WordCamp US 2021 Summary
David Bisset
Some highlights and an overview of WCUS 2021 from David Bisset. Catch up on anything you missed and learn how you can get more involved in WordPress.
Post Status Excerpt (No. 23) — Farewell To Andrea — but not the Classic Editor
David Bisset
Cory and David discuss Andrea Middleton's departure, the Classic Editor's persistence, Frontity's acquisition, and Jonathan Wold joining Post Status.
Footnotes #456
Dan Knauss
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…
WordPress 5.8 “Tatum” was released as…
Dan Knauss
WordPress 5.8 “Tatum” was released as planned this past Tuesday. Matt Mullenweg was the lead on this release. There were 530 volunteers along with 320+ tickets on Trac and over 1,500 pull requests on GitHub. Courtney Robertson has a good…
Tammie Lister has started a lexicon…
Dan Knauss
Tammie Lister has started a lexicon to help “define and collate links” related to “themes and the new functionality in WordPress as full site editing happens.”🔖
With the release of WordPress 5.8,…
Dan Knauss
With the release of WordPress 5.8, block templates have been on the minds of some developers. Rich Tabor has a great guide to building your first block template, and it explains how to leverage template parts within block templates. 🦮…
📆 Upcoming Events Gutenberg Full-Site Editing:…
Dan Knauss
📆 Upcoming Events Gutenberg Full-Site Editing: Unlocking Agility for Enterprise WordPress: WordPress VIP is holding a webinar on Full Site Editing on July 29th (10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 5 PM UTC) led by Tess Needham, David…
📆 Upcoming Events Headless webinar: What…
Dan Knauss
📆 Upcoming Events Headless webinar: What is headless and why does everyone seem to want it?: On July 20th, Joost de Valk (founder of Yoast) and Miriam Schwab (CEO and co-founder of Strattic) will be holding a free webinar focused…
Attention WordPress themers — there is…
Dan Knauss
Attention WordPress themers — there is a call for testing theme.json for Full Site Editing. 🧪 The theme.json file contains settings to enable or disable theme features and set default styles for a website and its blocks. It’s all done…
With the Full Site Editing project…
Dan Knauss
With the Full Site Editing project well underway, Ben Dwyer says theme developers need to be thinking about what the future holds for them — and Universal Themes might need to be on that list: “We that know that the…
Riad Benguella explains one of the…
Dan Knauss
Riad Benguella explains one of the Full Site Editing tools being introduced in WordPress 5.8 — the template editor. This allows you to create, assign, and edit block templates for specific posts and pages. ✨ The templates are saved as…
The WPMarmite team has published a…
Dan Knauss
The WPMarmite team has published a survey whose results are based on asking 127 WordPress theme shops how they have been embracing the Gutenberg block editor with an eye to the future of Full Site Editing in WordPress core. The…
Anne McCarthy has put out the…
Dan Knauss
Anne McCarthy has put out the seventh call for testing in the Full Site Editing Outreach Program. 🧪 Now is a great time to help on the way to the 5.8 release. Just head over to #fse-outreach-experiment in Make Slack…
Carolina Nymark has published her full…
Dan Knauss
Carolina Nymark has published her full site editing (FSE) theme, Armando, in the WordPress theme directory. Armando is designed for blogs or sports teams and includes multiple block styles and block patterns including site headers, site footers and page layouts.…
If you use BuddyPress and plan…
Dan Knauss
If you use BuddyPress and plan on using Full Site Editing, you should be aware some issues with both have been reported. BuddyPress content is not shown at all on the front end with FSE enabled. (This issue might extend…
The lead stories this week include…
Dan Knauss
The lead stories this week include GiveWP's acquisition by Liquid Web and increasing concerns over the "bus factor" in open source projects. Thankfully WP-CLI has a major release coming up this next week, but the sustainability of this vital project…
