djcuppat

Many thanks for your help and words of wisdom. I confess i am having trouble searching this forum too, or i would have found that essential post myself!

BTW: I “cheated” and used a plugin to inject the needed CSS mods

Many thanks for the tips. I have looked at the info relating to making your own block theme and how to register/deregister custom block styles (as pointed out), but i don’t have any idea of the structure and content of the child or how it interacts with the parent. Non-block themes have a clear page addressing these details and what’s really lacking is one for block-based children. I assume there are similarities, but i don’t want to make assumptions and i don’t have endless hours for trial and error!

Previously, building child themes made sense because the parents were usually maintained, so you could focus on styling and function without worrying about compatibility, security, etc.

Now, i’m not clear whether children are relevant for block themes because it seems the theme core is embedded within the wordpress distribution and the files that constitute block themes are merely a collection of extensions and mods to that core. If that’s the case, then creating bespoke block themes makes more sense and is functionally equivalent to child theming for non-block themes

So the question is, is it better to make a duplicate of a block theme and edit the dupe or is a child of a maintained block-based parent the preferred / sensible / most flexible option?

many thanks in advance, i apologise for my verbosity

Wow. It’s a mess! It is alpha at best. Creating a child theme makes life even more difficult. I’m [this] close to leaving WordPress for good at this point, even after years of loyal support and learning all the ins and outs
What possessed them to release this to the public?!!!

The solution is to create your own favicon.ico file and place it in the root of the WP install. GIMP will let you export .ico files, although i’m not sure what variant of the format is acceptable to the average browser (probably all). 16×16 pixels, 8-bit with 1-bit alpha worked for me

• This reply was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by djcuppat. Reason: now with helpful info

How to prevent the space bar toggling the open / close behaviour?!?

Wordpress really ought to have this construct available by default. They seem more concerned with embeds…