This week was a bit easier for me to understand! I enjoyed learning about the global styles and settings and how to override them. I find the hierarchy of rules interesting. It makes sense overall, but I could see how on large sites with many different custom styles one could overlook a rule and not understand why a block is styled the way it is. As always, it is cool to see how the custom styles we create in the editor are reflected in the .json files on the back-end.
I went ahead and customized the standard WordPress twenty-twenty-four template to give my website an upgraded look. I don’t think I like the gradient, but I was just messing around with how to change the theme colors and applications. I’m pretty sure the “rust” theme is now purple in this websites json styles folder.
It was also interesting seeing some of the behind the scenes options regarding the URI queries at the end of our web addresses. I changed mine from the date to the name of the post. Seeing the instructor access the database to show why, when they changed the query string to be accessed by post id, the correct post appears gave some insight on how the database side of WordPress works and is accessed.
This week also did a better job of explaining some of the code base. Especially the block structure (that looks initially like comments), and how html does or does not interact.
To build on last week, I was able to figure out how to access and download the source files for our themes, styles, etc. from this hosted site. I went through the file manager in the cPanel. Last week I tried downloading the entire project via SFTP in the command line of VSCode and ran into issues of the server getting overloaded by the requests. Being able to access one file at a time will be helpful when I start working on my custom themes for my site. Overall, an enjoyable week in the WordPress streets, and I am excited to get some custom themes, styles, and blocks together for my website project!