WordPress 5.3 "Kirk" became available last week with the new default theme, Twenty Twenty, and a host of new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements for the block editor. Hot on its heels, here's Gutenberg 6.9. 📦✨ New things to…
Here are two interesting proposals and posts on the future of WordPress themes based on what we've seen from Gutenberg so far: Rich Tabor updated his post on the future of themes and notes "the definitive end of WordPress themes…
Steve Burge offers some insightful thoughts on collaborative editing in Gutenberg and what that might be like in the future. 🔏 Steve notes that it might be quite a challenge when this feature is tackled in "Stage 3" of the Gutenberg…
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.…
Felix Arntz has a detailed post on CSS Custom Properties and how to use them to improve UX for both website visitors and content creators. Felix is "looking forward to seeing this feature being leveraged by WordPress themes more" as…
Multidots has released the Beta version of a script for converting HTML markup created in WordPress content with the "Classic" editor to Gutenberg Blocks. They are planning to add support for more HTML tags by improving the script, so "bug…
WordPress 5.3 Beta 1 is out, with the final release still slated for November 12, 2019. The announcement of the beta came with other news and details of interest to developers and users. For starters, WordPress 5.3 has introduced a…
Roy Sivan briefly touches on the way Gutenberg projects fit into WebOps, which he defines as "the operations of building and maintaining a web project." I'm noticing WebOps (and Gutenberg) being discussed more on technical blogs these days.
Salesforce Ventures has invested an incredible $300 million as the sole investor in Automattic's Series D, their first raise since 2014. Total investment is now $491 million over 15 years.
In a recent chat summary, I discovered some interesting items that are being merged into Gutenberg. With these changes, you're going to see a "typewriter experience" and a "help panel" when you insert blocks.