Update #100 - Courses, Tutorials, Blocks and more

One (1) Year of Gutenberg Times, 100 hand-curated Updates since June 2017, the 10th episode of our Live Q & A on YouTube. 45,000 visitors. These are all just numbers. All that matters is that you are here! Thank you. Leave a comment on any of the posts, and tells me more about yourself! 💕

The web gets really interesting when you can add animation and moving art to it. Now the Block editor can be used as an p5js script editor and provide instant preview. Very cool. Enjoy our conversation with Kim Scotland, Bob Dunn and Kori Asthon about how they converted their sites to the block editor and how businesses can take advantage of the new WordPress visual editor for product and affiliate links.

Our friends, Zac Gordon and Joe Casabona published updated or new courses for you. Take advantage of their discounts! Gutenberg is also the topic of three WPCampus sessions. Morten Rand-Hendrickson teaches you how to extend your Themes for the block editor.

And again, Blocks Galore. Cool blocks for your blogs, and great tips for developing plugins and themes for the block editor.

Table of Contents

Theme Building and Full-Site Editing
Update for site owners and site builders.
- Now available on WordPress TV
Block Buidling and Tools for Developers
Upcoming WordPress Events
- Social Learning Events
WordCamp and other Events

WordPress, Block Editor and Gutenberg Dev News
Online Events & Courses
- Gutenberg at WPCampus on January 31, 2019
Using Block editor for Content Creators
Plugins, Blocks & Themes development for WordPress 5.0

Join us on Friday February 8th, 2019 at 2pm ET / 19:00 UTC for a discussion with the three Gutenberg designers Sarah Semark, Sarah James, and Mark Uraine, sharing information about their research into page building and Phase 2 of Gutenberg. Register Now!

Gutenberg-Times-Live Q & A Semark, James, Uraine

WordPress, Block Editor and Gutenberg Dev News

WordPress 5.1 Beta 1

What’s New in Gutenberg? (23th January)

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Online Events & Courses

Gutenberg at WPCampus on January 31, 2019

Going live with some Advanced #Gutenberg Course prep:

Trolling through all the selectors in the Data API and coding out little examples of how to use each one.. may get to dispatch() too #Friday

Tune in Live- https://t.co/tE2rhjVUQ0
Watch the Archives – https://t.co/hImCmk5GA3 pic.twitter.com/IhkAaIfO92
— Zac Gordon (@zgordon) January 18, 2019

Just launched a HUGE update to my Introduction to #Gutenberg course. Updated for WordPress 5.0 and lots of new content. Get it for 25% off now. https://t.co/F7OvG240RN

The Freelancer course will get updated next week with even more goodies!
— 🚀🎙 Joe Casabona (@jcasabona) January 18, 2019

My new course on how to integrate and extend #WordPress themes with the block editor, nee "#Gutenberg", is now live on @LI_learning: https://t.co/8EEnRZMmW2
— Morten Rand-Hendriksen (@mor10) January 23, 2019

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Using Block editor for Content Creators

And another new block to embed amazon kindle books 🧾 https://t.co/qp9OKitNC9
— Sören Wrede (@soean) January 25, 2019

https://wordpress.org/plugins/secure-blocks-for-gutenberg/

Gutenberg Blocks and Template Library by Otter

https://bloggingx.com/gutenberg-plugins/

Difference between Gutenberg and Page Builders like Beaver Builder, Elementor, and Divi

Algori Blogger

https://bobwp.com/woocommerce-product-blocks/

Disable Gutenberg Blocks – Block Manager

Woohooo! Successfully 'nested' some team/author profile blocks inside an atomic container blocks. Was tricky as still getting head around gutenberg, let alone @AtomicBlocks but I got there and am happy with the result for now. Great to be able to change the padding and bg colour.
— Elisabeth Klaar | Oak Tree Studio (@lammas_leaves) January 20, 2019

A look at using the Gutenberg Editor on WordPress, how to safely update to WordPress 5.0 and how to revert to the classic editor @FemBloggers @GirlsWhoBlogRT @FBLchat https://t.co/nl2UGcfCos
— Elaine Malone (@XOmisse) January 26, 2019

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Plugins, Blocks & Themes development for WordPress 5.0

https://twitter.com/Mapk/status/1086425997191274497

Wavemaker – This illustrates how waves (like water waves) emerge from particles oscillating in place. Move your mouse to direct the wave. Contributed by Aatish Bhatia, inspired by Orbiters by Dave Whyte.

Im really enjoying Gutenberg too and slowly getting the hang of React. Here’s my first block only plugin – https://t.co/vput4UFrt1 I needed this for my own site and it’s fairly clean (I think).
— Andrew Lima (@andrewlimaZA) January 22, 2019

I built a block into @calderaforms in 2017, which was a little early. I had to totally redo it once. In our next update I deleted my custom block preview function and replaced it with WordPress' built-in solution. I shared what I learned along the way:https://t.co/V0BjMyEEbQ
— Josh Pollock (@Josh412) January 22, 2019

Check this awesome resource on the WordPress docs if you want to build your first #gutenberg block. Geeking out over here to this! 🤓 https://t.co/vhLCpbSbLj
— Be. web (@bedotweb) January 16, 2019

Kelly Ryelle, @ryelle shared what she learned building a “recipe post” framework that allow insert other blocks into the recipe block. Nested blocks and block template in actions. Also, the start of a series "Nifty Codes". #WordPress https://t.co/lyyx8A4Vfa pic.twitter.com/gKyOYKh7sj
— Gutenberg Times (@gutenbergtimes) January 19, 2019

I've been pretty tuned out of all-things-Gutenberg since Christmas, but today decided to rebuild our block starter: https://t.co/tT1o0t64a4
— Chris Van Patten (@ChrisVanPatten) January 6, 2019

I found the default #WordPress block #CSS to be a little… eh. So I completely rewrote, re-organized & sassified it.

Took me several hours… so hopefully it saves you guys a little time. Especially theme devs. https://t.co/wBbuqJxbVS #gutenberg #sass pic.twitter.com/r5VjC2gErJ
— Dave Warfel (@davewarfel) January 21, 2019