With Gutenberg editor becoming more stable and approaching feature completeness, the download stats of the plugin show its growth at an ever higher rate. Blogs publish more, more block development tutorials. They are the bulk of this week’s round-out post. Also, meetups in New York, Lehigh Valley and in Halifax discussed the upcoming changes to WordPress with Gutenberg. There are also two Twitter threads: one with Gary Pendergast, core developer regarding the changes to the REST API and the other by Rhys Clay sharing his experience teaching a page builder to a client and comparing it with the better ease-of-use of Gutenberg. Save the date of next week’s Gutenberg Webinar with Josh Pollock about Extending Gutenberg. Grab a cup of Joe, tea or your favorite Kambucha or other drink and browser through the Gutenberg Galore. Use the comments for questions.
Table of Contents
- Gutenberg Development Team News
- Gutenberg for Users & Content Creators
- Agencies and Gutenberg
- Gutenberg and Themes
- Plugin Compatibility and updates
- 280 Blocks – Creating blocks
- Photos Around the World
Gutenberg Development News
What’s new in Gutenberg? (18th May)
In the meantime, two point releases were issued to fix the following items since the 2.9. Current version is 2.9.2
- Ensure the Title uses the same max-width as blocks
- Center the background of the cover image block
- Fix formatting controls regression
- Fix classic editor visual mode regression
- Ensure the wp-editor script is also enqueued soon using the
enqueue_block_assetshook - Allow clicking the block’s input fields (regression fix)
Remove post type capabilities from the user object
Gutenberg starts getting traction
Like literally every decision in Gutenberg, this is not set in stone. If you feel strongly about it, I absolutely encourage you to help us figure out a better solution. If we can come up with something better, I will absolutely merge it in a hot second.
— Gary (@GaryPendergast) May 19, 2018
RT @GeoffreyMWade Google I/O '18 – new JS features and browser optimizations result in cutting edge performance. While not specifically #WordPress, #Gutenberg or #ReactJS, it does provide insight into where @photomatt is leading us #tech: https://t.co/5LgvQN8kuP
— Lucasoft co.uk (@lucasoft_co_uk) May 19, 2018
Block to the Future (Gutenberg): Insights from our Envato WordPress Specialist via @envato https://t.co/fDySWS2xkg
— Justin Portillo (@justportillo) May 25, 2018
Gutenberg for Users & Content Creators
Peter Nilsson on WPNewsify, WordPress Security and Gutenberg!
Sometime within the foreseeable future, Gutenberg, the all-new WordPress content editor, will be released into the wild. In the following post, we examine the transition from the current WordPress editor to the pending Gutenberg editor interface https://t.co/CcM15Pzz5h pic.twitter.com/zmEGe4PAgm
— Aspen Grove Studios (@AspenGroveLLC) May 23, 2018
Impressed with the engineering that let's you copy content from a Classic Editor Block and paste it into Gutenberg to get everything converted to new native blocks. pic.twitter.com/wHXcTs01q3
— Zac Gordon (@zgordon) May 17, 2018
I've got 14 videos in my free course that includes shwoing how to use #Gutenberg. One of the new features is the Shared Block which lets you save part of your page to use it again anywhere on your site https://t.co/6yYurJbkrP pic.twitter.com/P2g6wSDd8H
— Bud Kraus (@joyofwp) May 21, 2018
Spent an afternoon with a client teaching them how to use a WordPress page builder (not going to name names) and I have to say some of the features of the #gutenbergeditor totally trump traditional page builders.
— rhys.ts (@RhysClay) May 20, 2018
Agencies and Gutenberg
I guess it’d depend on the project, but most likely. There’s not much needed from a theme perspective in this phase to make it work. I’d probably also look at styling some of the blocks in the editor.
— Matías Ventura (@matias_ventura) May 18, 2018
Gutenberg and Themes
Music: A Gutenberg-Powered Theme https://t.co/zeuv2x9159
— 140WP (@140wpcom) May 23, 2018
Plugin Compatibility and updates
Just in case you missed it: #BeaverBuilder – Introducing Inline Editing & #Gutenberg Support https://t.co/5Exv7tapki #PageBuilder #WordPress pic.twitter.com/sDRm723G9U
— Ahoi.dev (@Ahoidev) May 19, 2018
We released a #beta extension that allows you to create events using #Gutenberg's new block format! Download it onto your test site, play with it and let us know what you think!https://t.co/uznmk1Ftdp
— The Events Calendar (@TheEventsCal) May 21, 2018
#280 Blocks – Creating blocks
Day 2 and im starting to get somewhere with my #Gutenberg slider block. I can now add and remove slides. The rest should be pretty easy from here. Source code will be in github when its legible. PS I know there is an official slider in dev. pic.twitter.com/25ESIZcOpi
— rhys.ts (@RhysClay) May 23, 2018
Learning Gutenberg: Series Introduction
New Gutenberg tutorial announcement post: https://t.co/PIAewJh7Kv
— David Gwyer – JS/TS/Python, Deep diving into ML/AI (@dgwyer) May 24, 2018
<!— wp:someone-please-kill-me —> #gutenberg pic.twitter.com/1T5WiKZ7WL
— Arno Hoogma (@4rn0) May 25, 2018
Photos Around the World
Great talk by @TimothyBJacobs. "Building Guten Blocks". Thank you @WPNYC for organizing #wordpress #wordpressnyc #react #Gutenberg #NYCtech pic.twitter.com/n3rVVUZK7D
— Michael Posso (@micposso) May 16, 2018
Here we go Joe…. learning to love Gutenberg…. pic.twitter.com/3FO4TS5FYV
— Lehigh Valley WP (@LVWPMeetup) May 17, 2018
Happy 15th Anniversary WordPress! We’re celebrating with Php 7.2, Gutenberg and GDPR at @wphalifax meetup tonight. pic.twitter.com/1gFJY7Hf3G
— Crystal Picard (@CrystalPicard) May 23, 2018
Featured Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash
