🥫 Nick Hamze made a great point about developers dogfooding their own Gutenberg blocks: "...the best you can hope for now is that someone will have a simple blog rocking a Twenty-something theme with a vanilla set of blocks. If…
Riad Benguella presents some performance improvement and monitoring techniques that can be used in any React/Redux application, based on his work and observations with Gutenberg. 💨
📹 Here's my video pick of the week: There's an interesting discussion at the Gutenberg Times between Enrique Piqueras and Birgit Pauli-Haack about the highlights of a full-site editing experience and how block-based themes could work. Francesca Marano has two…
In this episode of Post Status Draft, I talk to Syed Balkhi about Awesome Motive's acquisition of All In One SEO, the long-running SEO plugin by Michael Torbert, which boasts more than 2 million active installs.
Rich Tabor has posted his reflections on 2019, which included joining GoDaddy and selling CoBlocks and ThemeBeans. His goals for 2020 are "to simply read more," "produce music," and "get involved with core Gutenberg on a deeper level." Rich predicts…
DAVID'S PICKS 📬 Video and Podcast Picks of the Week 📹 Here's my video pick of the week: An interesting discussion over at the Gutenberg Times between Enrique Piqueras and Birgit Pauli-Haack about the highlights of a full-site editing experience…
I have been enjoying Nick Hamze's posts over at block.garden lately. They are short, "open thought" posts on WordPress and Gutenberg (editor) blocks. 🏡 Nick's latest piece talks about supporting blocks that may have been abandoned by developers: "I’m just…
Tim Nash shares how one might go about finding all the Gutenberg Blocks used on a site. It's more complicated than you think. Tim also shares five languages he thinks WordPress Developers should learn in 2020: PHP 7, Javascript and…
10up released Autoshare, a plugin that automatically tweets your posts as soon as they’re published. Autoshare integrates nicely with the Gutenberg publishing flow. Once you click the publish button, the plugin sends your post's title, featured image, and link to…
Jeff Ong at ThemeShaper shares how to create a block-based theme using block templates that can be fully edited with Gutenberg — including headers, footers, and sidebars. As of Gutenberg 7.2.0, block templates are an experimental feature on the path…
Ella van Durpe notes "the first Gutenberg release of 2020 includes not less than 180 PRs 😍crafted by more than 56 contributors." Highlights include a new block for multiple buttons, accessibility improvements to the editing interface, and a refactoring of…
Haris Zulfiqar says he is "betting on Gutenberg" because it's addressing the needs that page builders currently fill, although Gutenberg will never (in Haris's opinion) replace them. 🃏
Scott Kingsley Clark is asking for donations to support the Pods Framework this year. Automattic has withdrawn its sponsorship of the project, which has provided 90% of the Pods team's total funding. Understandably, Automattic "want[s] to focus their funding on…
