Thank you for the video, I found it very helpful, trying to move away from my old editor to Gutenberg to save money, also to get involved at the start of full site editing to learn now. Rather than jump in later when there are more complex added options to learn. That way it should take fewer mugs of coffee to achieve the same results.
@@jamiewp These new fse-features seems will planned , and I think WP is moving along in the right direction. It’s going to be very interesting to see what themes are going to evolve into. Probably “mostly” block templates?
Jamie I can't thank you enough. Great videos with very clear and concise explanations. I have been having fun with FSE and it is largely due to your electronic mentoring. Thank you. I have hit a bit of a snag. I have put together some beautiful pages but now am finding that the index page, which was set as a static page does not display what the FSE or the front page templates are set as. What I get when I go to the index page is some of the marketing images from the original theme home page. I have tried everything. When I get to that page with the unwanted images I click on "edit page" but what comes up is the page I wanted to be published, not the offending bits. I have edited the templates, being sure the headers and footers are not contributing the offending images, saved the templates repeatedly, been sure to set the settings/reading to select a static page and then choose a static page that I have created. But nothing seems to remove that group of images and text from the original theme. There must be something that I need to click to make this happen but I can't find anything. I have written to the theme folks but I doubt they will get back to me in the next couple of weeks. lol Do you have any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong? Many thanks Jamie and kudos to you for an excellent channel.
Ok, here's a happy ending and one worth developers knowing about. After spending hours trying to get things to work and trying every trick I had....I realized that the site's php was old and needed to be updated. I updated the php and it works just fine! Great theme! Good for folks to know just in case it happens to them or someone they know. Phew! Now I can stop trying to figure it out! lol
Thanks for your videos, I enjoy your style and am finding them very helpful. I’m interested in the export templates feature to use a template I’ve made on another site, but I can’t work out how to import it?
Thank you so much for this video. I have been struggling with the full site editor and there are precious few people who are clearly laying things out. You are surely one of those. Subscribed. Quick question. Is there a way to have video posts of youtube videos show the video thumbnail when listed on the blog page? The video thumbnails come up just fine on the single post page but not on the blog page that lists the different blog posts. I have been looking and looking for a way to do this and have come up empty handed. I know the twenty twenty theme does this automatically but not twenty twenty two. Any ideas? Many thanks.
@@jamiewp Very much appreciate the quick response. I think you are likely right. It just seems odd that a feature that was available two iterations back simply disappeared... and for something so basic. I did find a plugin that works (VideographyWP Lite) but I hate to add more and more plugins to a site that is already using a boatload of plugins. BTW I just saw your vid on the animations plugin.....lol new toys, gotta have em. Really appreciate you being here and will be having a look at your other vids. Very helpful, clear, concise and honest. Can't beat it. Thank you.
@@jamiewp The plugin does just that. It uses the youtube API and fetches the youtube thumbnail and inserts it as a featured image. In the twenty twenty wordpress theme there was no need for this. The theme would automatically pull the video thumbnail and use it as if it was a featured image and also have a play button in the middle of the image. The reason this is important to me is that I am likely moving a site that has hundreds of videos and the time it would take to manually download the thumbnail and insert it as a featured image would be too much.
Which Theme are you using to use the Full Site Editing functionality? I'd like a Theme that is also good to create a shop that can use the FSE functionality. Do I still need to wait or is WP5.9 ready for this?
I Diego - Bricksy is a great woocommerce full site editing theme en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/bricksy/. But more on coming out all the time. I'm also considering building one 😉
@@jamiewp Thanks. When you build a WOO FSE Theme, please group style settings by area, like product single page (title, description, add to cart etc.), product archive page (title, ...), pages, posts, post archive. I always spend so much time to try to make it look good on all devices. Is that doable.
Adding a new template fails. I've used Twenty Twenty-two & Wabi, following your directions to the letter: new Page, new Template, name it & set it up. I assign it to a page - and nothing. Not a single bit of the template to be found. I clear the cache; nothing. The template itself is intact. It just doesn't want to be used. The entire template system seems to be a mess. I create a new Post, and the template for a Single Page is applied. I have almost no plugins & very little content. Latest install of WP (5.9.2). Basically it's unusable because the templates are such a fail. Which means my attempt to create my website are completely stymied. This is beyond frustrating. Any thoughts?
@@jamiewp for the 2nd time, a caching plugin was my problem. this time was WP-Optimize. i forget the other, but it appears these caching plugins are crap. do you use one? i'm on Mac, fwiw. thanks for the noodge!! i should have checked that first.
@@TABarnhart Hey that's good news - caching plugins are ok , but a pain when building a site, so i generally turn them off for site builds and then turn them on when going live. But it's easy to forget 😀
Pages linked to Page Templates... So much time I wondered in circles because of that one... The Template called Home was my linked to my blog and I didn't understand what the hell is happening!
Thank you for the video, I found it very helpful, trying to move away from my old editor to Gutenberg to save money, also to get involved at the start of full site editing to learn now. Rather than jump in later when there are more complex added options to learn. That way it should take fewer mugs of coffee to achieve the same results.
Hi Adrian, yup 100% with your approach. It's a bit like learning to ski when you are younger rather than older (i'm a hopeless skier!)
Awesome content Jamie. Right on the money for those who are converting to 100% block themes. Thanks so much...
thanks Kirk 😀
Insanely useful! Thanks!
Cool to hear 👍
Excellent work!
