Learning Pathway: Advanced Designer

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Module 1

Objective: Theme customization

Lessons

• Designing a block theme #3000
• Using Create Block Theme: an overview of everything you can achieve. #3001

Module 2

Objective: Custom theme development

Lessons

• Understanding theme.json and how to use it when designing block themes #3002
• The WordPress way: do everything in theme.json #3003
• Theme Building with Playground, Create-block-theme plugin, and theme creation workflow #3004
• Introduction to Section Styles #3005

Link out to CSS with resources.

Module 3

Objective: Local WordPress for testing designs

Lessons

• Lesson: Why would a WordPress user need to run a local site? #2543
• Tutorial - WordPress Playground  #1583

Module 4

Objective: Figma to WP

Lessons

• Introduction to Design Systems #3006
• Learn How to Export from Figma to WordPress #3007

Module 5

Objective: Troubleshooting/hacks

Lessons

• User styles stored in the db overriding theme.json #3008
• Working with SVGs #3009
• Block Visibility — Conditional Visibility Control for the Block Editor #3010

Module 6

Objective: How to contribute to WordPress

Lessons

• How to contribute to WordPress as a designer #3011

Draft learning pathway outline.

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Sources:

• Announcing the new WordPress Design System Figma library
• Working with properties and key-value pairs in theme.json