Howdy,
How are you today? It’s getting cold again in Munich. This year, I am hopefully better prepared for the Winter than last year.
After a few days struggling to figure out the problem, Gutenberg Nightly is now available again via Playground or from the page Need a zip from Gutenberg trunk branch? Huge Thank You to Jon Surrell for fixing the repo and the build process.
I hope you’ll have a restful weekend.
Yours, 💕
Birgit
Developing Gutenberg and WordPress
ICYMI Here are the block editor related Dev Notes from the WordPress 6.7 RC1 release and the Fieldguide for WordPress 6.7
- Updates to Block Hooks in WordPress 6.7
- Block Bindings: Improvements to the Editor Experience in 6.7
- Developer Notes for Zoom Out in WordPress 6.7
- New Plugin Template Registration API in WordPress 6.7
- Miscellaneous Block Editor Changes in WordPress 6.7
- Auto Sizes for Lazy Loaded Images in WordPress 6.7
- Post Editor iframing with meta boxes in WordPress 6.7
- Updates to user-interface components in WordPress 6.7
- Extending the Preview Dropdown Menu in WordPress 6.7
- New block type registration APIs to improve performance in WordPress 6.7
- Roster of design tools per block (WordPress 6.7 edition)
- Updates to the HTML API in 6.7
- Subscribe to changes in the Interactivity API state and context on client-side navigation in 6.7
- Updates to Script Modules in 6.7
Seizing the moment, David McCan published a tutorial on How to Use the WordPress Beta Tester Plugin. It’s a great tool that allows you to test pre-release edition of the next WordPress version. “There are a lot of reasons why people want to test a pre-release. Maybe you’re a theme or a plugin developer, and you want to make sure that your theme or plugin is going to work with the next version of WordPress. Or maybe you’ve got some critical sites, and you want to make sure there aren’t going to be any surprises with the next version of WordPress. Or maybe you’re curious about the upcoming changes and features that will be in the next version.” he wrote.
- A reminder: Ankit K Gupta, release co-lead for testing, provided detailed instructions on how to Help test WordPress 6.7
- ICYMI: Anne McCarthy published the Source of Truth for WordPress 6.7 last week.
Save the date! November 5th, 2024 at 17:00 UTC with a live stream on WordPress 6.7 Highlights a Q & A with Jamie Marsland, Rich Tabor and Nick Diego
Gutenberg 19.5 was released and Hector Prieto wrote in his release post What’s new in Gutenberg 19.5? (23 October), that the release mostly focused on stabilizing existing features but also brings some improvements to the general UI and the zooming editing experience.
He highlighted:
It was a great pleasure to have Joni Halabi, Georgetown University, on the show again and to geek out over the block editor. We discussed, Gutenberg 19.5, Create Block theme plugin and marvel at the fact there are now 1000 Block Themes available in the WordPress repo. The episode 110 arrive at your favorite podcast app over the weekend. If you listen to the podcast on Spotify, you can now leave a comment from your phone. I would love to get connected with more listeners.
🎙️ The latest episode is Gutenberg Changelog #130 – WordPress 7.0, Gutenberg 22.9 and 23.0, WordCamp Europe, Block Themes and More with Tammie Lister, Chief Product Officer at Convesio
Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners
Elliot Richmond demos a Mobile Fix for Complex Layouts in the WordPress Block Editor (No Theme Files Needed), You’ll learn how to write custom CSS using the browser inspector and style editor, then paste it into the block editor for a no-code-friendly mobile solution.
Md Noruzzaman just added the Geomap Block to the plugin repository that allows you to add a basic Google map to your post or pages without handline API keys.
Wes Theron recorded a new video for Learn.WordPress on how to create a portfolio site with a block theme and patterns using a up-and-coming Twenty Twenty-Five WordPress default theme which has an extensive pattern library. This will show you how to leverage these patterns to save time and build your site from a solid foundation.
Over at the CSS Tricks, Geoff Graham shared Justin Tadlock’s article on the Developer blog, and ruminated in Mastering theme.json: You might not need CSS about writing CSS in style sheets vs. CSS in JS and WordPress way. “Regardless of all that, I’m linking this up because Justin does bang-up work (no surprise, really) explaining and illustrating the ways of CSS-in-WordPress.” Graham wrote.
1,000 Block Themes in the WordPress theme directory!
Theme team rep, Ganga Kafle, invites you to Celebrate 1,000 Block Themes in the themes repository!
Anne McCarthy also published on WordPress News: WordPress Community Creates 1,000 Block Themes in 1,000 Days
Jyolsna J E also covered this major milestone for the WPTavern: WordPress Themes Repository Now Houses 1000 Block Themes
Building Blocks and Tools for the Block editor.
Have you ever run into a situation where you needed to unregister a block pattern in your theme? Justin Tadlock has the right snippet for you. Snippet: Conditionally unregister patterns. This post also starts a new section on the Developer Blog of short code snippets that any developer could use for a specific use case. For now, we still need to get some kinks out of theme and editorial process, but soon we start publishing more code snippets in CSS, PHP, JavaScript, or JSON
In his latest video tutorial, Add custom CSS and JavaScript to any WordPress block, Brian Coords, walks you through the process of modifying any block.json with simple PHP to load your own custom CSS and JavaScript. The post also holds the full transcript of the video for those of us who want to read along.
In this week’s live stream, Ryan Welcher showed how to turbocharge Your WordPress with Custom Blocks in WordPress 6.7, disseminating the information from the Dev Note New block type registration APIs to improve performance in WordPress 6.7
Need a plugin .zip from Gutenberg’s master branch?
Gutenberg Times provides daily build for testing and review.
Now also available via WordPress Playground. There is no need for a test site locally or on a server. Have you been using it? Email me with your experience
Questions? Suggestions? Ideas?
Don’t hesitate to send them via email or
send me a message on WordPress Slack or Twitter @bph.
For questions to be answered on the Gutenberg Changelog,
send them to changelog@gutenbergtimes.com