Howdy,
This week, WordPress 6.5 certainly dominated the WordPress news cycle. Articles, Videos, Threads on X, and workshops are plenty available for every type of WordPress user. I compiled a separate list for your perusal or to point people to wandering about.
As a reader of this newsletter, you have kept up with all the changes, for sure. 😍 The newsletter is a little shorter today, so enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Yours, 💕
Birgit
PS: I am experimenting with AI summaries, I slightly edited, mostly for brevity. The two pieces are marked. Please reach out to me, how you think about it…
Developing Gutenberg and WordPress
With the release, core contributors are starting to work on WordPress 6.6. Anne McCarthy invites you to a Hallway Hangout: Let’s chat about what’s next in Gutenberg. The discussion/demos will cover Dataviews, synced pattern overrides, Zoomed out view, Grid layout, Pattern styles and Style inheritance. The virtual meeting will take place on April 24 at 23:00 UTC / 7 pm EDT / 4pm PDT.
🎙️ Latest episode: Gutenberg Changelog #98 – WordPress 6.5, Gutenberg 18.0 Community Theme Project and the Contributor Mentorship Program with special guest Maggie Cabrera
Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners
Wes Theron, contributor to the training team, published a series of videos on how to work with templates on YouTube
In his video, WordPress Block Themes in 250 seconds, Jamie Marsland provides a concise but comprehensive overview of Block Themes in WordPress. He covers the basics of how Block Themes work, demonstrates their flexibility and ease of use, and explains how they differ from traditional WordPress themes by enabling users to have more control over their site’s design without needing to write code. Jamie also gives a quick tour of the WordPress editor with a Block Theme enabled, highlighting its features and capabilities. (AI, slightly edited)
Theme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks
Now the Font Library is part of WordPress, Justin Tadlock’s latest tutorial is on How to register custom font collections for the Font Library with the built-in API. “By default, WordPress ships with a single collection that lets you install fonts from the Google Fonts library. But as a developer, you can offer a more curated experience by building custom collections.” he wrote.
In WP Jukebox podcast episode titled Tammie Lister on the Journey Through Design and Theming, Tammie Lister discusses with Nathan Wrigley her experiences and the evolution of her career in design and WordPress theming. The conversation sheds light on the changing landscape of WordPress design, the introduction of new technologies, and how these shifts have influenced the approach to creating engaging and effective themes. Throughout the episode, Lister offers insights into her process and reflections on the future of design in the WordPress ecosystem. (AI summary slightly edited for brevity)
Building Blocks and Tools for the Block editor.
Jeremy Holcombe wrote a tutorial on How to parse Gutenberg content for headless WordPress and explained how to parse Gutenberg content as HTML using the WordPress REST API in a Next.js static site.
Artur Piszek shared a quick tip: Writing serialized Gutenberg blocks in PHP on using the get_comment_delimited_block_content function.
WordPress Playground is so much bigger than Blocks. It’s a fascinating, if not mind blowing tool for developers and product companies. Ronny Shani wrote an Introduction to Playground: running WordPress in the browser. She covers the basic some built-in features and how to create a blueprint. She also has plenty of examples and links to learn more for you.
You can use Playground to test the Gutenberg Nightly.
In his live stream, Ryan Welcher worked on a playground blueprint to for a live preview of his plugin Advanced Query Loop. He used various methods, to add content to a Playground site: Using Playground to preview plugins | Gutenberg 18.0 Review
Need a plugin .zip from Gutenberg’s master branch?
Gutenberg Times provides daily build for testing and review.
Now also available via WordPress Playground. There is no need for a test site locally or on a server. Have you been using it? Email me with your experience
Questions? Suggestions? Ideas?
Don’t hesitate to send them via email or
send me a message on WordPress Slack or Twitter @bph.
For questions to be answered on the Gutenberg Changelog,
send them to changelog@gutenbergtimes.com
