I had completed Traversy Media’s ‘WordPress Theme With Bootstrap‘ project recently – I’d created a child theme and wanted to push further into the PHP to give me more control over site building in general.
Then WordPress dropped a complete game-changer.
The 5.9 ‘Full Site Editing’ era is a quiet revolution in web development.
All my sites are now based on the new 2022 Theme as the base template.
WP & More – heavily customised blog using a child of the new 2022 theme, and using self-hosted fonts. The content is about WordPress, the new block editor and getting the most out of it.
Cardano Foundry – Cryptocurrency News site
Harmonic Resonance Project – Music discography site with art and images.
I use Canva for design, along with my own photos.
Everything is hosted with Hostinger on their cPanel ‘Gold’ plan.
Naturally, I have my own approach to installing and setting up WP installs and plugins. For my general needs, I use the following free tools all the time.
SEO
Yoast plugin
Speed
LSCache plugin & Cloudflare / Quic.cloud account
Security
All In One plugin
Metrics
Koko Analytics plugin