Howdy, With the WordPress 5.7 out of the way, the next couple of month are all about Full-site Editing testing and planing for 5.8. I love it when a plan comes together! The WordPress team responsible for the release of the 5.7 version delivered on time. Meet “Esperanza”, the first WordPress release of 2021. Marvel […]
Category Archives: Block Plugins
Full-Site Editing picks up steam, Block-based Themes and Plugins for the WordPress Block-Editor
Weekend Edition #156 Howdy, howdy, There was a lot of Gutenberg in my week! How is your week going? Monday, I was with Nathan Wrigley and Paul Lacey of This Week in WordPress #147 for an early podcast recording. We discussed Block Editor and Page Builders, Gutenberg contributions and then, of course, other WordPress News. […]
WordFest, Big Audacious Goal, Block Editor Plugins and more
Weekend Edition #155 Howdy, howdy, This week felt that I finally landed in the new year. I could focus on client projects, manage distractions well. I found back to the rhythm of working every day. Feels good. It’s been a while that I talked so much to so many people about the block-editor and Gutenberg […]
Weekend Edition #154 WordPress Page Builders and Blocks
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 brilliant people sharing their expertise on podcasts, YouTube shows, Meetups, and in blog posts. Let’s dive in … Yours, 💕Birgit Sections Block-editor for Content Creators At WordPress Meetup Montclair, Laura […]
Weekend Edition #153 Query-Block, Page Builders, Site Editor and more
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! May all the goals be reached and serendipity take you to new adventures. 🎉 ✨ 🍾 🎆 Now we need to catch up on the development and community around Gutenberg. […]
Block Directory: a New Way of Extending WordPress
Updated: August 28, 2020: In August 2020, the Block Directory was released with WordPress 5.5. On August 7th, 2020, we published an article on the Workings of the Block Directory: Block Directory Slated for WordPress 5.5. In our August 6th, 2020 Live Q & A Show we discussed all the ins and outs of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Update #104 RichText Live Coding, Teaching Gutenberg to Content Editors and WordPress Team News
Happy Weekend! The first Quarter of 2019 is almost done. On Monday, we’ll upgrade a website with several editors to the Block editor. I’ll report back next weekend how it went. It’s the best preparation for our upcoming Live Q & A with WordPress trainers and educators who made it their business to help site […]