Jeremy Felt has been working on…
Jeremy Felt has been working on a select editor template for the Gutenberg editor. One of Jeremy’s inspirations was the WP Gutenberg Templates plugin.
Jeremy Felt has been working on a select editor template for the Gutenberg editor. One of Jeremy’s inspirations was the WP Gutenberg Templates plugin.
Elementor in the room ๐ POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE ๐จ๏ธ A recent conversation in Post Status Slack centers on Elementor. The company targeted “full-site editing” in some of its Google ads. Community member Birgit Pauli-Haack is the publisher of Gutenberg Times and a contributor to Gutenberg. She noted on February 25: Elementor is targeting “WordPress…
WordPress 5.8 โTatumโ was released as planned this past Tuesday. Matt Mullenweg was the lead on this release. There were 530 volunteers along with 320+ tickets on Trac and over 1,500 pull requests on GitHub. Courtney Robertson has a good summary of the features in WordPress 5.8 from the perspective of those who have client…
Gutenberg 8.4 was released yesterday with some impressive enhancements included image editing, multi-block controls, and the enabling of the Block Directory. The Block Directory has been a big-ticket item in the WordPress Roadmap and is powered by the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. ๐
Video Picks ๐บ Here is my video pick this week: Gio Lodi, Mobile Software Engineer, on Life at Automattic: I recently stumbled upon a video playlist from early 2020 (before the pandemic truly hit the US) of short videos “introducing” Automatic employees. The latest one of Gio Lodi is from May 2021. It makes it…
WordCamp US is next week. We (Brian and David) will be there. Please come up to us and say “hi!” if you see us. We might also have conversations on and off camera with some of our Post Status members. ๐๏ธ This year’s WCUS looks like a different conference I predict it will have an…
Gutenberg 2.7 was released last week. Among the bug fixes, it also added an official pagination block, updates to the link insertion interface, and (according to the update) it “pushes much of the Plugin API out of its experimental stage.” Version 2.6 alsoย added some nice new features including the long-awaited drag and drop functionality to…