Happy Holidays! It’s almost there, in less than two weeks, we leave 2020 behind us and start the New Year! Wishing you and yours all the best for this new beginning, good health, prosperity and happiness. Yours, 💕Birgit State of the Word This week’s State of the Word was different from the previous years, as […]
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Weekend Edition #151 – Theme Development, Block Editor Plugins and Using Blocks Outside WordPress
Howdy! WordPress history was made this week, when the all-women release squad pushed WordPress 5.6 over the finish line. Congratulations to the co-leads, Josepha Haden, Helen Hou-Sandi and Dee Teal and their crew of 30+ women and people who identify as non-binary. On the announcement post, you can browse the list of all contributors and […]
Weekend Edition #150 – Full-Site Editing, WordPress 5.6, Live Q & A and more
Case Study: The Making of Open-Source Story by Yoast with Blocks Join Anne McCarthy and me for our next Gutenberg Times Live Q & A on December 10th, 2020 at 2:30 pm EST (19:30 UTC) Yoast partner and CTO, Omar Reiss and blog team lead Willemien Hallebeek, will take us behind the scenes of the […]
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) […]