Creating Speech Balloons With the WordPress Block Editor
I do not know how I overlooked LIQUID SPEECH BALLOON. The plugin is less than a month shy of being three years old, and I follow block-related projects religiously. This one slipped through the cracks, at least until I haphazardly stumbled upon it when searching for something else entirely. It is also relatively popular for a single-block plugin. There are not that many with more than 10,000 active installs. I had to know what it was doing to draw such a crowd. In the comments on yesterday’s post about Automattic’s Livro theme, Nick Hamze wanted to know where all the fun theme designs were. Perhaps it was fortuitous timing that I also happened to be playing around with a plugin that might fit the bill. Sure, it is not a theme, but it can definitely be used to spruce up an otherwise boring or plain design. So, I spun up a few Speech Balloon blocks and just had fun creating a chat with a some cartoon animals: Inserting and customizing multiple Speech Balloon blocks. I tend to gravitate toward clean, open-canvas themes because they allow me to add all the fun elements via the post content. That is why I…
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