Every Sunday, I send out tips, strategies, and case studies designed to help agencies and freelancers succeed with modern WordPress. My goal is to go off the beaten path, and focus on sharing lessons learned from what I know best: building websites for clients. 100% free and 100% useful.
Choosing the right tool: Patterns or post types for your content
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Hi Reader, This week I stumbled upon this response to an Ask Me Anything tweet by Rich Tabor (of Automattic): This is a good question. Indeed, with classic themes, the go-to solution for this would have been a custom post type and post meta. This was the only way to achieve reliable data inputs and flexible styling options. However, with block themes, we are no longer limited by WordPress' styling capabilities. So are patterns the new default? No. We need to look at this on a case-by-case basis. That's what I do in the Pattern or Post Type article:
I hope this clarifies the question. If not, feel free to reply! Cheers, |
Fränk Klein from WP Development Courses
Every Sunday, I send out tips, strategies, and case studies designed to help agencies and freelancers succeed with modern WordPress. My goal is to go off the beaten path, and focus on sharing lessons learned from what I know best: building websites for clients. 100% free and 100% useful.
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