GREAT James!
thank you Lukasz 🙏
hello jamie, wouldn't know what to do with my sites without your tips and tricks and wizardry! keep them coming - loving it! cheers, tomas
Fab tks Tomas 🙏
awesome tutorial, thank you!
thank you Elsa 🙏
this is really useful - thank you. Succinct and straight to the heart of the matter! really appreciated - cheers
thanks Graeme 👍
Love it - I'll be saving this one for sure! :) Looking forward to playing with FSE :)
thank you 😀
Watched, Liked, Subscribed, and Notifications set to All. Thank you very much, Jamie, for this valuable video.
Fab tks 🙏
Great tips again!! Thanks Jamie. Everyone on them really useful 😄
That's great to hear 👍
Great tips!
Thanks David 🙏
@@jamiewp These new fse-features seems will planned , and I think WP is moving along in the right direction. It’s going to be very interesting to see what themes are going to evolve into. Probably “mostly” block templates?
Jamie I can't thank you enough. Great videos with very clear and concise explanations. I have been having fun with FSE and it is largely due to your electronic mentoring. Thank you. I have hit a bit of a snag. I have put together some beautiful pages but now am finding that the index page, which was set as a static page does not display what the FSE or the front page templates are set as. What I get when I go to the index page is some of the marketing images from the original theme home page. I have tried everything. When I get to that page with the unwanted images I click on "edit page" but what comes up is the page I wanted to be published, not the offending bits. I have edited the templates, being sure the headers and footers are not contributing the offending images, saved the templates repeatedly, been sure to set the settings/reading to select a static page and then choose a static page that I have created. But nothing seems to remove that group of images and text from the original theme. There must be something that I need to click to make this happen but I can't find anything. I have written to the theme folks but I doubt they will get back to me in the next couple of weeks. lol Do you have any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong? Many thanks Jamie and kudos to you for an excellent channel.
Ok, here's a happy ending and one worth developers knowing about. After spending hours trying to get things to work and trying every trick I had....I realized that the site's php was old and needed to be updated. I updated the php and it works just fine! Great theme! Good for folks to know just in case it happens to them or someone they know. Phew! Now I can stop trying to figure it out! lol
Very good tutorial! The one additional question is... what's that dummy text generator add on called?
Thanks for your videos, I enjoy your style and am finding them very helpful. I’m interested in the export templates feature to use a template I’ve made on another site, but I can’t work out how to import it?
If I change a custom colour that change is not reflected throughout the site where I've used that colour.
Thank you so much for this video. I have been struggling with the full site editor and there are precious few people who are clearly laying things out. You are surely one of those. Subscribed. Quick question. Is there a way to have video posts of youtube videos show the video thumbnail when listed on the blog page? The video thumbnails come up just fine on the single post page but not on the blog page that lists the different blog posts. I have been looking and looking for a way to do this and have come up empty handed. I know the twenty twenty theme does this automatically but not twenty twenty two. Any ideas? Many thanks.
Thanks and great question - i think atm you'd need an additional plugin - I'll do some thinking this end
@@jamiewp Very much appreciate the quick response. I think you are likely right. It just seems odd that a feature that was available two iterations back simply disappeared... and for something so basic. I did find a plugin that works (VideographyWP Lite) but I hate to add more and more plugins to a site that is already using a boatload of plugins. BTW I just saw your vid on the animations plugin.....lol new toys, gotta have em.
Really appreciate you being here and will be having a look at your other vids. Very helpful, clear, concise and honest. Can't beat it. Thank you.
@@menaregood Hi, i think i may has misunderstood - are your video thumbnails separate graphics uploaded into featured image ?
@@jamiewp The plugin does just that. It uses the youtube API and fetches the youtube thumbnail and inserts it as a featured image. In the twenty twenty wordpress theme there was no need for this. The theme would automatically pull the video thumbnail and use it as if it was a featured image and also have a play button in the middle of the image. The reason this is important to me is that I am likely moving a site that has hundreds of videos and the time it would take to manually download the thumbnail and insert it as a featured image would be too much.
@@menaregood Ah ok , understood - i never realised 2020 Theme did this automatically - that's a nice feature
Treat the Cats!
Which Theme are you using to use the Full Site Editing functionality? I'd like a Theme that is also good to create a shop that can use the FSE functionality. Do I still need to wait or is WP5.9 ready for this?
I Diego - Bricksy is a great woocommerce full site editing theme en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/bricksy/. But more on coming out all the time. I'm also considering building one 😉
@@jamiewp Thanks. When you build a WOO FSE Theme, please group style settings by area, like product single page (title, description, add to cart etc.), product archive page (title, ...), pages, posts, post archive. I always spend so much time to try to make it look good on all devices. Is that doable.
Adding a new template fails. I've used Twenty Twenty-two & Wabi, following your directions to the letter: new Page, new Template, name it & set it up. I assign it to a page - and nothing. Not a single bit of the template to be found. I clear the cache; nothing. The template itself is intact. It just doesn't want to be used.
The entire template system seems to be a mess. I create a new Post, and the template for a Single Page is applied. I have almost no plugins & very little content. Latest install of WP (5.9.2). Basically it's unusable because the templates are such a fail. Which means my attempt to create my website are completely stymied. This is beyond frustrating. Any thoughts?
Which plugins do you have installed - I've never seen a template not work before.
@@jamiewp for the 2nd time, a caching plugin was my problem. this time was WP-Optimize. i forget the other, but it appears these caching plugins are crap. do you use one? i'm on Mac, fwiw.
thanks for the noodge!! i should have checked that first.
@@TABarnhart Hey that's good news - caching plugins are ok , but a pain when building a site, so i generally turn them off for site builds and then turn them on when going live. But it's easy to forget 😀
Pages linked to Page Templates... So much time I wondered in circles because of that one... The Template called Home was my linked to my blog and I didn't understand what the hell is happening!