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This Week at WordPress.org (October 4, 2021)

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Courtney Robertson
Each week we'll highlight news from WordPress.org that you don't want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we've got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with…

Footnotes #456

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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…

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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…

📆 Upcoming Events Gutenberg Full-Site Editing:…

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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…

Video Picks 📺 Here is my…

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Dan Knauss

Video Picks 📺 Here is my video pick this week: Gio Lodi, Mobile Software Engineer, on Life at Automattic: I recently stumbled upon a video playlist from early 2020 (before the pandemic truly hit the US) of short videos "introducing"…

Rich Tabor has authored a new…

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Dan Knauss

Rich Tabor has authored a new block plugin for adding markdown comments that only display while editing a post with Gutenberg in WordPress: “Having the ability to add, and keep, any relevant editing comments within my posts, without rendering them…

Charts Blocks for Gutenberg is a…

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Dan Knauss

Charts Blocks for Gutenberg is a plugin for creating interactive charts in blocks. If the demo on the Github page is any indication, this looks like a good way to get a pie chart or bar graph on your site…

Extendify acquires EditorsKit Another acquisition was…

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Dan Knauss

Extendify acquires EditorsKit Another acquisition was announced this week: Extendify is adopting Jeffrey Carandang‘s EditorsKit plugin. EditorsKit provides a set of advanced typographical tools for the WordPress block editor. 🧰 As a “first step,” Extendify has made the EditorsKit Typography…

Third Time’s the Charm Chris Lema…

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Dan Knauss

Third Time's the Charm Chris Lema shares why he’s fully committed to Gutenberg now. First and foremost, the answer is “speed.” 🐎 But it’s also “the way page builders allow you to do all the magic they do” without any…

📆 Upcoming Events Gutenberg Times Live…

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Dan Knauss

📆 Upcoming Events Gutenberg Times Live Q & A — Theme.json for Theme Authors: Learn how to get started with building themes for Full-site editing. Join Daisy Olson, Tammie Lister, and Jeff Ong to learn more about the theme.json file…

Rich Tabor asks on Twitter, “What…

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Dan Knauss

Rich Tabor asks on Twitter, “What do you need Gutenberg to do, to enable you further?” There’s a variety of interesting and well-thought-out responses in the replies that followed. 🐦

Alex Barashkov explains on Twitter that…

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Dan Knauss

Alex Barashkov explains on Twitter that you can connect your Gutenberg blocks to React components with Gatsby and “get crazy flexibility in terms of content editing driven by CMS.”

DAVID’S PICKS 📬 Videos 📺 Here…

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Dan Knauss
DAVID'S PICKS 📬 Videos 📺 Here are my video picks for the week: WordCamp Europe 2021: The video feeds from all three days of WCEUE are available on YouTube, with individual videos to be published in the coming weeks on…
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