Introducing GenerateBlocks 2.1
The release of GenerateBlocks 2.1 alpha significantly improves support for building sites with blocks.
- Enhanced Styles Builder indicator system. In the past, determining where values were set and inherited was challenging. As such, GenerateBlocks 2.1 now makes determining what values are governing layouts easier with an enhanced Styles Builder indicator system.
- Device Visibility Controls. GenerateBlocks Pro users can now take responsiveness to the next level with device visibility controls.
- A new iFrame editor provides a smoother and more integrated workflow when designing your pages with blocks.
- ARIA-label Fields. Accessibility makes the web better for everyone, and GenerateBlocks 2.1 reflects that commitment. All blocks in both GenerateBlocks free and Pro now include an ARIA-label field, allowing you to add descriptive labels that improve screen reader compatibility and user experience.
Read more about what’s coming with GenerateBlocks. Remember, this release is alpha; use it on a test or staging environment.
New Starter Site Collections
After the release of GenerateBlocks 2.0, we have released numerous Starter Sites for the GeneratePress Site Library. These include:
- Two blog Starter Sites, Archive and Headline, are perfect for any news or niche blog.
- Four education-focused Starter Sites for learning sites, including the Education wireframe, and professionally designed Harmonia, Linguo, and Edify Starter Sites.
- Dining and Restaurant Starter Sites for local restaurants and eateries.
- Services 2.0 Starter Sites, including Services 2.0 wireframe, and professionally designed bookkeeping, electrician, and landscaper Starter Sites.
- Affinity, a high-performance Starter Site for agencies and other service businesses.
Tutorials to Get the Most Out of GeneratePress
After the release of GenerateBlocks 2.0, we’ve created several new resources, and the community has stepped up with their own resources. Here’s a collection of tutorials and resources that can help you find greater success with GeneratePress & GenerateBlocks.
- GeneratePress & GenerateBlocks are highly regarded as the easiest way to create high performance sites. But if you want to get the most out of them, you must make good decisions about image compression, image presentation, and more. We’ve got tips and techniques in our blog post about building high performance websites.
- Landing pages and hero areas are critically important to engage site visitors and convert them to customers. We’ve outlined tips for building effective landing pages and hero areas that convert.
- Dynamic WordPress sites make managing large data sets easy, and the new Dynamic Tags in GenerateBlocks 2.0 make building dynamic sites with custom post types simple. We’ve got a full tutorial on building dynamic WordPress sites, and some use cases for when you might want to.
- Curious about working with GenerateBlocks Query Block? Our documentation gives you a nice overview. We’re adding new resources to documentation regularly; find it all at learn.generatepress.com.
- Using Global Styles can make your site faster, maintenance easier, and ensure your site adheres to cohesive design. Our tutorial explores how Global Styles work, how we use them in the GeneratePress Pattern Library, and how to use them in your next build.
- From The Admin Bar: Kyle Van Duesen analyzes different page builders and how they perform in the real world. His analysis is fascinating, detailing how different page builders are actually applied on over 150 agency sites.
Video Tutorials
- Check out a video overview of the Affinity Starter Site.
- From The Admin Bar: Two great videos about using dynamic templating with GenerateBlocks. Create a Dynamic Blog Archive Page and a Dynamic Blog Post Template easily with GenerateBlocks 2.0.
- Understanding the new interface changes in GenerateBlocks 2.0 from Jonathan Jernigan.
