With GT Office we have released our ninth design today. The theme combines a modern and elegant appearance with numerous layout options, page templates and widget areas. Of course, the demo pages consist entirely of Core Blocks, which are available as Block Patterns in the Gutenberg Editor.
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New Theme available
Our latest Theme GT Modern is now available for download. The standard design is very simple in black and white, but with the color options you can of course design the theme as you like. The header contains social icons, the main navigation, a search function and contact details of your company.
Continue readingIntroducing Block Patterns in our Themes
With this week’s updates we have introduced the new Block Patterns in all our themes, which are available in the Core since WordPress 5.5. With them you can insert whole sections like Hero, Portfolio and Services with just one click. This means the theme demos can be reproduced very quickly.
Continue readingNew: Block Styles for Button Blocks
This week we released a minor update for all our themes, which is adding additional Block Styles for the default Button blocks from WordPress Core. By using the new Block Styles you are able to display buttons in different sizes easily.
Continue readingImportant change to our block strategy
When starting a new business or launching a new product, it is always uncertain how the new offer will be accepted by the market. As a founder, you sometimes have to adapt your business model in order to achieve economic success.
We are taking this step today.
Continue readingGT Drive Gutenberg Theme released
Our next WordPress theme is here and it is called GT Drive. It has become a very modern and stylish theme and I am very happy with the design. The demo is completely designed with WordPress Core Blocks and shows what is possible today just with the Gutenberg Editor and a nice theme.
Continue readingOur second generation of WordPress Themes
As I mentioned in the last article, our focus is currently more on the theme level again. We are working on a number of new themes, all of which should be released in 2020. I call them our second generation of WordPress Themes 🙂
Continue readingFree WordPress Theme released
I used the quiet summer months to publish a new and free WordPress theme called GT Ambition. It is the first theme we offer completely free, including all features without any upsell features or Pro version.
Now everyone can quickly and easily try out our themes and create their own business website – even with a small budget.
Continue readingTwo new Blocks released
Our GT Blocks plugin has got some updates for a better usability and two new blocks. These are now available in version 1.1 of GT Blocks.
Continue readingMy concept for WordPress Blocks
There are no best practices for custom blocks in the new WordPress Block Editor yet and we are currently in a first phase of experimentation. Technical possibilities have to be explored step by step in order to find the best concept for WordPress blocks.
In the development of GT Blocks I am currently following some basic rules and considerations which in my opinion improve the quality and sustainability of my blocks and are aimed at the target group of GermanThemes.
I would like to briefly introduce my basic ideas and concept for WordPress Blocks.
Continue readingMinimum Viable Themes
My themes are based on the Lean Startup idea and I designed and implemented them as Minimum Viable Product (MVP). As a result I created five Minimum Viable Themes with a clear concept to start this new theme shop.
In this article I would like to briefly explain the term MVP and what concrete effects the method had on the features and design of our WordPress themes, including the advantages of this approach.
Continue readingStarting a new adventure…
Welcome to GermanThemes, my brand new theme shop for Business WordPress Themes and flexible Gutenberg Blocks for the new WordPress Editor.
With GermanThemes a new adventure begins for me. It starts from scratch, with new products, a new target group and a new business model. Success or failure is still in the stars and uncertain, even though I hope for the best.
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