Getting Started with Global Styles in WordPress

This video introduces how Global Styles revolutionizes site appearance management, allowing site-wide style changes without editing individual blocks or pages. This feature simplifies the user experience, ensuring a cohesive look and feel across your site.
We’ll also explore theme.json, a new tool centralizing block settings, site-wide, and block-specific styles. WordPress theme developers will find this especially useful for efficiently applying consistent styling, enhancing the overall design process.
By the end of this video, you’ll be confident in your ability to use Global Styles and theme.json to effortlessly create a cohesive and visually appealing WordPress site. Whether you’re a user or developer, this tutorial will simplify and streamline your design process.
Download Frost theme:
frostwp.com/
About the presenter:
Brian Gardner is a Principal WordPress Advocate at WP Engine. He is the founder of StudioPress and co-creator of the Genesis Framework.
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[@charlie-moss]

Thank you for an excellent series. It has helped me to see the light and transition to Blocks. I love Frost (well. my own fork)

[@amelia_briscoe]

When it comes to styling different blocks, I like to open the 'Style Book', click on the block I want to change and it brings up the global styles for that specific block. Saves having to search for it! It also shows a preview of the changes before you save it.

[@amelia_briscoe]

Opening the 'Style Book' also helps to preview global changes like the ones you were making for the Frost theme. It's a handy tool for themes that don't come with a custom front page, such as your Powder theme 🙂

[@WPEngineBuilders]

Good stuff, Amelia! -BG

[@DavePerth]

Is this Frost specific, or the same for all FSE themes ?

[@WPEngineBuilders]

The Global Styles feature is available to any FSE theme. The opinionated styles (blue color palette, etc) you see were just because Frost was active. -BG

[@MarinSimina]

Hello Brian, it looks like Frost is not compatible with bbPress. Any comments about compatibility? Thanks!

[@WPEngineBuilders]

No comments, specifically. Can you elaborate on what specifically is not compatible? -BG

[@MarinSimina]

The forums page (bbpress) is not displayed after creating a forum, if I visit the page. I see an empty html page. It gets displayed properly if I use genesis sample or other themes. Maybe I miss something?