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title: "Update #71 Building Blocks, Gutenberg 2.8 and more"
date: "2018-05-06"
author: "Birgit Pauli-Haack"
url: "https://gutenbergtimes.com/update-71-building-blocks-gutenberg-2-8-and-more/"
categories: ["News"]
---

Today roundup includs a collection of new Gutenberg Blocks and shared knowledge around building Gutenberg Blocks by developers. Also Gutenberg’s next version was released with 105 changlog items.  Find also blog posts and tweets on building Gutenberg ready Themes. Companies, consulants and developers share knowledge around how to get their site or the sites of their clients Gutenberg ready. We also share the resource of known issues with plugins and themes. Grab a coffee or tea or your other favorite beverage and happy reading.

## Table of Contents

- Gutenberg Development
- Building Blocks #280Blocks
- Themes and Gutenberg
- Getting Ready for Gutenberg
- Photos around the World

## Gutenberg Development Updates

> This release has many refinements and improves the capabilities of the Block and Plugin APIs. It also adds a new “spacer” block for generating visual space. The color palette component has been improved to be based on classes instead of inline styles (for registered colors) and includes some important accessibility improvements (like naming the color). Thank you to everyone involved!Matias Ventura, Gutenberg Dev Lead, May 4th, 2018

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## Building Blocks #280blocks

Zach Silveira also posted a YouTube video to walk you through it.   

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## Themes & Gutenberg

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## Getting Ready for Gutenberg

Andrew Fleming from the **Dow Jones Media Group**shared the story of how their publication Moneyish is approaching the transition to Gutenberg.

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## Photos from Around the World

![](https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/WhatisGutenberg-Meetup-Dayton-Ohio.jpg?resize=3264%2C2448&ssl=1)
*Andrew at The Dayton WordPress meetup explaining the ins and outs of the new Gutenberg editor that will appear in the upcoming version of WordPress, version 5.0. (April 19, 2018)*

**For those of you who can’t read the low contract slide:**

- Better, leaner Themes
- Improved Plugins
- Page Building Becomes Standard
- Better Developers
- Interaction with other communities

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Don’t miss Live Q & A events w/ Zac Gordon & Joe Casabona. [Check out the Google Calendar here](http://bit.ly/gutenevents)