Although, I won’t be able to attend WordCamp Phoenix, I will watch the Twitter Verse for “Sharings” from the talks about working with the Block editor. Here is the list from the schedule Friday: 10:20 am Victor Ramirez 3:25 pm Michele Schlup 4:20 Chris Van Patten Saturday 11:40 am Rich Tabor 2:20 pm Timothy Jacobs […]
Category Archives: News
WordPress Blocks Plugin Landscape
Earlier this year, Zac Gorden of JavaScript for WordPress asked me to give a presentation at the 2019 JavaScript For WordPress conference on the WordPress Blocks Plugins Landscape. I was honored and privileged to also work with Zac also on sponsor relationships to make sure the conference was free for the attendees and the team […]
Block Editor Talks at WordCamp Miami #WCMIA
Later this month, Florida’s WordPressers will descend to Miami for WordCamp Miami. They will join all the Northerners flying the cold for a weekend of Sun and WordPress Fun. Two years ago, when this site was barely two months old, I brought Gutenberg Times stickers to the WordCamp and gave them to developers, who work […]
Rethinking Themes in WordPress
Gutenberg editor was set-out to get rid of the “mystery meat” people had to learn over the years to find the right places to add or change content on their WordPress sites. Phase 1: Shortcodes, Meta-Boxes, Custom Fields, and to some extended Custom Post Types. At least they are much easier to integrate into front-end […]
Block Directory: a New Way of Extending WordPress
The Block Directory is going to impact Gutenberg and WordPress is some amazing ways. It’s a new way of extending WordPress in a very granular way. At WordCamp US (2018) Matt Mullenweg announced the nine priority projects for 2019 and the Block Directory is one of them. The task is “Building a WordPress.org directory for […]
WordPress Design Team Proposals for consistency
On the Make.Design blog on WordPress.org, Dave Withley @davecave published a series of design proposals for WordPress development to increase consistency across features and areas – on a new color palette, on type scale, spacing systems and components. Join the conversation and contribute. Your opinion counts to make those proposal come reality. Featured image: from […]
Block Editor Gutenberg at WordCamp US
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 […]
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 […]