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.
📣 Following the news of Automattic's purchase of Tumblr on Monday, here are some of the best reactions to it in and outside the WordPress community: The Vergecast (a podcast produced by The Verge) interviewed Matt Mullenweg. With a few…
Joshua Wold explains from a design perspective how WooCommerce widgets are being converted into Gutenberg blocks. A lot more work goes into this than you might think!
If you are interested in usability testing for Gutenberg, several tests have been conducted already, and the results are available. Mark Uraine presented the highlights from the testing done in June, with videos included. There are usability test results from…
Ryan Welcher from 10up introduced SlotFill — "a modernized take on classic interface 'hooks and filters' in WordPress" that extends Gutenberg's interface. Slot and Fill are a pair of React components that allow developers to inject items into predefined spaces.…
More WCEU Recaps Here's an excellent WordCamp Europe contribution day recap from the Make WordPress Design team. I appreciate seeing how the discussion about Gutenberg and interaction resulted in designers opening issues in Github. Codeable had a nice recap as…
WordCamp Europe 2019 hosted a record 3,200+ people, according to ticket sales. WCEU started with a contributor day on Thursday, June 20, followed by the two main conference days on Friday and Saturday.
WordCamp Europe continues this weekend. You can watch the livestream and take in any track at WCEU's YouTube channel. The Tavern (and David's twitter feed) have some excellent coverage of the highlights so far. 🌍
