Howdy, howdy! And again, another three weeks came and went. I am back from Portland, OR and mostly recovered from the flu, that kept me in bed for three days. We have a lot of catching up to do! Let’s get to it! The team released two more versions of Gutenberg 5.2 and 5.3. The […]
Author Archives: Birgit Pauli-Haack
The Secret Manual – Hidden Features and Gotchas in WordPress Gutenberg
For content creators, change in daily routine is fatal to productivity. This is especially true during the transition to Gutenberg since it still contains a few “gotchas” that may stymie people and interrupt workflow. I list a few here, along with some workarounds to assist users during active development. Gutenberg will be updated as soon […]
Update #102 – Tips and Tricks for developers & designers, on building blocks and themes
Howdy! It’s been about three weeks since the last Update post. I have been handicapped a bit. First, by a self-inflicted deep cut into my left thumb with a construction tool, #StitchesRUs. Then a needed vacation with dear friends, which ended in an clumsy sidewalk tumble. I am still working mostly from my couch with […]
Update #101 Site building Research, building with Blocks
WordPress and Gutenberg Development News WordPress 5.1 is scheduled to be released February 21, 2019. It will come with Gutenberg version 4.8. Gutenberg 5.0 (relased last week) is available as plugin. It will require WordPress 5.x core version. Site Building Research Results #1 Background #2 Site building Journey of Bloggers #3 Site building Journey of…
Update #100 – Courses, Tutorials, Blocks and more
One (1) Year of Gutenberg Times, 100 hand-curated Updates since June 2017, the 10th episode of our Live Q & A on YouTube. 45,000 visitors. These are all just numbers. All that matters is that you are here! Thank you. Leave a comment on any of the posts, and tells me more about yourself! 💕 […]
Update #99 Gutenberg Phase 2 Starting up, Finding Blocks and more.
Gutenberg Phase 2 starting up with call for contributors, navigation blocks ideas and research in page building. Watch our Live Q & A conversation about Supporting & Testing WordPress 5.0. Find also a few more tips & tricks on using Gutenberg for content creation and block building. Hope you learn things! 💕 Monday was Gutenberg […]
Update #98 Getting used to the Block Editor, Learning Block Building, Plugins Getting Compatible
People paying more attention on using the new block editor and finding amazing hidden secrets. More and more developers explore learning how to build blocks and more an more plugins are getting compatible with the new editor. The most fun, I have had is finding new blocks and continue on my quest to find #280Blocks. […]
WordCamp US: Gutenberg talks
WordCamp US 2018 took place in Nashville, TN early December 2018. As part of the organizing team, I was not able make it into the sessions. Here is the list of talks about Gutenberg that interest me. I added the video links with the live stream timestamps to each talk and if available also links […]
Update #97 Using WordPress Block Editor Starting Gutenberg Phase 2, Building Blocks and more
Happy Holidays ! Peace and Understanding around the World! So WordPress 5.0.2 came out with massive performance improvements to the block editor especially for posts with many, many blocks. I tested it here on a post with 94 blocks and it was wrap speed compared to before. Hat Tip to the Dev Team! I ordered […]
Update #96 WordPress 5.0 release, WordCamp US, #280Blocks and more.
Last week was probably the busiest week in WordPress community: WordPress 5.0 was released and WordCamp US happened. Also in Nashville, the inaugural Automattic Design Awards were announced. And by the time, I thought I was finished, 5.0.1 came out with a security patch all the way back to version 3.7.28. As I can’t keep […]