin. Is this a new function? After lookng at your plugin website I can‘t find the css grid function in product overview. I look so long for a small, fast loading css grid plugin, where I can show my 4, 5 or 6 recent posts on my Homepage. Till now I use elementor free and the unlimitedelements addon for elementor, but I want use only wordpress and gutenberg blocks without elementor for my website. I‘ve tested so many plugins but the most are too heavy and my pageload time were very slow with them, like the postx plugin for example. That‘s why I asked for this special function. Thanks again for your interesting vids, they helped me more than one time.😉👍

[@jamiewp]

Hi John, yes it came out two days ago 😀 My marketing hasn't kept up with development. We'll be updating the Gutenberg Pro page today 🚀

[@johnsteed9348]

@@jamiewpthanks a lot, then I have to take a closer look at your plugin…👍😉

[@jamiewp]

Cool, there is a trial so you can test it out - fyi we are also working on adding a zoom out feature in the page and post editor for easier designing - @@johnsteed9348

[@vivekkumar-qd3ev]

Cool! by the way, which block theme are you using here?

[@jamiewp]

Thanks Vivek - I'm using the default twenty twenty theme 😀 en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/twentytwentythree/

[@vivekkumar-qd3ev]

@@jamiewp things which we dont understand, you keep reviewing others block themes like Ollie & Spectra, and then this. Which is your fav or you recommend?😀

[@AnisurRahman-yg3qv]

Best free FSE block theme in your opinion?

[@jamiewp]

It depends on the project

[@sb_1389]

A couple of questions, if you don't mind: 1) Why is it that basic, core functionality like custom fields and meta blocks aren't out of the box in the FSE, although it's been released for some time now? Seems like a strange decision to me. As others mentioned, I'm a bit run through on just adding plugins for everything. 2) I have been trying for days and have yet to have the cover block actually show the featured image. Everything is up to date. It simply refuses to show post featured images. The overlays or gradients will show up fine, but no images. Really frustrating. Any insights as to why that might be? I've looked online and it doesn't seem anyone else is experiencing this issue.

[@jamiewp]

Great questions 1) Custom fields and custom posts have never been part of core WordPress, with classic themes or block themes (FSE). Some people think it they should be, but the logic is that the majority of people and the majority of sites don't use custom posts or custom fields, so they are best left in plugin territory. If you add up the total number of installations for ACF, Meta Box, and PODS, the total number of active installations is under 3 million. So the data really backs up the logic. WooCommerce alone has 5 million active installations, but it wouldn't make sense to bundle ecommerce with every single WordPress site. 2) Re cover block - that sounds strange , what theme are you using? Also can i double check you are adding images into the featured image setting in the sidebar?

[@sb_1389]

@@jamiewp thanks for getting back to me! 1) by core feature, I meant that custom fields are natively included in every post (you have the ability to spin up custom fields on any post or page on any clean install of WP). I misspoke on custom post types, thanks for the correction. I begrudgingly admit the data portion. 2) ... embarrassingly enough this turned out to be user error which of course was cleared up minutes after my comment. 😔 Thanks for your time and thoughtful response, I appreciate it!

[@sb_1389]

@@jamiewp quick correction I hadn't mentioned custom posts at all 😲 I mentioned meta blocks, which is tied into the custom fields portion. Seems strange they have the ability to create custom fields built in but not to display them.

[@jamiewp]

Great point about custom fields in posts 👍@@sb_1389