Introduced to WordPress writers, theme developers and implementers in WordPress 5.5 release, Block Patterns, tested in the Gutenberg plugins since its 7.7 version, came to all WordPress sites. They open the door to be creative with blocks and make creative layouts available for content creators and site editors without using more than the core blocks. […]
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OEmbed and WordPress Embed blocks for Facebook and Instagram will stop working Oct 24, 2020
In August, Facebook announced updates to their Marketing API . By October 24, 2020, developers must leverage a user, app, or client token when querying Graph API for user profile pictures via UID, FB OEmbeds and IG OEmbeds. This means, the old embed request will result in an error with a 400-status. In the future, […]
New Block-Based Widget Screen in Gutenberg 8.9 – First Tests
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 of managing widgets. Not to be a spoiler, but the widget screen is still experimental. If you use the Gutenberg plugin in a production environment, you might be accustomed to […]
Live Q & A: Discussing the Block Directory in WordPress 5.5
In time for the roll out of the new feature with WordPress 5.5, we held a Live Q & A with Kelly Dwan, Alex Shiels and Samuel “Otto” Wood, discussing the Block Directory on Zoom and YouTube. At time stamp 9:26 – Kelly Dwan gives us a demonstration of how the Block Directory works from […]
Block Directory Slated for WordPress 5.5 Version
The Block Directory will soon be a new way block editor users discover, test and install new blocks for their website. It has been a cross-team endeavor as it involves updates on the plugin repository, the plugin update processes in core as well as an integration into the block editor’s Inserter. Last year we live-streamed […]
Live Q & A: Block-based Themes for Full-site editing feature in WordPress
Earlier this month, we hosted a Live Q & A with Carolina Nymark, Kjell Reigstad and Eileen Violini. We had about 90 people register, of which 40 attended on Zoom and 20 on YouTube. Kjell demonstrated on how to create a template part for the current theme, with blocks and no code. We answered about […]
Tooling: Using Create-Block Scaffolding and 3rd Party Templates
On May 21, Greg Ziolkowski and Fabian Kägy demonstrated in this Live Q & A on YouTube how to use create-block tool that comes with Gutenberg plugin and how to custom templates for creating blocks and share them on npm. You can reach Greg in WP Slack and on Twitter @gziolo and Fabian on Slack […]
Videos: WordCamp Santa Clarita: Block Editor and Gutenberg Talks #WCSCV April 2020
The second, virtual WordCamp took place on April 18, 2020. The videos are up on WordPress TV. In these talks, you learn How to create professional websites with blocks together with the Themes based on Genesis (Mary Baum) and GeneratePress (Alicia St Rose), how to use create-block scaffolding tool for custom block development, (Elizabeth Shilling) […]
Writers Rejoice! Iceberg Delivers Distraction-free Writing for WordPress
The launch of Iceberg is big news for writers using WordPress. It is a powerful, elegant and distraction-free writing tool built on top of WordPress’ Block editor. The same people who created the highly successful plugins CoBlocks and EditorsKit have done it again! Rich Tabor and Jeffery Carandang have been working on this project for […]
Updated Gutenberg (and WordPress) Roadmap
Update May 13, 2020: Josepha Haden posted Update: Progress on Goals WordPress 5.5 Planning Roundup WP5.5 – August Release Feature Plugin: Automatic updates functionality for major WordPress Core releases (opt-in). Complete: Convert the widgets-editing areas complete. Complete: Functionality for full site editing complete behind experimental flag in the plugin. Complete: Global styles behind experimental flag in the plugin. […]