I’ll just come out and say it: I write my blog posts in the visual editor. Yes, it may be blasphemy for a developer to do that, but I just don’t care. I like seeing the post I’m writing come to life as I’m writing it. Since I’m such a fan of the visual editor, I’m always looking for new ways to stretch its capabilities without adding a truckload of extra markup to my post. There’s a slightly more detailed story that leads to how I got to writing this particular post,* but that’s not why you’re reading this. You’re reading this because you want to learn about the styles dropdown in the visual editor. Here we go!
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For the past several months, I’ve been working on developing a parent theme to use for Barrett Creative’s upcoming premium themes, as well as for client and personal projects. It’s called Bolts (as in “nuts and bolts”) and it’s meant to make theme development swift and simple. It’s got some cool extras built in, like custom widgets, shortcodes, a contact form, and more. It’s not revolutionary, but I’m excited to release a beta version of it for anyone to use. Hopefully, some people will be true beta testers and give me feedback! That is the point, after all.
Most theme developers know how to make a custom 404 error page—it’s as simple as including a template file in your theme folder. It’s just as easy, however, to customize the maintenance and database error pages that are automatically generated by WordPress. Most WordPress bloggers have seen these by now: