Block Editor

Transitioning an Agency to Gutenberg

Dan Knauss

July 29, 2022

Up this week on WP Tavern's Jukebox with Nathan Wrigley, it's Sean Blakely with the story of the transition to Gutenberg in a large agency, American Eagle. I've expected to see stories like this — for years. It seems they're…

WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of May 22

David Bisset

May 27, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

Catch up on the gold at WordSesh! Mark Ashton on the success of UiPress. Hanna Smith on web sustainability. Michelle and Allie on sponsored events. Mark Root-Wiley on CSS Standards for WordPress. Takis and Taeke on organizing WCEU.

Post Status Notes #492

Dan Knauss

March 31, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

The first-ever core preview walkthru with contribs for WP 6.0. Lots of Gutenberg news, big WordCamp comebacks, and other cool things!

WordPress 5.9 “Joséphine” Introduces Full Site Editing and Themes Created Entirely with Blocks

David Bisset

January 27, 2022

DesignMake WordPress

"Ever since the block editor was introduced our eyes were placed on a future where a theme could be created entirely with blocks. That future is here now..." — Matías Ventura, Lead Architect of WordPress' Gutenberg project.

BuddyPress 9.0 “Mico” was released a…

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2021

Design

BuddyPress 9.0 “Mico” was released a day before WordPress 5.8 with 10 new blocks. It was a short time frame development cycle, so kudos to the team for pulling it off. 🙌 I’m excited to see the block editor used…

Footnotes #456

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2021

BusinessDesign

Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…

If you haven’t heard of theme.json…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

If you haven’t heard of theme.json yet or you don’t know what it does for WordPress themes, then this post from Tammie Lister will inspire you to learn. She notes this is “the first major theme process change to core…

WordPress 5.8 Beta 3 has been…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

WordPress 5.8 Beta 3 has been released for testing. 38 bugs have been fixed so far. 🐛 There are changes that affect the Block Editor and caching, bundled themes, and coding standards. The current target for the final release is…

If you work with WooCommerce but…

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2019

If you work with WooCommerce but aren't familiar with the developer chats, you can read summaries of them at woocommerce.wordpress.com. 🛒 Here's a reminder that the recently launched WooCommerce 3.7 requires at least PHP 5.6.20 and WordPress 4.9. It also…