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Transitioning traditional themes

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Transitioning traditional themes

- [Instructor] Here we are at the official Theme Handbook for WordPress and in it, you'll find tons of information about creating traditional WordPress themes. When I first started planning this course, I really wanted to talk about how current theme development would transition into block theming. As someone who's created themes for years, I wanted to know how I could take an existing theme and port it over, so to speak, to a block theme. Well, after spending more time learning about full site editing and getting a better understanding of how a block theme is constructed, I came to the following conclusion. There isn't really a way to convert a traditional theme into a block theme. They're simply two different animals. So if you're a theme developer, do you keep on the traditional theme path or do you look at blazing a trail with the new full site editing theme? Well, it really depends on you. If you sell themes…

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