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) […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]