This week, I collected a great array of useful information for just using Gutenberg and finding blocks for your content creation process. See a VR (Virtual Reality) image block in action, find blocks in a public directory and read more about using Gutenberg for your storefront. Also, some voices from users and their successful transition […]
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Update #84 – 200k active Installs, WordPress user voices, more Gutenberg blocks, and more developer resources
Roughly two weeks after the WordPress 4.9.8 release with the “Try Gutenberg” call-out in the Admin Dashboard, the Gutenberg plugins has now 200,000 active installs. People are using it and are providing feedback. Before the release the GitHub repository shows approximately 700 open issues and per this writing that number has grown to well over […]
Update #83 WordPress Gutenberg over 100K Active Installs, Community Reactions, Plugins and more Blocks
A week after the “Try Gutenberg” prompt appears in WordPress site’s admin dashboard, Gutenberg plugin reached the threshold of 100,000+ Active Installs. The plugin is getting mixed reviews between “Not in Core” and “Blogging just received a massive upgrade”. Gutenberg developers are weeding through the actionable feedback from this first encounter with a huge user […]
8 Truths about Gutenberg
Updataed August 9th, 2018: Added additional links to the ACF section, with the announcement of creating blocks from within ACF admin – birgit Updated August 4th, 2018: I added a paragraph about the WordPress 4.9.8 release and added more resources. — Birgit A few month ago, Riad Benguella, core developer on the Gutenberg team, talk […]
Update: “Try Gutenberg” Call-out available in WordPress 4.9.8
Update August 2, 2018 – 9:30 am ET The release of WordPress 4.9.8 seems to move forward as planned starting the process at 20:00 UTC / 4 pm ET. The update script check about every hour. If you need to avoid the Gutenberg Nag, or Gutenberg for that matter we listed 12 methods in a […]
Update #82 – WordPress Community Getting Ready for Gutenberg. More Opinions, Plugins and Blocks
On Tuesday, if all goes well, the “try Gutenberg” prompt will appear in a WordPress dashboard near you. Below, you’ll find a series of articles on how best to make a decision about testing Gutenberg, how to copy your site to a staging area and which plugin to install to best manage the Gutenberg experience […]
Should You Try the New Editor on Your WordPress Site?
The next version of WordPress (4.9.8) will show on your Dashboard a prompt alerting you to the “new, modern publishing experience coming soon”. The new version will be released July 31, 2018. Over last two months, I have been following the development of the Try Gutenberg Call-out for the WordPress dashboard. Now that it will […]
Update #81 – New Blocks, Updated plugins for “New WordPress publishing experience” and more
The final wording on the Call-out inviting WordPress WP-Admin users to try Gutenberg is “A new, modern WordPress publishing experience is coming soon”. If all goes well, the prompt will be released on July 31, 2018, with it’s offering of installing Gutenberg of the Classic Editor. In the meantime, the Gutenberg team released their next […]
Update #80 Gutenberg Is Getting Ready for Hundreds of Thousands of Users
Gutenberg is coming soon to a WordPress Dashboard near you. Are you and your sites ready? This seems to be the main emphasis for this round up post, information on how site-owners, developers, designers and consultant get ready for Gutenberg, most of it geared towards the WordPress 5.0 release when Gutenberg becomes the default editor. […]
Update #78 Tools to Get Ready – #280Blocks – Beyond Gutenberg
What did this week bring to Gutenberg and the WordPress community? Rich Tabor’s Block Unit Test helps you getting your themes ready for Gutenberg. Morten Rand-Hendrickson published a proposal to improved handling responsive images in themes in a Gutenberg world. Read Adrian Roselli’s post to his clients prepareing them for Gutenberg and setting expectations regarding […]