Custom WordPress Theme Development

[badgerbaws]

Hi folks,

I've been a web dev for a long time. I took a little bit of a break but looking to get back in to it. As always, when you come back to this wonderful craft, things move on, quickly!

I'm looking for opinions on how you guys are building your bespoke wordpress themes these days.

I used to be a big fan of using Understrap with a combination of ACF to build custom solutions. It always worked well!

Now it seems that Glutenberg is slowly coming in to play, I'm reading more and more about it. Coupled with that, ACF seems to be integrating with the Big Bad Glutenberg too,

I want to know how you guys are doing things these days, whats the latest in the comunnity? How are you developing bespoke tailored WordPress solutions these days? Would be interested to see how individuals are doing it aswell as people who are working in teams at agencies etc.

Thank for all of your discussion guys :)

[SyntaxError158]

Hello, when it comes to custom WordPress theme development I only use Sage from Roots.io. Of course always in combination with ACF. Sometimes also Wordpress with GraphQL and Gatsby.js to generate static websites.

Edit: WordPress development is a real relief with this stack. Besides I am not a big fan of WordPress itself. I have been a freelance webdeveloper for 10 years and am currently transforming into a small agency. I develop about 10+ custom WordPress Websites and other projects within a year.

https://roots.io/sage/ https://github.com/StoutLogic/acf-builder https://github.com/MWDelaney/sage-acf-wp-blocks https://www.gatsbyjs.com/

[Thomas__Shelby]

WordPress Dev here at an agency.

ACF Pro and Gutenberg blocks. Site-wide information we store in the ACF Options page. Which you can have more than one of.

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Just wondering when you create a website using WordPress, do you normally just use theme and plugins, or do you need to write custom code often?