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 […]
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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. […]
Block Editor updates for the WordPress 5.4 release
Update April 29, 2020 – Security release and bug fixes WordPress 5.4.1 This week the core team released 5.4.1 with a few fixes to the latest update that came out on March 31, 2020. We looked at the release notes for the Block Editor fixes that were back-ported (6) to WordPress core. Update Search/RSS block […]
Resources: WPBlockTalk sessions
WPBlockTalk was a free, virtual event and took place April 2, 2020. This event was organized through the WordPress community with support from Automattic. We collected the resources available for you and will update it as soon as the videos are available. We have already a few links to the slide decks. 12 Sessions by […]
Block Editor Talks at WordCamp Miami #WCMIA
Florida’s WordPressers descended to Miami for WordCamp Miami. They joined all the Northerners fleeing 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 together for a whole day […]
Block Editor Talks at WordCamp Phoenix #WCPHX
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 […]