Next week, WordCamp US will take place in St. Louis, Missouri (Nov 1 – 3, 2019) and I’ll get to visit a new state! It’ll be #33 for me. How many states have you visited in the USA? A year after its official merge into core, the Block Editor has evolved considerably. The Gutenberg team […]
Author Archives: Birgit Pauli-Haack
Matt Medeiros: Don’t Hate Gutenberg
Matt Medeiros, host of the Matt Report and the Plugin Tutorial podcast, went on Youtube and created a video with “6 Tips When Using WordPress Gutenberg Editor – Getting GOOD?!”. An early skeptic and vocal critic of the role out process of the Block Editor, Matt Medeiros seems to enjoy using Gutenberg more and he […]
Episode 17: Using Gutenberg for News Sites w/ Peter Jukes, Thomas Eagle, and Andrew Staffell
A discussion with Byline Times editor Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) and Yeswework team members Andrew Staffell (@yeswework) and Thomas Eagle (@thomaseagle) about how custom blocks allow journalists to compose engaging layouts without the help of designers, and how ACF Blocks makes testing and iteration easier for developers. Resources Byline Times Byline Festival Yeswework Wikitribune Transcript Birgit […]
Episode 16: AMP Stories and Gutenberg w/ Pascal Birchler, Cathi Bosco, Alberto Medina and Weston Ruter
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Plugins Part III: Single Blocks for WordPress
Single Purpose Blocks do one thing only, but that very well. Some are very specific in their focus, and some extend existing blocks with many more settings and configurations. Sometimes, the still provide multiple blocks to built things. 360 Image 360 Video Accordion Block Block Gallery – Photo Gallery Gutenberg Blocks Coming Soon & Maintenance […]
Plugins Part II: Block Collections for your WordPress Site
Block Suites provide you with a set of various blocks for your posts and pages. They are all bundled into a single plugin. You can have more than one collection installed. As always, make sure you test them for plugin conflicts with existing plugins. For your post you can mix and mash blocks for different […]