DeoThemes Launches Ona Creative, Another Well-Designed WordPress Block Theme
Yesterday, DeoThemes’ latest block theme, Ona Creative, landed in the WordPress directory. It is the second child of Ona, a theme I initially showcased here on the Tavern in November 2021. When I first reviewed the Ona parent theme, WordPress 5.9 had yet to be released, and users were required to install the Gutenberg plugin to test it. Developers were still rapidly launching features in a push to get a production-ready version of the block-based templates and global styles features. Ona was unlike any other block theme submitted to the directory at that point. If not paying attention, one could mistake it as a classic theme. It was well-designed in its own right, regardless of the system under the hood. However, most block themes were bare-bones experiments for a system struggling to launch. Ona carried a promise that block themes did not need to suck all the life out of design to function. At the time, the theme had bugs that were not of its own making. Depending on a user’s site structure, default images could return a “404: Not Found” result. The Pattern block did not exist in either WordPress or Gutenberg, and themes had no surefire way of…
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