When To Create a Block Theme vs Traditional Theme in WordPress? 

Thank you so much! That's probably the best comment I've ever received; really appreciate that.

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Good call; I'm a big fan of ACF flexible content, I remember using that about a decade ago and thinking "I wish this was built into WP and was the default WP dev experience." I like the sound of the filtering lessons, but could you explain it a bit more? Like letting public visitors of your site filter custom post types? Based on custom field values? And having it use full page reloads and URL parameters by default and then use JS to take over without page reloads?

@@LearnWebCode Exactly, you said everything I had in mind and more ! Let's create a scenario just for example, let's say we want to filter "Cars, or dogs or whatever" (a custom post type called cars) based on custom field values like: Model-Year (between 2000 and current year) | Mileage (0 - 100k / 100k - 200k / more than 200k) | Gearbox (automatic or manual) | First hand (yes or no) | Price (a field that allows the visitor to enter a price) | ... At first I hope we make that filtering system without using ajax/js, so the visitor will select the year, mileage, gearbox, ... Click on the filter button, the page will be reloaded and he will get the results ... Then we can Upgrade and use JS, this time when the visitor clicks on the filter button we want to get the results without page reloads ! Another idea comes to my mind now, if you can create a tutorial on how to fetch data on page scroll (instead of using pagination), so let's say the blog page (or a custom post type archive) loads 10 posts, we want to load more posts while the visitor is scrolling down ... Or when the visitor clicks on the "load more" button, Both scenarios ... Thanks !

I worked on a theme just like that - traditional with lots of AFC, but never got it to be able to have custom ordering of 'components' work in all situations. Maybe we could get the flexible content fields, get_row_layout etc right and let the end user build the order of stuff on the page, but we're thinking the interface of a block theme is just easier on the end-user.

Hey! Not a weird question at all. Our bespoke / programmed templates definitely would not be editable by Elementor or Divi, but I do believe it could be possible to create a coded-from-scratch theme that has a sort of "empty canvas" page template and that page in particular could be built / edited by Elementor or Divi.

Right... Same happened with me as well

That's so weird; I guess even RU-vid devs run into bugs too 🤣

@@LearnWebCode right 👍 RU-vid devs are also humans. They can make mistakes. 😜

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@@LearnWebCode Thank you Brad 👍

By creating your own blocks you're just adding a tiny bit of your own code, just the same as if you downloaded new block types from plugin directory.

​@@LearnWebCode If you create at least one custom block, you will receive Gutenberg (CSS and JS) for each client page. Just estimate how long it takes for your page to load when using the classic theme compared to the Gutenberg elements theme.

@@Black1991Star But isn't that true for any theme/site (block or traditional) that uses any interactive blocks either from plugin store or default interactive WP blocks?