Curating news and community voices about the WordPress Block Editor, codenamed Gutenberg, Playground and sometimes AI.

Author: Birgit Pauli-Haack

Birgit Pauli-Haack is a WordPress developer advocate, sponsored by Automattic. She curates community voices around Gutenberg, the WordPress editor on Gutenberg Times and co-host the Gutenberg Changelog podcast. Prior to working for Automattic, she helped organizations, corporations, and individuals create their online communication strategy and web presence at Pauli Systems, a web development agency she founded back in 2002.

Weekend Edition #154 WordPress Page Builders and Blocks

Block Plugins, DIY Site Owners, For Developers, For Users, News, Updates, Weekend Edition

Howdy, howdy. We had another interesting week and a lot of creativity around the block-editor. I hope, you enjoy this eclectic collection of links from…

January 16, 2021
Live Q & A: The Making of Open-Source Story by Yoast with Blocks

For Writers, Live Q & As on YouTube, Using Gutenberg

Yoast partner and CTO, Omar Reiss and content team lead Willemien Hallebeek took us behind the scenes of the making of the Open-Source Story, a…

January 16, 2021
Weekend Edition #153 Query-Block, Page Builders, Site Editor and more

Block Plugins, DIY Site Owners, For Developers, WordCamp

Howdy, It’s been a while! How were your holidays? Did you get some rest? Wishing you and yours a Happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!…

January 9, 2021
Site Editor Demo #SOTW

News

During State of the Word 2020, Joan Asmussen gave a 3-minute demo of the beta-version of the Site Editor that will come to WordPress as…

December 19, 2020
Weekend Edition #152-Block-Based Themes, G2 Components, Block Pattern Directory and more

News, Themes, Updates, Weekend Edition

Happy Holidays! It’s almost there, in less than two weeks, we leave 2020 behind us and start the New Year! Wishing you and yours all…

December 19, 2020
Weekend Edition #151 – Theme Development, Block Editor Plugins and Using Blocks Outside WordPress

DIY Site Owners, For Developers, For Users, News, Updates, Weekend Edition

Howdy! WordPress history was made this week, when the all-women release squad pushed WordPress 5.6 over the finish line. Congratulations to the co-leads, Josepha Haden,…

December 12, 2020
Weekend Edition #150 – Full-Site Editing, WordPress 5.6, Live Q & A and more

News, Updates, Weekend Edition

Howdy, For the 150th edition of this newsletter, I decided to publish it also as a post on the Gutenberg Times website. The email version…

December 5, 2020
OEmbed and WordPress Embed blocks for Facebook and Instagram will stop working Oct 24, 2020

News

In August, Facebook announced updates to their Marketing API . By October 24, 2020, developers must leverage a user, app, or client token when querying…

September 15, 2020
Customizing WordPress Block Editor for Client Projects

For Developers, Live Q & As on YouTube, Themes, Using Gutenberg

Victor Ramirez is the Lead product analytics engineer @TheKnotWW and worked @DowJones @WSJ until about 9 months ago? He is also a co-organizer of WordCamp NYC and…

September 12, 2020
New Block-Based Widget Screen in Gutenberg 8.9 – First Tests

For Users, News

With the Gutenberg 8.9 release, WordPress developers removed the ‘experimental flag’ from the new block-based Widget Screen and it will take over the default way…

September 9, 2020