Historically I’ve used the Underscores starter theme with Sass when building a custom theme. Now I’m interested in incorporating Blocks, Patterns, and also being able to use Tailwind.
I did just build a site with _tw which is a Tailwind focused fork of Underscores. It has potential but was a bit difficult to override some of the default behaviours and styling.
The default WordPress Twenty Twenty Two theme doesn’t strike me too well. If you want to build a site that looks like it, it’s not bad, but I found the customization got awkward very quickly.
I think I’m still keen on the ACF approach, but could certainly use Blocks in standard page area. I just don’t want to build the outer pages with them. The ACF PHP API for creating custom blocks is also very handy unless I ever get some in-depth React knowledge to do it with JS.
So if I were to build a new website now I’d probably consider:
- Another test of _tw with the latest version, using ACF for custom sections and mostly limiting myself to non-layout blocks.
- Investigating other Tailwind starters
- Just regular old Underscores once more. Forget the last six years?