Everybody is getting ready for WordPress 5.0 – Developers on various Core teams are working feverishly merging Gutenberg into the WordPress core. With the 2nd beta version available, Themes and plugin developers are making their products compatible with the new default editor or building guard rails around it. We see lot more opinions on Twitter […]
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Update #90 – WordPress 5.0 Beta 1 and Gutenberg 4.1 with Nested Block Paths and Video Cover, Blocks Galore and more.
Gutenberg 4.1 lists new features: Page & Block Navigation, High Contrast Mode, Auto formatting, Audible Messages, “options” modal, video for Cover block and plenty of bug fixes. It’s available as release candidate. Speaking of release: Yes, WordPress Core 5.0 Beta 1 was released early this morning. More blocks for your content, plugin authors are getting […]
Reading List: What the Fork (WTF)?
WordPress 5.0 – a major milestone, will have the new visual editor, code named Gutenberg, included as the default editor. The WordPress Core Team built fall backs into Gutenberg and also created the plugin called Classic Editor to help sites, that are not yet ready for Gutenberg for various reasons. In addition, plugins like Gutenberg […]
Update #89 – Gutenberg Layouts and Blocks – the Tools for Bloggers and Site Owners and more.
Take a look at the listed Gutenberg Layouts and Blocks and combine them with new Gutenberg-ready Themes. The Gutenberg 4.0 version has about 140 line items in the change log, some a major bug fixes, some are quirks finally fixed and some are changes necessary for the integration into WordPress core. We now have a […]
Gutenberg blocks go nested!
Updated November 16, 2018 Gutenberg has now a “Media + Text” block. We use it to announce today’s episode on YouTube. We saved it as a reuseable block so I can add it quickly to other popular posts on our site. It’s very easy to use and has quite a few settings for you to […]
Update #88 Release schedule WordPress 5.0 + Gutenberg Reusable Blocks and so much more
Matt Mullenweg announced the leadership team responsible for the Gutenberg merge into Core and become the default editor. Gary Pendergast updated the release schedule. The team aims for Nov 19, 2018. Riad Benguella posted a technical overview for the Gutenberg integration. Gutenberg adoption has grown to over 510K active sites using it. Enhanced reusable blocks […]
Show Notes: Keeping up with Gutenberg (Video)
With weekly or bi-weekly releases, plus changing APIs, how can anyone try keeping up with Gutenberg development? To explore this issue David Needham and I hosted a live Webinar as part of Pantheon’s Gutenberg Webinar Series. We were already in Belgrade, Serbia, for WordCamp Europe. In the webinar, we discussed how best to keep up […]
20 Gutenberg Talks On WordPress TV
This is a collection of WordPress.TV videos about Gutenberg. They are recordings of talks, presentations or workshops at WordCamps around the world. Here we publish those in englisch language. You’ll find similar talks in other languages to on WordPress.TV. Not every video is for all users, so we divided them up into various sections. Click […]
Update #87 FAQ on WordPress 5.0 release, Gutenberg around the World. And Blocks, so many Blocks
Find below an FAQ block, courtesy of Yoast SEO, with a highly speculative idea on when we might see a WordPress 5.0 release. Gutenberg 3.8 was released, and 3.9 RC is available for testing. The WordPress.com roll-out started. Gutenberg was not only topic at WordCamps in New York and Valencia, but also at Drupal Europe […]
Update #86 Gutenberg Blocks & Themes for your WordPress site
This week, I focused on custom blocks and how to make your current theme ready for Gutenberg. We also collected a few more posts and tweets from the community about using Gutenberg. The mood shifts. 🚀And a new Gutenberg version 3.8 was released, with Full Screen mode, faster parser, improved Drag & Drop, editor styling […]