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As the WordPress 5.5 release date…

Dan Knauss

July 31, 2020

As the WordPress 5.5 release date (August 11) approaches, more news about it has emerged. Justin Ahinon lists nineteen miscellaneous developer-focused changes to themes, taxonomy, comments, and more. Some of these changes may have escaped your attention, like the way…

Full Site Editing is scheduled to…

Dan Knauss

July 10, 2020

Full Site Editing is scheduled to be included in WordPress 5.6. Ari Stathopoulos has some code snippets for developers that show how to revise or build blocks with this feature in mind. 📝

Gutenberg 8.3 has been released. It…

Dan Knauss

June 20, 2020

Design

Gutenberg 8.3 has been released. It features a few additions to the design tools for blocks, including a new padding control on the cover block. This release consolidates a new organization of block categories that groups blocks into text, media,…

🌊 The Gutenberg 8.2 🇮🇹 release includes…

Dan Knauss

June 5, 2020

🌊 The Gutenberg 8.2 🇮🇹 release includes block pattern categories, cover block content alignment, and an improved editing flow: "The editing flow is a constant priority for the project, and Gutenberg 8.2 introduces several enhancements to improve the writing experience. Copying,…

Blocks and Themes The Themes Review…

Dan Knauss

May 20, 2020

Blocks and Themes The Themes Review Team has been renamed the Themes Team. 📛 WordPress 5.5 will include checks for PHP and WordPress core version requirements in the theme installer. Users won't be able to install themes whose requirements aren't…

WP Engine has announced Genesis Pro,…

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2020

WP Engine has announced Genesis Pro, a product that provides professional-quality blocks and page layout tools for Gutenberg. It has been released first as an add-on for WP Engine customers but is coming to all StudioPress customers later this year.…

Dave Ryan has started a project…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

Dave Ryan has started a project called Chatterbox that lets you use WordPress blocks to show conversations from chat threads inside app and device wrappers. 🔌 Chatterbox can be used for "demos of chatbots, publishing chat records in news stories,…

Peter Tasker, a PHP and JavaScript…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

Peter Tasker, a PHP and JavaScript developer in Canada, revised and updated his outstanding article on how to create custom WordPress Editor Blocks — in 2020. I recommend reading or bookmarking Peter's post if you might be building blocks in…

BuddyPress 6.0.0 Beta 1 is out…

Dan Knauss

April 10, 2020

BuddyPress 6.0.0 Beta 1 is out with some great new enhancements and features, including the first BuddyPress Blocks for the block editor and a completed BuddyPress REST API.

Block Test Patterns Rich Tabor explains…

Dan Knauss

March 13, 2020

Block Test Patterns Rich Tabor explains why block patterns are the future of page building in WordPress. He also describes what a Block Patterns API may look like. 🏗️ Right now you can copy whole templated sections of block patterns…

Ari Stathopoulos proposes a way to…

Dan Knauss

February 20, 2020

Ari Stathopoulos proposes a way to ease the transition to block-based themes from older themes that were never designed for the new editor. As you can imagine, moving from hardcoded PHP templates to a blocks structure is not an easy…

Vlad Olaru writes about his attempt…

Dan Knauss

February 20, 2020

Vlad Olaru writes about his attempt to understand a WordPress theme’s role and responsibilities so that he can better understand how blocks relate to themes and to each other. He also considers the things themes have been doing in the…

Gutenberg 7.4 🇰🇷 is out. It…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2020

Gutenberg 7.4 🇰🇷 is out. It includes an official tool to scaffold blocks quickly, a handy color tool for Group and Column blocks, updates to the link UI with RichText formats, prettier formatting, and more.

I have been enjoying Nick Hamze’s…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2020

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…

In development since November, WooCommerce 3.9…

Dan Knauss

January 25, 2020

In development since November, WooCommerce 3.9 is out with 600 commits from 18 contributors. This is a minor release, but it ships with WooCommerce Blocks 2.5.11, MaxMind Geolocation Integration, and it raises the minimum WordPress and PHP version requirements to…

StudioPress announced recently a new theme…

Dan Knauss

January 25, 2020

StudioPress announced recently a new theme using their Genesis framework, Navigation Pro. They described it as their "first theme to make building pages even easier, by delivering theme-specific Sections and Layouts via Atomic Blocks." ⚛️ Originally developed for Array themes,…

As the WordPress 5.5 release date…

Full Site Editing is scheduled to…

Gutenberg 8.3 has been released. It…

🌊 The Gutenberg 8.2 🇮🇹 release includes…

Blocks and Themes The Themes Review…

WP Engine has announced Genesis Pro,…

Dave Ryan has started a project…

Peter Tasker, a PHP and JavaScript…

BuddyPress 6.0.0 Beta 1 is out…

Block Test Patterns Rich Tabor explains…

Ari Stathopoulos proposes a way to…

Vlad Olaru writes about his attempt…

Gutenberg 7.4 🇰🇷 is out. It…

I have been enjoying Nick Hamze’s…

In development since November, WooCommerce 3.9…

StudioPress announced recently a new theme…

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