Overview of Theme Development For Beginners - Tutorial

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Topic Description

For many intermediate WordPress users, the process used to design a brand new theme from scratch is a mystery. This tutorial aims to clarify how theme designers and developers work together to create a new theme, template by template, comparing classic methods with block methods for theme design.

This is part of a larger course on block themes. It is a mini-lesson as part of this lesson plan.

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