On Tuesday, if all goes well, the “try Gutenberg” prompt will appear in a WordPress dashboard near you. Below, you’ll find a series of articles on how best to make a decision about testing Gutenberg, how to copy your site to a staging area and which plugin to install to best manage the Gutenberg experience and prepare for WordPress 5.0. Some Bloggers will go ahead and use Gutenberg on their live site and they will find a few more custom block plugins and help to make their Themes Gutenberg ready. Awesome tips and tricks for block and plugin developers, too.
Table of Contents
- How to Best Get Ready for Gutenberg
- Themes Development in Times of Gutenberg
- Plugins getting ready for Gutenberg
- Block Development #280Blocks
- Photos from Around the World
How to Best Get Ready for Gutenberg
Lightweight, I'm really starting to feel #Gutenberg, though. As a developer's journey…blah…I hate Webpack config files…more blah…but as a writer, this is nice. A nice #WordPress #Plugin. Hint…hint…hint…
— OWL (@OwlsAsylum) July 27, 2018
Get Ready for Gutenberg, the New WordPress Editor: https://t.co/0p0s4o4bNx #wordpress
— Karla Campos (@SocialMediaSass) July 27, 2018
Gutenberg for WordPress and Compatibility with Advanced Custom Fields
Ditto. ACF Pro with a custom layout toolkit and page templates. When Gutenborg finally arrives in core, its still going to be ACF – plus the "disable gutenberg" / "enable classic editor" plugin collection.
— ginsterbusch (@alltagsgrauen) July 29, 2018
Heads Up for Small Businesses Running #WordPress: Huge Changes in 5.0 Gutenberg https://t.co/cfGenR2MhA
— convesio (@convesio) July 27, 2018
Today I realized while I’m a strong 10-12 years long #WordPress advocate, during last years I became more and more disappointed by the platform leadership and decisions. And, especially, the way decisions are made and enforced. #Gutenberg being one of them. 1/2
— Ihor Vorotnov (@ihorvorotnov) July 28, 2018
Insight Into How North Carolina State Is Preparing for Gutenberg
Themes Development in Times of Gutenberg
I may have just found my new favorite page on the @WordPress website, a #Gutenberg Theme Support page. That will allow me to configure and limit text size and color options. https://t.co/V486cmIK9C
— Joseph Dickson (@joe4ska) July 27, 2018
Working on my starter theme and providing basic support for #Gutenberg. The Gb handbook is really helpful. If you haven't read it, you should go read it soon.
— alex vasquez (@alexjvasquez) July 29, 2018
Plugins getting ready for Gutenberg
Just a reminder, you're not out of the job once #Gutenberg lands if you don't know React/JSX, shortcodes still work, meta boxes still work, blocks can be rendered with vanilla JS and PHP, layout plugins work fine if you keep them up to date #WordPress
— Tom J Nowell (@Tarendai) July 27, 2018
Plugin compatibility testing is fun + a great eye-opener as to the creative work of developers, extending WordPress. Example of a highly sophisticated Shortcode builder via additional buttons to the editor toolbar. It still works in Gutenberg. #pluginiscompatible oscitasthemes pic.twitter.com/3LqAO7gtb0
— Birgit Pauli-Haack (@bph) July 23, 2018
Do you have a bunch of shortcodes that you’d like to really easily turn into blocks? Here’s a sample plugin showing how to re-use your exisiting shortcode functionality in a block!https://t.co/bppHcumBlB
— Gary (@GaryPendergast) July 29, 2018
Yoast’s update on its Gutenberg Efforts
“Of course our own plugins need to be ready to integrate seamlessly with the Gutenberg editor when it’s there. Not something to take lightly! So we have a special team that’s fully dedicated to make sure we’re ready when Gutenberg is. They’re completely rebuilding all parts of the Yoast SEO plugin in the JavaScript library React, amongst others. Soon we’ll be able to tell and show you more on this. So make sure to keep an eye on our updates.”
Block Development #280Blocks
I write my Gutenberg blocks in plain javascript, like you i'm still not mentally prepared for all the configs 😂
— Ingegnera (@dottxado) July 28, 2018
Did you have a chance to check out our new Container block? This block lets you wrap several blocks into a container to create sections and unique layouts! https://t.co/t115oO91jQ pic.twitter.com/qp2ztbCbbO
— Atomic Blocks (@AtomicBlocks) July 26, 2018
Recently, I gave a talk @inpsyde dev meeting about #Gutenberg data stores and slot fill. If you want to have a look, its online now 🎉#WordPress https://t.co/IBTOYc1CJX
— 𝙳𝙰𝚅𝙸𝙳 𝚁𝙴𝙼𝙴𝚁 (@websupporter) July 26, 2018
</> How to Create A Gutenberg Block Attributes Glossary https://t.co/oZrsnijarv #frontend #developers #webdesigner
— Sandro Seiler (@herrseilerbitte) July 29, 2018
Learn how to disable all custom colors in the upcoming WordPress #Gutenberg block editor — https://t.co/8i1mNlg6x6 pic.twitter.com/0i14jOa4Zr
— Rich Tabor (@richard_tabor) July 27, 2018
It strikes me that it may not be widely understood that building on Gutenberg also means understanding the REST API; what data is available, how to create objects etc. Without this it’s difficult to do much custom block development.
— Joe Hoyle (@joe_hoyle) July 29, 2018
Create Guten Block makes it easy to manage all the dependencies necessary to build custom blocks for the new WordPress Gutenberg editor. https://t.co/ShGg4QrtfR pic.twitter.com/8hR59Xs2pN
— Jason Yingling (@jason_yingling) July 27, 2018
Photos from Around the World
Great panel session @WordCampSyd on what to expect with the rollout of Gutenberg within WordPress. Looking forward to trying it out and making web content development more fun & flexible #WCSyd pic.twitter.com/nMFPJ57Ccu
— Anthony Brown (@OutOfBrown) July 29, 2018
Luke Carbis is a brave man. Live demo of Gutenberg in the keynote at #WCSyd. pic.twitter.com/GyGBC99Nzi
— WP Bosses (@wpbosses) July 27, 2018
Nice story about the #WordPress community in Lebanon, and pushing Arabic translation of #Gutenberg to 100%.https://t.co/RLfDNORdk5 pic.twitter.com/wkHLVRD9xz
— David Bisset (@dimensionmedia) July 28, 2018
Photo by Zbysiu Rodak on Unsplash
