In this Live Q & A we covered some general news from the AMP Project, and AMP plugin and then discussed AMP Stories and their creation with our expert panelists: Cathi Bosco (@BeTheBreeze), UX Architect and Designer, while working with XWP worked on AMP Stories with the Google team, Pascal Birchler (@swissspidy), developer at Google […]
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On Gutenberg (Resources) – Matt Mullenweg’s Summer Update at WordCamp Europe
Matt Mullenweg gave attendees of WordCamp Europe a Tour around the Block editor in WordPress. He starts out with a recap of the four phases of Gutenberg, then he showed-off the newest features available in the block editor. He also highlighted a few examples of Gutenberg in the wild, talked about what’s coming out next […]
Gutenberg blocks go nested!
Update July 5, 2019 In the last six months quite a few things have changed for nesting Gutenberg blocks via the default blocks. Below you’ll find display and videos for Group Block, Media + Text Block and Cover Block. Group Block For example, I can use the Media + Text block in a Group Block […]
Mullenweg announced Gutenberg Roadmap
Updated July 4th, 2019 with Mullenweg’s Summer update. WordCamp Europe 2019 At WordCamp Europe, Matt Mullenweg gave his Summer Update. Progress on Nine Projects. February 11, 2019. #1 Navigation Menu is still in discussion on GitHub. (#13690) #2 has been moved forward already for quite a bit. The latest Gutenberg release(5.0), incorporated the RSS widget. […]
Update #106 Upcoming Events, Block building, Plugins and tutorials
Is already June 2019, WordCamp Europe has come to an end, and I realized, I have been curating the Gutenberg News and Updates around the WordPress ecosystem now already for two years. WOW. “All good things take time” is a quote from my father who just turned 92 this week. What have we been doing […]
Gutenberg at WordCamp Europe – Schedule Your LiveStream
It’s been two years since I took a first glimps at Gutenberg, the new block editor at WordCamp Europe 2017 during Matt Mullenweg’s talk. At this year’s WordCamp Europe, developers, designers and consultants will talk about the various aspects the block editor from block building and semantic content to the future of Gutenberg. I won’t […]
98 Plugins for the new WordPress Block editor
Over the last 18 months, we have used and tested quite a few plugins providing Blocks beyond the default blocks of Gutenberg or add-ons to the workings of the block editor. Then I started making a list and it became a major undertaking! I was not able to test all plugins mentioned here. So use […]
Building Blocks without Javascript? Yes, you can.
Not everyone is able or willing to build blocks in JavaScript just yet. I found three plugins who help with that.: Block Lab, ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) and Lazy Blocks. Creating a Team member block was the simple use case for my test. I made notes, screenshots and videos along the way. Last week, with […]
What does ‘Gutenberg-ready’ mean for WordPress themes?
This week on Heart Internet. “The new Blocks include baseline support in all themes, enhancements to opt-in to and the ability to extend and customize.” Gutenberg Handbook, Theme Support chapter That’s how the developer handbook for the block editor of starts its Theme Support chapter. In other words, there are a few features the block […]
Update #105 ACF Blocks – AMP Stories – Accessibility Report & Gutenberg 5.6
Wow! A lot has happened since the last round-up post. Where to begin? I just returned from WordCamp Atlanta and among other things, I listened to every Gutenberg related talk: Micah Wood, Rich Tabor and Victor Ramirez. They did a terrific job helping content creators, developers, publishers and consultants dive deeper into the most significant […]