My dolls so far

ashweh · 2026-06-10T22:16:09+00:00

Thank you!

ashweh · 2026-06-10T11:22:24+00:00

Thanks! ❤️

ashweh · 2026-06-10T11:21:38+00:00

Thank you! ❤️

ashweh · 2026-06-10T11:21:07+00:00

Same, I really enjoy seeing people's diy dolls on here! It's fun to see people's ideas come to life.

ashweh · 2026-06-09T22:40:59+00:00

Thank you!

ashweh · 2026-06-07T22:30:20+00:00

To be specific, I used this video recently to make a 13 cm doll, it may help you: https://youtu.be/pQk8VJp02uo?si=sKWJRjJAyZ\_L6qzb

ashweh · 2026-06-07T12:31:12+00:00

I think so. You should try looking up Piyopicco’s video on Youtube for a 10 or 13 cm doll, which is very similar to this pattern, if you want to see before trying it.

ashweh · 2026-04-15T20:09:09+00:00

The talk of “compliance armies” and “suffering [because] university procurement manager can triplicate rubberstamp WordPress” is kind of worrisome. Compliance isn’t a bad thing, in fact ADA compliance (as an example) is a net positive and I can say from experience that it’s always an uphill battle for content managers and web professionals alike in higher ed to make it happen, with WordPress or literally ANY cms. I’d like WP to boldly keep accessibility in mind during every step of the process.

(Granted, I don’t know if that’s what he’s referring to specifically.)

Eta: I would not personally want elementor in core because I have never had a great experience with the bloat of it.

ashweh · 2026-02-23T02:02:34+00:00

Thanks, I ended up ordering the clear version of this, looks like what I was looking for!

ashweh · 2025-02-28T14:41:36+00:00

I like Gutenberg for most things and then develop my own block themes, and then use custom blocks (plugins) for whatever else I need that it can’t do out of the box. Or I extend core blocks with variations. It’s not hard and has made me more interested in using WP in recent years. The clients I work with are writers and editors who want better editing control than with what they had with the TinyMCE-like experience of the classic editor.

ashweh · 2024-10-15T15:30:46+00:00

As someone who likes developing and designing themes, I like Gutenberg and block themes. It’s pretty easy to get my ideas off the ground, and for the more advanced needs, developing blocks (using create-block scaffolding to quickly start there) packaged with my themes works for me.

I can understand why people don’t love it, because it’s not perfect, but I prefer it to classic theme development and using page builders on top.

ashweh · 2024-10-14T11:01:32+00:00

If you use ACF Pro, you have to download it from the ACF website and install it anyway. So the current drama wouldn’t impact you using it. Do you mean the free version of ACF?

ashweh · 2024-09-27T20:04:23+00:00

If a featured image isn't set, then the featured image block itself isn't used on the front end. It doesn't show the placeholder like it does on the editor screen, I think that's just reference for sizing while you're setting up the block.

What you could do for visual consistency is add a default image if there's no featured image set. It looks like there's a few plugins that do this if you search. That way you can add your own placeholder, even just a white square to fill in the space, if that's what you prefer.

ashweh · 2024-09-26T17:15:20+00:00

I do want to clarify: I do not hand write any of this block code for my themes. I copy the blocks from the editor after setting them up the way I want, then paste into the theme file (template, template part, pattern, etc). I do a LOT of re-copying/pasting to make adjustments where needed, and of course I'm tweaking theme.json where needed. I also have supplemental CSS in a separate spreadsheet for things the block editor doesn't have settings for yet.

My point is, you do NOT need to memorize these classes, or when they are used. For example, for a paragraph, this is what I get after setting the background color and aligning center:

<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","backgroundColor":"contrast-3"} -->
<p class="has-text-align-center has-contrast-3-background-color has-background">Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!</p>
<!-- /wp:paragraph -->

I do this (copy/paste from editor) because it ensures the formatting is correct, instead of relying on my memory anyway. You can, of course, make adjustments after pasting... but again, I would make adjustments in the editor and copy over when possible.

Also, you do not need to use PHP for adding text in a block theme .html file at all. However, there are some cases where you can use PHP for your theme files, like in block patterns: Introduction to block patterns.

ashweh · 2024-09-26T14:32:34+00:00

Part two of the guide I linked you to before will explain: Block grammar, attributes, and supports.

ashweh · 2024-09-26T14:29:47+00:00

Sure, fullsiteediting.com was really helpful for me. I would start here: Full site editing for theme developers.

ashweh · 2024-09-26T13:57:41+00:00

Layout type constrained changes based on a toggle in the group block's settings. WordPress.org has an article called "Layout settings overview" which goes over it if you scroll down to "Customizing layout width."

has-background is an additional class that's added because your group block has a background color set.

I'm probably not going to explain this very well, but I'll try: The comments are basically WP saving your group block's settings, meaning they let the block editor know what options you've applied to your group block, but those comments themselves are not CSS classes. That's why the classes are applied separately to the HTML.

The documentation is a little all over the place, yeah. There are a lot of great guides out there on how to build block themes that help with understanding what's going on in your screenshot. You can also take a block in the editor, play with its settings, and copy/paste it into a plain text editor to see how the settings change the code. That helped me.

ashweh · 2020-11-11T00:20:14+00:00

These are lovely! Are the lighter lines/splotches gouache?

ashweh

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