Honey Code is a new Gutenberg…

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Dan Knauss

Honey Code is a new Gutenberg Syntax Highlighter Block from Chris Kelley. It handles syntax highlighting quite nicely. ✨

Keeping Up with Gutenberg 🚧 Gutenberg…

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Dan Knauss

Keeping Up with Gutenberg 🚧 Gutenberg 6.0 is out with significant enhancements to the column layout block, widgets block, and block group functionality, among other things. Felix Arntz explains how to leverage the power of Custom Elements in Gutenberg. Like…

Gutenberg plugins are maturing rapidly! 🌾 Some…

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Gutenberg plugins are maturing rapidly! 🌾 Some new examples: Grids is a "layout builder" that lets you visually define layouts. You can specify a section for blocks just by dragging its margins. Automattic too is experimenting with a "full site editing"…

A new version of Gutenberg was…

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A new version of Gutenberg was released. It will be part of WordPress 5.2.1, which is close to a first release candidate. Improvements to Gutenberg include the ability to set different widths for each column in the columns blocks, improved usability…

Gutenberg 5.5 and WordPress 5.2 RC…

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Gutenberg 5.5 and WordPress 5.2 RC are still scheduled for release on April 17. The release will introduce new short circuit filters to WP_Site_Query and WP_Network_Query. 🔤 WordPress 5.2 is ready to be translated on translate.wordpress.org. 📣 WordPress 5.2 will increase the minimum…

A new version of Gutenberg landed…

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A new version of Gutenberg landed this week with foundational work and UI explorations related to the block-based widgets screen. There is also a new, built-in, static Gutenberg Playground for testing in a WordPress agnostic context. There's also an open…

Gutenberg 5.3 is out with some…

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Gutenberg 5.3 is out with some fancy new features. Now there's a block management modal window that allows users to enable and disable blocks, and the Cover Block can contain other blocks nested inside it.

Gutenberg 5.2 was released. It introduces a…

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Gutenberg 5.2 was released. It introduces a new block editor module which lets you build block editors outside the post editor and outside "the WordPress Admin context."

Alexis Lloyd at ThemeShaper considers Gutenberg’s blocks, templates,…

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Alexis Lloyd at ThemeShaper considers Gutenberg's blocks, templates, and styles as a unified architecture that must change the previous conception and definition of a WordPress theme. Alexis writes: Perhaps a theme is simply a JSON wrapper that defines the components of that…

Nathan Rice talks about Gutenberg and…

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Brian Krogsgard

Nathan Rice talks about Gutenberg and front-end performance - particularly if a page isn’t using a particular block, the block plugin will still likely load the CSS for that block.

Check out this MathML block for Gutenberg…

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Dan Knauss

Check out this MathML block for Gutenberg from Adam Silverstein of 10up. As Adam explains, "MathML is a mathematical markup language, an application of XML for describing mathematical notations and capturing both its structure and content." MathJax is used to render…

To no one’s surprise, several Gutenberg…

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To no one's surprise, several Gutenberg talks appeared throughout the WCUS conference schedule, especially on Friday. Miina Sikk from XWP spoke that afternoon about extending Gutenberg core blocks in the context of the AMP for WordPress plugin. (The official release…

For Matt Mullenweg’s take on Gutenberg,…

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For Matt Mullenweg's take on Gutenberg, WordPress, and the Future — including decision making, core WordPress processes, and Automattic’s business —

Gutenberg 4.6 is out with a…

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Gutenberg 4.6 is out with a relatively shorter changelog than in the past. Mostly browser related fixes (for IE11, Edge, drag-and-drop functionality), an improvement for block preview styling, and various other tweaks and fixes. This "what's new" update has been…
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