Happy Weekend! The first Quarter of 2019 is almost done. On Monday, we’ll upgrade a website with several editors to the Block editor. I’ll report back next weekend how it went. It’s the best preparation for our upcoming Live Q & A with WordPress trainers and educators who made it their business to help site owners, bloggers and editors with their content production skills in WordPress. It’s going to be a great event and hope we’ll have lots of questions from you! For developers interested in extending the RichText Component of the block editor, we host a live coding demo session with a developer of the Gutenberg team and Zac Gordon. If you are deep-dive Javascript developer you’ll find this quite enlightening.
We also have plenty of News from the WordPress Teams: Core, Javascript, Editor and Design. I also still catch-up with all the fabulous block plugins people create to make the Block editor experience unique. There are also Theme news and articles on how to use the block editor in various scenarios.
Thank you all for the Get Well wishes! Be well and enjoy the Spring! 💕 — Birgit
PS: This week WordPress 5.2 Beta 1 was released there is plenty to like about this next version. It comes with Gutenberg 5.3 and brings part of the Health Check plugins into Core. Make sure you help testing this first beta. The final release is scheduled for April 30, 2019.
Table of Contents
Live Q & A – Times Two
Live Coding For the Block Editor with Zac Gordon, JS For WordPress and Grzegorz (Greg) Ziółkowski, Core Contributor to Gutenberg
Hacking on and Extending Components Like and the Block Toolbar
Join us on Friday April 5 , 2019 at 2pm ET / 18:00 UTC
with
Shawn Hesketch
Angela Bowman
Bud Kraus
Using Gutenberg: Blocks & Themes
New Plugins For the WordPress Block Editor
The block plugins mentioned here the new additions to our Big Plugin List for the WordPress Block editor, categorized for Block collection, single purpose blocks, blocks for eCommerce, for 3rd party integration and tools for the block editor.
Building Blocks and Themes
Guest Posts on JavaScript for WordPress site
Zac Gordon, coach and teacher at JavaScript for WordPress invited students to write tutorials for the site. They are very insightful and geared towards other learners.
Don’t miss out on the Live Coding Experiment with Zac Gordon, JS For WordPress and Grzegorz (Greg) Ziółkowski, Core Contributor to Gutenberg “Hacking on and Extending Components Like and the Block Toolbar” 📢 💞
News from the WordPress Teams
Featured image: From Above by Birgit Pauli-Haack
